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Jump jockey McCoy rides 4,000th winner
AFP, Published on 08/11/2013
» Northern Ireland's Tony McCoy became the first jump jockey to ride 4,000 winners on Thursday when he rode Mountain Tunes to victory at Towcester, central England.
McCoy on brink of 4,000 winners
AFP, Published on 05/11/2013
» Tony McCoy could make history on Tuesday by becoming the first jockey to ride 4,000 career winners over fences in Britain and Ireland.
PM tells Apec leaders to widen growth options
News, Thanida Tansubhapol, Published on 08/10/2013
» Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has urged Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) leaders to look beyond trade and investment to build security within the grouping and promote other alternatives for sustainable growth.
It's mostly doom and gloom at Stadium of Light
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 28/09/2013
» Sunderland is a city without a cathedral. But there's no doubting where its spiritual home is: the Stadium of Light, sitting high on a ridge overlooking the River Wear and the city.
PNG makes BHP liable for environmental damage
AFP, Published on 19/09/2013
» Papua New Guinea's government wrested full control of the controversial Ok Tedi copper and gold mine and quashed former owner BHP Billiton's legal immunity for environmental damage, officials said Thursday.
Third porter dies in PNG following attack on trekkers
AFP, Published on 16/09/2013
» A third man has died from injuries suffered during a bloody ambush on foreign trekkers in Papua New Guinea which has rocked the tourism industry, police said Monday.
Arrests, revenge killing in PNG trekker attack case
AFP, Published on 16/09/2013
» Four men were arrested Sunday in connection with a bloody ambush of Australian and New Zealand trekkers in Papua New Guinea, with another villager murdered for allegedly harbouring the bandits.
Trekkers recount savage attack by PNG bandits
AFP, Published on 12/09/2013
» A group of Australian and New Zealand trekkers brutally attacked by bandits in Papua New Guinea told Thursday of their harrowing ordeal and horror as two porters were butchered.
New Australia PM to stick with PNG boatpeople policy
AFP, Published on 10/09/2013
» Australia's new prime minister Tuesday said he will stand by a policy to send boatpeople to Papua New Guinea, but insisted a military-led response will remain his main focus.
Australia's PM-elect faces early asylum-seeker test
AFP, Published on 09/09/2013
» Australia's Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott faced an early test Monday over the divisive issue of asylum-seekers, with the first people-smuggling boat arriving on his watch and diplomatic pressure from Papua New Guinea.