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A Gerbil is a small mammal of the order Rodentia. Once known simply as "desert rats", the gerbil subfamily includes about 110 species of African, Indian, and Asian rodents, including sand rats and jirds, all of which are adapted to arid habitats. Most are primarily diurnal [1] (though some, including the common household pet, do exhibit crepuscular behavior), and almost all are omnivorous.
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Britain's ITV Fined Over Killing a Rat on TV Show
ABC News
February 8, 2010 | SYDNEY/LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British broadcaster ITV pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and was fined by an Australian court on Monday after a rat was killed and eaten on the reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here." | Italian chef Gino D'Acampo and British actor ...
Hacking into the mind of the CRU climate change hacker
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Hacking into the mind of the CRU climate change hacker
The Guardian
| Analysis suggests the hacker was in east coast of America and operated over a number of days, but much remains unknown | Hacker in staged photograph surrounded by computers. Photograph: Corbis | Figuring out who was behind the hack of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Angl...
Broadcaster fined over killing a rat on TV show
China Daily
| SYDNEY/LONDON - British broadcaster ITV pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and was fined by an Australian court on Monday after a rat was killed and eaten on the reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here." | Italian chef Gino D'Acampo a...
News briefs
Arab News
| Thailand braces for protests | BANGKOK: The Thai government has begun to deploy at least 20,000 extra security forces across the country ahead of a court ruling on the fortune of ousted Premier Thaksin Shinawatra, government spokesman Panitan Watta...
Allen & Overy brings 'magic circle' touch to Australia
The Times
| Allen & Overy, Britain's fifth-biggest law firm, is expanding into Australia after hiring 17 partners from leading local firms. | It is the biggest new practice to be established by the "magic circle" firm in a decade and the first time that one of...
Britain's ITV Fined Over Killing a Rat on TV Show
ABC News
February 8, 2010 | SYDNEY/LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British broadcaster ITV pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and was fined by an Australian court on Monday after a rat was killed and eaten on the reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here...
Rafael Nadal of Spain returns to Philipp Kohlschreiber during their Men's singles third round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Friday Jan. 22, 2010.
AP / Shuji Kajiyama
Nadal enters last 16 at Australian Open
The Times Of India
MELBOURNE: Defending champion Rafael Nadal needed a hard-fought four-set win over German 27th seed Philipp Kohlschreiber to reach the last 16 at the Australian Open on Friday. | Th...
Jelena Jankovic in Roland Garros, 2009 French Open
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Safina advances, Jankovic out of Australian Open
Zeenews
Melbourne: Dinara Safina advanced to the fourth round of the Australian Open on Friday, winning her first match on the major's marquee court since her lopsided loss to Serena Willi...
Serbia's Ana Ivanovic reacts to a call during her semifinal match against Serbia's Jelena Jankovic at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris on Thursday June 5, 2008.
AP / Laurent Baheux)
Ana Ivanovic ousted from Australian Open - Tennis - SI.com
CNN
PRINT EMAIL ARTICLEURL FACEBOOK DIGG TWITTER RSS SHARE | MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Nikolay Davydenko moved into the third round of the Australian Open in the low-key manner whic...
Israeli army raids West Bank city, nabs Australian and Spanish pro-Palestinian activists
KDVR
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli troops broke down the door of an apartment in the Palestinian-ruled West Bank town of Ramallah on Sunday and arrested two pro-Palestinian activists from Spain and Australia, their roommate said. | The Israeli ...
Israeli army raids West Bank city, nabs Australian and Spanish pro-Palestinian activists
Hartford Courant
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli troops broke down the door of an apartment in the Palestinian-ruled West Bank town of Ramallah on Sunday and arrested two pro-Palestinian activists from and , their roommate said. | The Israeli military said t...
Australian and US prosecutors clash over retrial of scuba death man
The Guardian
| Alabama attorney general accuses Queensland authorities of blocking extradition of Gabe Watson | Christina Watson lies motionless on the sea floor as an unidentified diver poses for the picture that led to Gabe Watson's conviction for manslaughter....
Business
Australia - immigration information
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Australia to focus on high skills, cancels 20K visas
IBN Live
Canberra: Australia will dump 20,000 low-skilled migrant applications to re-focus its immigration intake on high-skilled jobs critical to the economy and help meet growing Chinese resource demand, the government said on Monday. | The move was welcomed by Australia's mining sector, where major firms like BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have been expandin...
Politics
climate change - global warming - environment
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Australia's PM losing ground over climate change as election nears
Canada Dot Com
    | It's election year in Australia and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is facing grief over his central policy of a cap-and-trade program to try to curb carbon emissions. | Polls show Rudd's Labour party losing ground to the conservative opposition coalition of Liberal and National parties headed by new Liberal leader Tony Abbott. | And Rudd, who w...



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