Australian billionaire says to build nickel freight fleet

May 4th, 2012 - 
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian businessman Clive Palmer on Friday said he plans to build and operate a fleet of four freighters to import nickel ore to a nickel refining plant purchased from BHP Billiton. The decision by the billionaire, who made much of his fortune buying and selling coastal real estate, comes days after announcing he would build an “unsinkable” version of the Titanic to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the original ocean liner. …

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"Stasiland" author turned to fiction for latest book

March 15th, 2012 - 
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – As a former human rights lawyer and the author of non-fiction bestseller “Stasiland” about life in communist East Germany, Australian author Anna Funder knows a thing or two about digging deep to uncover the facts of history’s fascinating stories. Yet she decided to make her second book, “All That I Am,” a novel when even her most meticulous historical research couldn’t fill an important gap in the story of four friends forced to flee Germany when Hitler rose to power.

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Jai Courtney to play Jack McClane in new "Die Hard" film (Reuters)

February 23rd, 2012 - 
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Reuters – Jai Courtney, an Australian television star, will play Jack McClane in “A Good Day to Die Hard,” Fox said Wednesday.

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Australia’s iron lady on road to world-scale wealth – report (Reuters)

February 2nd, 2012 - 
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Reuters – Australian Gina Rinehart could soon become the world’s wealthiest woman after amassing an $18 billion fortune from mining and media investments, Forbes magazine says in its latest list of the wealthiest people in Australia.

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Iranian actress freed from prison on reduced sentence (Reuters)

October 28th, 2011 - 
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Reuters – Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr was released from prison Monday after her sentence was overturned by an appeals court, Amnesty International reports.

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