Cassar-Daley dominates Golden Guitars

Country music fans have marked Australia Day at the annual Tamworth Country Music Festival. Source: AAP THOUSANDS of country music fans have kicked off their Australia Day celebrations at the annual Tamworth Country Music Festival cavalcade....

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Troy Cassar-Daley humbled by awards haul

TROY Cassar-Daley has a big place in his heart for the Golden Guitars. When he inspected the flood-ravaged basement of his Queensland farmhouse the first item he salvaged was one of the statuettes. He also dragged out a banjo, given by his wife...

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French-led troops in Mali seize airport

FRENCH-LED troops have seized the airport and a key bridge serving the Islamist stronghold of Gao in a major boost to a 16-day-old offensive to rout al-Qaeda-linked rebels from Mali's sprawling desert north. The stunning advance came as the extremist...

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China 'must modernise' before global role

CHINA'S new leadership will focus on modernising the country before it increases Beijing's role in international affairs, a top official has told the Davos forum. Senior Chinese planning official Zhang Xiaoqiang told economic and business leaders...

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Man saved after ordeal in Qld floods

A 22-YEAR-OLD man who was stranded for around 24 hours by flooding on a roadside in Queensland's northeast has been plucked to safety by helicopter. The man had been driving from Charters Towers to Mackay when his car became bogged, before rising...

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Flood fears for 1600 homes in Moreton Bay

UP to 1600 homes in the coastal Moreton Bay region, north of Brisbane, are in danger of being inundated by a Saturday morning storm tide, authorities have warned. Homes in low-lying areas could be affected when a high tide arrives at around...

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Wild weather tipped for long weekend

HEAVY rain, wild surf and gale force winds are expected to hit northern NSW on the Australia Day long weekend, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) warns. BoM says ex-tropical cyclone Oswald, which has already travelled 2000 kilometres south from...

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Number of new Aussies up on Australia Day

A RECORD number of people will become citizens this Australia Day, marking the end of the migrant journey and the start of their new lives in Australia, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Chris Bowen says. Mr Bowen says 17,059 people from...

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Syria TV shows Assad at religious ceremony

SYRIA'S embattled President Bashar al-Assad has been shown on state television attending prayers at a mosque in a northern district of Damascus to mark the Prophet Mohammed's birthday. The leader was shown in a live broadcast kneeling in Al-Afram...

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15,000 crocs escape from Sth African farm

SOUTH Africa's army and police have been called in to rescue residents from thousands of crocodiles that escaped from a farm where the floodgates were opened due to torrential rains. About 15,000 predators sprung from the Rakwena Crocodile Farm...

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Toyota, BMW focus on green technology

MOTOR vehicle manufacturers Toyota and BMW say they are working closely together to develop green technology. The companies said on Thursday they had reached binding agreements on several strategies. These include the possible joint development...

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Nepal colonel in UK court over torture

A COLONEL in Nepal's army will stand trial in Britain in June on charges of torture allegedly committed during the Himalayan nation's civil war. Colonel Kuma Lama appeared by video link from prison for a London court hearing on Thursday. The...

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Crane collapse fast tracks safety program

WORKCOVER NSW has fast-tracked a safety inspection program of tower cranes across the state after one caught fire and collapsed at a Sydney construction site late last year. The inspections, which were set to begin at the end of 2013, have since...

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Putin offers to host Syria refugee talks

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has offered to host an international conference in Moscow on the refugee crisis in Syria sparked by the conflict between rebels and the regime. "If the interested nations agree to this, we will be ready to propose...

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35 killed in suicide bomb at Iraq mosque

A SUICIDE bomb in the middle of a funeral at a Shi'ite mosque in north Iraq killed at least 35 people and wounded 70 others on Wednesday, security and medical officials say. The blast struck at the Sayida al-Shuhada mosque in Tuz Khurmatu, 175...

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Dental report shows good tooth decade

THE number of dentists in Australia's remote areas has risen by almost 50 per cent and more of them are women. Statistics in the government's Dental Workforce 2011 report, released on Thursday, will have both the oft-neglected rural community...

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China's young declining in fitness: govt

DESPITE its formidable performance in recent Olympic Games, China has found itself in a crisis of declining fitness among its youngsters. The government has urged schools to beef up their physical education following a recent outcry touched...

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Gas leak in France causes chaos

FRANCE'S ecology minister says she's rushing back home from a trip to Germany after a gas leak at a chemical plant spread fumes over Paris and forced the cancellation of a major football match. Authorities insisted the gas, mercaptan, was harmless,...

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India warns of nuclear threat to Kashmir

POLICE in Indian Kashmir have warned residents to build underground bunkers to prepare for a possible nuclear war in the disputed region, which is on edge after a string of deadly border clashes. The warning comes despite a ceasefire which took...

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Cyber safety mum is SA's award nominee

IN recent years Sonya Ryan's life has been filled with grief and despair as she coped with the murder of her 15-year-old daughter Carly. But instead of turning away from society, the Adelaide woman has worked tirelessly to prevent the same thing...

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Iran helps Syria build paramilitary force

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad's regime has put together a new paramilitary force of men and women, some trained by key ally Iran, to fight what is now becoming a guerrilla war, a watchdog says. The force, dubbed the National Defence Army, gathers...

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Fitch highlights economic threat of ageing

MANY advanced economies will be threatened by another, long-term fiscal shock unless they tackle the problem of ageing populations, the ratings agency Fitch has warned. "Whilst a successful resolution of the current fiscal crisis remains the...

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French, Mali troops retake Islamist towns

FRENCH and Malian troops have recaptured the Malian towns of Diabaly and Douentza from Islamist fighters, France's defence minister says. After heavy fighting in Diabaly over the past week there was uncertainty over whether the Islamists had...

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Stubborn streak got nurse out of Algeria

A FRENCH nurse caught up in the Algeria hostage crisis has revealed how the fear of being raped and an overwhelming determination "not to submit to terrorists" ensured she survived. The nurse, identified only as Muriel, escaped from the gas complex...

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WA still Australia's economic powerhouse

WESTERN Australia is still the nation's strongest performing economy followed closely by the Northern Territory, a report shows. The CommSec State of the States report finds WA leading the way in four of eight criteria over the past three months....

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25 bodies of foreigners found in Algeria

ALGERIAN security forces have found the bodies of 25 foreigners as they combed a desert gas plant after a deadly stand-off with Islamists. Citing security sources, Anis Rahmani of the private television channel Ennahar told AFP the army discovered...

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Syria opposition seeks deal on PM-in-exile

SYRIA'S opposition umbrella group, which most Western and Arab powers opposed to the Damascus regime have recognised, is meeting in Istanbul in a bid to name a prime minister-in-exile, one of its leaders says. The Syrian National Coalition is...

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Assad's mother in Dubai: Syrians

ANISA Makhluf, the mother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has left the war-torn country and joined her daughter in Dubai, expatriates in the United Arab Emirates and an activist say. Makhluf has been living next to her daughter, Bushra, the...

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