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Sep 3, 2010

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Australian PM hopes of retaining office boosted by pact with independent MP

Australian PM hopes of retaining office boosted by pact with independent MP
Photo: GETTY IMAGES
Tony Abbott in Sydney, Australia
Julia Gillard is the front runner in the battle for independent support
Tony Abbott's Liberal/National coalition emerged as the single largest party in the Australian election but fell three seats short of a majority
Miss Gillard's Labour Party is now just two seats away from sealing an overall majority after election victory after winning support of Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie, a day after the announcment of a pact with the Green Party.
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Mistresses and wives clash over trapped Chilean miners

Susana Valenzuela holds a picture of trapped miner Yonni Barrios Rojas

Susana Valenzuela holds a picture of trapped miner Yonni Barrios Rojas
Authorities at Camp Hope have had to deal with a rush of women coming forward claiming to be first in the Chilean miners' affections in order to receive government handouts.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders agree to work for draft treaty with fortnightly meetings

The leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority concluded their first direct talks in nearly two years yesterday by agreeing to meet personally every two weeks in a bid to cement a peace deal in the Middle East within a year

Mr Netanyahu and Mr Abbas will meet on Sep 14 and 15 at a location in the Middle East
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, held what was described as a "long and productive discussion" in which they concurred that they would start striving for a draft treaty.
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Elephants 'scared of ants'

Mice are bad enough, according to the myth - but the creature that really fills an elephant with fear is a lot smaller 

Any elephant foolish enough to approach an ant-protected tree is liable to find swarms of the angry insects crawling up its trunk Photo: CORBIS
Ants are getting the better of nature's biggest land beast on the African savannah, scientists have discovered.
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Osteoporosis drug 'doubles cancer risk'

osteoporosis
Doctors often prescribe bisphosphonates as a preventative measure for those who might be at a higher risk of osteoporosis
Those who have taken oral bisphosphonates for five years or more are twice as likely to develop the cancer than those who have not, the analysis of medical records found. Every year almost 8,000 people in Britain are diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus, or gullet cancer, and ...
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Winston Churchill 'ordered assassination of Mussolini to protect compromising letters’

Churchill chose to holiday under a false name only a few miles from the spot Mussolini was seized 

Churchill chose to holiday under a false name only a few miles from the spot Mussolini was seized
Pierre Milza, an expert on fascist Italy, theorizes that the wartime prime minister may have wanted Mussolini dead to prevent the letters, in which Churchill expressed his admiration for his Italian counterpart before the outbreak of the Second World War, coming to light.
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Sep 2, 2010

Hurricane Earl: Obama declares emergency as storm nears east coast

Barack Obama in the Oval Office
Barack Obama has declared an emergency as hurricane Earl approaches North Carolina. Photograph: Pool/Getty Images
States along the eastern coast of the United States were today preparing evacuation plans to be put in to operation if hurricane Earl moves inland instead of glancing the shoreline.
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Dublin gangland boss John Traynor arrested in Netherlands

Investigative journalist Veronica Guerin, who was killed in 1996
Veronica Guerin, who was shot dead shot dead by the pillion passenger on a motorbike as she stopped at traffic lights in Naas, just outside Dublin, in June 1996 Photograph: PA/PA Archive/PA Photos
A convicted Dublin criminal who fled the Irish Republic after the murder of investigative journalist Veronica Guerin by another gangland boss has been arrested in the Netherlands.
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