ISRAELI authorities have been tight-lipped on the January 20 assassination of the Hamas arms dealer Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai, which is widely presumed to be the work of its intelligence agency, Mossad.

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IN just a two paragraph announcement yesterday, Telstra's hardball American chief executive, Sol Trujillo, torpedoed the $24 billion full privatisation of Telstra and any hope Australians would receive anything other than a second-rate broadband service for the foreseeable future.

MINISTER for the Illawarra and Regional Development David Campbell felt like cartoon character George Jetson this week when he gained first-hand experience of a system that could control an automated home or workplace from a PC and mobile phone.

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