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Aussie threat shuts down US schools

A VAGUE threat apparently posted by an Australian on two internet sites led to the lockdown of all schools in the busy midwestern US city of Minneapolis.

Naked Obama aide 'berated Congressman'

IT'S a terrifying image transfixing Washington: President Obama's bruising enforcer Rahm Emanuel, naked, in a communal shower, berating a congressman.

Hundreds feared dead in Africa floods

HUNDREDS of people are feared dead after torrential rains across east Africa sparked flash floods which swept away homes and bridges.

Violence in Nigeria flares again

RIOTERS armed with machetes have slaughtered more than 200 people as religious violence flared anew between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria.

Outcry over boxing kangaroo in US

A RED kangaroo that is goaded into fighting a human clown is the star attraction at a festival in the US designed to celebrate Australia.

Gunman shoots Pentagon police officers

A MAN calmly pulled a gun from his pocket and opened fire outside the Pentagon's metro entrance, injuring two police officers before he was fatally wounded.

US 'building top cyber defence team'

THE United States is building an elite cyber defence team to guard the nation's public and private computer systems, a top US security chief said on Wednesday.

All Blacks to win World Cup - poll

KIWIS are confident that, 24 years on from their last World Cup triumph, the All Blacks will win on home turf, according to an New Zealand Herald online poll.
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Global computer-virus network smashed

THREE men suspected of building the world's biggest network of virus-infected computers, which hijacked more than 13 million PCs, have been arrested in Spain.

Japan seeks to revive whaling

JAPAN will push for a resumption of commercial whaling, Japanese Fisheries Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu has confirmed.