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JULIE Bishop says she's honoured to have been re-elected unopposed as deputy leader of the Liberal Party.

QUEENSLAND police have begun an investigation into an alleged indecent act by Brisbane Lions star Brendan Fevola.

A SECOND man has appeared in a Sydney court following a drug raid that led to the shooting death of Constable Bill Crews.

TWO people are dead and a woman is still missing following intense rain and flooding across Texas, myFOXdfw.com reports.

A BLIND activist who was jailed after exposing abuses in China's "one child" population policy has been freed after four years in prison.

A PERTH man on trial for killing his fiancee once believed he was receiving messages from Oprah Winfrey through the TV, court hears.

PHILIPPINE medics had to throw away a donated kidney when a local airline refused to fly it, transplant doctors said today.

NINE people were killed and seven wounded when their vehicle struck a landmine in a remote tribal town of northwest Pakistan.

THE Australian Greens say they will work with both the coalition and Labor to get legislation through the new parliament.

ANGELINA Jolie will be the public face of an appeal for Pakistan flood victims launched by the UN refugee agency in Australia today.

A VICTORIAN man who seriously injured an elderly man in an unprovoked road rage attack has been jailed for six years.

A COLLEAGUE of slain policeman Bill Crews has paid an emotional tribute to his friend, describing him as a fantastic officer who made the ultimate sacrifice while protecting the community.

ANNA Bligh is swapping her in-tray for a bed pan and high-heels for sensible work shoes to work a nurse orderly nightshift.

FORMER Cuban president Fidel Castro said the "Cuban model" of communism no longer works, an apparent admission that the economic policy that underpinned the country's revolution more than 50 years ago had failed.

THE most senior Chinese diplomat at the United Nations has delivered a drunken rant against his boss, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and Americans at a retreat in Austria, a report says.

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has called on Labor MPs to build on the future and not dwell on the past at the party's first caucus meeting since being returned to power.

FOUR men have pleaded not guilty to manslaughter over the sinking of the Tongan ferry Princess Ashika last year with the loss of 74 lives.

RADICAL Muslim groups around the world are planning to torch American flags in protest at a Florida church's Koran-burning event.

AN Italian national who took a van for a joyride across an airport landing strip believed he was being followed, a court has been told.

A MAN has been arrested after police found a woman's body in a bush reserve on the New South Wales south coast.