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  • Suspected international arms dealer joins Bout in America Suspected international arms dealer joins Bout in America

    Richard Chichakli, who has been tied to convicted international arms dealer Viktor Bout, has been extradited from Australia to the US. The 53 year old alleged financial muscle behind the Bout gun-running organisation had been living in Melbourne under an alias before authorities arrested him in January. Syrian-born Chichakli had managed to evade police while working as a cleaner in the ...

  • Monkey teeth give clues on when Neanderthal baby was weaned

    Researchers from the US and Australia have claimed that they can now use fossil teeth to calculate when a Neanderthal baby was weaned. The new technique is based in part on knowledge gained from studies of teeth from human infants and from monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis. Using the new technique, the researchers concluded that ...

  • Ex-AFL chief warns CA of need of robust approach to anti-corruption

    Former Australian Football League (AFL) chief executive Adrian Anderson has said that Cricket Australia (CA) and state cricket associations needed a robust national approach to anti-corruption. Stating that one global betting exchange turns over a billion dollars a year on Australian cricket, Anderson, who is conducting a review of CA's integrity and disciplinary systems, estimated that 60 per ...

  • Haddin views cricket in new light despite Ashes anticipation following daughters cancer struggles

    Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has said that despite being back in the pursuit of the Ashes, he is viewing cricket in a new light following his daughter's battle with cancer. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, although the Ashes journey is the greatest adventure for an Australian cricketer and normally fills his mind for most of the time, however, Haddin had even considered retirement ...

  • Steve Waugh wants Clarke to stay put at successful No.5 spot

    Former Australian captain Steve Waugh has advised current skipper Michael Clarke to stay on at the No.5 place in the batting order, where he has had much success. Although Clarke has been urged to move up the order in the wake of Australia's continuing top order struggles and the recent 4-0 series flogging in India, Waugh claims it would be wrong to shift Clarke from a position, from which he ...

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Au hasard Balthazar [DVD]

Au hasard Balthazar [DVD]

Robert Bressons Au hasard Balthazar is one of the great, heartbreaking achievements of cinema. In a career of memorable humanist masterpieces like Diary of a Country Priest (1950), Pickpocket (1955), and LArgent (1983), Au hasard Balthazar i ... ...

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  • Michael Long to kick off Sorry Day relay

    AFL legend Michael Long will kick-off a nationwide relay in Melbourne to raise awareness about constitutional recognition of indigenous ...

  • Tony Abbotts Liberal dose of pain

    TONY Abbott's election as prime minister would leave the vast majority of families better off but single parents and low-income families could lose cash ...

  • Lions all the more eager for victory in Australia after three defeats | Eddie Butler

    Brian O'Driscoll scores for the British and Irish Lions in the first Test against Australia at the Gabba in 2001. Photograph: Darren England/Getty ...

  • MDBA on world stage

    MURRAY-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) chairman Craig Knowles has showcased Australia's historic water planning breakthroughs - and iconic river system - on the international stage. During a debate on sustainable development and climate change before the United Nations General Assembly in New York recently, Mr Knowles outlined how Australia's vexed water planning reforms were overcome ...

  • A day for Slim

    POLITICIANS on both sides of politics, along with country music singers Lee Kernaghan, Adam Harvey, Beccy Cole, and Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, are backing a move to make June 13 National Slim Dusty Day. Nationals MP for Parkes Mark Coulton said it had been 10 years since the death of the country music legend - one of Australia's most prolific recording artists with 110 albums to his ...

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