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Johns v Johns

Matthew Johns on his fractured relationship with brother Joey and not crushing The Footy Show.

Not the city you know

Refined, well planned, good housing and nightlife as good as the Big Apple's - how we're being sold to New Yorkers.

50 more debates

PM's debate victory prompts calls for similar debates in marginal seats.

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High flyer's first test

Virgin's SpaceshipTwo, aircraft designed to one day carry paying customers into space, goes on maiden flight.

Eyes don't lie

Eyes are not just a window to the soul: they also give a clear indication of what we are thinking.

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Billionaire linked to case

Stern Hu

Involvement of one of China's well connected billionaires may hint at Chinese authorities demanded secrecy.

Boomers facing debt-laden retirement

Home upgrades, stay-at-home children and ageing parents will force many to carry debt into retirement.

Orchestra accountant was on the fiddle

London Philharmonic Orchestra has been embezzled to the tune of more than a million.

New credit card laws no protection

MELISSA SINGER Experts warn credit card companies will continue imposing onerous fees and charges.

Google spots holes in filter plans

Google's objections to Australian attempt at internet filtering drawn into public domain.

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Investigators tailed three councillors, ICAC told

Pat Romano

MALCOLM BROWN For more than a week three councillors and an independent campaigning in the Burwood Council elections were tailed at the behest of the general manager, Pat Romano.

Health first, environment second

Risky business: cash-strapped council considers turning entrepreneur

Education revolution flushes the toilets

Power struggles of today spring from a colourful past

Mouse race day up with best

'It's our version of the Melbourne Cup or Golden Slipper,' says Bylong local.

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'Bloody awful drawing' not my work, says artist

Robert Dickerson

KATE HAGAN Robert Dickerson describes as disgusting a drawing that an art dealer claims is his work, as part of a legal effort to have it destroyed.

Discussion and concessions just what the doctors ordered

A television show about nothing - it would have made Seinfeld proud

A day of lies, damned lies and statistics

Rhys Muldoon Tony enters the lair of the White Worm

Abbott's lesson in wormology

Adele Ferguson Tony Abbott was the leader that both worms spurned.

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'Waffle' v 'negativity' as Abbott and Rudd face off over health

The opening round in the national health reform debate seems to have gone to Kevin Rudd after debating Tony Abbott. (02:11)

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My big fat last supper: the apostles' greed

Last supper

MELISSA HEALY Christianity holds several acts of ''super-sizing'' to be miracles accomplished by Jesus. Now a new study of portion expansion puts Jesus once more at the centre.

Healthcare reform is no prescription for second term

Netanyahu still defiant on East Jerusalem

Karzai in talks with violent rebel

MPs caught in lobbying sting

Oil reserves 'exagerated'

Britain's former chief scientist warns of shortages and price spikes.

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Credit union cuts rates

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ERIC JOHNSTON One of Australia's biggest credit unions, CUA, has ratcheted up pressure on the major banks by cutting its variable mortgage interest rate by 25 basis points.

Malcolm Maiden How a guilty plea from Stern Hu could be good news

Roy Masters Cricket bosses need to polish one-dayers

Elizabeth Knight Canberra and the banks play a delicate game

Insider The dalliance with Sigma turns icy cold

High-ranking billionaire linked to Rio bribe case

Lack of policy hurts refinancing

Oil reserves 'exagerated by one third'

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Integrity flourishes in openness

Gittins

ROSS GITTINS When you spend as much time as I do monitoring the words and actions of politicians, it's easy to become cynical and lapse into the belief that the world's a pretty phoney place.

Paul McGeough A nuclear Iran is not the end of the world

Heckler The 'Penny!' that put paid to Pilates

Rhys Muldoon Tony enters the lair of the White Worm

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Tragedy amid beauty at The Gap

Malcolm Turnbull Fifty people end their lives at The Gap every year.

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Net censorship agenda slammed by tech giants

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ASHER MOSES Australia's biggest technology companies, communications academics and many lobby groups have delivered a withering critique of the Government's plans to censor the internet.

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China outsmarts Google as results stay censored

Help for motion-sick 3D movie-buffs 2

Tough for buyers, but iPod price signals economic rise

HTML 5 ushers in new-look web

iPad launch mania

App makers in a frenzy as fans get set to fly to the US.

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March air fares cheapest on record

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ANDREW HEASLEY Savvy air travellers are bagging the cheapest air fares on record, but airlines are quietly pushing up the price of other classes of travel.

Dubai Dubai's latest crackdown: massage parlours

Space tourism Virgin Galactic's 'SpaceShipTwo' makes maiden flight

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Air safety Qantas pilot kept flying despite urge to crash planes

Revealed: Air NZ's hostie manual

Flight attendants' manual reads like guide for housewives in the '50s.

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Dogs want deal, or it's no deal for Hannant

Ben Hannant

BRAD WALTER Ben Hannant may be forced to stick it out at the Bulldogs until 2012, or pay a release fee if he wants to move to the Gold Coast before his contract expires.

Cricket Clarke passes character test with flying colours

Asian Champions League Victory woes continue with Asian exit

Union Comeback king Huxley returns for Brumbies

AFL Jetta, Rohan in the frame for debut

Bringing league to prime time

Matthew Johns is ready to roll with his new show on Channel Seven.

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Restaurants

14/20 - Bloodwood

Bloodwood

Three young chefs departed one of Sydney's most refined fine dining rooms for a room of their own.

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Movies

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

More show and less tell turns a hit book by Stieg Larsson into a taut screen triumph.

The Guide

The Operation: Surgery Live

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The boundaries for reality TV are tested as tonight we sit in on real-time open heart surgery.

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Kirstie Alley pays price of beauty

Kirstie Alley has resumed her on-again, off-again diet with a goal of losing more than 40kgs.

Charged

Peter Doherty arrested over OD

Pete Doherty

Pete Doherty has been arrested in connection with the drug overdose death of Goldsmith heiress Robin Whitehead.

Fresh start

Love Hewitt's break-up hair cut

Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Jennifer Love Hewitt reinvents herself with a new haircut after her break-up with co-star Jamie Kennedy.

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Hallelujah!

Baby names go back to basics

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Trendy, made-up and hard-to-spell names are on the wane as the classics make a comeback.

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Beauty Beat

Lost and found

Lost and found.

What precious objects have you lost over the years?

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Armani gown retrospective, NY

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Giorgio Armani launches a retrospective featuring gowns designed for Lady Gaga & Beyonce.

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Dire diners cop a serve

Different chefs have different tactics when customers behave badly, writes Carli Ratcliff.

3-D blues

Technicolor nightmare

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Motion-sick movie buffs might find themselves battling 3-D-induced queasiness more often.

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Aussie success

Costumes save the day for Priscilla

Priscilla

Australian designers Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner have won an Olivier award for costume design.

Box office

Alice claims the bounty

Jennifer Aniston

Alice comes out ahead but Aniston proves her mediocre judgment doesn't stop her drawing a crowd.

Music

Boy George mulls band reunion

Singer Boy George is considering reforming his Culture Club band.

Boy George says he might try Culture Club back together for their 30th anniversary next year.

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Akmal the arrogant author

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Akmal talks exclusively about his memoirs, his comedy and his phone number.

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Charge of the baby rhino brigade

She is already practising how to charge like a grown-up.

Retailers dragged into batts saga

Insulation

Alliances between retailers and building companies under scrutiny over the botched insulation scheme.