US stocks rise on earnings, overseas gains

US stocks have opened higher in the wake of solid corporate earnings reports and stronger overseas markets. Five minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 32.55 (0.22 per cent) to 15,001.44. The broad-based S&P 500 added...

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Top ETA operatives arreted in France

THE arrests of six ETA suspects in France has broken up the Basque armed separatist group's "logistical core" and made its total dissolution inevitable, Spain's interior minister says. "The logistical core of ETA has been detained today," with...

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Low earners struggling to feed families

PEOPLE on low incomes in NSW and the ACT are struggling to regularly provide food for their families, a new study shows. Anglicare and the Samaritans Foundation on Wednesday released the research, based on surveys of those who use emergency relief...

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Woman indecently assaulted on NSW train

POLICE are looking for a man who indecently assaulted a woman on a train on the NSW Central Coast. About 6pm (AEST) on Tuesday a 20-year-old woman was indecently assaulted on a train near Gosford, police say. She was then followed by the man...

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Libya minister rescinds resignation

LIBYA'S defence minister resigned but then changed his mind and the army chief of staff was sacked, as a political crisis deepened over gunmen besieging government ministries. "I find myself compelled, despite opposition from my colleagues in...

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Ireland pardons WWII soldiers who deserted

THOUSANDS of Irish soldiers who deserted their neutral nation's military to fight with the Allies in World War II will be officially pardoned under a new law. About 5,000 deserters were court martialled or dismissed from the Irish defence forces...

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Thick-skulled fossil cuts dino theory down

THE discovery of a new thick-skulled dinosaur the size of a large dog may challenge our image of a pre-historic Earth dominated by supersized lizards, a study says. The planet may, in fact, have been inhabited by many more types of small dinosaur...

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4 UN peacekeepers seized in Golan Heights

AN armed group has abducted four UN peacekeepers from the Philippines in the Golan Heights, which has been hit by mounting spillover from the Syrian civil war, the United Nations says. The four were patrolling near the Al Jamlah locality in...

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