John Beattie's blog (BBC News)
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:58:35 GMT
"The Italians have always scared me. Now, how can we beat them?"
Hike in Fed Funds Rate Would Cause Damage to Collateral on Books of America’s Banks (The Daily Reckoning)
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:09:53 GMT
It's not the big money-centre banks in Wall Street you have to worry about. It's the smaller regional and community banks. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation shut four more of them over the weekend . That's 20 for this year, which is a lot less than the 140 last year. But if you wanted to see a spike in U.S. bank failures, you'd definitely raise interest rates.
Couple kept sex slave, jailed (Straits Times)
Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:01:27 GMT
CAIRNS (Australia) - AN AUSTRALIAN couple who kept a Filipina woman as a sex slave have been sentenced to jail, reported The Cairns Post newspaper on Thursday. The Supreme Court in Cairns sentenced Zoltan Kovacs, 60, to eight years jail after he pleaded guilty to using and possessing a Filipina woman as a slave.
Wildcats need blaze of glory (Adelaide Now)
Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:18:00 GMT
PERTH may have clinched the regular season championship but the jolt in its semi-final series is drawing Gold Coast.
Rollercoaster week of an All Star (The Courier Mail)
Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:00:00 GMT
INDIGENOUS playmaker Scott Prince has compared the intense build up of the All Stars match to State of Origin preparations. Read his exclusive diary entry.
Northern pipeline given go ahead (News Mail)
Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:44:45 GMT
BREAKING: THE northern pipeline will be allowed to proceed despite the Federal Government's refusal of the Traveston Crossing Dam.
Northern pipeline given go ahead (Queensland Times)
Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:44:40 GMT
But the government says the interconnector must meet strict environmental conditions.
US prosecutors accuse Aussies of blocking scuba killer extradition (Cyber Diver News Network)
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:38:31 GMT
CAIRNS, Australia — Alabama's attorney general has attacked the Australian authorities for blocking his attempts to put on trial and execute an American alleged to have killed his wife on their honeymoon because he has already been acquitted of murder in Queensland.
