The original Wiggles woo Carols crowd

THOUSANDS of arms and legs waved and flailed at Sydney's Carols in the Domain, as the original members of The Wiggles celebrated their last carols bonanza. More than 50,000 people packed into the Domain on Saturday, as the popular annual event...

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Fire bans, warnings as WA set to scorch

A MID-40C scorcher will see a total fire ban for around 2600 residents on the northern WA coast, while 6000 people in the state's Pilbara region are bracing for severe fire danger. The Shire of Exmouth, in the coastal region of Gascoyne about...

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Syria's chemical weapons safe, Russia says

RUSSIA'S foreign minister says the Syrian government has consolidated its chemical weapons in one or two locations amid a rebel onslaught. Sergey Lavrov says Russia, which has military advisers training Syria's military, has kept close watch...

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Two charged over $580,000 cigarette haul

CIGARETTES worth more than half a million dollars have been seized and two men charged following a routine police truck stop in Victoria's north, police say. Officers pulled over a light truck north-bound on the Hume Freeway at Seymour, about...

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List unveils top English tongue-twisters

"PHENOMENON", "remuneration" and "statistics" have topped a list of the most commonly mispronounced English words. Speakers also have a problem getting their tongue around "ethnicity", "hereditary" and "particularly", according to the UK body...

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Obama vows action after online petition

US President Barack Obama has vowed to take action to stop gun violence in response to online petitions signed by more than 400,000 people after last week's primary school massacre. "In the days since the heartbreaking tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut,...

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Pope makes new anti-gay marriage stance

THE Pope has taken his opposition to gay marriage to new heights with a strong denunciation of how people are manipulating their sex and gender to alter their God-given nature. Benedict made the comments on Friday in his annual Christmas speech...

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Dutch impound Steve Jobs superyacht

STEVE Jobs' Dutch-built superyacht has been impounded in Amsterdam because of a dispute between the late Apple founder's estate and designer Philippe Starck over an unpaid bill. "The yacht has been impounded," Rotterdam-based lawyer Roelant Klaassen,...

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Russia cuts Khodorkovsky's jail term

A RUSSIAN court has reduced the sentence of jailed Kremlin critic and former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky from 13 to 11 years, setting his release for 2014. The Moscow City Court on Thursday decided to cut the prison term served by the Yukos...

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Nigeria gunmen kidnap French national

A GROUP of 30 gunmen who stormed a residence in northern Nigeria where expatriate workers were staying kidnapped a French citizen after killing two people, police say. "I can confirm the abduction of a French national," the Katsina state police...

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WHO head warns diseases set to rise

THE head of the World Health Organisation says infectious diseases will spread more easily in the future due to globalisation, changing lifestyles and rising population densities. "The future looks very bright for microbes, not so good for humanity,"...

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Thailand extradites of Italian mafia boss

A THAI court has ordered the extradition of a former banker and Italian mafia boss accused of laundering money for two Sicilian godfathers. Vito Roberto Palazzolo, who was arrested in Thailand in March after investigators tracked him down through...

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Malaysia provides refuge for 'Rohingyas'

MALAYSIA has provided refuge to 40 shipwreck survivors believed to be refugees from Myanmar's conflict-wracked Rakhine state, a Malaysian maritime official says. The refugees arrived late on Tuesday in the southern state of Johor after they...

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French judges keep Strauss-Kahn charges

French judges have decided not to drop aggravated pimping charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Source: AAP FRENCH judges have decided not to drop aggravated pimping charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn. His lawyer says the former...

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High turnout in S Korea presidential vote

HUGE crowds have voted in a tight presidential race pitting the son of North Korean refugees against the conservative daughter of an assassinated dictator, who both favour greater engagement with Pyongyang. Despite freezing temperatures that hovered...

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Medical teams in Iraq to treat president

FOREIGN medical experts have rushed to Baghdad to assist Iraqi doctors treating ailing President Jalal Talabani, whose condition is said to be improving after he suffered a stroke. Talabani, a member of Iraq's Kurdish minority, was taken to...

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Blasts, clashes rock camp in Damascus

PALESTINIAN refugees have fled as blasts and fierce clashes rocked their camp in Damascus, a day after President Bashar al-Assad's deputy gave a gloomy assessment of Syria's brutal conflict. UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos, meanwhile, told...

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Greece raises 1.3bn euros in debt sale

GREECE has raised 1.3 billion euros ($A1.64 billion) in a three-month treasury bill auction with demand to spare, returning to short-term debt sales after completing an EU-funded debt buy-back last week. "During the auction of 1.0 billion euros...

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Five polio workers shot dead in Pakistan

GUNMEN on motorbikes have shot dead five female Pakistani polio vaccination workers, police say, highlighting resistance to the country's immunisation campaign. Four were killed in three different incidents in the sprawling port city and the fifth...

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NBC newsman freed in Syria after five days

US television journalist Richard Engel has been freed after being kidnapped in Syria and held for five days, his employer, NBC News, says. "After being kidnapped and held for five days inside Syria by an unknown group, NBC News chief foreign correspondent...

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Strong 6.1 quake off eastern Indonesia

AN earthquake of 6.1 magnitude has been detected off the eastern Indonesian island of Sulawesi. There have been no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The US Geological Survey said the quake was centred 119 kilometres northeast of Luwuk,...

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China cracks down on doomsday rumours

CHINA has detained dozens of people, some of whom it terms doomsday cult members, as part of a nationwide crackdown on rumours about a supposed forthcoming apocalypse, state media say. Authorities in five different areas have detained 52 people...

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Family of slain principal rue her courage

THE husband of the principal killed as she tried to stop a gunman from mowing down children at her US elementary school has told CNN he was angry at first that his wife put herself in danger. Dawn Hochsprung was in a meeting on Friday morning...

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France 'to blame' for Depardieu's tax exit

Gerard Depardieu will give up his French passport following criticism over his tax exile in Belgium. Source: AAP BELGIUM'S foreign minister says France is solely to blame after its top actor, Gerard Depardieu, threatened to give up his passport...

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US shooting shocks world leaders

WORLD leaders have expressed shock and horror after a gunman massacred 20 small children and six staff in the US state of Connecticut, one of the worst school shootings in history. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has sent Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy...

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China to focus on domestic demand in 2013

EXPANDING domestic consumption will drive China's economic development next year, according to a statement issued at a key annual leadership meeting. With export growth falling in November to 2.9 per cent year-on-year, down from 11.6 per cent...

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Springsteen, Gaga join Stones in Newark

BRUCE Springsteen, Lady Gaga and more have come out to help the Rolling Stones celebrate their 50th anniversary on the final stop of their mini US tour. Saturday's concert at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, was the last of five...

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Japan conservatives win election: reports

Voters have begun casting ballots in Japan for a general election. Source: AAP JAPAN'S conservative opposition has swept to victory in polls on Sunday, broadcasters say, in an apparent shift to the right as tensions rise with China and the...

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