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1 hour, 27 minutes ago Last magic mushrooms go on sale
DUTCH authorities banned the sale of fresh "magic" mushrooms overnight, but enforcement was delayed by problems over how to police it.
News.com.au | World Breaking News - 9:13 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Hudson's brother-in-law arrested for murders
POLICE have arrested the brother-in-law of Jennifer Hudson over the murders of the Oscar-winning star's mother, brother and seven-year-old nephew.
News.com.au | World Breaking News - 8:49 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Bond underwater car sold at auction
THE classic white Lotus sports car driven by Roger Moore in Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me has been sold at auction in London for £111,500 ($262,000).
News.com.au | World Breaking News - 8:32 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Brazil to cut deforestation by 70pc
THE Brazilian government overnight announced a plan under which it would cut deforestation of the Amazon by 70 per cent over the next decade.
News.com.au | World Breaking News - 5:24 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Blast wounds six at Bangkok airport
AT least six protesters occupying Bangkok's domestic airport were wounded by a bomb blast early today, the latest in a string of incidents targeting the demonstrators, emergency services said.
News.com.au | World Breaking News - 4:48 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Zimbabwe conditions 'catastrophic'
THE situation of dirt-poor, crisis-ridden, cholera-wracked Zimbabwe has reached disastrous proportions, the country's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said here today.
News.com.au | World Breaking News - 4:36 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Man 'boiled brother's head'
PROSECUTORS sought a life sentence today for a 52-year-old Dutchman accused of murdering his brother 11 years ago, hacking up the body and boiling the head in a pressure cooker.
News.com.au | World Breaking News - 4:19 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Climate juggernaut 'on the horizon'
WAR, hunger, poverty and sickness will stalk humanity if the world fails to tackle climate change, a 12-day UN conference on global warming heard today.
News.com.au | World Breaking News - 3:58 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Pirate attack on cruise ship foiled
A BID by Somali pirates to hijack a luxury cruise ship was foiled by an international taskforce, officials said today, as ransom negotiations for a Saudi super-tanker stretched into overtime.
News.com.au | World Breaking News - 3:35 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Snazzy sneakers banned in prisons
FANCY sports shoes were declared off limits at New York prisons yesterday as authorities sought to reduce friction between fashion-conscious inmates.
News.com.au | World Breaking News - 2:35 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Toxic milk made 294,000 sick
A TOTAL of 294,000 children became ill after consuming dairy products tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, with 154 of them still in serious condition.
News.com.au | World Breaking News - 2:33 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Obama names Clinton top diplomat
US president-elect Barack Obama has nominated Hillary Clinton to be his "tough", "smart" secretary of state and his former foe vowed to give her all to steer America through a ...
News.com.au | World Breaking News - 2:27 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Wall St plunges on recession news
US stocks dived deeper into the red today after an official panel confirmed that the economy has been in recession since December 2007, sparking fresh worries amid the global financial ...
News.com.au | World Breaking News - 12:47 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
11 hours, 9 minutes ago Protests strand 350,000 travellers
AN estimated 350,000 passengers have been unable to fly out of Thailand since anti-government protesters shut down Bangkok's two airports last week, according to a senior tourism official.
News.com.au | World Breaking News - 11:31 p.m. Monday 1st December 2008
Cholera-hit nation cuts water supplies
ZIMBABWE has cut water supplies to the capital Harare, state media said on Monday, as the health minister urged the public to stop shaking hands in a desperate bid to ...
News.com.au | World Breaking News - 10:43 p.m. Monday 1st December 2008

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