Have Aussies lost their manners? Should you teach your kids to say Ta?
Music, mud and mayhem - the Glastonbury Festival is a right of passage for many travellers
Good friends or money in the bank - which is more important to Australians and why?
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One year on
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Stalker pheasant terrorises children
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A PHEASANT is wreaking havoc on a peaceful town forcing residents to flee for cover indoors.
Cops play robbers in bandit bungle
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POLICE are in trouble again, accused of dressing as bandits to stage a prank robbery, leading to a tense gunpoint stand-off.
Louts loot lorry load of Lego
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THIEVES stole a truck-load of Lego after tying up and gagging the driver, British police said.
We're all aliens, says British scientist
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THE human race began as "microbes brought to Earth by comets millions of years ago".
Stab victim didn't notice blade in neck
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A MUGGING victim was in such deep shock that she walked home not realising she had a knife in her neck and a bloody back.
Coach fined for giving fans the finger
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CRUDE taunting of rival US football team's fans lands boss with $55,000 ticking-off.
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Why Mr 'Just Good Enough' isn't enough
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JUDITH Ireland says there are many widely acknowledged reasons why women choose to remain single and or childless.
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Australia favours skilled migrants
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TWENTY thousand foreigners will be banned from moving to Australia in major migrant reforms.
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Welcome deluge soaks the state
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DROUGHT-stricken NSW towns were awash with welcome rain, with a dry creek in one town flowing for the first time in 35 years, and several roads closed.
Woman's arm severed by mower
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A WOMAN has had her arm severed after a freak accident involving a ride-on lawnmower on a property north of Cairns.
Two escape plane crash unhurt
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A man and a woman have escaped unhurt after their light plane crashed at Baxter, on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula.
Not enough water to turn into wine
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SOUTH Australia has lost its long-held position as the nation's largest wine-producing state for the first time since early last century.
NW food bowl ruled out
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NORTHERN Western Australia will never become an important food bowl to replace the drought-stricken Murray-Darling.
Wild brawl at bikini babe fest
A BIKINI parade was almost overtaken by a wild brawl in the heart of Darwin's entertainment strip.
Nathan refuses to cough up
A CHEST infection nearly prompted Nathan Gatehouse to pull out of the second round of the Tasmanian Open Golf.
World
Half naked women protest election
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SEVERAL young topless women barged into a Ukrainian polling station, rowdily protesting before a candidate cast his ballot.
Claims emerge that John Terry's secret lover slept with up to five football stars
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Business
Business
JB Hi-Fi reports record first half profit
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RETAILER JB Hi-Fi has reported a 29 per cent increase in first half profit and growth in same store sales.
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Bank shares may offer happy returns
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STOCKBROKERS are tipping a prosperous five years ahead for the banks that everybody but their shareholders love to hate.
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Entertainment
Entertainment Features
Micheal Jackson's doctor preparing to surrender
Paris Hilton strikes luck with Israeli lottery commercial
Montag 'like a circus freak'
Travel
Travel Features
Travel agents hit back at revelations of underhanded tactics Tricks of the trade
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Technology
OECD queries cost of new broadband network
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THE OECD has questioned the cost benefit of Labor's $43 billion national broadband network.
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