Pike River disaster three years on

IT'S three years since a huge explosion ripped through New Zealand's Pike River mine but the remains of the 29 men who were killed, including two Australians, still haven't been recovered. In the afternoon of November 19, 2010 there was a large...

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Singer in UK court on child sex charges

VETERAN folk and rock performer Roy Harper has appeared in a UK court charged with committing a series of child sex offences in the 1970s. The singer-songwriter, who has performed with Pink Floyd and influenced rock band Led Zeppelin, was not...

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Malta to ID buyers of its citizenship

THE Maltese government has rolled back one element of its controversial law to sell its citizenship for 650,000 ($A942,644), saying it will publish the names of people buying their way into European Union passports. The government had argued that...

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Brooks a demanding editor: UK lawyer

REBEKAH Brooks was a demanding editor who wanted to "get stories into the newspaper", a lawyer has told her phone-hacking trial in Britain. But Justin Walford, who worked as an in-house lawyer at the company that published The Sun and the News...

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Vic Labor wants to sell Port of Melbourne

THE Victorian Opposition will remove Melbourne's 50 worst level crossings within eight years if it wins next year's election. This is part of its alternative plan to the East West Link that it would pay for with the $6 billion sale of the Port...

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