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An Australian Soldier who suffered life threatening injuries in a recent ambush is still in a critical condition at a base in Afghanistan.

SYDNEY Roosters star Willie Mason suffered a season-ending knee injury and St George Illawarra forward Ben Creagh heavy concussion in a brutal opening half to their NRL game.

NSW Treasurer Michael Costa has been dumped by the Premier. Mr Costa said that he had been advised last night by Morris Iemma that he was "not on his ticket'', in reference to the names of those to be included ...

Morris Iemma and Michael Costa have both been dumped. VIEWS: 0 FLOCKS: 0 0 comments so far Bookmakers have reacted swiftly to the NSW Labor Party bloodbath today, slashing the opposition's odds for the ...

The Rudd government is only now saying it would spend the revenue from the luxury car tax hike on public transport, Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson says.

BARACK Obama has taken in a record $US10 million in campaign cash since Republican vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin's scorching assault on the Democratic White House nominee.

A 15 per cent vote for the Greens in Western Australia will help Labor cross the line tomorrow if the Miss Maud's coffee bean poll is anything to go by.

The Prime Minister has touched down in northern Tasmania ahead of tomorrow's State Labor Party Conference.

Outgoing New South Wales premier Morris Iemma has announced he is leaving politics altogether.

FOR the first time in 117 years, Labor has dumped a Premier - and Morris Iemma has announced at a press conference that he will quit politics.

If Beach Boy Brian Wilson shared his contemporaries' mindset - growing lazy and fat off royalties rather than trying new things or, at the very least, further refining that which brought fame - he'd probably be ...

BHP Billiton's iron ore operations throughout Western Australia have been suspended after the second fatality at the Yandi mine in two weeks.

Out .... Morris Iemma and John Watkins leaving the caucus meeting. Photo: Bob Pearce Nadia Jamal September 5, 2008 - 3:13PM Morris Iemma will leave politics to focus on being a husband and father.

ELECTRICITY prices will increase by 40 per cent by 2020 under economist Ross Garnaut's greenhouse target.

The cooling Pacific, the yet-to-cool Atlantic, and the historical reduction in recent solar activity—suggest that a staggered cooling period could continue. Absent from most headlines about global warming is a discussion of measures suggesting that the warming has ceased and a cooling may have begun. For example, deep-ocean heat content has not increased during the past five years. Looking at just one year, from January 2007 to January 2008, we find that satellite-derived atmospheric temperatures indicate that Earth was about one degree Fahrenheit cooler at the beginning of 2008 than it was at the beginning of 2007. The United Kingdom's Hadley Centre ocean and land temperature records show cooling in the last seven to ten years.

Before the media starts predictably linking Hurricane Gustav and Hannah to man-made global warming a sampling of a few of the most recent studies should easily silence such chatter.

The article, entitled “Seven Years To Climate Midnight”, took a now-traditional form, claiming that we have only x years (x being declared equal to 7 in the present instance) to avert irreversible climatic catastrophe “within decades”. The truth is that every single one of the exaggerated claims made in this article, and in hundreds like it that are published daily in the media, has long been shown to have no scientific credibility

Australia needs to reduce carbon emissions by 10 percent from the 2000 level by 2020 to tackle climate change and protect its $1 trillion economy, government adviser Ross Garnaut said.

Melbourne 7C - 18C . Mainly fine. Rugby League Article from: AAP TROUBLED halfback Todd Carney says he's looking forward to a "fresh start" after officially signing with Super League club Huddersfield.

In addition to crafting tracks for Jay-Z's upcoming album, "Blueprint III," Kanye West is plotting the release of his own as-yet-untitled Def Jam album, according to his management.