The New Zealand Herald
Well. I'll be. Bush was never in danger. How about that, huh? But, of course, according to every exploitive, propaganda media service in the USA we were all under attack AGAIN. They should be shut down if they can't find a purpose beyond that.
Bush not told about plane scare until after biking
12.05.05 3.20pm
WASHINGTON - United States president George W Bush was not told for nearly an hour while he finished a bike ride about a breach in White House airspace that prompted the highest alert since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the White House said.
The White House said the Secret Service held off informing the president because he was not in danger.
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MAF braced for more foot and mouth scares
12.05.05 4.00pm
A series of foot and mouth scares are possible while intense publicity continues around the suspected hoax release of the disease, officials say.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) usually receives about 20 calls a year from farmers who believed their animals had symptoms consistent with foot and mouth.
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Farmers could get compensation for disease scare
12.05.05 12.30pm
Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton this morning said compensation would be considered for the Waiheke Island farmers affected by the foot and mouth threat.
Animals are being checked by vets every 48 hours and livestock cannot move onto or off the island.
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The temperature at foot and mouth ground zero
12.05.05
by Anne Beston
Joe Muir looked for stock inspectors most of the morning by the front gate of his Waiheke Island farm.
He looks the typical Kiwi farmer, standing with hands in pockets, in gumboots and green Swanndri, making low-key jokes about the threat that had suddenly appeared for him and his neighbours.
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More children wake during ops
12.05.05
Children are more likely to be awake during surgery than adults, Australian research suggests.
More than 850 children were questioned after being anaesthetised, uncovering 28 cases of suspected awareness, said research team leader Andrew Davidson
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Deported Australian woman found alive in Philippines
12.05.05 1.00pm
CANBERRA - Australian woman Vivian Alvarez, deported to the Philippines four years ago in an Immigration Department bungle, has been found living in a northern Filipino convent hospice.
The government has been embarrassed by the 2001 deportation of the Queensland woman -- known also by the names Vivian Solon, Vivian Young and Vivian Wilson -- who had two children in Australia and had lived in the country for up to 18 years.
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Twelve million worldwide stuck in forced labour
Young Tuareg girls, claiming to be slaves, in western Niger. Picture taken March 5, 2005. Picture / Reuters
12.05.05 12.30pm
GENEVA - Globalisation and demand for cheap labour has helped force at least 12.3 million people, half of them children, into slave-like work worldwide and create a huge human trafficking industry, according to a new UN study.
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Italy puts Iranian on trial for opposition murder
12.05.05 2.20pm
ROME - An Iranian man accused of organising the 1993 murder of an Iranian opposition leader on behalf of Tehran's secret services has gone on trial in absentia in an Italian court.
Amir Mansur Bozorgian, whose whereabouts are unknown, is being represented by a court-appointed lawyer.
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Paris tries alleged aides to shoebomber Reid
12.05.05 5.20pm
PARIS - Three men accused of aiding jailed "shoebomber" Richard Reid, who narrowly failed to destroy a US airliner over the Atlantic four years ago, has gone on trial for terrorist conspiracy in a top Paris court.
Presiding judge Jacqueline Rebeyrotte said the trio were charged with plotting terrorist acts between 2001 and 2002 and of assisting Reid, who attempted to down a Miami-bound airliner from Paris with a bomb hidden inside one of his shoes.
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Markets calm despite North Korean nuclear boast
12.05.05 4.20pm
SEOUL - Regional powers and South Korean financial markets reacted calmly on Thursday to North Korea's declaration it had taken fuel from a nuclear reactor, a process that could give it more material for atomic weapons.
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Union bargaining, Wal-Mart style
12.05.05
By Katherine Griffiths
Wal-Mart has reinforced its anti-union reputation by closing down a store in Canada after it became the first in North America to become unionised.
The confrontation became a cause celebre in Canada amid accusations by union organisers that they were threatened with violence.
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Halliburton gets US$72m bonus for work in Iraq
11.05.05 1.00pm
By Sue Pleming
WASHINGTON - The US Army says it has awarded US$72 million ($99.57 million) in bonuses to Halliburton Co for logistics work in Iraq.
However, it has not not decided whether to give the Texas company bonuses for disputed dining services to troops.
Army Field Support Command in Rock Island, Illinois, said in a statement it had given Halliburton unit Kellogg Brown & Root ratings from "excellent" to "very good" for six task orders for work supporting US troops in Iraq.
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Passive smoking victim awarded $715,000
12.05.05
ROME - An Italian lung cancer victim who spent seven years inhaling her colleagues’ second-hand cigarette smoke in a cramped government office was posthumously awarded €400,000 ($715,000) in damages yesterday by a Rome court.
The damages will be paid to her surviving relatives.
They are believed to be the largest ever awarded in Italy due to second-hand smoke and the first against the government.
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US scientists create self-replicating robot
12.05.05
LONDON - Self-replicating robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction.
Scientists at the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York have created small robots that can build copies of themselves.
Each robot consists of several 10cm cubes which have identical machinery, electromagnets to attach and detach to each other and a computer programme for replication. The robots can bend and pick up and stack the cubes.
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'Extinct’ tree for sale
12.05.05
A tree once thought to have died out millions of years ago reappeared in public in London yesterday and will be available as a patio pot plant within a year.
The Wollemi pine, which flourished alongside dinosaurs during the Jurassic period about 200 million years ago, is thought to be the first endangered tree to be protected through mass commercial cultivation. Collectors will part with thousands of pounds for the first generation of 500 saplings, but amateur gardeners could pay less than 100 ($257) at garden centres next April.
The tree was found in 1994 in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.
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The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
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Updated Thursday 12 May 8:59PM
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