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  • Six years jail for leader of Thai sex ring plot

    A FORMER teacher will serve more than six years in prison for plotting to start a doll making business in Thailand as a front for a sex ring involving fellow convicted ...

  • Friends struggle to cope with disappearance

    Friends and family of a father missing off the coast of Coral Bay were this evening struggling to come to grips with their grief after authorities ended a five-day search.Rob Shugg, 48, is believed to have drowned at the same location as his wife Kathreen Ricketson, 41, when they were swimming at Elle's beach, about 5.5km north of Warroora Station, on Wednesday afternoon.Long-time family ...

  • Wallaby selection a dream for Cummins

    Perth 6000 Western Force winger Nick Cummins was shocked to learn of his Wallaby squad selection for the series against the British and Irish Lions, but says he is desperate to make the most of the opportunity now that it has come his way.Cummins' chances of earning a gig for the series looked slim earlier this season when he was grounded for seven games due to a lingering knee ...

  • School teacher charged with child sex offences

    Perth 6000 A teacher from a public high school in Perth's northern suburbs will face court next month charged with a number of child sex offences.The man has been dismissed by the Education Department following a police investigation into allegations he used social media to inappropriately contact female students at the school.The teacher was stood down in March after the Department of ...

  • Eagles Wellingham Schofield grounded

    Perth 6000 Sharrod Wellingham's wretched injury run this year has continued with the West Coast midfielder set to miss up to seven weeks due to a serious ankle injury.A preseason trampoline mishap that caused major damage to his right ankle grounded Wellingham for the first five rounds of the AFL season.But the former Magpie was dealt another blow in Friday night's win over North ...


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Searching for Bobby Fischer [DVD]

Searching for Bobby Fischer [DVD]

Bobby Fischer was a chess genius. He was so brilliant at chess that he was an international grandmaster by the time he was 15, and he left high school in order to become a professional player. Chess was his life: He studied and played it all day every day, and he dreamt about it at night. In 1972, he beat the Russian champion Boris Spassky to become the first American international champion since ... ...

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  • Inquest examines WA plane crash deaths

    A PILOT and his spotter were culling goats in Western Australia's Gascoyne region when their plane collided with a helicopter and crashed to the ground, killing them instantly, a coronial inquest has heard. The WA coroner is investigating the deaths of Daniel Joseph Kean, 39, and Bradleigh Michael Roulston, 23, who died in February 2008 when their light aircraft crashed mid-air with a ...

  • Search for missing Jarrahdale man

    A WA Police spokesman said Peter Charles Clarke (42) had not been seen since he left his Jarrahdale home at 9.30am on May 17.Mr Clarke is 183cm tall, of medium build, with a fair complexion, blonde hair and blue eyes.It is not known what clothing he is wearing.Mr Clarke was driving a black Landrover Defender, registration number 1DPR 217."While his whereabouts are unknown, police have ...

  • Mental health disorders among Australian parents on the rise

    University of Western Australia 6009 A new study has found the number of parents with mental illness increased by three per cent every year between 1990 to 2005.The study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, is the first of its kind in Australia, based on 15 years of data from Western Australia.Lead author of the report, Dr Melissa O'Donnell from the University of WA, said she ...

  • Buswell warns cuts are only the beginning

    Perth 6000 The Treasurer Troy Buswell is warning that cuts to government programs are only part of broader savings measures to be unveiled in the state budget.He has asked Ministers to submit a list of programs in their portfolios that can be scrapped.The 17 ministers were given until last Friday to submit a list of programs that could be cut to reduce expenditure.The Health Minister Kim Hames ...

  • Young brothers missing in Wheatbelt

    TWO young brothers who went missing overnight in a small Wheatbelt town about 250km north-east of Perth have been found safe and ...

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