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2013/05/21 09:19
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Click or swipe through above to see photos of Oklahoma's tornado disaster. SEARCH teams face danger from gas leaks and fallen power cables as they work into the night to look for survivors of a...
Crews dig through night after deadly Okla. twister
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Obama approves aid for Oklahoma
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2013/05/21 09:05
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Farmers say they can be trusted not to return to the dark old days of broadscale tree clearing when laws are relaxed in Queensland. Opponents say Premier Campbell Newman has broken an election...
2013/05/21 09:05
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Rudd steals thunder over gay marriageUpdated: 18:23, Tuesday May 21, 2013 Kevin Rudd says his decision to support same-sex marriage is not about the Labor leadership, but a matter of...
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2013/05/21 08:47
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Your video format settings have been saved. The catastrophic Oklahoma tornado could have a damage bill of up to $US3 billion ($3.05 billion), raising the prospect of another wave of claims for...
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QBE avoids tornado fallout
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QBE avoids tornado fallout
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QBE avoids tornado fallout
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QBE avoids tornado fallout
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QBE avoids tornado fallout
32 minutes ago ON Brisbane Times
2013/05/21 08:28
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SCOTT Driscoll has been put on notice to write to the Speaker of Parliament should he miss another five days of parliamentary sittings or more. It comes after the Redcliffe MP, who quit the LNP under...
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2013/05/21 08:16
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Young people who regularly miss out on just a few hours sleep are at a hugely increased risk of crashing their cars, a study of more than 20,000 NSW P-Platers has found. The teenagers – who slept, on...
Read more at Illawarra Mercury, Illawarra Mercury, Northern Daily Leader, The Age, + 5 more articles
2013/05/21 08:16
2013/05/21 08:16
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More than a million low-paid Australians who depend on the nation's award system to set their wages should get a 79¢-an-hour wage rise, the ACTU has told the national industrial relations...
Read more at Illawarra Mercury, Adelaide Now, BigPond News, Sky News Australia, + 7 more articles
2013/05/21 07:26
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A man whose dad died before he was born in the 1970s has finally won the right to have him legally recognised as his father on his birth certificate. The son was born in Stanthorpe in November 1978,...
Read more at Brisbane Times, The Courier Mail, News.com.au, Perth Now, + 2 more articles
2013/05/21 07:05
2013/05/21 07:05
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The central bank has given no clues whether more reductions are on the cards after low inflation allowed it to cut the cash rate to a record low at its May board meeting. The Reserve Bank of...
Read more at Perth Now, BigPond News, Sky News Australia, TheBull, + 10 more articles
Low inflation, high $A prompted rate cut
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Low inflation, high $A prompted rate cut
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low inflation prompted rate cut
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Low inflation prompted rate cut
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2013/05/21 07:05
2013/05/21 07:05
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Transfield shares tumble to record lowUpdated: 16:41, Tuesday May 21, 2013 Almost $141 million has been wiped from the value of mining engineer Transfield Services as cost cutting in the mining...
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Transfield shares tumble to record low
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Transfield shares tumble to record low
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Transfield Services shares fall by 20%
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2013/05/21 06:28
2013/05/21 06:28
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MYANMAR (Burma) President Thein Sein has urged an end to intercommunal violence and discrimination after hearing a call from US President Barack Obama to put a stop to anti-Muslim attacks. In a...
Read more at The Courier Mail, San Antonio Express-News, Stamford Advocate, Connecticut Post, + 193 more articles
2013/05/21 06:05
2013/05/21 06:05
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The arrest of a pedophile in Australia has led to a US judge jailing Kansas child molester Philip Andra Grigsby for 260 years. The trans-Pacific child abuse investigation began in Australia a year...
Read more at WA Today, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Canberra Times, + 6 more articles
2013/05/21 05:19
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Flash is quickly emerging as the preferred way to overcome the nagging performance limitations of hard disk drives. However, because flash comes at a significant price premium, outright replacement of...
Read more at Computer World Australia, Computer World Australia, + 36 more articles
Citrix bakes WAN optimization into branch office hardware
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Sprint gets SoftBank clearance to negotiate with Dish
3 hours ago ON Computer World Australia
Australia lags Mongolia in Internet speeds
3 hours ago ON Computer World Australia
Google Checkout to shut down in November
3 hours ago ON Computer World Australia
2013/05/21 04:55
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The tornado that slammed into the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing more than 50 people with winds up to 320 kilometres per hour, was given a preliminary ranking of EF4, the second most...
Read more at Northern Daily Leader, Reuters UK Edition, The Border Mail, Illawarra Mercury, + 11 more articles
Tornado damage and the Enhanced Fujita scale
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How tornadoes are ranked in severity
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How tornadoes are ranked in severity
3 hours ago ON Illawarra Mercury
2013/05/21 04:50
2013/05/21 04:50
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Rider on the storm: Ray Manzarek (pictured in 2003) could never be dispassionate about the Doors' music. Photo: Getty Images This article was originally published in The Age on August 12, 1995.Don't...
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2013/05/21 04:26
2013/05/21 04:26
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Awkward, awkward, awkward: Sansa Stark marries Tyrion Lannister. Photo: Supplied I’m surprised I didn’t see the portly silhouette of a famous British director trot past in that episode because for...
Read more at Brisbane Times, WA Today, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, + 160 more articles
2013/05/21 04:26
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Cracking down on vaccinations: The proposed bill allows childcare centres and preschools to ban unimmunised children. Photo: Wayne Taylor Legislation allowing childcare centres and preschools to ban...
Read more at Brisbane Times, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, WA Today, Perth Now, + 49 more articles
2013/05/21 04:05
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TELEVISION executive Tim Worner has been appointed the chief executive of Seven West Media. Mr Worner is the current CEO of broadcast television at Seven West, which also owns Yahoo!7, the West...
Read more at Perth Now, BigPond News, Sky News Australia, News.com.au, + 22 more articles
Seven West appoints new CEO
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Seven West appoints new CEO
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Seven West appoints new CEO
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Head of TV is new Seven West CEO
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2013/05/21 04:04
2013/05/21 04:04
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THE news hasn't even been out for more than 24 hours but already Tumblr users are threatening to leave the popular blogging platform if Yahoo purchases it. Earlier today the company announced it had...
Read more at Adelaide Now, Lebanon Daily News, iol.co.za, CNBC, + 804 more articles
2013/05/21 03:52
2013/05/21 03:52
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Apple's tax structure means it has kept billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries to pay little or no taxes to any government, a US Senate report on the company's offshore tax structure...
Read more at iTNews, The Irish Times, The Mail Tribune, BBC News, + 136 more articles
2013/05/21 03:05
2013/05/21 03:05
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The superannuation industry's peak body wants a 15 per cent tax applied to lump sum superannuation withdrawals, rising to 30 per cent for withdrawals over a certain, yet to be defined, limit. Yes, we...
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Industry calls for tax on super lump sums
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Industry calls for tax on super lump sums
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Industry calls for tax on super lump sums
5 hours ago ON Brisbane Times
2013/05/21 02:46
2013/05/21 02:46
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Complaint: Paula Knight, left, and Jane Collison. Photo: Supplied The owners of a New Zealand guesthouse who refused to let a lesbian couple share a bed are standing firm despite threats. Karen and...
Read more at Canberra Times, SameSame, WA Today, Northern Daily Leader, + 5 more articles
2013/05/21 02:26
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... Here's an overview of how the tornado struck. It touched down at 2.56pm local time and travelled for 32 kilometres, Keli Pirtle, a spokeswoman for the National Weather Service in Norman,...
Read more at Brisbane Times, YNN Rochester, KOAT7abc Albuquerque, WTOL 11 Toledo, + 333 more articles
Oklahoma City tornado: Latest developments
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Tornado levels Oklahoma town, killing 91
moments ago ON WTOL 11 Toledo
Oklahoma City tornado: Latest developments
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Searchers surround school
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2013/05/21 02:19
2013/05/21 02:19
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We put ham in our sandwiches and chorizo in pasta. There's peperoni on the Friday night pizza, sausages at Saturday morning soccer and bacon with Sunday's big breakfast. These ingredients all come...
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Why processed meat is on the nose
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Why processed meat is on the nose
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Why processed meat is on the nose
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Why processed meat is on the nose
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Why processed meat is on the nose
9 hours ago ON Sydney Morning Herald
2013/05/21 02:15
2013/05/21 02:15
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A coalition of 30 legal, community, health and women's organisations have complained to the United Nations about planned changes to the NSW victims' compensation scheme on the grounds they will...
Read more at Illawarra Mercury, Northern Daily Leader, The Border Mail, Sydney Morning Herald, + 3 more articles
2013/05/21 02:05
2013/05/21 02:05
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A United Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner taxis to a gate at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport after taking off from Houston on the airline's first Dreamliner flight since the aircraft were...
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Dreamliner is aloft again with CEOs aboard
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United restarts 787 flights
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United returns 787s to service
24 minutes ago ON iol.co.za
United restarts 787 flights after grounding
38 minutes ago ON Anchorage Daily News
United to restart 787 flights in Denver
an hour ago ON Denver Post
2013/05/21 01:17
2013/05/21 01:17
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A MASSIVE, mile-wide tornado has slammed into Oklahoma City, wiping out entire neighbourhoods, tossing cars and levelling homes. LIVE UPDATES: The state medical examiner has upped the death toll to...
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Deadly twister rocks Oklahoma
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Crews dig through night after deadly Okla. twister
moments ago ON KTRE Lufkin and Nacogdoches
Crews dig through night after deadly twister
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2013/05/21 00:50
2013/05/21 00:50
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Falling ... Transfield shares have tumbled more than 60 per cent since May 9. Photo: Bloomberg Transfield Services has slashed its profit forecast to as low as $62 million for the year to June in the...
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Investors rush out of Transfield
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Investors rush out of Transfield
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Investors rush out of Transfield
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Investors rush out of Transfield
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Investors rush out of Transfield
7 hours ago ON Brisbane Times
2013/05/21 00:26
2013/05/21 00:26
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David Cameron: caught between progressive and hardline elements. Photo: Reuters LONDON: Britain's coalition government must do a deal with Labour as it fights off attempts by Tory backbenchers to...
Read more at Brisbane Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent, iol.co.za, + 95 more articles
2013/05/21 00:15
2013/05/21 00:15
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The car accident that killed a 19-year-old woman from Kirrawee on Monday night was witnessed by her friend, who was driving the car travelling behind her on Guyra Road at Guyra in the state's...
Read more at Illawarra Mercury, Northern Daily Leader, BigPond News, The Border Mail, + 4 more articles
Student, 19, dies after swerving to miss dead kangaroo
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Woman killed after dodging kangaroo
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Student, 19, dies after swerving to miss dead kangaroo
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Woman killed dodging roo
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