Fatal fascination of outback Briton
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FASCINATION with the lifestyle of Australiaâs indigenous people may have contributed to the mystery death of a British tourist whose body was found in the shadow of Uluru, the sacred Aboriginal site formerly known as Ayers Rock.
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Jon-Paul Bingham puts his life on the line every week for the sake of science. One wrong move, and he could become the hapless victim of a snail attack that could kill him. Bingham, a biochemist at Clarkson University, is a self-described "conehead" whose livelihood depends on scuba diving for tropical marine cone snails and coaxing them to discharge their venom in his laboratory.
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The cousin of one of three youths who died in the Lake District tells how the day turned to tragedy.
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Steve Irwin, the quirky Australian   naturalist who won worldwide acclaim, has died in a marine   accident off Australia's northeast coast, local media reported   on Monday.
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Steve Irwin, the Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the Crocodile Hunter, was killed Monday by a stingray barb during a diving expedition, Australian media reported. He was 44.
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An Australian teenager was killed by a pair of great white sharks yesterday in the country&#39;s second shark fatality in less than a week.
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Â· Victim 'threatened public' with Uzi-style weaponÂ· Locals link death to 'troubled' stranger in pub
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A British backpacker slain in Australia called her boyfriend an hour before her death and sounded happy, a court heard.
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The onscreen heroics of presenters like Steve Irwin have shaped viewers' perceptions about the dangers of some animals.
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Steve Irwin, the quirky Australian  naturalist who won worldwide acclaim, was killed by a stingray  barb through the chest on Monday while diving off Australia's  northeast coast, emergency officials and witnesses said.
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Gary Pace, an Aussie by birth, sounds a bit like the Crocodile Hunter, and his company's Waltham conference room feels a bit like the Outback, when he explains that his native land is home to 17 of the 20 most dangerous snakes in the world. ''The inland taipan is the most deadly,&quot; Pace says cheerfully. One nip from a taipan ...
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The murder of a young boy whose body was  stuffed in a suitcase and thrown into a lake in a Sydney park  has shocked Australia's biggest city.
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Two British-born tourists were killed yesterday when their light plane crashed in an exclusive wilderness park in a remote part of Western Australia.
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The final documentary by naturalist Steve Irwin is broadcast in his native Australia.
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"The Complete Stories" (Pantheon Books, 528 pages, $27.50), by David Malouf: Australia is often a backpacker's destination of choice when otherwise lost. Its Ayers Rock and glittering Sydney are so far away and seasonally upside down that it must be the place to find a sense of purpose in the unsure time between adolescence and age.
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An Australian man descending a rocky slope as part of a 400-mile adventure race was struck and killed by a falling boulder.
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Two people believed to be British tourists have been killed after their light aircraft crashed in a remote wilderness park in Australia.