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Art roadshow stumbles on classic Arthur Streeton piece Article from: AAP December 09, 2009 01:49pm AN antiques roadshow through Tasmania has unearthed a painting by the great Australian artist Arthur Streeton. Charles Leski, of Leski Auctions, this year started conducting...

Parliament, the Attorney General defended the Prime Minister’s right to veto persons recommended for senior positions. He also argued for the PM’s right to hold secret the names of such persons and the reasons for effecting his veto. Primary among...

Naples — Thousands of people looking to catch some holiday cheer came out to the eighth annual Fifth Avenue South Christmas Parade on Tuesday night. “I liked the (marching) band,” said 7-year-old Alyssa Teeters. Many of the roughly 114 parade...

The special operation spanned over four days and netted 13 arrests for 22 felony and misdemeanor drug charges, authorities said. The operation was conducted in response to several complaints from residents of ongoing drug activity throughout the community.

The TV commercial urged that we learn a second language...For those of us who grew up in English speaking households, it is well to be reminded that sentences do not end with an “at,” as in, “Where is it at?”...

The head of Egypt 's supreme council of antiquities is in London to request the return of the Rosetta stone from the British Museum. The 2,200- year-old tablet bears three parallel texts of the same passage and was the key...

All of a Twitter but not in a flap, Labour's media tsar rises to Noble's joke Kerry McCarthy fields deluge of questions after Twitter challenge by TV comic Ross Noble Labour 's "Twitter tsar" was swamped with hundreds of irreverent...

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) said yesterday that it plans to retain ownership of the mountain railway for another two to three years before seeking a new operator or buyer...There are also plans to upgrade the mountain car park and...

Edinburgh's Old and New Towns faces being stripped of funding by council leaders. Edinburgh World Heritage has been warned to expect the local authority to withdraw its support of the body, which has been fiercely critical of a number of...

Muslim group intends to stage a march in Edinburgh on the same day as a Middle East film festival, The Scotsman has learned. The Scottish Defence League, an offshoot of the English Defence League, wants to stage a rally on...