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Australia, Iran, South Korea earn World Cup berths
SANDY, Utah -- Three more teams earned places in next summer's World Cup in Brazil with Australia, Iran and South Korea all advancing through regional qualifying Tuesday. Australia got a goal from substitute Josh Kennedy in the 83rd minute to beat Iraq,...
Tags: FIFA World Cup, Australia, National Football League, Iran, David Beckham
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Cate Blanchett, Isabelle Huppert debut in 'The Maids' in Australia
It's a pairing that theater producers in New York and London would no doubt go ga-ga over. But for the time being at least, only audiences in Sydney, Australia, can catch Cate Blanchett and French film icon Isabelle Huppert performing a frightening...
Tags: Australia, Arts and Culture, France, Celebrities, Lincoln Center
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Movie review: 'Wish You Were Here' an intriguing vacation-gone-wrong thriller
The Aussie import "Wish You Were Here" offers a distinctive, highly effective take on the vacation-from-hell thriller. First-time director Kieran Darcy-Smith, working from a powerful script he wrote with wife — and the film's co-star —...
Tags: The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013), Wish You Were Here (movie), Entertainment, Movies, Warrior (movie)
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PASSINGS: Robert W. Edgar, Chrissy Amphlett, Robert Earl Holding
Robert W. Edgar Six-term Pennsylvania congressman Robert W. Edgar, 69, who represented Pennsylvania for six terms in the House of Representatives, served as president of the Claremont School of Theology and went on to lead the public interest group...
Tags: Obituaries, Government, Entertainment, Multiple Sclerosis, International Olympic Committee
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Australia's Back to Back pushes theatrical boundaries
At first blush, "Ganesh Versus the Third Reich" sounds like a long-lost Monty Python skit about some bizarre time-tripping action-figure wrestling bout. Indeed, as the title hints, a cosmic smackdown between the pachyderm Hindu god and the German Führer...
Tags: Ethics, Australia, Employment Opportunities, Cate Blanchett, Science and Technology
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Fires rage on as Australia sizzles with triple-digit temperatures
Scores of fires continued to rage across southeastern Australia on Tuesday as the country sizzled under scorching heat. More than a dozen were still burning out of control late in the day, as firefighters battled to squelch flames sweeping through dry...
Tags: Australia, Julia Gillard
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Australian fires spread in extreme heat, prompt warning of high risk
Flames continued to lick Monday at the Australian island of Tasmania, while officials warned that other stretches of the country faced some of the most dangerous conditions for fires on record. “I cannot say it more plainly: The risk is real and...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Fires, Weather Warnings, Australia, Conservation
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‘Hobbit’: Stephen Hunter on Bombur’s blubber, dwarf boot camp
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comOne of the most memorable dwarfs in “The Hobbit” is Bombur, described by J.R.R. Tolkien as “immensely fat and heavy.” ...... -
Australians torn over promises, risks of coal-seam 'fracking'
World NowGlobal Focus: Fracking Australia -- Lock the Gate appears to be a fitting name for Australia’s protest movement against hydraulic fracturing. It took activists years to identify threats to public health from "fracking," a classic case of getting... -
Bryce Courtenay dies at 79; best-selling Australian author
Best-selling Australian author Bryce Courtenay, whose debut novel, "The Power of One," was made into a popular 1992 movie starring Morgan Freeman, has died. He was 79. Courtenay died Thursday at his home in Canberra, Australia, according to his...
Tags: Stomach Cancer, AIDS, Book, April Fools' Day, Australia
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PASSINGS: Ron Taylor, Mario Armond Zamparelli, Anne Shaw Price
Ron Taylor Filmed shark for 'Jaws' Ron Taylor, 78, an Australian marine conservationist who helped film some of the dramatic underwater footage used in the classic shark thriller "Jaws," died Sunday at a Sydney hospital after battling leukemia....
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Jaws (movie), Howard Hughes, Entertainment, Movies
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Andrew Upton, minus Cate Blanchett, staying at Sydney Theatre Company
Andrew Upton is staying on at the Sydney Theatre Company, assuming the position of sole artistic director starting in January. For the last four years, Upton and his wife, actress Cate Blanchett, have served as co-artistic directors of Australia's most...
Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hugo Weaving, A Streetcar Named Desire (movie), Steven Soderbergh, Arts and Culture
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