NSW police accused of Mardi Gras brutality

NSW police will investigate a video that appears to show an officer throwing a handcuffed, injured Mardi Gras reveller to the ground and standing on his back. The four-minute video was purportedly recorded after the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi...

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Massive winter storm grounds US flights

A MASSIVE winter storm pounding the northern United States has grounded more than 1,100 flights, closed hundreds of schools and made roadways impassible. More than a dozen states from Minnesota to Virginia were in the path of the huge storm...

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Maldives police detain opposition leader

POLICE in the Maldives have detained opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed, defying pressure from regional power India which had called for him to be free to campaign for elections. Twenty masked policemen in riot gear arrested Nasheed at his family...

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Resources exports to drive GDP growth

A RISE in iron ore and coal exports is expected to have been the major driver of economic growth in an otherwise weak final three months of 2012. AAP's survey of 14 economists revealed a median forecast for the Australian economy to have grown...

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Indian navy helicopter crashes in sea

TWO crew members are missing after an Indian naval helicopter crashed into the sea off the country's southeastern coast, sparking an air-sea rescue search, a navy spokesman says. The military helicopter took off from the city of Visakhapatnam...

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Venezuela on edge as Chavez health slides

VENEZUELA has plunged deeper into an uncertain future after cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez took a turn for the worse, hit by a severe infection and breathing problems. The once omnipresent face of the Latin American left, now breathing...

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Briton jailed for heist after 20 years

A BRITISH man dubbed "Fast Eddie" who spent nearly 20 years on the run in the United States has been jailed for driving off with a security van containing STG1.2 million ($A1.79 million). Eddie Maher, 57, had been a fugitive ever since the van...

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Iraq attacks kill 13

A STRING of bombings and shootings in Iraq has killed 13 people and wounded at least 35 others. Two car bombs targeted police in the restive northern city of Kirkuk, killing five and wounding at least 18, while gunmen killed a town council member...

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