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Welcome to Point of View ...
Hear you will learn about the latest
building news and community events on the
Sunshine Coast in sunny
Queensland, Australia.
Ruthless Saddam Hussein
Hanged at Age 69
Within days of taking power, Saddam Hussein summoned about 400
top officials and announced he had uncovered a plot against
the ruling party. The conspirators, he said, were in that very
room. As the 42-year-old Saddam coolly puffed on a cigar,
names of the supposed plotters were read out. As each name was
called, secret police led them away.
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 Crocodile
Hunter' Irwin killed by stingray while making wildlife film
STEVE Irwin, the safari-suited
"crocodile hunter" and television presenter, was killed by a
stingray yesterday while filming a documentary series called
Ocean's Deadliest.
The Australian conservationist,
who attracted a worldwide following for his energetic antics
and catchphrase "Crikey!", was filming underwater ...
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 Cover-up,
conspiracy and the Lockerbie bomb connection
IF There is a day when
the seemingly inconsequential case involving DC Shirley McKie
morphed into the crisis which today is threatening the reputation of
Scotland's judicial and political system, it is Thursday, August 3,
2000.
It was
already more than three years since McKie (pictured left) had
visited a house in Kilmarnock where a woman called Marion Ross had
been brutally murdered. Since then McKie had been accused of
entering that house unauthorised, ...
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Sunshine Coast
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World Headlines
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Labor 'needs
a miracle' to take Liberal seats
The director of Labor's
Queensland election campaign, Milton Dick, says it will take
"a miracle" for his party to win seats from the Liberals at
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 Saddam
admits responsibility for killings
Former Iraqi
dictator Saddam Hussein has told his trial in Baghdad that he
alone should be made to answer for the actions of his regime.
Saddam and seven
co-defendants are on trial over the deaths of 148 people
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National
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State Headlines
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'Crocodile
Hunter' Irwin killed by stingray while making wildlife film
STEVE Irwin, the safari-suited
"crocodile hunter" and television presenter, was killed ...
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 Beattie,
Springborg face off in debate
Health, water and leadership
questions have dominated the traditional Queensland election
leaders' debate. |
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Business
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Entertainment
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 Petrol
under the pump
IT'S been building
for a long time. Resentment at prices now over $1.30 a litre
for standard unleaded petrol has been eating at motorists as
they watch it shrink the family... |
 Kidman
Urban marriage rumours
Australian actor Nicole Kidman has been spotted wearing a ring on
her wedding finger while walking through a US street with her latest
beau Keith Urban, sparking rumours ... |
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Sport
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Shopping
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 Aussie
women shatter medley relay
Australia's crack women swimmers, broke the 4x100 metres
medley relay world record in ... |
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online shopping, where you will find a superb collection of products
from around the world. |
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Science & Technology
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Market Reports
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WORLD
health chiefs are keen that Western governments do not respond
to the disease in the secretive, and costly, way many in Asia
did. Since large outbreaks emerged in...
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 China's
central bank expects the economy to grow 9.2 percent this year
and expand 8.7 percent in the first half of 2006, the Shanghai
Securities News said on Monday....
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THE death of the former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic five years into his trial for genocide has thrown the prosecution of dozens of accused war criminals into doubt.
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SIR Sean Connery underwent surgery for suspected cancer after doctors discovered a tumour on one of his kidneys, it emerged last night.
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BRITISH veterans of the Iraq war are suffering a "Vietnam effect" after returning home to face a hostile public, according to one of Britain's foremost experts on post-traumatic stress disorder.
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AS WORKERS yesterday removed the Scottish Parliament's loose roof beam for inspection south of the Border, it emerged a bolt was missing from the half-tonne piece of wood.
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TESSA Jowell was kept out of Cabinet discussions on Iran for almost three years because of her estranged husband's business dealings, it has emerged.
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THE death of ex-minister John Profumo finally brings to a close the Cold War sex scandal that so engrossed the nation.
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Historical Facts ... |
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Celtic Football
Club was formally constituted on the 6th November in 1887 by Brother Walfrid, a priest who dedicated his life to helping the poor. Founded with the intention of "alleviating poverty in Glasgow's East End parishes", Celtic played their first official game a year later, losing 5-2 to arch-rivals Rangers. For more information on Celtic Football Club click here |
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Robert Allan, poet and songwriter, was born in Kilbarchan,
Renfrewshire, on the 4th November in 1774. His works, published by Robert Burns Hardy of Glasgow, while attracting a great deal of admiration from lovers of Scottish song, failed to earn him enough money to continue his legacy. He emigrated to America in 1841 to see his youngest son, where he died a couple of months later. To read more about Great Scots click here |
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Today was a quiet
day in the visit of George IV to Scotland on the 19th August
1822, the first visit of a reigning monarch to Scotland
since Charles II in 1650. George's visit saw the birth of the
modern image of Scotland, orchestrated by Sir Walter Scott who
had persuaded George that he had legitimate Jacobite lineage.
Highland dress suddenly became immensely fashionable and
lowlanders across Scotland rushed to discover highland
ancestry so they could sport the suddenly trendy kilt in
varieties of dashing new tartan.
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