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Israel's antiquities body is claiming to have solved "one of Jerusalem's greatest archaeological mysteries" by unearthing an ancient Greek citadel, the Acra, buried under a car park in Jerusalem.
Topics: archaeology, history, israel
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A prominent NT developer and donor to the ruling Country Liberal party is selected as the preferred tenderer of an area of "prime Crown land" near Darwin.
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| UpdatedTorrential rain drenches parts of South Australia — with Port Pirie getting 87mm and Whyalla 57mm as Port Lincoln, further west, cleans up after flash flooding.
Topics: rainfall, weather, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, storm-disaster, storm-event, port-pirie-5540, port-lincoln-5606, whyalla-5600, buckland-park-5120, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedTrainer Darren Weir says Prince Of Penzance's upset win in the Melbourne Cup has made him a believer that dreams can come true.
Topics: horse-racing, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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Australia's financial intelligence agency is monitoring more than 100 people suspected of funding terrorism, with the number of reports to the regulator tripling over the past year.
Topics: terrorism, federal-government, australia
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The United Nations' climate change chief says she is "delighted" by the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal because the company will now hasten manufacturing of electric and hybrid cars, speeding a global shift away from fossil fuels.
Topics: environmental-technology, climate-change, automotive, united-states
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| UpdatedA man crashes his car and is charged following a police pursuit after allegedly driving up to 62 kilometres per hour over the speed limit at Coffs Harbour.
Topics: traffic-offences, law-crime-and-justice, coffs-harbour-2450
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Dozens of police officers raid the headquarters of the German Football Association over allegations of irregularities in the bidding process for the 2006 World Cup.
Topics: soccer, sport, law-crime-and-justice, fraud-and-corporate-crime, soccer-world-cup, germany
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| UpdatedA man's body is found in a charity clothing bin in the inner Sydney suburb of Rosebery.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, rosebery-2018
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| UpdatedYoung women are now twice as likely as young men to develop mental illness, according to new research, but a new smartphone app aims to help them cope.
Topics: feminism, community-and-society, internet-technology, computers-and-technology, science-and-technology, australia
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Having learned from his "tough times" in recent years, Usman Khawaja believes he has never been better placed to make a spot in the Australian Test team his own.
Topics: cricket, sport, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedHandbags owned by late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher are set to be auctioned after talks aimed at adding them to a museum collection fall through.
Topics: government-and-politics, history, 20th-century, human-interest, united-kingdom
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The group responsible for managing Hobart's Mount Wellington alters its Management Plan helping to pave the way for a cable car from Hobart to the mountain's pinnacle.
Topics: conservation, environment, national-parks, local-government, urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, hobart-7000
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Ahmed Chalabi, the smooth-talking Iraqi politician who pushed Washington to invade Iraq in 2003, dies of an apparent heart attack.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, death, iraq
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Moods may actually serve an evolutionary purpose in helping us to have more realistic expectations.
Topics: science-and-technology, emotions, psychology
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The US military will continue to operate wherever international law allows, a top US admiral says, a week after the nation infuriated China by sailing close to artificial islands it is building in the South China Sea.
Topics: territorial-disputes, world-politics, navy, china, united-states
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| UpdatedFormer New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns tells a British court he has never been involved in match fixing and never contemplated it.
Topics: cricket, courts-and-trials, united-kingdom, new-zealand, india
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| UpdatedEgypt's civil aviation ministry says there are no facts to substantiate the assertions by Russian officials that the airliner that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula broke up in mid-air.
Topics: government-and-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, air-and-space, egypt
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| UpdatedPaddy Payne, racing stalwart and father of Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Michelle, says unlike many punters he thought Prince Of Penzance had a good chance of winning Australian racing's biggest prize.
Topics: sport, horse-racing, family, human-interest, miners-rest-3352, flemington-3031, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA cyclone with hurricane-force winds makes landfall on Yemen's Arabian Sea coast, flooding the country's fifth-largest city and sending thousands fleeing for shelter.
Topics: weather, disasters-and-accidents, cyclone, unrest-conflict-and-war, yemen
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| UpdatedPerth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi chairs her first council meeting since being re-elected, saying she will not stand aside during a Department of Local Government review.
Topics: local-government, perth-6000
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Three quarters of Australians believe climate change is happening, but conservative voters are more likely to believe it is a natural phenomenon, not manmade, and trust their "common sense".
Topics: climate-change, environment, community-and-society, research-organisations, australia
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| UpdatedProsecutors argue South Africa's "blade runner" Oscar Pistorius should be convicted of murder and sent back to jail for shooting his girlfriend in an appeal hearing.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, south-africa
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| UpdatedMelbourne Cup-winning jockey Michelle Payne lauds champion horse Prince Of Penzance, saying she always knew he was a special talent even in the face of doubts from its own trainer.
Topics: horse-racing, sport, flemington-3031, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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Retail spending is forecast to rise in WA this Christmas, but the Reserve Bank's decision to keep interest rates on hold is disappointing, business groups say.