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Woman Replaces Colleague for South Korea’s First Space Mission

kostas11 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:35:00 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea announced Monday that a woman who is a bioengineering student would become its first astronaut. She is scheduled to blast off on board a Russian Soyuz rocket on April 8 on a trip to the International Space Station that will be watched on television by millions of South Koreans. The astronaut, Yi So-yeon, 29, was selected after the Russian space

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Heatwave record for Adelaide - over 35C for nine days straight

kostas11 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:35:00 GMT

ADELAIDE has set a heatwave record, with the mercury rising above a scorching 35C for the ninth day in a row - and there's

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Couple rescued from Coorong

kostas11 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:35:00 GMT

TWO people who were lost and bogged overnight somewhere along the Coorong in the state's southeast have been found safe and well.

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'Darth Vader' lord mayor loses his jail appeal

alex_c — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:35:00 GMT

DARWIN'S former lord mayor has lost an appeal against his prison sentence for using stolen council funds to buy a refrigerator and a Darth Vader voice distorter.

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Missing boys found as Mackay declared a disaster area

alex_c — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:35:00 GMT

Two boys riding bodyboards feared missing in floodwaters have been found as Queensland's emergency services chief says up to 1000 people may need evacuating from Mackay, which is now a disaster area.

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Two die in light plane, chopper collision

kostas11 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:35:00 GMT

TWO people are dead, but two more have survived a mid-air collision between a helicopter and a light aircraft in a remote part of Western Australia.

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Mum dies saving baby from floodwaters

kostas11 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:35:00 GMT

A MOTHER who collapsed and died after clinging to her baby son in floodwaters was "totally exhausted" when they were finally pulled from the water, police say. The 36-year-old woman and her husband had been

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Rudd 'ignoring' primary schools

danni — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:35:00 GMT

PRIMARY schools across the country are being left out of the Rudd Government's so-called Education Revolution, the national primary school peak body says.

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Man dies after being hit by tractor

georgako_80 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:35:00 GMT

A MAN has died after being struck by a tractor on a southern New South Wales farm. Read more

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10 years for killing secret wife

danni — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:35:00 GMT

A man who killed his secret wife after an argument that began on the evening of her 19th birthday has been sentenced to 10 years' jail.

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