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10:00 AM AEST | One of the trapped Chilean miners is going to have some explaining to do after his wife ran into his mistress at the mine's entrance.
9:54 AM AEST | Israeli and Palestinian leaders launched their first direct negotiations in 20 months, agreeing to meet every two weeks in a bid to reach a lasting peace settlement within a year.
9:49 AM AEST | A shark attack in a remote area of the Solomon Islands has left an Australian man with severe cuts to his face and neck.
9:48 AM AEST | An oil platform explosion on Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico forced the crew to jump into the sea and threatened further damage to waters still recovering from the BP disaster. It was the second such disaster in the Gulf, but this time there was no leak and no one was killed.
8:40 AM AEST | American Nancy Kissel, who won a retrial in the killing of her high-flying investment banker husband, will ask a Hong Kong court to dismiss the charges and set her free, her lawyer said on Thursday.
7:39 AM AEST | A Detroit-area woman who was removed from a US jury for commenting about the ongoing case on Facebook has a longer writing task ahead: a five-page essay about the constitutional right to a fair trial.
7:18 AM AEST | A US homeless man who called emergency services from the hot tub of a suburban Portland home and asked for towels, hot chocolate and a hug got arrested for trespassing instead.
3:00 AM AEST | MOSCOW: A mysterious incident in which one of Russia's most powerful spies was found dead on a Turkish beach has provoked speculation that the deputy head of the country's foreign military intelligence service was murdered.
3:00 AM AEST | BRUSSELS: The European Union is keen to strike a pact with the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, to stem the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mediterranean, officials say.
3:00 AM AEST | LONDON: The photograph is hardly fodder for the tabloids: two men dressed in T-shirts and jeans, smiling broadly behind hip sunglasses as they take a walk in a park on a sunny day in London.
3:00 AM AEST | WASHINGTON: As President Obama convenes the first direct Middle East peace talks in 20 months, the question observers here and in the region are asking is what, if anything, makes this round more hopeful than the last.
3:00 AM AEST | LONDON: Tony Blair says that for a politician to have an affair is like being able to escape to a ''remote desert island of pleasure''.
3:00 AM AEST | COPIAPO: The drilling for the rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners was put on hold for several hours to shore up the shaft walls after a fault in the rock was detected, the chief engineer said.
3:00 AM AEST | KABUL: Afghan authorities are trying to prevent a potentially catastrophic run on the country's biggest bank after allegations of corruption and mismanagement led regulators to remove two of its top executives.
3:00 AM AEST | THE Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of the universe, Stephen Hawking has concluded.
3:00 AM AEST | THOUGH the barriers to a Middle East peace remain huge, fortified by two days of terrorist attacks on Israelis in the West Bank, peace negotiations in Washington have opened to notes of cautious optimism.
12:00 AM AEST | A two-year-old Indonesian boy who smoked about 40 cigarettes a day has kicked the habit after receiving intensive specialist care, a child welfare official said on Thursday.
02 Sep 10 | PARENTS can sometimes feel as if they are drowning in conflicting information about their child's requirements - what they should be eating, what they should be learning. But there is one area where we might all like more help - how to improve parenting skills that can be of long-term benefit to a child's mental health.
02 Sep 10 | THE good times keep rolling for ''slash and burn'' managers in America. Bosses of the 50 US companies that sacked the most staff during the recession earned 42 per cent more than their peers, new research shows.
02 Sep 10 | AN AUSTRALIAN woman arrested and charged with organising illegal activities during last year's Copenhagen climate summit has been cleared by a Danish court.
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