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Aug. 3, 2011   An 18-year-old woman in Australia has been freed from a bomb that was either placed near her or attached to her body for more than 10 terrifying hours. “She’s good. She’s been kept in a very uncomfortable position,” New South Wales state Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Murdoch said, according to the [...]

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February 02, 2011 2:16PM IF you’re struggling to grasp the magnitude of Tropical Cyclone Yasi, consider this: it is so large it would almost cover the United States, most of Asia and large parts of Europe. Most of the coverage about the scale of Yasi has tried to compare it with storms of the past [...]

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29 August 2010    11:28 ET An Aboriginal man has won a seat in Australia’s House of Representatives, becoming the first indigenous person to do so in the country’s history. Ken Wyatt, 57, took the seat of Hasluck in Western Australia for the centre-right Liberal Party. Neither the Liberals nor the governing Labor Party gained enough seats [...]

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