Main stories in today's 0745 ABC News

AAP General News (Australia)
04-04-2006
Main stories in today's 0745 ABC News

SYDNEY, April 4 AAP - Main stories in today's 0745 ABC News:

- A federal jury in the US finds al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui eligible for
the death penalty.

- British police arrest Gordon Wood over the murder in Sydney of his girlfriend Caroline Byrne.

- Indonesia snubs an invitation from Australia to observe an international military
exercise off the coast of Darwin this week.

- Big crowds are expected to gather in far western NSW today for a state funeral for
the artist Pro Hart.

- The meat workers union will this morning seek an explanation from an NSW abattoir
about it's plan to sack workers and rehire some of them on lower wages.

- The federal government says the three young people from Sydney who have been sentenced
to jail in Hong Kong can appeal against their sentences for trying to smuggle heroin into
Australia.

- Tornados and violent thunderstorms in the US kill at least 27 people.

- The former Liberian president Charles Taylor pleads not guilty to crimes against
humanity after becoming the first ever African leader to face such charges.

- The federal opposition warns that health insurance premiums could rise if Medibank
Private is sold off.

- A Wollongong doctor is committed to stand trial for manslaughter.

- The third and final cricket test between Australia and South Africa in Johannesburg
is set for an exciting finish, with the tourists needing 44 runs on the last day for victory
and a series clean sweep

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