Patricia Cornwell is an award-winning novelist of forensic mysteries and police procedurals that focus on medical autopsies and investigations. Her novels are characterized by the graphic authenticity...
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Three people died in two trucks when they apparently were caught in a huge wildfire in western Australia's Outback hours after authorities reopened the highway running through the affected area, po...
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Friday called for a ban
on HIV-positive people immigrating to Australia.
Speaking on local radio, Howard said HIV-positive people should
not be all...
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Prime Minister John Howard conceded Wednesday that keeping Australian troops in Iraq could cost him re-election but said he would not abandon the United States.A staunch Bush ally, Howard has taken...
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An Australian state plans to introduce recycled sewage to its drinking water as a record drought threatens water supplies around the nation, a state leader said Monday.Queensland state Premier Pete...
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Thousands of firefighters rushed to contain more than a dozen wildfires burning across southern Australia on Friday amid fears that high temperatures and gusty winds forecast this weekend could fur...
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Australian terrorist suspect David Hicks will make his first appearance before a U.S. military commission on March 20 _ more than five years after he was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Prime Ministe...
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Australia's Prime Minister John Howard vowed Friday he will do
all he can to stop his national cricket team from touring Zimbabwe,
which Western countries accuse of political repression and h...
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The United States and Australia have finalized plans to repatriate Australian al-Qaida supporter David Hicks from Guantanamo Bay but the timetable will remain secret, Foreign Minister Alexander Dow...
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Sydney (dpa) - Police seized 1,900 litres of a chemical capable of
being turned into 540 million Australian dollars (432 million US
dollars) worth of the rave drug ecstasy f...
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Australian radio broadcaster John Laws announced his retirement
Monday, after 55 years behind the microphone.
Laws, reputed to be the world's highest-paid radio broadcaster,
is often dubbe...
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Patricia Cornwell
3 killed in Australia wildfire
