![]() Times Online | Twins' birth mum wants daughters to stay Sydney Morning Herald The birth mother of twins Krishna and Trishna who gave them up due to poverty says she wants them to remain in Australia to be educated. The two-year-old conjoined Bangladeshi twins were separated by a 16-member surgical team during marathon surgery at ... Mother of separated twins Krishna and Trishna wants them raised in Australia Separated twin starts to wake up Second conjoined twin 'waking slowly' |
![]() guardian.co.uk | Politics needs poetry – so hooray for Herman Van Rompuy guardian.co.uk First let me say this: on balance, I would far rather that people in politics were writing poetry than not. Where are the poets in the House of Commons? So let's give Herman Van Rompuy a round of applause. However, I am suspicious of the haiku as a ... The new EU chiefs: Rompuy-pumpy and Cathy Who? New EU president raises fears in aspirant Turkey Herman Van Rompuy: quirky exterior conceals sharp operator |
![]() ABC News | Reid health bill helps chiropractors, drugmakers The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Chiropractors get a lift in the Senate health care bill, thanks to a senator from the state practitioners consider the birthplace of their profession — Iowa. Search the fine print of the bill unveiled this week by Senate Majority Leader ... Senate vote next step on what could be a long road for health care Obama's Senate allies eye key health care victory WRAPUP 1-Moderate Democrat boosts US Senate healthcare bill |
1000 crew prepare for catastrophic NSW fires ABC Online A total fire ban is in place for many parts of the state with high temperatures expected again today. (ABC News) More than 1000 firefighters are expected to be on the job again today as parts of New South Wales face another day of catastrophic fire ... Australian firefighters try to contain bushfires Region into catastrophic danger Up to 100 fires burning across NSW |
![]() Brisbane Times | SEQ mayors accept water challenge Brisbane Times Three South-East Queensland mayors, whose communities are about to face tough new water usage limits, say residents are up to the challenge. Natural Resources Minister Stephen Robertson yesterday challenged the water-thirsty Sunshine Coast community to ... Why Bligh wants us to slash water usage Water restrictions in south-east Qld to stay Don't like desal? Then don't splash out |
![]() Gold Coast Bulletin News | Paramedics fear heat, booze will hit Schoolies NEWS.com.au Paramedics fear hot and humid weather and heavy alcohol consumption could be a dangerous cocktail for the annual Schoolies festival, which officially starts today. Scores of orange stretchers have been stowed in a special emergency treatment centre on ... Schoolies' dirty sex secret Coast calls as schoolies get set Gold Coast braces itself for Schoolies invasion |
![]() Deccan Herald | "Seize opportunity" for children, says UN chief Xinhua UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Friday called on the international community to "seize the opportunity and build a world that is fit for children" at a time when children across the globe fall victim to preventable ... Children's Rights Still Violated 20 Years After Convention UN marks 20 years of Convention on Rights of the Child UNICEF: world's children face lottery |
![]() NEWS.com.au | Coroner blasts Boorabbin fire controllers for extreme incompetence NEWS.com.au THE fire chief at the centre of a damning coronial report on the deaths of three truckies was reportedly given a $75000 redundancy payment only last week. Barry Hooper, the fire controller who made the fateful decision that led to the deaths of the ... 'Incompetence' led to truckies' deaths State agency Department of Environment and Conservation at fault for horrific ... Coroner questions DEC bushfire management |
![]() Inner West Courier | Empowered Rees improves party prospects The Australian THERE have been three pivotal moments in the life of the NSW Labor government during its turbulent fourth term in office. The first came on September 5 last year when former premier Morris Iemma took a radical reshuffle to caucus in a last-ditch bid to ... Saving his own neck Next election should be publicly funded: Rees These frontline jobs must stay |
![]() Telegraph.co.uk | Cumbria floods: residents braced for more rain Telegraph.co.uk England's wettest day on record claimed the life of a "heroic" policeman and left hundreds of people homeless as forecasters warned the "Biblical" downpour which devastated parts of Cumbria is not over yet. By Aislinn Laing, Paul Stokes and Nigel ... 'Once every 1000 years, rain falls like this' Policeman dies as devastating deluge strikes Britain Tributes paid to flood death Pc |