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THE cost of raising two children in Australia has reached more than half a million dollars, but it is no more expensive today than it was five years ago.

KHARTOUM - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir on Monday pardoned a British woman teacher jailed for 15 days for insulting religion by naming a teddy bear after the Prophet Mohammed, a presidential advisor said.

Only 53 per cent of Australians aged 15-74 can find and use complex information on job applications, payroll forms and bus schedules.

SYDNEY - Three Australian schoolchildren aged 10 and 11 were rushed to hospital after mistaking suspected ecstasy tablets for sweets, police said Tuesday.

The Supreme Court has denied with finality the motion for reconsideration filed by a losing bidder in the multi-million textbook purchase and distribution project of the Department of Education (DepEd).

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani commandos raided the compound of a mosque on Sunday where militants are holding out, blasting holes in a perimeter wall in the hope hundreds of women and children can escape, the military said. The militants in the compound of the mosque and a girls' religious school, or madrasa, responded with heavy fire and the commander of the unit that mounted the attack was killed,

CAMP SIONGCO, Shariff Kabunsuan – US sailors turned over to a Teduray community in Odin Sinsuat, Shariff Kabunsuan a classroom costing P200,000 which they had built with the help of Filipino soldiers under a joint military outreach program.