Lives at risk, Vic paramedics say

VICTORIAN paramedics say emergency response times are blowing out and putting lives at risk. The paramedics, who are in the middle of negotiating a new enterprise bargaining agreement with Ambulance Victoria, say Premier Denis Napthine's refusal...

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US consumer confidence rebounds in April

US consumer confidence picked up in April after falling the prior month, the Conference Board has reported. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index rose to 68.1 points from a revised 61.9 in March. Consumers' expectations about the...

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Russia art museums feud over revival plan

RUSSIA'S two greatest art museums are engaged in an unsightly public feud over an idea to revive a Moscow museum of Western art that was shut down by Stalin in the late 1940s. The State Museum of New Western Art gathered the impressionist and...

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Tymoshenko jailing unlawful: court

THE European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Ukraine's detention of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is unlawful, in a decision the opposition leader's camp saw as a key step towards her release. Tymoshenko herself said she hoped the...

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Peru finds hot air balloon pilot's body

PERUVIAN rescuers have found the body of the pilot of a hot air balloon that plunged into the Pacific, but another person remains missing, police say. Five women were rescued from the sea as they clung to pieces of the balloon after it went...

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Obama defends FBI over Boston suspect

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has defended the FBI from suggestions it might have prevented the Boston marathon bombing by acting on warnings about one of the suspects. Russia had advised US authorities about ethnic Chechen Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011...

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Physicists zoom in on antimatter behaviour

PHYSICISTS have announced a breakthrough in their quest to answer one of science's great questions: do the same laws of gravity apply to antimatter - the obscure counterpart of matter as we know it? Though antimatter is thought to have existed...

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