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JonBenet killing: I did it

Police Pay Rally: What a load of Carp

A Police protester holds a placard denouncing Premier Alan Carpenter's previous pay rise offer

1500 in police protest over pay

MORE than 1500 people attended a rally at Parliament House, Perth, today to call for more pay for WA police after weeks of campaigning by the Police Union.

Rare albino whale calf off Rottnest

A mother whale and her albino calf have been sighted on Sunday (August 06) in Strickland Bay near Rottnest Island, off the coast of Perth in western Australia.

Union angry at McDonalds labour plans

This is audio from ABC's PM on the issue of McDonald's employing overseas workers in Karratha as 'slilled labour.' The program is broadcast around Australia at 5:10pm on Radio National and 6:10pm on ABC Local Radio.

Lebanon prime minister wins Arab backing

That is the nature of partisanism, that weapons and aid will find their way from you to your allies, and vice a versa.

Australia plays down loss in Iraq wheat sales

... next step, stop exporting oil to Western countries ...

'Holden-burg' to hit the air

A what's claimed to be a world first multi-million dollar marketing campaign, Holden will launch a 55-metre long, 20-metre tall blimp into the skies of capital cities all around Australia, starting in Sydney. How can they allow this sort of commerci…

PM considers gas for domestic use

JOHN Howard has agreed to consider a West Australian plan to put aside some of the nation's offshore gas reserves for domestic use. Premier Alan Carpenter wants up to 20 per cent of the reserves to be held back to meet future domestic demand rathe…

Al Qaeda: Mideast war will spread

In the message broadcast by Al-Jazeera television, Ayman al-Zawahri, second in command to Osama bin Laden, said that al Qaeda now saw "all the world as a battlefield open in front of us."

Lebanese resistance rally

This is a photo from Flickr

Corby gives nod to final appeal

SCHAPELLE Corby's legal team is ready to pitch a final appeal bid to the Indonesian Supreme Court against her drug smuggling conviction and 20-year prison sentence. Her lawyers Erwin Siregar and Haposan Sihombing visited her at Bali's Kerobokan Pris…

WA's boom creating two Australian economies

``There are two economies in Australia at the moment,'' said Paul Ritchie, spokesman at Australian Business Ltd., a Sydney- based group that represents 28,000 companies. ``Another interest rate rise this year will cripple the New South Wales econom…

The $3 million dream machine?

This is a custom-built Ferrari P 4/5 created for car collector James Glickenhaus. Valued at over US$3 million, the vehicle was inspired by the P4 racer of the 1960s. Essentially, the P4/5 is a rebodied Ferrari Enzo, with a Pininfarina-designed and…

Skype developers take on TV and Video

Serial entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again, this time with a venture for distributing TV and other video over the Net