Last updated: February 01, 2011

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Hope gone as police say Kiesha is dead

Kiesha Abrahams

SIX months after girl disappeared from home, police are dealing with the harsh reality that the six-year-old has been murdered.

Young paid to have STD test

sex

YOUNGER Australians will be paid to get tested for chlamydia, as health experts look for new ways to combat rising rates of the sexually transmitted infection.

Army refuses to use force on protesters

Egypt

POWER slipping away from president as army promises there will be no crackdown on protesters. Live updates

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Crash kills hundreds of feral goats

Goats

HUNDREDS of feral goats were killed in a a heavy vehicle crash at Griffith last night.

My other car is less annoying

bumper stickers

COMMENT: The flags, stickers and other decorations that adorn automobiles in this modern era say a lot about the occupants - and it's not all pretty.

Gillard fights back over levy

Wayne Swan

GILLARD Government ministers have turned up the heat on Tony Abbott and the Opposition in a coordinated attack aimed at arresting the public backlash against the flood levy.

Chartered plane for Aussies in Egypt

egypt unrest

AUSTRALIANS trapped in Egypt can evacuate aboard a government-chartered Qantas flight on Wednesday, Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.

Mum and baby dead in Sydney

police

A MOTHER and her baby girl have been found dead at a home in Sydney's southwest.

Father returns home with abducted son

ken thompson

AUSTRALIAN who bicycled across Europe searching for his little boy to answer questions at press conference today.

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Daily Telegraph

Ten grand and a massage

Michael Chau

A SENIOR council official allegedly tried to solicit $10,000 from a company to pay for Liberal Party pamphlets and an erotic massage for a roadworker.

Wife defends husband on 'murder'

Trudie Adams

AROUND the time Trudie Adams vanished, a man police suspect was involved in her killing was happily romancing his future wife, a Sydney court has heard.

Jailed Pascoe will sniff out diabetes

Pascoe

PASCOE has been sent to jail and he's only 12 months old. But far from being naughty, this cute little gut is in training to save lives.

'Gunplay was a score to settle'

Bob Knight

A MAN rolled on his former associates, revealing in court how an ambush led to a gunfight between two groups that killed innocent truckdriver Bob Knight.

HeraldSun

Toll a record low, still unacceptable

Road memorials

THE 2010 road toll was the lowest on record, but police say it's unacceptable 287 families started the year without loved ones.

Support for camera site details

Speed camera

MORE than 82 per cent of Herald Sun readers support warning signs to let motorists know they are approaching speed cameras. 

Price rises sting consumers

money

VICTORIAN households are paying up to $360 a year - almost $1 a day - for power before they flick a single switch. 

Early fail on myki for Baillieu

Ted Baillieu

THE Baillieu Government has failed to release a promised report into the $1.3 billion myki ticketing system by the end of January.

PerthNow

WA man gets three years for racial hatred

racist video charge

THE Jewish victim of a verbal racial attack says a three-year prison term given to the man who called him a "racist, homicidal maniac" is not enough.

Bailed man breaks into cop shop car

car theft

POLICE charged a man after he allegedly broke into a vehicle parked inside a police station compound just minutes after he had been released on bail.

Party ruined by freak tempest

Birthday cake

ANNELIESE Turner won't forget her 13th birthday. Instead of blowing out candles, she was left cowering in the bathroom as their roof was ripped off.

Hot seas bleach Ningaloo Reef

Ningaloo Reef

ABNORMALLY hot sea temperatures at Ningaloo Reef are bleaching the area's coral, environmental officers say.

AdelaideNow

Party turmoil like a TV comedy

rann

LABOR MPs are comparing the present party turmoil to an episode of the British political comedy series The Thick of It.

English thug OK to move to SA

o'neill

AN English gas worker who attacked two men during a drunken bucks night fracas was spared jail so he could emigrate to South Australia.

No federal cash for Adelaide Oval

adelaide oval

ADELAIDE Oval's redevelopment will get no federal funding as the Commonwealth winds back infrastructure projects.

Land release for 3000 new homes

homes

A MASSIVE land release on Adelaide's northern fringe will give developers the opportunity to build more than 3000 new homes.

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