IMF warns central banks to watch inflation

THE International Monetary Fund has warned central banks to keep an eye on inflation and resist political pressure to focus policy only on lowering unemployment. With many governments desperate to find ways to generate jobs, the IMF said on Tuesday,...

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SAfrican feather thieves target ostriches

SOUTH African thieves are invading ostrich farms and poaching feathers from the giant birds, in a crime that has baffled local farmers, an industry chief says. "This started during the last six weeks," said Piet Kleyn, the chief of the South...

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One screen not enough for US viewers

AMERICAN television viewers are increasingly finding that one screen won't do: almost all have a second-screen device and 87 per cent use it while watching shows, a survey shows. The NPD survey said multi-tasking consumers were splitting their...

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Quake near Iran nuclear plant kills 20

A POWERFUL earthquake has struck near Iran's Gulf port city of Bushehr, killing at least 20 people and injuring 650 but leaving Iran's only nuclear power plant intact, officials say. Shocks from the quake were felt across the Gulf in Bahrain,...

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US nun admits taking $125K from churches

A ROMAN Catholic nun with a gambling addiction has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $US130,000 ($A125,430) from two parishes in rural western New York state. The Daily News of Batavia reports 68-year-old Sister Mary Anne Rapp pleaded guilty...

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Killer mum on her way back to Sydney

KILLER mum Allyson McConnell is set to touch down in Sydney this morning, leaving behind shattered lives and a political firestorm in Canada. McConnell, 34, who was sentenced to six years' jail for drowning her two young sons in a bathtub in her...

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Reagan-Thatcher: allies but often at odds

WHEN US president Ronald Reagan ordered the 1983 invasion of the small Caribbean island of Grenada after a coup, he got an earful from an angry world leader: his closest ally, Britain's Margaret Thatcher. Friends with her fellow conservative confidante...

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