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Call to standardise all L-platers across Australia
| ROAD rules for learner drivers would be the same around Australia under a state government plan. | Roads Minister Duncan Gay will today urge the federal government to adopt the plan to give learner ...Full Story

Children on long car trips - little monsters in the back seat
| "ARE we there yet?" | If the answer isn't "yes" in 23 minutes or less, parents have got a screaming, squabbling problem on their hands. | That narrow window of time, according to...Full Story

Victor Chang's killer Chiew Seng Liew will be deported to Malaysia
| THE underworld gangster who fired the shot that killed heart surgeon Victor Chang will be put on the first plane home to Malaysia when he is released from jail. | But the State Parole Authority was ...Full Story

New spate of robbery on the highways
| GANGS of thieves armed with guns and knives are terrorising idyllic mid north coast towns, with police linking four recent robberies to the same group. | There have been eight armed robberies betwee...Full Story

Sisters on run with their great grandma
| POLICE searched the rural home of a grandmother of four sisters yesterday as they continued to ignore a court order saying they must return to Italy to live with their father. | The girls' 70-year-o...Full Story

Exploiting weak boat people policy
| IN one sense, the government has been fortunate to be swamped with so many issues of concern recently. It meant that public attention was drawn away from the increasingly fraught subject of asylum s...Full Story

Rejected refugees get back on boats for another go
| ASYLUM seekers rejected after arriving by boat a decade ago are boarding vessels and coming back to Australia in the latest surge of arrivals. | One man even made his second dangerous sea journey wi...Full Story

GMAT Adds New Thinking Cap
| LONDON — Starting next month, prospective business school applicants who sit down to take the Graduate Management Admissions Test, or GMAT, may notice something different: Instead of a three-p...Full Story

NATO in a Time of Austerity
| In his valedictory speech last year, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates argued that the partnership between the North American and European sides of the NATO alliance needed a new impulse. Rel...Full Story

Ordinance for dike demolition sought
| THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is asking for a local ordinance to conduct demolition of a dike in a part of the Iloilo River. | The Iloilo-Batiano River Development Counc...Full Story

Mas lig-on nga retaining wall sa Horizon
| MASALIGON ang Taft Development Property Corp. nga maoy nagpatukod sa Horizon 101 nga lig-on na ning higayuna ang proteksyon sa nahugno nga retaining wall ug naningkamot sila nga di na mahitabo pag-u...Full Story

Pinterest gets $100 mn, led by Japan's Rakuten
| AFP - Japanese online giant Rakuten announced Thursday it was leading a $100 million investment in Pinterest, a fast-growing US bulletin-board style social media website. | Rakuten said it was joini...Full Story

Birthday Girl's New 'Friend' Crashes Mini, Flees
| A birthday celebration ended with a joyride, a crash and a hit-and-run driver. | A young woman, celebrating her birthday at an Ocean Beach Bar, was riding in a Mini Cooper when it crashed into a ret...Full Story

Victor Rego promoted to senoir VP, GM of Les Films Seville
| Marie-Claude Roussel joins the team as Director of Marketing | Quebec-based Les Films Séville, an Entertainment One subsidiary, has promoted Victor Rego to General Manager and Senior Vice President...Full Story

eOne takes Australia/New Zealand on Samsara
| eOne and Hopscotch have acquired Australian and New Zealand rights to Samsara, the follow up to Baraka. | Filmed over a period of five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on ...Full Story

Pinterest gets $100 mn, led by Japan's Rakuten
| Japanese online giant Rakuten announced Thursday it was leading a $100 million investment in Pinterest, a fast-growing US bulletin-board style social media website. | Rakuten said it was joining wit...Full Story

New Report Spine Surgery Devices Market (2012 - 2017) by MarketsandMarkets
| Spine Surgery Devices Market research report categories the global market of Spinal Surgery Equipments on the basis of Technology & Products; Global Trends & Forecasts. | (PRWEB) May 17, 201...Full Story

Most Children Younger Than Age 1 are Minorities, Census Bureau Reports
| To: NATIONAL AND STATE EDITORS | WASHINGTON, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Census Bureau today released a set of estimates showing that 50.4 percent of our nation's population you...Full Story

Warning on Indonesia's rising economic nationalism
| CANBERRA'S top diplomat in Jakarta has warned of the risks of a rising tide of economic nationalism in Indonesia, especially for Australian exporters and investors in the country. | Australia's amba...Full Story

Extradition hearing today for mother of Hollywood arson suspect
By Fred Shuster City News Servicedailynews.comPosted:   05/17/2012 06:30:04 AM PDTMay 17, 2012 1:32 PM GMTUpdated:   05/17/2012 06:30:33 AM PDT | LOS ANGELES - The mother of a man suspected ...Full Story

US GDP growth far behind Japan's
| Economic growth in the U.S. is lagging far behind on of its top competitors -- Japan. | According to CNNMoney.com, the Japanese economy is rebounding strongly in the wake of the devastating earthqua...Full Story

Facebook can't take Asia growth for granted
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetEven as Facebook fever grips investors ahead of the social networking giant's potential $100 billion-plus initial public offering, its breakneck growth in Asia may be slowing...Full Story

'Ring of Fire' eclipse visible from China to Texas
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet LOS ANGELES: Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United States and eastern Asia: The moon will...Full Story

2013 Honda Civic launched in Thailand
| We simply love the current Honda Civic even though it has been virtually unchanged for the last six years. As expected, there is a new model coming now and as we showed you last year, it is much sim...Full Story

Imogen Poots Joins Nick Hornby Adaptation 'A Long Way Down,' Steve Coogan Returns To '70's Brit Music Scene In "Northern Soul' & More
| Rising starlet Imogen Poots has joined the adaptation of Nick Hornsby's novel "A Long Way Down" which has Pascal Chaumeil at the helm. She'll star along side Toni Collette, Pierce ...Full Story

'World's oldest junk' returns to Taiwan
| The world's oldest surviving Chinese junk returned home to Taiwan on Thursday, nearly 60 years after it set sail on a historic voyage to the United States, organisers said. | The Free China arrived ...Full Story

First 'ring of fire' eclipse visible in US in nearly 20 years; also can be ...
| LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United States and eastern Asia: The moon will slide across th...Full Story

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(Photo: AP / Martin Oeser)Europe's banks on the brink
President of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet looks on during a news conference in Frankfurt, on Thursday, June 10, 2010. T...Full Story

(Photo: AP / APTN)North Korea 'resuming work' on nuclear reactor
In this image from television, foreign reporters and workers in protective gear are seen at North Korea's main nuclear reactor in Yongbyon, Friday, Feb. 22, 2008....Full Story


Pacific Business   
Cannes 2012: Warner Does Digital Deal With Australia's Odin's Eye
share Inseparable Warner Bros. Digital Distribution will handle VOD and electronic sell through for ...Full Story

Canadianpacificrailway/brief (urgent)
| TORONTO May 17 (Reuters) - Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd : * Pershing squares william ackman says "...Full Story

Obama challenges oil companies to drill existing leases
| WASHINGTON - The White House on Tuesday pushed back against the oil and gas industry's claims that...Full Story

ACT delay of budget surplus lauded
| Against a backdrop of Europe's debt woes, international credit ratings agency Standard & Poor'...Full Story

Environmental groups challenge Shell’s Arctic drilling permits
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 6:30 am by Jennifer A. Dlouhy in Alaska, arctic Shell's Arctic-class drill...Full Story

Inn at Laguna Beach Unveils Complete Renovation on June 1
| Environmentally-sensitive upgrade of classic Laguna inn is the perfect choice for weddings, meetin...Full Story

Facebook to go public in massive IPO
| Facebook is set to go public on Friday. The world's biggest social networking site hopes to raise ...Full Story

CEO of Canadian Pacific resigns
| CALGARY, Alberta (AP) - The embattled chief executive of Canadian Pacific Railway has announced hi...Full Story

Chevy chase over as Holden secures US export deal
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Invest Atlanta to relo to Georgia Pacific tower
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