The Mercury
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St. George agrees to Westpac takeover
- 4 Hours ago
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SYDNEY, Australia Westpac Banking Corp. and smaller rival St. George agreed to a takeover deal Tuesday worth 18.6 billion Australian dollars ($17.5 billion) that would create Australia's biggest bank
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BBC
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Australian fined for buckling in beer, not child
- 3 Hours ago
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DARWIN, Australia -- An Australian man has been fined after buckling in a case of beer with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the car's floor, police said Tuesday. Constable Wayne Burnett
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Francis Gurry elected UN patent chief
- 5 Hours ago
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GENEVA Francis Gurry will be the new head of the World Intellectual Property Organization. The Australian won the election over Brazil's Jose Graca Aranha with a 42-41 vote in a poll of the agency's 83
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4:08amRudd, Swan begin Budget sell
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PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan will blitz television screens and the airwaves this morning as they begin the job of selling their first Budget. Mr Swan delivered a a record $21.7 billion
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Toronto stocks sag as profit-taking hits oils
- 2 Hours ago
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index weakened on Tuesday amid retreating oil and gas shares after the index hit a record high on Monday. The S&P/TSX composite index .GSPTSE unofficially
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