Australian track stars Sean Wroe, Lachlan Renshaw, Jeff Riseley and Ryan Gregson combined for a thrilling second place in the distance medley relay at the prestigious Penn Relays meeting in the United States. The quartet were just edged out by Morocco (9:17.48) as they clocked 9:17.56 and relegated an American Red team led by Bernard
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THE Dallas Cowboys’ Australian-born punter Mat McBriar, has no doubt Brendan Fevola has ”all the tools” to become an NFL punter, but finding a club prepared to take a chance on damaged goods might be the problem. While his AFL career appears dead following his recent sacking from the Brisbane Lions, the NFL has been
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Robert Baines is Professor and coordinator of Gold and Silversmithing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He holds a Master of Arts in Classics and Archaeology and his PhD research was The Reconstruction of Historical Jewellery and its Relevance as Contemporary Artefact. His multidisciplinary research is comprised of three areas: as an artist goldsmith,
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard will address a joint session of the US Congress and meet US president Barack Obama on a visit next month to mark 60 years of alliance, officials said today. Ms Gillard, paying her first visit to the United States since taking office last year, will meet with Mr Obama on March
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One of only two statues of Charles Dickens in the world has been returned to public display in Australia after being lost for almost 40 years only to be discovered in a garden outside Sydney. The marble statue, which depicts a pensive Dickens holding a quill and a scroll of paper, went missing in 1972
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The world’s last remaining World War I veteran, Claude Choules, will reach another milestone early next month when he turns 110. But Mr Choules, who lives in a care facility at Salter Point, cares little for such details. His son Adrian, 76, says his father, the oldest man in Australia, felt that more should be
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New Zealanders have paid tribute to the victims of the Christchurch earthquake with two minutes’ silence marking the moment the disaster struck last week. The shallow 6.3 magnitude quake centred at the port town of Lyttelton struck at 12.51pm last Tuesday, killing at least 154 people, with police expecting the final toll to reach “around
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More than a week since the waters receded, the enormity of Brisbane’s flood disaster is starting to sink in. But the community spirit that has shone like a beacon throughout the hardships shows no signs of abating, with volunteers expected to be out in force across the weekend. Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said the council
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Mumbai, Jan 19 (IBNS) Cricket’s greatest prize, the ICC Cricket World Cup, arrived back on the sub-continent today and was handed over by ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat to the ICC President Sharad Pawar at the historic Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai. With just 30 days to go to the start of the ICC
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Rural Australian towns braced for another week of flooding Sunday as a vast lake continued to spread across the country’s southeast and a potential tropical storm threatened the northeast. The flooding began more than a month ago in Australia’s northeast Queensland state, where 30 people have died, more than 30,000 homes
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