3rd September 2010

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  • 200-year-old beer salvaged from shipwreck

    Created Fri, 3rd of Sep 2010

    Divers salvaged the world's oldest drinkable beer from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea on Thursday, just days after work began to retrieve dozens of bottles of 200-year-old champagne, local officials ... more

  • Japan begins annual dolphin hunt

    Created Thu, 2nd of Sep 2010

    A controversial annual dolphin hunt that was depicted in an Oscar-winning documentary has begun in Japan. A fleet of six boats herded a group of about 20 bottlenose dolphins into the port of Taiji ... more

  • Australian attacked by shark in Solomons

    Created Fri, 3rd of Sep 2010

    A 34-year-old man from New South Wales is in a stable condition after being attacked by a shark in the Solomon Islands. The Department of Foreign Affairs says the attack left the man with cuts to ... more

  • Massive traffic jam returns to China

    Created Fri, 3rd of Sep 2010

    A huge traffic jam stretching at least 120 kilometres has reappeared in northern China, with thousands of cargo trucks stuck in a bottleneck, state media said. State television broadcast images of ... more

  • Go vintage, Prince Charles tells Vogue readers

    Created Fri, 3rd of Sep 2010

    Prince Charles has a woolly idea or two about how vintage clothes, recycling and the fashion industry can help protect the planet. In an article in the September edition of fashion magazine Vogue, ... more

  • Netanyahu, Abbas meet alone: US official

    Created Fri, 3rd of Sep 2010

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netantyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas have begun a one-on-one meeting, without notetakers or translators, a US State Department official says. The two ... more

  • Zsa Zsa Gabor to be preserved by plastination

    Created Thu, 2nd of Sep 2010

    The German husband of ailing 93-year-old Hollywood actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor said he wanted to preserve her body by plastination after she dies, the Bild newspaper reported. "My wife has ... more

  • High house prices drive ex-miner underground

    Created Thu, 2nd of Sep 2010

    A retired Chinese coal miner has found an underground solution to the country's sky-high housing costs, by carving out a new home beneath the shack he lives in, state media reported. Needing more ... more

  • Icon_camera 'Animal' Blair opens up on sex and politics

    Created Thu, 2nd of Sep 2010

    Tony Blair's memoirs concern more than just affairs of state - Britain's ex-prime minister also reveals intimate details about his wife and describes the sexual shenanigans of other ... more

  • Lantern find sheds light on Roman in the gloamin'

    Created Thu, 2nd of Sep 2010

    An intact Roman lantern made of bronze, believed by experts to be the only one of its kind in Britain, has been unearthed in a field by a metal-detecting enthusiast. The unique artefact, which ... more

  • Hicks's ex-lawyer wins justice award

    Created Thu, 2nd of Sep 2010

    The man who was David Hicks's lawyer, Stephen Kenny, has won a Justice Award from the Law Society of South Australia. Mr Kenny represented the former Guantanamo Bay detainee and currently is ... more

  • Towns battle monkey menace after 60 attacks

    Created Wed, 1st of Sep 2010

    Two Japanese towns have declared war on a band of marauding monkeys that have attacked more than 60 people in the forested foothills of Mount Fuji, local officials say. Alarmed by an unusual spate ... more

  • Big bill for world's slowest pub crawl

    Created Wed, 1st of Sep 2010

    A New Zealand pub has been painstakingly moved 40 metres up an Auckland hill to make way for a road tunnel. The 124-year-old Birdcage Tavern lies in the path of a major motorway expansion in New ... more

  • Outback town gathers for yabby races

    Created Wed, 1st of Sep 2010

    Hundreds are expected at an outback Queensland town for its International Yabby Races. Up to 500 people are expected at the yabby races tonight, which are held in Windorah, south-west of ... more

  • ED staff break down describing horrific dog attack

    Created Tue, 31st of Aug 2010

    Staff from a Melbourne hospital have broken down in the Victorian Coroners Court, as they recalled their attempts to save a 22-month-old girl who was fatally mauled by the family dog. Kara ... more


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