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02/09/2010
Body scanners part of Govt airline security upgrade - ABC Online
ABC Online
ABC Online
ASHLEY HALL: First to a Federal Government plan to introduce controversial body scanning technology into Australia's airports. It's part of a $200 million boost to airport security the Government's announced in response to the attempted terrorist ...
Raising drinking age to 21 'unworkable'
Australian airports to deploy body scanning technology
Aviation security to be upgraded
02/09/2010
Iran begins enriching higher grade uranium, says state TV - The Guardian
Reuters
The Guardian
Iran began enrichment of higher grade uranium today, state TV said, ignoring the threat of further UN sanctions by the US and its allies. Iran's Arabic-language television channel, al-Alam, said production of 20% enriched uranium had started at the ...
US wants UN sanctions resolution on Iran within weeks
China calls for more diplomacy after Iran starts 20% uranium enrichment
Iran still open to talks on nuclear fuel swap
02/09/2010
Credit experts line up to rebuff Joyce - ABC Online
ABC Online
ABC Online
Barnaby Joyce is again in strife over his economic musings, claiming that Australia is in imminent danger of defaulting on its government debt. Economists have joined the Federal Government in branding ...
Rudd looks to deflect ministerial woes
Barnaby Joyce - RUDD RATTLED BY DEBT
Joyce's "fast and loose" tongue irresponsible, Rudd says
02/09/2010
Tymoshenko 'to argue Ukraine vote' - Aljazeera.net
Reuters
Aljazeera.net
The parliamentary faction of Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's prime minister, has claimed widespread fraud in the country's presidential election and said it would challenge the result in court. Serhiy Sobolev, a member of the Tymoshenko bloc, ...
Eyes on Ukraine PM to contest poll results or quit
Tymoshenko 'will not concede poll'
Top Russian MP says too soon to congratulate Yanukovych
02/09/2010
Race row in Victoria amid law and order debate - ABC Online
World News
ABC Online
ELEANOR HALL: Staying in Victoria, the Government is accusing the State's Opposition Leader of exacerbating Victoria's image problem in India. In a lengthy speech to the Australia India Business Council last night the Liberal leader Ted Baillieu ...
Indian attacks spark Vic war of words
Opposition leader declares war on racist Victorians
Victoria premier gets flak for race attacks
02/09/2010
insulation program suspended after deaths - The Australian
ABC Online
The Australian
ENVIRONMENT Minister Peter Garrett is under pressure to offer free safety checks for 37000 houses with potentially deadly foil insulation installed under the government's stimulus package, after he suspended the program today in the wake of four deaths ...
Call to check homes after insulation ban
Many Australian homes unwary death traps
Ban as bodged insulation proves deadly
02/09/2010
Shot Aussie taken to London hospital - NEWS.com.au
NEWS.com.au
A QUEENSLAND man shot by bandits in a South American bar is being treated in a London hospital. Jason Montgomery, 36, of Rainbow Beach, was in his local bar in Georgetown in Guyana for after work drinks on January 8 when three bandits entered and shot ...
Shot Australian leaves South America
Shooting victim Jason Montgomery clings to life
Queensland shooting victim flown home
02/09/2010
Arrested Sri Lankan opposition leader being treated 'like an animal' - Times Online
Reuters
Times Online
The wife of General Sarath Fonseka, the former Sri Lankan army chief who was arrested last night on suspicion of plotting a coup, accused the Government today of abducting her husband and treating him "like an animal". She also accused President ...
Wife fears for jailed Sri Lanka general
Sri Lanka's Fonseka treated like 'an animal': wife
Sri Lankan Army arrests former Army chief Gen Sarath Fonseka
02/09/2010
Power pole crash driver 'unlicensed' - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
The driver of a car that smashed into a power pole in Sydney's west, killing his passenger, was unlicensed, police say. The passenger, a 17-year-old male, died at the scene of the crash on Gurney Road, Villawood, about 3pm (AEDT) on Tuesday. ...
Car into power pole, one dead
Fatal crash at Villawood
Car into power pole, one dead
02/09/2010
Truss slams northern taskforce report - ABC Online
ABC Online
ABC Online
Leader of the Nationals Warren Truss has accused Labor of replacing independent experts with "bureaucrats and greenies" on the Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce. The taskforce released a report yesterday saying that a sustainable approach ...
Idea to beef up billion-dollar Top End cattle industry
Water food for thought
North is ripe for agriculture: farmers