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US vice-president Joe Biden

United States vice-president Joe Biden has sparked intense speculation that Barack Obama will endorse same-sex marriage if he wins a second term as president.


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Doctor quits equal rights board after same-sex row

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A member of Victoria's Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission board has resigned after stirring controversy by signing a petition opposing gay ma...

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Don't write off cheques, experts warn

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The Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) says there is no need to phase out cheques despite their usage dropping by more than 60 per cent in the past de...

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Back to black as Swan budgets for the boom

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The Federal Government is scrapping billions of dollars worth of company tax cuts, instead redirecting the money to welfare payments as it reaches for a budget su...

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Fair Work report finds Thomson misused union funds

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A Fair Work Australia (FWA) report has found former Labor MP turned crossbencher Craig Thomson used work credit cards to pay for escort services while he was national secretary of the Health Services Union (H...

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Mother killed by school bus but baby survives

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An 11-month-old baby has survived after her mother was hit and killed by a school bus in Sydney's no...

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Carr wraps up high-security China visit

Foreign Minister Bob Carr has wrapped up his high-level meeting in Beijing with the man who will become the second most powerful person in China.

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Don't write off cheques, experts warn

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The Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) says there is no need to phase out cheques despite their usage dropping by more than 60 per cent in the past decade.

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Rebekah Brooks charged with perverting course of justice

Brooks leaves the Leveson Inquiry

Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm, has been charged with perverting the course of justice over the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

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Google gets Nevada driving licence for self-drive car
Google's driverless car

Driverless cars will soon be a reality on the roads of Nevada after the state approved America's first self-driven vehicle licence.

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Greek conservatives fail to form government

Members of Greek extreme Right Wing Golden Dawn Party celebrate their party's return to parliament

Greece's New Democracy party says it is unable to form a coalition government, despite garnering the most votes in a general election marked by strong gains for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party.

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In Focus

Budget winners and losers

Treasurer Wayne Swan has handed down his fifth federal budget at Parliament House in Canberra.


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Around the World

Google gets Nevada driving licence for self-drive car

Google's driverless car

Driverless cars will soon be a reality on the roads of Nevada after the state approved America's first self-driven vehicle licence.


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Odd News

For sale in Singapore: $200,000 bottle of whisky

A whisky made to mark the 60th year on the throne of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is on sale in Singapore for a mere S$250,000 ($198,500) a bottle - and it may well find a buyer.


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Celebrity Sightings

Avengers smashes US box office record

The Avengers

The Avengers superhero movie has smashed the record for the biggest US opening weekend, taking $200m (£123m), early figures show.


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Behind the Scene

TV can improve children's language skills

The study urges parents to monitor what their youngsters are watching

Many early childhood experts discourage parents from letting toddlers watch TV, but a new Australian study says that TV can help improve a child's language skills.


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Australia

Temby report finds no oversight in HSU spending spree

An interim report into the troubled east branch of the Health Services Union says the union has no credit card policy or formal purchase order system, despite millions of dollars of expenditure each year.


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World

Santorum endorses ex-rival Romney

Santorum, Romney in Republican debate

Former Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has endorsed his one-time fierce rival Mitt Romney.


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Middle East

Netanyahu forms surprise coalition, delays vote

Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the parliament

Israel's parliament has postponed plans for an early election after prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck a surprise agreement with the opposition Kadima party, drawing it into his government.


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Sport

Eric the Eel set for Games comeback

Another swimming comeback: Eric Moussambani could be on pool deck in London.

One of the Olympics' most famous underdogs, Eric the Eel, is set to make a splash at the London Games after being named coach for the Equatorial Guinea swimming team.


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