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Pipeline Partners bids $1.25bn for Hastings Diversified

2, | Staff | May 15, 2012

PIPELINE Partners Australia, a consortium including Canada's Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec and Utilities Trust of Australia, has bid $1.25 billion for energ...

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Treasury secretary tips more rate cuts if economic growth stalls

2, | Staff | May 15, 2012

TREASURY Secretary Martin Parkinson has indicated interest rates could be cut further if the economy slows, and federal and state governments should slash waste to g...

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ccU.S. man pleads not guilty in hacking case aimed at worldwide group Anony...

2, | Editor | May 15, 2012

A U.S. man facing computer hacking charges in a federal investigation targeting the worldwide group Anonymous pleaded not guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit compu...

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Rome crypt opened for clues to missing Vatican schoolgirl

1 | Editor | May 15, 2012

Investigators attempting to resolve one of Italy's most enduring mysteries on Monday opened the tomb of a mobster in a Rome basilica for clues to the disappearance o...

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South Sudanese airlifted from Khartoum return home

2, | Editor | May 15, 2012

The first batch of up to 15,000 South Sudanese to be airlifted from Khartoum were welcomed in their homeland Monday, after they were ordered to leave Sudan for the n...

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Obama campaign airing 1st ad critical of Romney’s role in private equity fi...

3, , | Editor | May 15, 2012

President Barack Obama is opening a new advertising assault on challenger Mitt Romney’s record as a businessman — his primary strength with an American electorate st...

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Mood of America

2, | Editor | May 15, 2012

When the Theatre Arts Department of Washington-Lee High School staged its production of Fiddler on the Roof last weekend, the lead character of Tevye was portrayed b...

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49 headless bodies found near U.S. border

3, , | Editor | May 15, 2012

Authorities struggled Monday to identify the 49 people found mutilated and scattered in a pool of blood in a region near the U.S .border where Mexico’s two dominant ...

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Inflation will be contained but non-mining sector will remain weak: Lowe

2, | Staff | May 14, 2012

AUSTRALIA'S central bank said that it expected inflation to remain contained over the coming years, but also saw little respite from the two-speed nature of growth i...

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UN inspectors to press Iran on military site access

1 | Staff | May 14, 2012

The U.N. atomic watchdog will press its demand for access to an Iranian military site in talks starting on Monday that could influence the prospects for a broader di...