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EU to agree bank rescue rules European finance ministers sought agreement on  how to use the bloc's permanent bailout fund to rescue banks from failure.

Israel PM tells EU to help restart peace talks Israel's prime minister is calling on the European Union to label the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah a "terrorist organization."

Cyprus yet again tops Eurogroup meeting agenda Cyprus was granted a €13 billion bailout in April, but under harsh conditions that require a serious reform of the nation's banking sector.

Κι άλλα σημαδια νερού στον Άρη.NASA finds more signs of Mars water

More signs of past water on Mars have been uncovered by the American space agency NASA's Curiosity rover.

More signs of past water on Mars have been uncovered by the American space agency Nasa's Curiosity rover.

Powder drilled from a Martian rock last week revealed evidence of drinkable water and conditions favourable to life.

Now instruments on the rover have found more water-bearing minerals in the area around the rock.

Curiosity is exploring a region within Gale Crater, near the Martian equator, called Yellowknife Bay.

Scientists believe that billions of years ago water poured down the rim of the crater and formed streams that might have been up to one metre deep.

The new discoveries were made using the infrared imaging capability of Curiosity's mast camera, and an instrument that shoots neutron particles into the ground to probe for hydrogen.

Differences in brightness between near-infrared wavelengths of light can indicate the presence of some hydrated minerals that have been altered by water.

'With Mastcam, we see elevated hydration signals in the narrow veins that cut many of the rocks in this area,' said Dr Melissa Rice, from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

'These bright veins contain hydrated minerals that are different from the clay minerals in the surrounding rock matrix.'

The Russian-made Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument detected hydrogen in water molecules bound into minerals in the soil beneath the rover.

Yellowknife Bay contained more water than other areas previously visited by Curiosity, the results showed.

'More water is detected at Yellowknife Bay than earlier on the route,' said DAN deputy principal investigator Dr Maxim Litvak, from the Space Research Institute in Moscow.

'Even within Yellowknife Bay, we see significant variation.'

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Renovations spark 'third wave' of asbestos cases

Posted 27 minutes ago | Updated 22 minutes ago

A new study has found home renovations are causing an increasing number of cases of asbestos-related disease in Australia, especially in women.

Topics: asbestos, community-and-society, health, womens-health, australia

Legal advice rules out offshore processing: Bowen

Posted 3 hours 1 minute ago | Updated 7 minutes ago

The Federal Government says it has received more legal advice which it says rules out offshore processing of asylum seekers.

Topics: refugees, laws, federal-government, australia, malaysia, papua-new-guinea, nauru

Russian bears make a comeback (audio)

By Norman Hermant

Posted 3 hours 29 minutes ago | Updated 3 hours 14 minutes ago

For years, bear populations in Russia were threatened, but now numbers of many of the powerful animal's species are stable.

Topics: animals, russian-federation

Greens say water authority knew of contamination

Posted 4 hours 29 minutes ago | Updated 4 hours 15 minutes ago

The New South Wales Greens say Hunter Water knew about a lead contamination case months before it acted.

Topics: water-pollution, pollution, environment, health, safety, newcastle-2300, nsw

Fire threatens unregistered boarding home

Posted 5 hours 22 minutes ago

Authorities are angry after a fire revealed an alleged illegal boarding house at Footscray, in Melbourne's west, had reopened.

Topics: fires, footscray-3011

Woman flees scene of car crash

Posted 5 hours 45 minutes ago

Police are looking for a woman who fled the scene of a car crash in Melbourne's west that left a man fighting for his life.

Topics: road, deer-park-3023

Don't panic over flu strain: doctors

Posted 5 hours 46 minutes ago | Updated 2 hours 31 minutes ago

Doctors say parents should not be alarmed by a strain of flu which has left dozens of Melbourne children unable to walk for several days.
One school at Sandringham has reported eight cases.
The students suffered a condition known as myositis, causing them severe pain in the calves of their legs.

Topics: influenza, child-health-and-behaviour, sandringham-3191

Man charged with murder after party fight

Posted 6 hours 22 minutes ago

A 38-year-old man will appear in court tomorrow, charged with murdering a man at a party in southern Queensland last night.

Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, nanango-4615, laidley-4341

Files detail CIA's cooperation with Libya

Posted 6 hours 30 minutes ago

Documents found in Tripoli detail close ties between the CIA and Libya's intelligence service and suggest the United States sent terrorism suspects for questioning in Libya despite that country's reputation for torture, the New York Times reported.

Topics: world-politics, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, united-states, united-kingdom

New dads to get paid parental leave

Posted 6 hours 44 minutes ago | Updated 3 hours 40 minutes ago

The Federal Government has used Father's Day to announce their paid parental leave scheme for new dads.

Topics: federal-government, welfare, parenting, australia

Grim search underway for Chile crash victims (photos)

Posted 7 hours 23 minutes ago | Updated 1 hour 39 minutes ago

Chile's government says all 21 people aboard a military aircraft that crashed near the remote Pacific islands of Juan Fernandez have perished.

Topics: air-and-space, chile

Chirac 'not able' to attend corruption trial

Posted Sat Sep 3, 2011 11:34pm AEST | Updated 5 hours 56 minutes ago

Former French president Jacques Chirac will not attend his corruption trial opening in Paris next week on medical grounds, his lawyers said.

Topics: world-politics, courts-and-trials, france

Vatican admits failures over abuse scandal

Posted Sat Sep 3, 2011 11:03pm AEST | Updated 5 hours 59 minutes ago

The Vatican has acknowledged "grave failures" over the handling of a child sex abuse scandal involving priests in southern Ireland, but denied it tried to block investigations.

Topics: catholic, child-abuse, ireland, holy-see-vatican-city-state

Pearson claims world title

Posted Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:06pm AEST | Updated Sat Sep 3, 2011 11:23pm AEST

Australia's Sally Pearson has won gold in the 100 metres hurdles final at the world track and field championships in Daegu.

Topics: athletics, sport, korea-republic-of

Russia condemns Syria oil embargo

Posted Sat Sep 3, 2011 9:38pm AEST | Updated Sat Sep 3, 2011 9:45pm AEST

Russia has made known its opposition to a European Union oil embargo imposed on Syria at the same time fresh anti-regime protests reportedly led to more deaths in the strife-torn Arab country.

Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, syrian-arab-republic, russian-federation

Workers accidentally fed cannabis-laced brownies

Posted Sat Sep 3, 2011 9:12pm AEST | Updated Sun Sep 4, 2011 12:40am AEST

Three office employees in the Canadian city of Victoria have fallen ill after a colleague unwittingly gave them chocolate brownies laced with cannabis.

Topics: cannabis, canada

18yo charged over alleged hit-run death

Posted Sat Sep 3, 2011 7:58pm AEST

Police have charged an 18-year-old man over the alleged hit-and-run death of a teenager in north Queensland.

Topics: law-crime-and-justice, townsville-4810

Port of Brisbane chemical leak forces clean-up

Posted Sat Sep 3, 2011 7:33pm AEST

A big clean-up operation is continuing after a chemical spill in the Port of Brisbane today.

Topics: accidents, brisbane-4000

Warriors relegate Cowboys to seventh

Posted Sat Sep 3, 2011 7:21pm AEST | Updated 3 hours 43 minutes ago

The Warriors ensured they will finish the regular season in sixth position after downing fellow finals-bound opponent North Queensland 18-6.

Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, new-zealand, townsville-4810, qld, australia

Opposition queries hotel lobbyist appointment

Posted Sat Sep 3, 2011 7:10pm AEST | Updated Sat Sep 3, 2011 8:30pm AEST

New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell says there is nothing corrupt about the appointment of a hotel industry lobbyist to the state's hospitality industry regulator.

Topics: states-and-territories, nsw

Aussies wrap up Galle Test (photos)

Posted Sat Sep 3, 2011 7:00pm AEST | Updated 6 hours 1 minute ago

Ryan Harris's five-wicket haul helped steer Australia to a comfortable 125-run victory over Sri Lanka in the first Test in Galle.

Topics: cricket, sport, sri-lanka, australia

One dead in WA chopper crash

Posted Sat Sep 3, 2011 6:59pm AEST | Updated Sat Sep 3, 2011 11:39pm AEST

One person has died and another has been seriously injured in a helicopter crash in Western Australia.

Topics: air-and-space, meekatharra-6642

Green Day singer ejected from flight

Posted Sat Sep 3, 2011 6:27pm AEST | Updated Sat Sep 3, 2011 6:51pm AEST

Green Day rocker Billie Joe Armstrong has complained he was booted from a Southwest Airlines flight in California because his pants sagged too low.

Topics: punk, united-states