Aviation security to be upgraded
5:02 PM AEDT | BREAKING NEWS: Air travellers are expected to experience delays of about six minutes due to a $200 million four-year upgrade to aviation security, which includes the introduction of full-body scanning.
Conroy put ex-MP up for key IT job
11:46 AM AEDT | A former Labor politician caught up in electoral fraud allegations was appointed to a job with the new broadband network after a recommendation by the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy.
Brumbies name Giteau in side
10:36 AM AEDT | ACT Brumbies marquee recruit Matt Giteau has been named at flyhalf to take on the Western Force in Friday night's Super 14 season-opener in Perth.

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MULTIMEDIA

Whaling war: collision on the high seas
07 Jan 10 | Japanese ship the Shonan Maru 2 clashes with protest vessel Ady Gil

SPORT

Lasscock to test knee against Pies
7:53 AM AEDT | If attitude is anything to go by, Canberra Raiders prop Cy Lasscock will be almost unstoppable in Saturday night's trial against the Western Suburbs Magpies NSW Cup team.
7:43 AM AEDT | One-day cricket might need Chris Gayle firing for its future, but Australia believes it has control over the West Indies captain and doesn't plan on letting it slip.
Talking rain till the cows come home
Angus cattle are splashing out in swollen creeks after flash floods and fierce thunderstorms ...
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Iran ups the ante in battle with West on uranium
8:47 AM AEDT | BEIRUT: In a possible move to deflect attention from Iran's political woes, the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has ordered the nation's atomic energy agency to begin enriching uranium from 3.5 per cent to 20 per cent purity to serve as fuel for a Tehran medical reactor.
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03 Feb 10 | Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig's lengthy article in the American magazine The New Republic has caused quite a stir in the internet community as he outlines the larger issue in the Google Book Search settlement and the dangerous precedent it sets for metered access to books and other cultural creations.
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