United honours $5 tickets after web glitch

United Airlines says it will accept tickets it mistakenly offered online at the wrong prices. Source: AAP US flight company United Airlines says it will accept tickets it mistakenly sold this week for next to nothing. A pricing error...

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Cambodian PM meets opposition leader

CAMBODIA'S long-ruling Prime Minister Hun Sen and the head of the main opposition party are holding their first face-to-face meeting in years. The move is a bid to find a way out of the country's political stalemate over a disputed election....

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Uni chief's kid favoured over 343 others

A QUEENSLAND woman is still studying medicine on a public scholarship despite her father being forced to quit his job as the university's vice-chancellor amid claims she was given preferential treatment. The Crime and Misconduct Commission says...

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Albanese runs for Labor leadership

ANTHONY Albanese believes he's the best candidate to lead Labor back into government at the next election. The former deputy prime minister has the policy credentials and has experience across a range of portfolios, he told reporters in Canberra...

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Shorten will stand for Labor leadership

BILL Shorten will stand for the Labor leadership, saying he wants to lead the rebuilding of the party and take the fight up to the coalition. Mr Shorten said he was running because he believed Labor could win the next election. Mr Shorten told...

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Qld health worker sacked after sex abuse

A SENIOR staff member at a Queensland mental health facility for teenagers has been sacked for ignoring sexual abuse allegations. Health Minister Lawrence Springborg said the misconduct, which revealed other clinical issues when investigated,...

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Vic man jailed for one-punch killing

IT took one punch for a man to be killed and hundreds of lives to be damaged. Father of two Beau Lawson, 31, was knocked to the ground with a single blow by Scott Alan Parker outside a Melbourne hotel on November 29 last year. He died the following...

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Aussies hurt, guides killed in PNG

Tour leader Christina King. Source: Supplied FOUR Australian trekkers have been injured, two of their guides hacked to death and another five badly injured when bandits attacked them on the first night of a trek in Papua New Guinea's highlands....

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NSW property dug up in hunt for Jasmine

Police forensic experts are excavating a NSW property as they search for a woman missing since 2009. Source: AAP POLICE forensic experts are using earth moving equipment to dig up a property in northern NSW as they search for a young woman...

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Elders to cut workforce by 10 per cent

Struggling rural services company Elders will slash its workforce by 10% as part of $25m of cuts. Source: AAP STRUGGLING rural services company Elders is set to axe about 150 jobs, or about 10 per cent of its workforce, as it re-organises and...

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Katy Perry's Roar spends 3rd week at No.1

KATY Perry has scored a third week at No.1 on the ARIA singles chart with her track Roar. This has kept Jason DeRulo's Talk Dirty at second place, also for three consecutive weeks. In fact the top four hasn't changed from last week, with Lana...

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Election shows road link wanted: Vic govt

A BIG swing towards the federal coalition in Victoria is a popular endorsement of the East West Link road link, the state government says. Prime minister-elect Tony Abbott has promised $1.5 billion towards the project, which would connect the...

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