BRISBANE City Council has let a site to an Audi motor car dealer after purchasing the property for $17 million and evicting the existing Audi dealer.
THE State Government will divide a whopping 5000sq km of Cape York land into a mix of national park, Aboriginal land and nature reserves.
BRISBANE City Council has let a site to an Audi motor car dealer after purchasing the property for $17 million and evicting the existing Audi dealer.
THE State Government will divide a whopping 5000sq km of Cape York land into a mix of national park, Aboriginal land and nature reserves.
French President Francois Hollande has said France will supply arms to Iraq's Kurdish forces. Source: AAP
FRANCE will send arms to Kurdish forces in Iraq to support their fight against radicals of the Islamic State group, French President Francois Hollande announced.
A STATEMENT Hollande's office said the arms shipment will be delivered "in the coming hours" and has been agreed with authorities in Baghdad.
Citing the "catastrophic" situation in Iraqi Kurdistan, it added that "mobilisation in support of Kurdistan and of all Iraq must continue."The statement did not specify what weapons France was sending.The surprise announcement comes as the United States has also increased its role in fighting back Sunni extremists of the Islamic State group that is threatening the autonomous Kurdish region in the north of Iraq. Senior American officials say US intelligence agencies are directly arming the Kurds who are battling the militants, which would be a shift in Washington's policy of only working through the central government in Baghdad.Other European leaders were also feeling the pressure to respond to the emergency. France called earlier this week for an urgent meeting of European Union foreign ministers to consider Kurdish requests for arms and an aid airlift to northern Iraq.Earlier on Wednesday, France had pledged to deliver a second shipment of humanitarian aid to northern Iraq in a bid to help religious minorities persecuted by advancing radicals.The foreign ministry said in a statement the airlift of 20 tonnes of medicine, tents and water treatment material will arrive in the Iraqi Kurdish capital, Irbil later on Wednesday.The shipment is enough to provide assistance to 50,000 people, it said, and it pledged further operations in the coming days "to aid populations in serious danger."On Sunday French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius travelled to Irbil to deliver an initial shipment of aid. France has taken a strong stance on the need to protect Christians and other minorities being persecuted in northern Iraq.THE former live-in caretaker of a Pittsburgh-area mansion has died, ending criminal charges that he drank more than $US102,000 ($A110,360) worth of old whiskey that he was supposed to be guarding.
A DISTRICT judge last year ordered 63-year-old John Saunders, of Irwin, to stand trial after hearing testimony from the owner of the South Broadway Manor Bed and Breakfast.
But Saunders reportedly died July 21, ending the case.The mansion's owner had claimed she found nine 12-bottle cases of whiskey hidden in the century-old mansion built by industrialist J.P. Brennan after she bought it in 2012.The whiskey was produced in the early 1900s and was appraised at more than $US2,000 a bottle. Saunders was charged after the owner discovered 52 empty bottles on which police found DNA from Saunders' saliva.
BRISBANE City Council has let a site to an Audi motor car dealer after purchasing the property for $17 million and evicting the existing Audi dealer.
THE State Government will divide a whopping 5000sq km of Cape York land into a mix of national park, Aboriginal land and nature reserves.
BRISBANE City Council has let a site to an Audi motor car dealer after purchasing the property for $17 million and evicting the existing Audi dealer.
THE State Government will divide a whopping 5000sq km of Cape York land into a mix of national park, Aboriginal land and nature reserves.
BRISBANE City Council has let a site to an Audi motor car dealer after purchasing the property for $17 million and evicting the existing Audi dealer.
THE State Government will divide a whopping 5000sq km of Cape York land into a mix of national park, Aboriginal land and nature reserves.
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ITALIAN carmaker Fiat SpA, which controls Chrysler, says its second-quarter profits dropped by more than a half due to lower performance in North and Latin America.
CLIVE Palmer has narrowly dodged possible legal action as he quit as director of Queensland Nickel days before it may have breached environmental laws.
QUEENSLAND principals want more power in running their own schools, a nationwide study has found.
SOUTHEAST Queensland has shivered through some record low temperatures this winter. Find out what the beginning of Ekka month has in store.
THE Attorney-General has been accused of wasting taxpayers' money on a "vanity exercise" as he deploys an age-old PR device.
THE identity of a woman who offered to roll on an alleged million-dollar heroin racket has been betrayed in a blunder by government lawyers.
CLIVE Palmer has narrowly dodged possible legal action as he quit as director of Queensland Nickel days before it may have breached environmental laws.
NO MORE trudging through pages and pages of work emails. Can you even imagine such a paradise?
USAIN Bolt has denied describing the Commonwealth Games as "s**t" as organisers and the Australian team leap to Glasgow's defence.
AMIDST rumours of a marriage split, Beyonce has posted a seaside photo of husband Jay Z and daughter Blue, calling it "her favourite hue".
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EUROPEAN and Dubai-based airlines have begun rerouting flights over Iraqi airspace as a security precaution, though Iraq says its skies are safe.
CLIVE Palmer has narrowly dodged possible legal action as he quit as director of Queensland Nickel days before it may have breached environmental laws.
QUEENSLAND principals want more power in running their own schools, a nationwide study has found.
SOUTHEAST Queensland has shivered through some record low temperatures this winter. Find out what the beginning of Ekka month has in store.
THE Attorney-General has been accused of wasting taxpayers' money on a "vanity exercise" as he deploys an age-old PR device.
THE identity of a woman who offered to roll on an alleged million-dollar heroin racket has been betrayed in a blunder by government lawyers.
CLIVE Palmer has narrowly dodged possible legal action as he quit as director of Queensland Nickel days before it may have breached environmental laws.
NO MORE trudging through pages and pages of work emails. Can you even imagine such a paradise?
USAIN Bolt has denied describing the Commonwealth Games as "s**t" as organisers and the Australian team leap to Glasgow's defence.
AMIDST rumours of a marriage split, Beyonce has posted a seaside photo of husband Jay Z and daughter Blue, calling it "her favourite hue".
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A PRIVATE survey shows that businesses hired at a healthy pace in July, though the job gains slowed from the previous month.
PRIVATE employers added 218,000 jobs, down from 281,000 in June, payroll provider ADP said on Wednesday.
It was the fourth straight month of job gains above 200,000, a healthy pace that usually is enough to lower the unemployment rate.The figures suggest that the government's jobs report, to be released on Friday, will also show a solid increase, but the ADP numbers cover only private businesses and often diverge from the government's more comprehensive report.Economists forecast that the government's report will show that 225,000 jobs were added in July, while the unemployment rate stayed at 6.1 per cent, according to a survey by FactSet."It feels to me like the job market is humming," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, which helps compile the report.The job gains were mostly broad-based.Construction added 12,000 positions, most of which likely pay mid-level wages.Retail, shipping and utilities gained 52,000 and professional and business services, which mostly include higher-paying jobs, gained 61,000.Manufacturing, however, added just 3000 jobs, according to ADP.A separate government report on Wednesday showed the economy grew at a rapid four per cent annual pace in the April-June quarter, following a sharp 2.1 per cent contraction in the first three months of the year.But the second half of 2013 was also revised higher to show growth at a four per cent annual pace.The better growth figures should support continued strong hiring, Zandi said."This feels a lot more consistent with the jobs numbers and more supportive of the idea that the economy is gaining traction," he said.
