Australia wins UN Security Council seat

AUSTRALIA has won its bid for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. Foreign Minister Bob Carr attended a meeting in New York overnight for a secret ballot of the UN's 193 members. Rwanda and Argentina have also won seats...

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Romney son wanted to take a swing at Obama

MITT Romney's eldest son Tagg has told a radio station that the back-and-forth debate sniping between his father and Barack Obama made him want to "take a swing" at the president. Asked in an interview with North Carolina radio host Bill LuMaye...

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Twitter blocks German neo-Nazi account

MICRO-BLOGGING site Twitter says it has blocked a neo-Nazi group's account at the request of German police in a global first for the company. In a move pitting censorship concerns against national laws on hate speech, Twitter said it had deployed...

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Mali Islamists destroy more saints' tombs

ISLAMISTS controlling northern Mali are destroying more Muslim saints' tombs in the ancient city of Timbuktu, witnesses say, in the latest attack on the world heritage sites considered blasphemous by the jihadists. "Currently, the Islamists are...

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Bloomberg to spend millions on candidates

MAYOR Michael Bloomberg is reaching into his very, very deep pockets to spend millions in the election home stretch on candidates - Republican and Democrat, alike - he feels will do the US good. Bloomberg, whose personal wealth is estimated...

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Australia wins bid for UN seat

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UK starts secret agent apprenticeships

HOW'S this for a job title - secret agent's apprentice? The British government is recruiting teenage apprentice spies and codebreakers without university degrees in a bid to deepen the talent pool of its intelligence services for the era of cyberterorrism...

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