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The first large-scale bicycle hire scheme in Britain will get under way in London on Friday (local time).
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Authorities in the United States have captured a grizzly bear believed to be responsible for an extremely rare multiple attack in the well-known Yellowstone Park.
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Firefighters believe a house fire in Melbourne's north-west was caused by incorrectly installed insulation.
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Police in California say they have destroyed nearly $US2 billion ($2.2 billion) worth of marijuana plants in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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The local share market has ended the week on a sour note after a profit warning from the investment bank Macquarie Group.
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A member of the Cooper superannuation review says changes need to be implemented despite some industry opposition.
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Cricket Australia says it will support New Zealand Cricket's nominee for the ICC vice-presidency, all but ending John Howard's chances of taking the role.
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A new poll shows a majority of Pakistanis view the United States as an enemy, oppose the US-led war in Afghanistan and are less concerned about the Taliban and Al Qaeda than a year ago.
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A Sydney mother who forced 11 Thai women to work as prostitutes to help pay off her mortgage has been jailed.
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A former senior adviser to a Queensland Liberal Senator has appeared in court on a child pornography charge.
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Many of the people who live along the Gulf of Mexico coast fear they will soon be forgotten.
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Kevin Rudd has been admitted to hospital for an operation to remove his gall bladder.
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UK scientists may have unravelled one of the long-standing mysteries of human fertility: why sperm cells tend to behave like tiny, surface-seeking missiles.
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Australians took out home loans at the slowest rate on record in June, while the amount of personal borrowing dropped, and there was no change in the amount businesses borrowed.
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A Bosnian man who fled to Australia from Yugoslavia has been jailed for a least five years over a violent road rage attack at Woodville in Adelaide.
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Shares in the investment bank Macquarie Group have sunk after the company revealed earnings in several of its businesses this year are unlikely to meet the results posted last financial year.
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A teenager said to have driven his car like a missile has been sentenced to 18 months in detention for killing a cyclist.
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard says Kevin Rudd has not been asked to campaign for Labor on a national level.
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New research has cast doubt on whether people should take calcium supplements to ward off the degenerative bone disease osteoporosis.
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The WA Coroner has been critical of a homeopath and a promiment Perth toxicologist over the death of a woman who used alternative treatments to treat her cancer.
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The Royal Commission into Australia's worst bushfire disaster will release its final report tomorrow, and it is expected to traumatise some survivors.
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A Senate report into the Government's mining tax has recommended it be scrapped.
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Six alleged people smugglers have been remanded in custody after appearing in Brisbane Magistrates Court.
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A West Australian serial sex offender has been sentenced to ten years in prison for sexually assaulting a homeless man in January last year.
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Commonwealth chief medical officer Jim Bishop says seasonal flu vaccinations for children under five can continue.
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