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Aruba: news

Djokovic beats Federer to reach final

Thursday, January 28th 2016, 11:57

World number one Novak Djokovic reaches his sixth Australian Open final with a 6-1 6-2 3-6 6-3 victory over Roger Federer.
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Konta hopes ended by Kerber in semis

Thursday, January 28th 2016, 5:40
related countries: Germany

Briton Johanna Konta's Australian Open run ends with defeat by German seventh seed Angelique Kerber in the semi-finals.
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Terror accused discussed 'kangaroo bomb'

Thursday, January 28th 2016, 5:36

An Australian teen allegedly discussed packing a kangaroo with explosives, painting it with an Islamic State symbol and setting it on police, a Melbourne court has heard.
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Rinehart no longer richest Australian

Thursday, January 28th 2016, 5:10
related countries: Australia, United States

Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart is no longer Australia's richest person, says Forbes Australia, losing her spot to US-born Blair Parry-Okeden.
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Williams sees off Sharapova again

Tuesday, January 26th 2016, 10:41

Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova to reach the Australian Open semi-finals, while Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic both win.
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Australian leaders begin republic push

Monday, January 25th 2016, 8:01
related countries: Australia

Almost all of Australia's state and territory leaders sign a document in support of replacing the Queen as head of state.
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MH370 search team loses sonar detector

Monday, January 25th 2016, 3:42
related countries: Malaysia

The Australian team looking for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has lost the sonar detector they were using for their search.
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Abbott to remain in Australian politics

Sunday, January 24th 2016, 23:44

Deposed Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will attempt to stay in parliament at the country's next federal election.
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Serbian hermit gives away fortune

Friday, January 22nd 2016, 17:02

A Serbian woman living as a hermit inherits almost a million Australian dollars from her husband - only to give it all away.
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Mariah Carey and James Packer engaged

Friday, January 22nd 2016, 4:27
related countries: United States

American pop star Mariah Carey is engaged to Australian billionaire James Packer, the BBC has learned.
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Hewitt makes emotional farewell

Thursday, January 21st 2016, 12:20

Lleyton Hewitt plays the last singles match of his tennis career as he loses to David Ferrer at the Australian Open.
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Tiger attack at Irwin's Australia Zoo

Thursday, January 21st 2016, 8:51
related countries: Australia
related places: Irwin

A tiger at an Australian zoo founded by the late conservationist Steve Irwin has attacked one of its keepers.
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Australian apology to gay UK widower

Thursday, January 21st 2016, 2:35
related countries: United Kingdom

South Australia's premier apologises to a UK widower after state authorities refused to recognise his marriage on his husband's death certificate.
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The Australian who shot a North Korean propaganda film

Thursday, January 21st 2016, 0:15
related countries: North Korea

Why I made a propaganda film in North Korea
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Australia's best words of 2015 picked

Wednesday, January 20th 2016, 22:49

The Macquarie Dictionary chooses "lumbersexual", "deso" and "captain's call" in its list of best Australian words for 2015.
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Djokovic plays down fixing in tennis

Monday, January 18th 2016, 10:27

World number one Novak Djokovic says match-fixing is not prevalent at the top level, as the Australian Open gets under way.
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Appeal to free kidnapped Australians

Sunday, January 17th 2016, 16:21
related countries: Burkina Faso

People in Burkina Faso campaign for the release of an Australian doctor and his wife, kidnapped the same day as the attack on the capital.
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Why we chose to stay in a bushfire's path

Friday, January 15th 2016, 4:21

Australian family chose to stay in a bushfire's path
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Canadian pilot dies in Antarctica

Wednesday, January 13th 2016, 8:24
related countries: Antarctica, Canada

A Canadian helicopter pilot has died after falling 20m (65ft) into an icy crevasse while delivering fuel to an Australian Antarctic base.
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Vegans upset over Australia Day ad

Tuesday, January 12th 2016, 6:31
related countries: Australia

An action movie-style advert to promote Australian lamb angers both vegans who call it "discriminatory" and Indigenous Australians.
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Australia store recalls 'toe-chop' chair

Monday, January 11th 2016, 9:03

Australian store Fantastic Furniture recalls 100,000 of its popular Worx chairs after two people complained it had chopped off part of their toes.
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VIDEO: Australian bushfire consumes whole town

Friday, January 8th 2016, 11:18

A bushfire in Western Australian has destroyed around 95 homes in the town of Yarloop and continues to burn out of control
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Cricketer fined in reporter 'sexism' row

Tuesday, January 5th 2016, 17:26

Cricketer Chris Gayle is fined A$10,000 by his club after asking an Australian reporter on a date in a live interview, in what he says was a joke.
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Australian desert lake begins to fill

Tuesday, January 5th 2016, 16:58
related countries: Australia

Heavy rains bring Australia’s desert to life and could eventually fill the vast Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, an event that only occurs a few times a century.
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VIDEO: 'Watermelon boy' nabs cricket spotlight

Monday, January 4th 2016, 7:45

A young Australian boy has fulfilled his dream of making it onto the big screen at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
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Australian children drown in car

Monday, January 4th 2016, 6:08
related countries: Australia

A father and his two children have drowned after their car was driven off the end of a wharf in Australia.
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'Watermelon boy' a hit with cricket fans

Monday, January 4th 2016, 1:48

An Australian boy earns cult status among cricket lovers after he is filmed eating a whole watermelon - including the rind - during a match.
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Australia ministers quit over scandals

Tuesday, December 29th 2015, 5:11

Two Australian government ministers resign over separate scandals, in the first major setback for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull since he took office.
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Christmas blaze guts Australia homes

Saturday, December 26th 2015, 7:15
related countries: Australia, Seychelles
related places: Victoria

A Christmas Day bushfire destroys more than 100 homes in a famous Australian tourist area in southern Victoria state.
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Child 'locked in hidden drug den'

Thursday, December 24th 2015, 7:26

Australian police charge three people after a child was allegedly locked inside an elaborate underground drugs compound north of Sydney.
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Solar flares light up Australian skies

Monday, December 21st 2015, 22:51
related countries: Australia

Photographers along the east coast of Australia have captured incredible images of the Aurora Australis.
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Young Danish prince 'saved from waves'

Monday, December 21st 2015, 20:22
related countries: Denmark

Prince Christian, the second in line to Denmark's throne, was rescued from the waves at an Australian beach after getting into trouble, reports say.
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'Stoner sloth' campaign criticised

Monday, December 21st 2015, 4:40

Australian researchers express reservations about a government-funded anti-marijuana campaign featuring an intoxicated sloth.
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Homes destroyed in Australia bushfires

Sunday, December 20th 2015, 20:55
related countries: Australia
related places: Melbourne

Twelve Australian families lose their homes to bushfires near Melbourne, days ahead of Christmas.
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Australia minister in airport check row

Friday, December 18th 2015, 9:50

An Australian airport security officer is sacked after Foreign Minister Julie Bishop was reportedly singled out for a security screening.
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Japan whaling 'disappoints' Australia

Friday, December 18th 2015, 9:26
related countries: Australia, Japan

Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull says he is "very disappointed" by Japan decision to restart Antarctic whaling, as he starts a visit to the country.
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Fanning wins despite brother's death

Thursday, December 17th 2015, 6:28

Australian Mick Fanning edges closer to his fourth world title in Hawaii despite learning of his brother's death hours before his winning heat.
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Australia in South China Sea flights

Tuesday, December 15th 2015, 12:53

The Australian military is carrying out "freedom of navigation" flights over disputed islands in the South China Sea, the BBC has uncovered.
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Nurofen maker defends banned packs

Monday, December 14th 2015, 13:26
related countries: United Kingdom

The UK maker of the Nurofen specific pain range of products defends their packaging, after an Australian court orders the products off shelves there.
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Australian teen admits terror charge

Monday, December 14th 2015, 8:10

An Australian teenager, detained during raids in Melbourne in May, pleads guilty to a terror-related charge.
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Thai policeman seeks Australia asylum

Thursday, December 10th 2015, 8:22
related countries: Australia, Thailand

The policeman who led an investigation into human trafficking in Thailand has told Australian media he plans to seek political asylum in Australia.
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Sydney police raid 'Bitcoin founder'

Wednesday, December 9th 2015, 7:57

Australian police raid the Sydney home and office of a man named by technology websites as the creator of the virtual currency Bitcoin.
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Anti-IS fighter back in Australia

Monday, December 7th 2015, 7:43
related countries: Australia, Syria

An Australian who was fighting against IS militants in Syria returns home, with his family saying he should be given an amnesty under foreign fighter laws.
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Mexico makes arrests in surfer case

Saturday, December 5th 2015, 0:52
related countries: Mexico

Police in Mexico say they have arrested three gang members who confessed to killing two Australian surfers missing for two weeks.
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'Horrific' croc cannibal caught on film

Thursday, December 3rd 2015, 17:13

An Australian woman whose pictures of a croc-on-croc attack in a Queensland national park went viral tells the BBC it was an amazing but "horrifying" sight.
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Australia MH370 search 'in right place'

Thursday, December 3rd 2015, 9:18
related countries: Malaysia

Australian officials say they are confident that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is in the southern end of their Indian Ocean search zone.
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Australian Muslims 'face high racism'

Monday, November 30th 2015, 11:16
related countries: Australia

A new survey suggests that Muslims in Australia experience racism at three times the national average.
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Partygoers charge into 'mini-tornado'

Monday, November 30th 2015, 9:18

Revellers at an Australian dance music festival are filmed charging into a powerful dust whirlwind.
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Fears for surfers missing in Mexico

Monday, November 30th 2015, 0:02
related countries: Mexico

Fears grow for two Australian surfers travelling through Mexico who have been missing since 20 November.
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VIDEO: Half a million lights set Christmas tree record

Saturday, November 28th 2015, 9:00

An Australian man has set a new world record for the most lights on an artificial Christmas tree.
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BHP rebuts UN 'toxic waste' claim

Friday, November 27th 2015, 2:11
related countries: Botswana

Australian mining giant BHP says mud spilled by the devastating collapse of a dam at a Brazilian mine is not toxic.
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VIDEO: Australian man drives into bushfire

Thursday, November 26th 2015, 11:31

A man who was filming on his phone while driving past a bushfire says he is lucky to be alive, after the flames engulfed his car.
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Man films terrifying bushfire escape

Thursday, November 26th 2015, 9:27

An Australian man films his terrifying trip through the heart of a bushfire.
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Phuc Dat Bich name battle 'was a hoax'

Wednesday, November 25th 2015, 13:39

An Australian man who made headlines after saying Facebook told him to take down his profile admits he hoaxed the media.
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VIDEO: Australia bushfire rages near Adelaide

Wednesday, November 25th 2015, 11:03

Australian fire crews are struggling to bring a major bushfire under control near the southern city of Adelaide.
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VIDEO: Australian senator sings '12 days of tax'

Wednesday, November 25th 2015, 9:36
related countries: Australia

A senator in Australia uses the power of song to deliver his complaint about the government's additional regulations and taxes.
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Shark drones to patrol Australian coast

Wednesday, November 25th 2015, 2:42

Drones and "smart" drum lines will be deployed to protect swimmers on New South Wales' north coast from shark attacks, the state government says.
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Phuc Dat Bich thanks supporters

Monday, November 23rd 2015, 12:39

Australian Phuc Dat Bich, whose complaint that Facebook kept taking down his profile went viral, thanks his supporters, saying he is glad he made people happy.
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VIDEO: Knife and dog used in Australian carjacking

Thursday, November 19th 2015, 10:52

Australian police arrest man allegedly threatening a motorist with a knife, while clutching a dog.
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Search for Perth park-bench joyriders

Wednesday, November 18th 2015, 9:08

Australian police are looking to identify a group of men filmed riding motorised park benches on public roads in Perth.
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Australia bowler Johnson retires

Tuesday, November 17th 2015, 12:11
related countries: New Zealand

Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson retires from international cricket at the end of the second Test with New Zealand.
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