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With a month to go, Sydney getting Olympic feel

...said Frank Sartor, the city's lord mayor. "It will be a carnival in Sydney for 18 days." The torch made it to New South Wales, the state of which Sydney is the capital, on Monday night after a 68-day journey around Australia. From the...

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BHS swimmers learn about life Down Under

...8-17, Fitzpatrick and Antolak were members of the World Sports Exchange International Team that competed against the New South Wales Swimming Association in Australia. They competed in a two-day meet against several Australian Olympians and spent...

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Mystery runner becomes even more mysterious

...athletics." Vial said Perec had been staying at the Grand Mercure Apartments in downtown Sydney. A spokeswoman for New South Wales police said no report had been received about harassment at that location, and the general manager of the complex...

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A wired but fallible world

...gracious society." Floridians, take heart: In Australia, election authorities discovered that the voter rolls in New South Wales included a cat. Parliament member Alasdair Webster uncovered the feline fraud when his letter welcoming Curacao Fischer...

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Thousands flee firestorm, seek refuge on beach as Australian blazes burn

...battling flames in tinder-dry New South Wales state. Helicopters dumped water...school vacation. An outraged New South Wales government promised to punish...Krimmer, superintendent of the New South Wales fire brigade. Temperatures fell...

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Massive blazes burn as Australian firefighters prepare for new onslaught

...lines around the fires," said Cameron Wade of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service. "It is hard, arduous work." Some of the 100 or so fires raging across New South Wales state were too big to tackle head-on and burned out...

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Authorities play down Olympics terrorist threat

...been arrested for terrorist activities or for being part of a terrorist group or anything like that," he said. New South Wales police, who have overall control of games security, confirmed they were following New Zealand's investigations...

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Summer games? Sydney feels more like winter

...below normal. A strong wind warning was up for coastal areas, and snow was a possibility in the upper reaches of New South Wales. "I thought Australia would be sunny and pretty hot, lots of sand and kangaroos," said Dante Craig, a boxer...

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Wildfires menace suburbs of Sydney; thousands evacuated

...seven were deliberately set. The fires have destroyed homes, isolated towns and cut highways and rail links across New South Wales state and around Sydney. Ambulance crews have treated hundreds of firefighters and residents for respiratory problems...

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Thousands of Australian animals killed by fires

...around the state capital Sydney and in the west of New South Wales. The exact number of animals that have perished was...said Carol MacDougall, chief executive officer of the New South Wales Wildlife Information and Rescue Service. "We are...

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