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Indonesia's president confirmed Wednesday that a suspected Bali bombing mastermind with a 10-million-dollar bounty on his head had been killed, as Australia lauded Jakarta's drive to fight extremists.

A MAN has been charged after allegedly using a hole in a fence to photograph naked children swimming in a backyard Sydney pool.

Homicide Squad detectives have charged two men in relation to the death of a 43-year-old man at Flemington on Tuesday morning.

Australian cyclist Lionel Cox, who died last night, pictured competing in 1952. Source: The Australian LIONEL Cox, described as one of "Australia's finest Olympians", has died.

Builders are confident home loans in WA will pick up. The Master Builders Association has dismissed last month's home loan slump as a one-off due to the rush for first-home buyer grants before January 1. "One swallow doesn't a summer make," the association's housing director, Gavan Forster, said.

Sixty WA Health Department employees, including 23 doctors and 18 nurses, have either been sacked or quit as part of the agency's investigation into fraudulent salary packaging claims.

A FORMER Royal Children's Hospital surgeon is under investigation after the death of four babies he operated on in a British hospital.

Over the weekend, Time Magazine A published aA long, glowing profile of Tom Hanks to help promote his upcoming HBO miniseries "The Pacific." And as with all things entertainment media, the subject is never challenged or even made to shift uncomfortably in his seat.

NEIL Heyward taunted his bound and gagged former partner and asked "now who's got it over who" before he brutally murdered her, the Supreme Court has heard.

AS LOTE TUQIRI steps off a plane at Sydney Airport this morning, he will be greeted by family, media crews and maybe a few diehard Wests Tigers supporters.

BASED Prince Hill Wines' $5.5m sale of its flagship Mudgee winery in New South Wales has failed, leaving the company with a potential $2.7 million writedown.

He might not have time to play it until he gets home, but Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has a brand new guitar, courtesy of the Australian people.

A MAN allegedly set fire to a house with three people inside, then threatened a woman with a machete and led police on car chase through NSW's Hunter region.

A NAVY patrol boat has intercepted an asylum-seeker boat in waters off Australia's northwest coast.

A candidate for the South Australian election has died. Disability advocate Paul Collier died in hospital on Tuesday night after suffering a brain haemorrhage last weekend.

Actress Lindsay Lohan is suing the financial company E*Trade, claiming a commercial about a "milkaholic" baby named Lindsay is based on her.

After 14 years of top-flight rugby, he knows what lifts the players, writes Rupert Guinness.

Australian actor Liam Hemsworth is dating Miley Cyrus. After starring alongside girlfriend Miley Cyrus in The Last Song, rising Aussie star Liam Hemsworth is reportedly in negotiations to be cast in Arabian Nights.

Former Tasmanian captain Dan Marsh will retire from first-class cricket at the end of the Sheffield Shield match against Victoria.

WA Police will use profiling to target people under proposed stop and search laws a parliamentary committee has been told today.