Miss Universe, Olympians in Australia Poll Bout
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The first face-to-face bout in Australia's election campaign was staged inside an airport hangar on Wednesday with prime ministerial contenders sparring with Miss Universe and hundreds of Olympians before a phalanx of cameras.
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MELBOURNE - Australia will start its bid for a 300th Test win when it takes on Pakistan today, a special day in the national sports calendar Down Under when the Melbourne Cricket Ground hosts the annual Boxing Day match.
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MELBOURNE - Australian eight rower Sally Robbins, who quit pulling with her crew in sight of an Olympic medal, triggered heated national debate on Tuesday with even Prime Minister John Howard having his say.
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ELEANOR HALL: While Australians will be heading to the polls on Saturday, on the other side of the world Afghans are voting this weekend in the first ever democratic election in their country.
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Australians voted today in an election which offered the choice between a conservative government that unreservedly backs the United States and its Iraq war and a Labour opposition seeking stronger ties in Asia.
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Australia&#39;s Lauren Jackson, the WNBA&#39;s reigning MVP, came to the Olympics hoping aloud to meet the United States in the women&#39;s basketball gold-medal game.
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Women from 86 countries prepared to sashay in bikinis and evening gowns Sunday &#151; and perhaps talk a little about world peace &#151; for the final competition in the Miss Universe pageant, held in the United States for the first time in eight years.
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CANBERRA, Australia -- Prime Minister John Howard says Australians will head to the ballot boxes on October 9, in a race that is seen as being the closest in 30 years.
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AUSTRALIA&#39;S involvement in Iraq and terrorism strikes in Southeast Asia have made defence and national security potentially decisive issues for voters as polling day nears.
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Australians voted in parliamentary elections Saturday with Prime Minister John Howard and his Labor Party challenger in a virtual dead heat, following a campaign that focused
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Description: Australians go to the polls Saturday to choose a prime minster. The incumbent, conservative politician John Howard, supported President Bush&#39;s war on Iraq and contributed 2,000 Australian troops to the effort.
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ATHENS -- The International Gymnastics Federation is expected to rule today on a protest by South Korean officials over judging in the men's all-around competition Wednesday. But regardless of the ruling, Paul Hamm will not have his gold medal taken away.
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America&#39;s two beach volleyball duos won Olympic quarterfinal matches yesterday in Athens to set up a showdown for a berth in the women&#39;s gold medal match.
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Australian politicians set off on a marathon campaign Monday for an election that will focus on the way forward for one of the world&#39;s strongest economies
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Sport: Australian Open: Maria Sharapova will face Ana Ivanovic after two contrasting wins in the semi-finals
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Voting is underway in federal election booths across Australia, as 13 million Australians choose their next prime minister. The latest opinion polls published in the newspapers show the ruling coalition in
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South Korea's foreign minister kept his spot as the favorite in the race to succeed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in an informal poll yesterday, the only one among the seven candidates to get the needed majority of votes. Ban Ki-Moon received 13 votes in favor, one against, and one no opinion, China's UN Ambassador Wang Guangya said. ...