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Breaking News Sun, 11 May 2008
INDIA-FRUIT-MARKET
Asia   BIo Fuel   Food   Inflation   Photos  
 The Manila Times 
Surging food prices bite across Asia
| From the rice paddies of Asia to the wheat fields of Australia, the soaring prices of food are breaking the budgets of the poor and raising the specters of hunger and unrest, experts warn. | A billi... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
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Australia   Business   Economy   Market   Photos  
 The Australian 
'Mother of all hangovers' looms after boom, Rudd warns
| KEVIN Rudd last night warned Australia faces "waking up with the mother of all hangovers" in its failure to address "a multitude of economic weaknesses" hidden by the mining boom. | In a speech that... (photo: Creative COmmons)
A screen at the Australian Stock Exchange in Sydney shows a graph illustrating the drop in share prices  The Australian 
Markets to play it safe ahead of budget
| AUSTRALIAN share traders are expected to remain cautious ahead of tomorrow night's federal budget and the mid-week release of quarterly wage data. | Despite another sizeable loss on Wall Street on F... (photo: AP / Mark Baker)
Australia   Economy   Finance   Market   Photos  
Steel Industry (sl1)  The Australian 
Beijing's behemoths want more iron action
| THE first ship to load iron ore produced by Fortescue Metals Group will dock on Thursday at Port Hedland in Western Australia. It will leave with 170,000 tonnes of ore, bound for Baosteel in Shangha... (photo: AP Photo / Andy Wong)
Australia   Business   China   Metal   Photos  
Top Stories
 Agriculture in Australia The Australian
Climate change will boost farm output
| AUSTRALIAN agricultural output will double over the next 40 years, with climate change predicted to increase, rather than hinder, the level of production. | A recent sp... (photo: AFFA Photo)
Agriculture   Australia   Climate   Global Warming   Photos  
 KLdy1 - currency - usd - dollar - us dollar - u.s dollar - united states dollar. (dy1) The Australian
System transfers funds to radicals
| AN "underground" banking system - investigated by the US for allegedly transmitting funds for terrorist operations - is suspected of being used in Australia to channel ... (photo: WN)
Africa   Australia   Money   Photos   Terrorism  
 Cadbury-Chocolate/wam2 The Australian
Cadbury launches TV campaign
| CADBURY might be synonymous with chocolate, according to a recent advertising pitch, but now the confectionery company wants to remind consumers that chocolate itself w... (photo: Creative Commons)
Advertising   Business   Company   Food   Photos  
Shakel Ahmed, 28, left,whose kidney was removed, recovers at city civil hospital as his mother father sit near him, in Gurgaon, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. Ahmed is one of three people who were rescued by police from the illegal transplant racket that allegedly removed kidneys from up to 500 poor laborers and sold their organs to wealthy clients. Sydney Morning Herald
Kidney market shut as Pakistan cuts supply
| A BILLION-DOLLAR kidney bazaar that thrived across Pakistan has been abruptly shut down, forcing thousands of kidney patients to look elsewhere for a donor. | Lax regul... (photo: AP Photo / Manish Swarup)
Health   Hospitals   Market   Pakistan   Photos  
String-bikinis Sydney Morning Herald
Beach girl a bikini pioneer
| THE Herald photograph of young women in swimming costumes skittering down a South Curl Curl dune captured an almost forgotten summer's day long ago. | And when it reapp... (photo: Creative Commons)
Fashion   Girl   Photos   Society   Women  
platypus Independent online
Platypus origins finally unravelled
| When the first skin of a duck-billed platypus arrived in England in 1799, the keeper of natural history at the British Museum thought it must be an elaborate hoax; how ... (photo: creative commons / aruna1)
Animals   Ecology   Photos   Science   Wildlife  
Myanmar soldiers unload boxes of supplies from a Thai transport plane at Yangon airport in Myanmar Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, where nearly 22,000 people perished, remained largely cut off from the rest of the world Tuesday, four days after a cyclone unleashed winds, floods and high tidal waves on the densely populated regio USA Today
More aid finally reaching Burma's cyclone victims
Posted  | Comment  | Recommend | | | Rangoon, Burma (AP) — Food and water reached cyclone victims in greater amounts Sunday after many roads were... (photo: AP / )
Aid   Burma   Disaster   Photos   UN  
Presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama (ayt1) The Australian
Obama winning fight for superdelegates
| BARACK Obama surpassed Hillary Clinton for the first time today in the fight for the all-important superdelegates whose votes will be decisive in choosing the Democrati... (photo: AP Photo / Ted S. Warren)
Democrat   Election   Photos   Politics   US  
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks while campaigning at Summit High School in Bend, Ore., Saturday, May 10, 20 The Australian
Obama overtakes Clinton in superdelegates
| BARACK Obama surpassed Hillary Clinton for the first time today in the fight for the all-important superdelegates whose votes will be decisive in choosing the Democrati... (photo: AP / Don Ryan)
Elections   Photos   Politics   Society   US  
Blacktip Reef Shark The Australian
Beach remains closed after shark attack
| A WESTERN Australian beach remains closed this morning after a Perth man was attacked by a shark while swimming there. Jason Cull, 37, was about 80m off Middleton Beach... (photo: GFDL / )
Australia   Fish   Health   Nature   Photos  
Sport Business & Economy
- Tahs take perilous journey to face Reds
- Tribute game novel distraction
- Apache Cat a national inspiration
- Quarantine puts Apache Cat's trip in doubt
String-bikinis
Beach girl a bikini pioneer
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- Business council backs tax review
- Tax overhaul looms in Aussie budget
- Tech firm cracks the US market
- Gill South: Blushing Kiwi tall poppies - time to stand up a
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'Mother of all hangovers' looms after boom, Rudd warns
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Society & Entertainment Politics
- Screen awards patron
- Apache Cat a national inspiration
- No one's too young for a play
- French theme enlivens contemporary format
 Jugendliche trinken immer weniger Alcopops. Diese erfreuliche Entwicklung ist eine Wirkung der Alcopopsteuer, mit der die Bundesregierung im vergangenen Jahr die gefhrlichen Alkohol-Mixgetrnke verteuert hat. ula1
Pub ban on alcopops to curb violence
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- Surging food prices bite across Asia
- Strong support to deny the rich
- 'Mother of all hangovers' looms after boom, Rudd war
- Shame about the roads
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Surging food prices bite across Asia
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Energy Technology
- Surging food prices bite across Asia
- Markets to play it safe ahead of budget
- Beware protection garbed in green
- Who's the most poll-driven of them all
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Surging food prices bite across Asia
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- Tech firm cracks the US market
- Call for incentives as auctions collapse
- Climate change will boost farm output
- 'Dreamtime' over in Aboriginal studies
 Agriculture in Australia
Climate change will boost farm output
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