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Sydney FC has booked a spot in the A-League grand final with a controversial, but ultimately convincing, 4-2 win over Wellington in the preliminary final at the Sydney Football Stadium.
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Australian skipper Ricky Ponting says Michael Clarke will definitely play in Friday's first Test against New Zealand in Wellington.
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A 46-year-old man says he thought he might die after being stranded on a granite island off Western Australia's southern coast.
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Nick Xenophon has continued to pressure the Government to crack down on The Church of Scientology at a Brisbane anti-cult conference.
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Lara Bingle's legal team has hit back at the AFL, saying the league would not accept the original complaint over the Brendan Fevola photo saga.
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Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon says she would be very uncomfortable about allowing parents to choose their children's sex.
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Pacemen Shane Bond and Tim Southee have dismantled Australia as New Zealand bookended the five-match one-day series with a consolation victory in Hamilton.
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US prosecutors in southern California have filed the first consumer protection lawsuit against Japanese carmaker Toyota, alleging it knowingly sold hundreds of thousands of defective vehicles.
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A 92-year-old Sydney woman has been charged with murdering her husband at their home in Surry Hills.
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A report on the collapse of the American investment bank, Lehman Brothers, has found that it disguised its true financial position before it filed for bankruptcy in September 2008.
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A suicide bomb attack has killed at least ten people in the Swat Valley in north-west Pakistan.
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Residents in two small communities in far western New South Wales have been ordered to evacuate because of the threat of major flooding.
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Queensland's Fire Service says one person has died in a fire in a two-storey block of units on the Gold Coast at Surfers Paradise.
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A report on the collapse of the American investment bank, Lehman Brothers, has found that it disguised its true financial position before it filed for bankruptcy in September 2008.
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The chief weapons buyer for the United States Pentagon says he is confident Australia and seven other countries will all stick with the F-35 joint strike fighter project, despite cost blowouts and delays.
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Australia's bowlers patiently dismantled a New Zealand innings laden with silly shot selection to set up an easy run chase in the fifth and final one-day international in Wellington on Saturday.
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A bushfire is threatening homes in the West Australian city of Albany, as 60 firefighters battle 10 metre high flames.
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Five same-sex couples were married today in Mexico City after a recent change to the city's laws.
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Dental health experts say the Federal Government has failed to stop dentists from rorting the Medicare dental scheme.
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Anna Bligh says Queensland will be able to sign up to the Federal Government's health overhaul if more details are worked out.
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The California Attorney General has opened an investigation into a drug ring linked to the death of actor Corey Haim.
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In the wake of the latest sex abuse claims in the Catholic Church in Germany, a number of senior clergy have called for a debate on the issue of celibacy in the priesthood.
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Despite having already clinched the series Australia did not cut New Zealand any slack in the fifth and final one-day international at Wellington on Saturday.
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Indigenous community members call for a full inquiry into a teenager's death, citing medical neglect and racial hatred within Queensland's prisons.
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Kristina Keneally is today marking her 100th day as New South Wales Premier.