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Orang-utan protects baby from gang
Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:08 AM EST (National Nine News)
A pregnant orang-utan protectively hugs her baby as a gang of bounty hunters surround the pair, hoping to cash in on a palm plantation's reward to get rid of the animals.
Arab League halts Syria observer mission
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 4:48 PM EST (National Nine News)
The Arab League has suspended its observer mission in Syria because of an upsurge in violence that has killed more than 200 people in the past three days. At least 50 people were killed on Saturday alone. The decision came after consultations between the organisation's chief, N …
US couple married for 73 years die together
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 4:41 PM EST (National Nine News)
Kentucky couple Presley and Ethel Bradshaw were married for 73 years when they died just hours apart from one another. Ethel, 99, had been in a nursing home for the past four years because of poor health and dementia, the Huffington Post reports. But 101-year-old Presley used t …
Penguin poo has US senate in hysterics
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:10 PM EST (National Nine News)
A small penguin caused hysterics in a US state senate chamber when it defecated in the middle of a senator's speech. Republican senator Katie Stine had brought the sea bird into Kentucky State Senate in Frankfort on Tuesday in honour of the local Newport Aquarium that was being …
Cocaine mistakenly sent to UN headquarters
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:56 PM EST (National Nine News)
A 16 kilo (35.5 pounds) consignment of cocaine that Mexican drug traffickers recently lost has turned up in an unlikely place -- the United Nations in New York. Police and UN officials Thursday described how two fake UN bags containing the drugs -- which experts said had a stree …
Energy drink horror stories from our readers
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:49 PM EST (National Nine News)
A Sydney teen with a previously undetected — and fairly common — heart condition was rushed to hospital on two separate occasions after drinking Red Bull. Her story is one of many sent in by ninemsn readers who have had serious health problems after consuming energy …
Syrian troops storm Damascus suburb
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:30 PM EST (National Nine News)
Syrian troops have stormed a suburb of Damascus, rounding people up in house-to-house raids and clashing with army defectors, as the 10-month-old uprising inches ever closer to the capital. Even as the fighting raged in Douma, tens of thousands of backers of President Bashar al- …
ISP data retention still an issue, Ludlam warns
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:18 AM EST ()
Speaking at Electronic Frontiers Australia’s ‘War on the Internet’ event on Saturday in Melbourne (full video available online here), Ludlam, who is the Communications Spokesperson for the Greens, said much of the thinking around the data retention proposal …
Patriots brace for rain, shine and rescues
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:07 PM EST (National Nine News)
The day that brings Australians together should be typical enough - with citizens sweltering in a heatwave on one coast and staving off floods on another. Australia Day will surely bring on the usual patriotic fervour at beaches, barbecues and bottle shops but official events wi …
Colombia to pay $30 billion to victims of conflict
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:06 AM EST (National Nine News)
Colombia's government announced Tuesday it would pay $30.5 billion in an unprecedented effort to compensate victims of civil conflict stretching back over 45 years. A government assessment says compensation should be paid for "acts victimizing 830,000" people including 618,000 w …
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