Archive for November, 2009

Rising cancer rate in girls baffles

AUSTRALIAN scientists are baffled as to why rates of childhood cancer are rising inexplicably in young girls.

Man ’strangled wife days after therapy’

A MAN strangled his wife days after their last marriage counselling session, a court has heard.

Abbott declares end to flirting with Gillard

TONY Abbott has addressed Parliament for the first time as Opposition Leader – and declared he will now have to stop flirting with Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Mechanical fault forces Rudd plane to ground

AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s plane has been forced back to Washington DC because of a mechanical fault.

Partner pleads not guilty to assaulting MP

THE partner of Tasmanian federal MP Jodie Campbell has pleaded not guilty to assaulting her.