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A vision of hell, or just a few sour notes?

3:00 AM | Is the Eurovision Song Contest a glitzy distraction from Azerbaijan's human rights scandals - or is it the repressive regime's latest atrocity?

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Independent analysis of Oruzgan mission axed

3:00 AM | Australian government axes a $US3.6 million contract with international consultants hired to provide expert analysis.

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The good wife

3:00 AM | Feisty, fearless and brilliant, Michelle Obama is Barack's number one weapon in his bid for re-election.

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Cook app transits the centuries

3:00 AM | WHEN Captain James Cook set sail to observe the transit of Venus in 1769, he was part of a global project to measure the solar system - and he went on to discover something even cooler, Australia.

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State of the union

3:00 AM | Barack Obama's presidency has been defined in large part by his marriage to his No. 1 confidante, Michelle.

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Hand-wringers cutting off nose to spite Facebook

3:00 AM | SILICON VALLEY has a Facebook hangover. Mark Zuckerberg lost $US3.2 billion during the week as Facebook shares fell 16.5 per cent.

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Array of hope: science the winner as rivals share prize

12:08 AM | IT WILL be a team effort of cosmic discovery.

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$33m slap for Pakistan over Bin Laden doctor

26 May 12 | Just $US33 million in aid a year - a drop in the ocean of the more than $US1 billion the United States pours into Pakistan annually - will be withheld in protest after Pakistan jailed the doctor who helped US forces find Osama bin Laden.

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Princelings and paupers

26 May 12 | When the kingmaker of Chinese politics, Zeng Qinghong, asked to see the quintessential Australia, his diplomatic minders treated him to jugs of beer and an oversized fillet steak at Brisbane's Breakfast Creek Hotel.

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O'Neill gets state of emergency powers before PNG election

26 May 12 | THE Papua New Guinean Parliament has given the O'Neill government state of emergency powers in the capital and two highland provinces allowing it to call out the army.

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Corby must spend five years in Indonesia

26 May 12 | SCHAPELLE CORBY could be out of Kerobokan prison as early as July, but would need to live for the next five years in Indonesia, the governor of Bali's jail revealed last night.

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In thrall of the empire of the sons

26 May 12 | Business in China is inextricably linked to the ''princelings'' and the ruling party appears powerless to stop them, writes John Garnaut.

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Mob attacks cast doubt on withdrawal of Solomons mission

26 May 12 | WHEN a mob started yelling death threats and burning down homes in Koa Hill, an impoverished settlement in the Solomon Islands, last month, residents started asking themselves one question: what were the police and the Australian-led assistance mission going to do to stop the violence quickly? The answer was - nothing.

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Staying positive the Fox mantra for battling illness

26 May 12 | Occasionally while watching late-night TV, waiting for the moment when his hyper-kinetic Parkinson's-plagued body will grant him sleep, Michael J. Fox will be confronted by his former self.

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A day at a time with Pollyanna by his side

26 May 12 | Michael J. Fox tried alcohol but found optimism a stronger tonic, writes Nick Miller in New York.

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A tragedy in Niger

26 May 12 | A tragedy is unfolding in Niger where political unrest, drought, grain prices and poverty threaten 18 million lives.

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Corby clemency backlash grows

25 May 12 | The Indonesian government has been forced to defend the decision to free Schapelle Corby early, as the backlash against it grows within Indonesia.

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'Damaging' quake rocks Christchurch

25 May 12 | A "damaging" aftershock has shaken Christchurch.

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'Damaging' quake rocks Christchurch

25 May 12 | A "damaging" aftershock has shaken Christchurch.

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James Murdoch 'furious' over plans to block BSkyB takeover bid, Leveson inquiry told

25 May 12 | The Conservative minister overseeing the Murdoch bid to take over satellite broadcaster BSkyB warned the Prime Minister that James Murdoch was furious over the government's handling of it and "if we block it, our media sector will suffer for years", the Leveson inquiry heard last night.

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