Victoria braces for a scorcher

VICTORIAN firefighters and rural communities are bracing for a horror day with the temperature set to reach a maximum 36 degrees as emergency services continue to battle to contain two massive bushfires. A blaze in Gippsland covering 60,000 hectares...

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Iraq's Aziz depressed, wants Pope's help

TAREQ Aziz, the late Saddam Hussein's ailing former deputy premier now on death row, is suffering from depression and plans to ask the Pope to call for his speedy execution, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Badie Aref said Aziz, a Christian, believed...

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Steady rise in govt data requests: Google

GOOGLE has reported a "steady increase" in government requests to hand over data from internet users in the second half of 2012. The web giant's semiannual "transparency report" showed the most requests came from the United States, with 8,438...

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Mali army accused of summary killings

A LEADING rights group accused Malian soldiers on Wednesday of summary killings and serious abuses in the course of a French-led assault against al-Qaeda-linked groups, as concerns rose over the conflict's civilian toll. Japan, which lost seven...

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US charges East European cyber virus gang

US law enforcement officials have announced charges against three alleged East European cyber thieves accused of stealing banking information from computers across Europe and the United States, including at the space agency NASA. The "alleged...

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Spanish recession deepens: central bank

SPAIN'S economy took its steepest dive in more than three years in the final quarter of 2012 as high unemployment and biting austerity measures slashed demand, a Bank of Spain report showed on Wednesday. Available data pointed to gross domestic...

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Spanish academy urged to drop racist words

URUGUAYANS are petitioning the Royal Spanish Academy to expunge as discriminatory the expression "to work like a black" from its dictionary, the ultimate authority on the Spanish language. "We ask that you review this expression's remaining...

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