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Police break up eastern suburbs drug ring

6:29 AM | A drug ring allegedly supplying cocaine and ecstasy in Sydney's eastern suburbs has been smashed after police raids in North Bondi and Randwick.

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Sydney drug raid turns up exotic reptiles

6:26 AM | Three rare chameleons believed to be from Madagascar, four turtles and an African ball python have been found in a Sydney house during a drug raid, police say.

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Paralysed woman uses mind to move robotic arm

5:17 AM | A QUADRIPLEGIC woman has used her mind to control a robotic arm, taking a sip from a drink bottle unassisted for the first time in 15 years.

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Woolies executive fixed $40m computer contracts, court told

2:30 AM | A SENIOR executive at the supermarket giant Woolworths sent a stream of inside information to particular companies to ensure they won nearly $40 million worth of computer contracts in return for $3.7 million in kickbacks, a court has heard.

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Sanitised truth behind clean hands

2:30 AM | Hand sanitisers have spread from hospital wards to the street and manufacturers are making a killing. But do we need them? Laura Barton gets the dirt.

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Children in hiding thanks to foreign help

2:30 AM | THE mother embroiled in a bitter international custody dispute over her four daughters says a mysterious overseas benefactor is helping her children hide from authorities seeking to return them to Italy.

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Panel to help unions avoid HSU scandal

2:30 AM | A NEW panel set up by the ACTU and led by a retired Federal Court judge will help unions avoid serious governance scandals such as those engulfing the Health Services Union.

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Is this a prison I see before me?

2:30 AM | HE WAS one of the nation's most wanted men, but love-rat and convicted conman Danny Robert Shakespeare has been found on the NSW far south coast, spinning the kinds of stories that got him in trouble before.

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$75b wiped off as investors grapple with crisis in Greece

2:30 AM | MORE than $75 billion has been wiped off the value of Australian shares this month, as investors fret over how a breakup in the eurozone would harm the world economy.

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BHP boss threatens to invest offshore

2:30 AM | AUSTRALIA'S most influential businessman, Jac Nasser, has slammed the Gillard government's record on tax and industrial relations, saying that unpredictability is undermining investment and could push BHP Billiton offshore.

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Pyne sent aide email after drinks

2:30 AM | THE opposition powerbroker Christopher Pyne made direct email contact with the Peter Slipper aide James Ashby within minutes of leaving late-night drinks in the Speaker's office earlier this year.

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No question, mother's milk lowers SIDS risk

2:30 AM | MOTHER of four Jacqui Soliman has spent more than four of the past six years breastfeeding. She has just stopped breastfeeding her 22-month-old daughter, Emily, and will continue to breastfeed 6.5-month-old Nathanael until he self-weens.

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Patients forced into repeat surgery over faulty hip implants

2:30 AM | MORE than 1000 patients have had to undergo repeat hip implant surgery as new figures show a dramatic rise in the failure rate of once-popular implants.

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No need to get hysterical but networkers show side effects

2:30 AM | Doctors have called for research into the links between social media and public health.

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Lessons on repeat

2:30 AM | Digital TV reruns enable humanity to learn and bond. Over and over.

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Marilyn's plastered about town but Nicole's up in lights

2:30 AM | Famous faces past and present are rolled out at Cannes.

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Gossip mags caught behind as Clarke says 'I do' in secret

2:30 AM | ANNOUNCED on Twitter - to groans of despair from magazine editors - Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke and his girlfriend Kyly Boldy wed in secret in the Blue Mountains on Tuesday. | GALLERY: Clarke and Kyly get hitched

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Thomson says he won't name names to the police - yet

2:30 AM | CRAIG THOMSON has declined a request from the Victorian police to nominate the people he claims tried to set him up with prostitutes.

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Sandilands ruling falls short of blanket ban

2:30 AM | AUSTRALIA'S media watchdog has been forced to defend its decision to stop short of banning controversial radio presenter Kyle Sandilands from making demeaning comments about women and girls.

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Inquiry questions 'minimal' action in pursuit of Trio fraud

2:30 AM | AUSTRALIA's top fraud fighting agencies have been called to account for their failure to pursue those responsible for stealing $176 million in Australia's largest superannuation theft.

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