First Australians return home
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THE first Australians to arrive home from the tsunami-ravaged holiday island of Phuket had the wide-eyed expressions of people who still couldn&#39;t believe what they had seen.
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The first batch of Japanese troops have returned home from Iraq after the nation ended its first deployment since World War II to a country where fighting is underway.
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The study shows that a small group of early humans returned to Africa after first migrating to the Middle East.
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National Bucharest defender Jon McKain made his home debut for Australia last night against the Solomon Islands. &quot;It&#39;s been a while coming and a bit of a dream I suppose,&quot; said McKain, who was a major influence on Australia&#39;s 6-0 victory.
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ARABI, La. -- Honie Bauer was the first to move back.
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THOUSANDS of spectators, including many flag-waving children, lined Sydney&#39;s George Street today to greet Australia&#39;s Olympians in their biggest welcome home parade.
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Thousands of people in Malaysian Borneo are returning home after being prompted to flee by false reports of a tsunami.
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The skeletal remains of 15 Aborigines are being returned home for reburial, nearly 90 years after a Swedish zoologist smuggled them out of Australia for display in a Stockholm museum.
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The bodies of two Australian soldiers killed in the Vietnam War finally began their journey home Monday, after their graves were uncovered thanks to a tip-off from a Viet Cong veteran.
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The remains of an Australian soldier  killed during the Vietnam War were returned home to a  ceremonial welcome on Wednesday, 36 years after his helicopter  was shot down by enemy fire.
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Elite Australian troops arrived in the troubled Solomon Islands on Thursday as the body of an Australian peacekeeper, the first casualty of Canberra&#39;s tough South Pacific security policy, arrived home.
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A British man whose life sentence for drugs offences was quashed by the Supreme Court in Thailand last week returned home Tuesday to an emotional welcome from his family.
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Thousands of Australians started returning home on Monday after floods and storms in the wine-making Hunter Valley area eased, but residents downstream near the city of Newcastle braced for floodwaters, officials said.
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The first Swedish dead from the Asian  tsunami came home Wednesday morning to a nation which fears it  may have suffered its worst loss of life for 200 years.
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Australia's parliament opened with its first ever Aboriginal welcome ceremony Tuesday as new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd prepared to give a landmark apology to the minority's "Stolen Generations."
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When the members of a National Guard unit finally returned from Iraq in July, they were met with tears, hugs and signs reading "Welcome home." But for some, the return hasn't been easy after living so long with the camaraderie of their unit, the structure of military life and the dangers of war.
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SYDNEY, Australia  - Australia on Sunday marked 40 years since a historic referendum granted Aborigines citizenship, but celebrations were muted by stark reminders of the hardships facing the continent's original inhabitants.