8/08/2008 | ACT Government makes 11th-hour plea to Primary Health Care to shelve its plans to close Wanniassa Medical Centre.
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8/08/2008 | He killed his mother in a frenzied stabbing attack but Glen Malcolm Porritt is back at home with his family - a free man.
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8/08/2008 | Environmentalists blast the ACT's damning State of the Environment report for being too soft on the Government.
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8/08/2008 | Only one person knows what really happened on the night of December 21, 2005, in Titheradge Place, Chapman. And, as of yesterday, he is a free man. One other person also knew, but she is dead.
Murde...
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8/08/2008 | The launch of a $140,000 piece of roadside public art in the Woden Valley has been delayed until next week.
Meanwhile, the Opposition has refused to issue its arts policy until closer to the elect...
8/08/2008 | Prius hybrid-loving tree-huggers beware. This is a car you will not like.
Well-heeled driving enthusiasts prepared to spend more than $100,000 on their four-wheeled pride and joy will, on the other h...
8/08/2008 | Malaysian Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim has pleaded not guilty to sodomy charges and been released on bail, ahead of a by-election expected to return him to Parliament this month.
''This is a sl...
8/08/2008 | Can you spot the difference?
If you can't, then Beverley Graham, a ''reborning artist'', has done her job well.
You can see Graham's lifelike baby dolls at the Canberra Craft and Quilt Fair in Exhi...
8/08/2008 | With all eyes on Beijing ahead of the Olympic Games, United States President George W.Bush has bluntly told China that the US is strongly opposed to the way the communist government represses its peop...
8/08/2008 | Military jurors have cleared Osama bin Laden's driver of conspiracy charges but found him guilty of helping al-Qaeda, a split decision that has failed to end the controversy over the fairness of the U...
8/08/2008 | Beijing's pollution could hinder athletes during the Olympics, but the long-term dangers to the population of the city are more serious, the head of the World Health Organisation in China says.
H...
8/08/2008 | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has promised changes to his Government's day-old $13million grocery price watch website.
A disabled man complained to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission t...
8/08/2008 | The Austrian woman who was held captive and repeatedly raped by her father for 24 years is considering going to court to prevent the publication of books about the headline-grabbing case, her lawyer s...
8/08/2008 | White House hopeful John McCain has called for a policy ''surge'' to right the teetering US economy, but was scorned by his Democratic rival Barack Obama as a creature of Washington.
Senator Obama...
8/08/2008 | New Zealand's National Party, reeling over secret recordings of its MPs, has issued photographs suggesting someone has been snooping in its leader's rubbish.
The photographs show rubbish scattere...
8/08/2008 | Pakistan is facing fresh political turmoil after party sources said the country's ruling coalition had agreed to impeach President Pervez Musharraf, a crucial US ally in the war on terrorism.
The ...
8/08/2008 | Buckingham Palace has denied a newspaper's report that Prince Philip has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, and says it was filing a complaint against the paper for breach of privacy.
In a state...
8/08/2008 | Remember jacks, elastics, marbles, clapping rhymes and string games?
Apparently they're all still played at schools across Australia, except marbles. The catseyes and bonkers are more likely to come ...
8/08/2008 | Police are investigating vandalism at a Tuggeranong school and a Fyshwick business.
Investigators are hunting those responsible for a fire that destroyed a storage room at Trinity College in Wannias...
8/08/2008 | Australian rock band Wolfmother has broken up, citing long-standing personal and musical differences.
Bass/keyboard player Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett have resigned, effective immediately...