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AAP General News (Australia)
02-16-2006
NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney newspapers=3

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:

Page 1: Six months after it introduced a new timetable to fix massive delays on the
rail network, CityRail is still battling to run trains on time; Avian flu could kill up
to 214,000 Australians in a serious global outbreak, according to a new projection by
Australian experts; The number of frozen human embryos stored in Australia and New Zealand
has quadrupled over the past decade and for the first time exceeds 100,000, figures show.

Page 2: Foreign Minister Alexander Downer will travel to Jakarta next week to plead
for clemency for two of the Bali Nine drug smugglers sentenced to death.

Page 3: Former science minister Peter McGauran tried to influence the CSIRO to sever
ties with the Wentworth Group of respected scientists concerned about the environment,
a Senate committee hears.

World: Communist Party elders, including retired propaganda chiefs and Mao Zedong's
biographer, have issued a rare declaration denouncing recent media crackdowns and calling
for the reopening of an investigative newspaper (Beijing); Rising levels of carbon dioxide
are causing plants and trees to be less thirsty, which is resulting in a big increase
in water runoff from the land and multiplying the risk of floods, British scientists say
(London).

Finance: To chief executive Chip Goodyear's delight, it's beginning to get a little
predictable for BHP Billiton - another earnings release, another record profit.

Sport: Wallabies back Mat Rogers reveals he had considered quitting football and had
been worried about his own welfare following the tragic death his famous father Steve.

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