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Sydney bar fight: brawling man dies after falling into water

11:59 AM | Police divers pulled a dead man from the harbour at Cockle Bay this morning after a brawl erupted inside a bar and ended in the water.

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Kylie Minogue to star at Mardi Gras

8:50 AM | Kylie Minogue will perform not just one song as expected at the Mardi Gras party, but a medley of hits from her 25 years of recording in a 20-minute audio-visual spectacular, The Sun-Herald can reveal.

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Busted: the politics of cleavage and a glance

8:43 AM | Increasingly, women feel they are entitled to dress however they like but take offence when the 'wrong' man has a look, writes Bettina Arndt.

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Afghan child deaths report kept under wraps

8:04 AM | Defence Minister suppresses damning report into disastrous raid that killed five Afghan children.

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Spare a thought for poor jack mackerel

3:00 AM | The marine food chain goes something like this: sun, phytoplankton, zooplankton, shrimps, sprats, forage and demersal fish, pelagics and apex predators. Remove any one link and the whole web collapses.

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Breast implant crisis puts watchdog in spotlight

3:00 AM | The regulator's passive response to concerns over leaking implants has spurred calls for change, writes Cosima Marriner.

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Family rescued as hail hits home

3:00 AM | A STRING of thunderstorms that swept across Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the central coast and the Hunter Valley yesterday caused flash flooding and hail the size of golf balls.

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The cloak and dagger operation to expose cruelty

3:00 AM | The abattoir workers were nervous. They were in a hotel room with a member of Animal Liberation NSW, the organisation they had phoned anonymously with stories of cruelty from inside the Hawkesbury Valley Meat Processors.

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Rail customer service: if you're Jewish catch a taxi

3:00 AM | CHERYL BOGAN couldn't believe her ears. It wasn't until the CityRail employee repeated himself in a louder voice that she and her husband, Jeffrey, were sure they were under racist attack by a public servant. The customer service manager at Central Station, no less.

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Fugitive who comes in from the cold

3:00 AM | The state's most wanted man keeps haunting bush homes, writes Heath Aston.

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Hidden road signs a danger at schools

3:00 AM | IT WOULD take a very observant driver to spot the school zone sign for Bexley Public School. It's almost obscured by a young tree with lush foliage.

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Sink a few to keep the floats afloat

3:00 AM | THE hangovers from this year's Mardi Gras could be even worse than usual. The organisers of Sydney's gay and lesbian festival are counting on increased revenue from the sale of alcohol to turn a profit after recording financial losses in the past two years.

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Terror six claim it was fix

3:00 AM | A SET-UP BY a foreign intelligence agency and a cover-up by senior federal government officials led to the conviction and jailing of six Australians in Sydney for terrorism, a Herald investigation reveals.

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Westpac in Facebook crackdown

3:00 AM | WESTPAC is censoring criticism on social media sites amid growing public fury over its decision to retrench staff and raise interest rates independently of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

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Go on, ditch your bank, says PM

3:00 AM | JULIA GILLARD and Wayne Swan are telling Australians to dump the big banks as payback for the decision by Westpac and ANZ to sever their links with the Reserve Bank's official cash rate.

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Rudd unveils his lucky charm

3:00 AM | KEVIN RUDD is master of the professional embrace. Out on the hustings it's a matter of greet 'em, grab 'em, get close for the shot, and then move on quickly.

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Prodigal pupil returns

3:00 AM | KEVIN RUDD will officially reconcile with his former Catholic boarding school this week, 40 years after he begged his mother to remove him from the school.

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Get a life? Sorry, no time

3:00 AM | I'm on call 24/7. And even on holidays my phone doesn't get turned off. I'll take calls on annual leave, on my honeymoon … Three in the morning, two in the morning, five in the morning … my daughter often says, 'Tell your work you're busy with us.' I say to her, 'I wish.'

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Final flowering of a dazzling talent

3:00 AM | THE final months of Margaret Olley's life were among the artist's most productive despite her failing health.

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Firm's restructure may limit liability

3:00 AM | THE company that distributed faulty Poly Implant Prothese breast implants in Australia has restructured its business, potentially limiting its liability in the event of any compensation claim.

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