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WAYNE Carey always thought he could get away with it. On the
field, it was his greatest asset: he would back himself to snatch
victory off his own boot. Off the field, that arrogance nearly got
him shot dead.
It happened in the mid-1990s, at the height of Carey’s football
fame. At a bar where footballers who dabbled in drugs [...]

OF ALL the world’s problems, which is most urgent: the
slow warming of the atmosphere coupled with the unhappy prospect of
longer droughts, devastating cyclones and rising oceans?
Or what US President George Bush this week called “the defining
ideological struggle of the 21st century”, fighting terrorism and
violent Islamist extremism?
Perhaps the most pressing challenge facing the planet is
finishing the [...]

A PLOT to lure a British Muslim soldier to his death and behead
him “like a pig” has been outlined to a jury.
The man behind the plot was Parviz Khan, 37, an unemployed
teaching assistant from Birmingham, central England, who wanted to
post film of the atrocity on the internet to “cause panic and fear
within the armed forces [...]

Joanna Hall tours the eastern Mediterranean’s ancient
civilisations on board a luxury ship.
I’m looking through the lens of a camera at the Great Pyramid of
Giza, trying to fit its vast expanse into a single frame, when the
fast patter of flying feet warns of possible danger. From behind, a
camel is being driven towards me at speed. I [...]

SOME of Australia’s most prominent politicians are linked to an
organisation blacklisted by the Federal Government because of
concern over its dealings with government and other agencies in
China.
The Australian International Trade Association says its board
includes federal parliamentary secretary Laurie Ferguson as a
“general adviser”, along with deputy federal Opposition leader
Julie Bishop and high-profile shadow minister Bronwyn Bishop.
The so-called [...]

After several aborted attempts in 2007, the Florida-based Sharapova finally donned her native Russias red and white strip today to roll Israels Tzipi Obziler 6-0 6-4.
The Australian Open champions win momentarily silenced the capacity 5000-strong crowd, who had earlier roared on Israeli No 1 Shahar Peer to a memorable 0-6 6-2 6-2 victory over Dinara [...]

As flaggedin Sunday News back in June, Graham Henrys Grand Slam-chasing team will be the first since the 1997 All Blacks to play midweek.
USA Rugby boss Kevin Roberts - the man who masterminded a five-year partnership between New Zealand and the Americans announced by NZRU boss Steve Tew last week - let slip that the [...]

Ms Carla Bruni Tedeschi and Mr Nicolas Sarkozy would like to announce that they got married this morning in the presence of their families and in the utmost privacy, a statement from Sarkozys Elysee office said.
The pair tied the knot at a low-key, civil ceremony conducted by the mayor of the Paris district that houses [...]

Details of the Wellington womans death believed to be the first such death of a physically fit person in New Zealand have surfaced as Nitschke, head of pressure group Exit International, arrived in New Zealand to hold suicide seminars in Auckland, Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch.
The revelations have prompted harsh criticism of Nitschke, who encourages euthanasia [...]

This holiday season, 26.4 million people visited a Web site sponsored by OfficeMax that invited them to upload a photo of themselves, attach it to the body of a dancing elf and forward it to everyone in their e-mail address book. Toy New York, the ad agency behind elfyourself.com, said those people spent a cumulative [...]