| The Canberra Times - 18 minutes ago BY CHRIS JOHNSON AND PETER JEAN The government appears to have secured enough parliamentary support to push up the cost of private health insurance for higher income earners, a move that will add $2.4billion to the budget bottom line. |
| Sydney Morning Herald - 17 minutes ago WARNING: GRAPHIC VISION. Hawkesbury Valley Meat Processors in Sydney's west has halted work after undercover video revealed chilling cruelty to animals. |
| By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Angus MacSwan | AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government artillery barrages killed dozens of civilians in Homs on Thursday, activists said, as President Bashar al-Assad, bolstered by Russian support, ignored appeals from ... |
| Business Spectator - 19 minutes ago By a staff reporter, with AAP Rio Tinto Ltd's net profit has plunged on the back of impairment charges relating to its aluminium business, but the mining giant recorded record underlying earnings. |
| Sky News Australia - 1 hour ago Australia turn attention to Sri Lanka Updated: 05:26, Friday February 10, 2012 After dominating India for most of the summer, Australia gets a new opponent on Friday when they take on Sri Lanka in the Commonwealth Bank Series at the WACA Ground. |
| WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday recognized the new government of Maldives President Mohamed Waheed as legitimate and urged him to fulfill a pledge to form a national unity government. |
| Reuters - 59 minutes ago By Guy Faulconbridge and Kiryl Sukhotski | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Thursday Russia faced turmoil because Vladimir Putin was unable and unwilling to carry out fundamental reform of a tightly-controlled political ... |
| The Guardian - 1 hour ago To the victims of human rights criminals he was a crusading knight fearlessly wielding the sword of justice wherever it was needed across the globe. |
| New York Times - 59 minutes ago PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A prominent Pakistani militant commander was killed in an American drone strike at a house in Pakistan's lawless northwest tribal region of North Waziristan on Thursday, a senior security official said. |
| Telegraph.co.uk - 1 hour ago Prince Harry will return to Afghanistan after qualifying yesterday as a front line Apache attack helicopter pilot. By Gordon Rayner, and Thomas Harding 27-year-old Prince Harry, who spent 10 weeks as an infantry soldier in Helmand in 2008, ... |
| The Australian - 5 hours ago TWENTY years after Prudence Bird vanished, police have charged a man with murdering the Melbourne schoolgirl. Last week, Prue's mother, Jennifer, marked the sombre anniversary by making another heartbreaking appeal for witnesses to come forward with ... |
| Sydney Morning Herald - 20 minutes ago PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has said it would be ''highly improper'' for her to ask Fair Work Australia to make public its report on Labor backbencher Craig Thomson when it is finished next month. |
| Ninemsn - 56 minutes ago By Fiona Willan, ninemsn A Melbourne backpacker and his girlfriend who died in Laos were found lying in each other's arms in a hotel room strewn with prescription medication, according to a local tourism official. |
| Sydney Morning Herald - 12 minutes ago THE B-double crash that killed a sleeping 11-year-old boy on the NSW mid-north coast was most likely caused by another vehicle's drunk driver, who had a blood alcohol content almost five times the legal limit. |
| Herald Sun - 8 hours ago TELSTRA has secured almost one million new mobile phone customers as its campaign to bolster its subscriber base continues without relent. |
| Sydney Morning Herald - 49 minutes ago Greek political leaders clinched a long-stalled deal on Thursday on harsh austerity measures and reforms required to secure a second international bailout in two years but the country's financial backers reacted sceptically. |
| The Australian - 15 minutes ago US stocks drifted higher as investors assessed a Greek austerity deal and continued improvement in the labour market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 30 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 12913 in late trade. |
| Sydney Morning Herald - 12 minutes ago It's probably a better than odds-on bet that ANZ Bank will raise its variable interest rate today - setting a new industry agenda and cementing the fact that the large commercial banks have stolen the rudder on monetary policy from the Reserve Bank. |
| Sydney Morning Herald - 40 minutes ago Corporate raider Gary Weiss is orchestrating a revolt against the board of the besieged blue-chip funds manager. Mr Weiss is to meet Perpetual's directors to put the case for his election to the board to spearhead a corporate restructure. |
| Sydney Morning Herald - 19 hours ago Officials today seized a multi-million mansion from alleged internet pirate Kim Dotcom - but they will let his pregnant wife continue to live there. |
| The Australian - 16 minutes ago APPLE'S not holding an event in February - strange, unusual or otherwise. But it is holding one in March - to launch its next iPad. |
The Australian - 6 hours ago CAPS will be placed on the amount of broadcasting spectrum that mobile phone carriers can buy when analog TV is switched off, to ensure that at least three competitors will operate in the 4G market. |
| Sydney Morning Herald - 21 hours ago Making you pay ... Madonna puts on a spectacle at the Super Bowl. Photo: Getty Images DEVOTED Madonna fans are still hyperventilating from her Super Bowl extravaganza but they collapsed on the couch on discovering front-row tickets to her American ... |
| Contactmusic.com - 2 hours ago Lady Gaga has unveiled the first details of her Born This Way Ball Tour - a trek around Southeast Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and North America that will take in some 110 venues. |
| The Roar - 17 minutes ago By Ian McCullough, 10 Feb 2012 Ian McCullough is a Roar Pro After more than three years of speculation, hand-wringing and boardroom wranglings, the long-awaited Australian Rugby League Commission will finally see the light of day on Friday. |
| The Guardian - 57 minutes ago Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel produced almost identical times on the third day of testing in Jerez on Thursday but they were trumped by the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg, even though he was driving last year's car. |
| BBC Sport - 4 minutes ago The latest on the search for Fabio Capello's successor after the Italian's resignation as England manager. Former Tottenham manager "He's listened to what everyone has said he knows the circumstances and he's decided his heart is not in it. |
| The Australian - 6 hours ago GOLF: Since she was hailed as the next Australian women's golf superstar, reality has not matched expectation for Sydney's Sarah Kemp. |
| ABC Online - 18 hours ago THE recent clinching of a $1.9 billion Australian defence contract by the Germans illustrates to carbon price knockers that they need look no further for proof that an economy which relies on renewable energy can outsmart one dependent on fossil fuels. |
| The Australian - 6 hours ago HIMALAYAN glaciers are back on the frontline of climate change controversy, with new research showing the world's greatest snowcapped peaks lost no ice at all over the past 10 years. |
| Sky News Australia - 2 hours ago Skin cancer fears Updated: 04:52, Friday February 10, 2012 A fear of nanoparticles is turning sunlovers away from sunscreen, raising the risk of skin cancer. |
| ABC Online - 10 hours ago The New South Wales Government says it will cost at least $140 million if sprinkler systems are installed across the state's nursing homes, in the wake of a fatal fire in Sydney's west last year. |
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