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7:58 PM AEDT | The Pakistan Cricket Board has barred Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan from the national team indefinitely and imposed a one-year ban on Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved for behaviour they say contributed to Pakistan's poor performance on its recent tour of Australia.
2:41 PM AEDT | Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono addresses Parliament in Canberra.
10:44 AM AEDT | Arsenal swept into the Champions League quarter-finals as Nicklas Bendtner silenced his critics with a hat-trick in a majestic 5-0 win against Porto this morning.
10:27 AM AEDT | FOUR hundred students at Cootamundra High School got an extended recess when a fire broke out in a classroom yesterday.
10:11 AM AEDT | THE future of 145 Border jobs have come under a cloud after Wodonga company, Paragon Printing, was placed into administration.
10:11 AM AEDT | LIKE hundreds of other Wagga people, Troy Barry Hund took his family for a drive around town on Monday to look at a Murrumbidgee River swollen by record rainfall after years of drought.
10:10 AM AEDT | A MENTAL and physical assessment has been ordered for a teenager accused of stabbing a young man in the thigh during a bloody confrontation at Wagga's Sturt Mall shopping centre on Monday.
10:10 AM AEDT | MARIJUANA plants with an estimated street value of $1.25 million have been discovered in three hidden plantations in a forest near Tumut.
10:08 AM AEDT | TRAFFIC along the Olympic Highway near Yerong Creek was severely disrupted yesterday after a semi-trailer rolled, spilling grain all over the road.
9:31 AM AEDT | AT LEAST 1500 people have lost their jobs and are applying for government retraining programs because of the sudden suspension of the $2.45 billion insulation rebate.
8:59 AM AEDT | As many as one in five private international education colleges are failing to meet basic educational standards, with many little more than permanent migration visa factories, the head of a review of the sector said yesterday.
8:32 AM AEDT | The Family Court of Australia has approved the sterilisation of a disabled 11-year-old girl.
4:00 AM AEDT | Michael Clarke needs to choose between a fraught personal life and his career in cricket. All the evidence indicates that the current position is untenable. As Mark Anthony could testify, obsession can be a man's undoing. If Clarke is unwilling to make the call, then cricket will make it for him. In the nick of time, Ricky Ponting sorted himself out. Now it is Clarke's turn.
4:00 AM AEDT | QUEENSLAND jockey Stathi Katsidis is supremely confident of starting his stay in Sydney with victory on Shoot Out in the group 1 Royal Randwick Guineas on Saturday.
4:00 AM AEDT | After 14 years of top-flight rugby, he knows what lifts the players, writes Rupert Guinness.
4:00 AM AEDT | SIMON COLOSIMO has confirmed he won't be going anywhere until after the completion of Sydney FC's finals campaign, ending speculation that he was set to cut ties with the club before the Japanese and Chinese transfer windows slam shut at the end of the week.
4:00 AM AEDT | HAMILTON: Michael Clarke will return to New Zealand in time for Australia's two-match Test series, but his dash across the Tasman to be at the side of his controversy-prone fiancee has prompted Ian Chappell to cast doubts over his suitability as a future Test captain.
4:00 AM AEDT | AS LOTE TUQIRI steps off a plane at Sydney Airport this morning, he will be greeted by family, media crews and maybe a few diehard Wests Tigers supporters.
4:00 AM AEDT | The breakup of the debt-laden property empire of developer Gary Baker is now under way. And heavy losses appear likely for the ambitious developer best known for wearing trademark white zinc on his smiling lips. Receivers have listed two luxury units in the ocean front Pacific Terraces complex at Bondi Beach, right, for a March 31 McGrath auction, reports the Herald's property editor, Jonathan Chancellor.
4:00 AM AEDT | When the Barangaroo Delivery Authority called for a broad debate on its preferred development proposal, The Sydney Morning Herald approached the NSW branch of the Royal Institute of Architects for help. The institute's council agreed to circulate two questions. The Herald asked: do you believe construction of a pier into the harbour will set a precedent for other developments? More than 40 responded: two-thirds opposed the plan, while a third supported it, as these edited letters show.
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