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• Stuttgart signs New Zealand forward Rojas

  New Zealand forward Marco Rojas is joining Bundesliga club Stuttgart from Australia's Melbourne Victory. Stuttgart says it has signed the 21-year-old ... 

• Australia arrests priest on pedophilia charges

  Australian police arrested a Roman Catholic priest on pedophilia charges Monday, following months of negotiations to have him returned from the ... 

• Man admits to murder of Irish woman in Australia

  A man has pleaded guilty to the rape and murder of an Irish immigrant he attacked as she walked home from a bar in Australia's second-largest city. 

• No certainties as F1 sets to start 2013 season

  Formula One is sometimes derided by critics as predictable, yet even the biggest skeptics may concede that the 2013 season is cloaked in uncertainty. 

• Vettel favorite as F1 set to begin

  The pre-season testing for Red Bull has been surprisingly subdued, with the team struggling to top the time sheets and cynics wondering whether ... 

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  Mercedes' Rosberg closes F1 tests with fastest lap

  Mercedes appears poised to make a good start in the Formula One season after Nico Rosberg clocked the best lap time in testing in Sunday's final ... 

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  Webber fastest on 1st day of last F1 test session

  Red Bull driver Mark Webber set the pace in cold and wet conditions on the first day of the final Formula One preseason testing session, edging just ... 

• Melbourne beats Leeds to win World Club Challenge

  Melbourne held off strong display by Leeds on Friday to become the first Australian team to claim a third victory in the annual World Club Challenge ... 

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  Williams unveils new car for F1 season

  Williams driver Pastor Maldonado unveiled the team's new car on Tuesday, saying he believed the FW35 could close the gap on its Formula One rivals. 

• Israeli-Australian Prisoner X's death strains ties

  He was known as Prisoner X, his crimes unknown. For months he languished in an Israeli prison until he was he was found dead in his cell in an ... 

• US: Arms dealer's associate arrested in Australia

  An associate of a notorious Russian arms dealer was arrested in Australia and charged with conspiring to buy planes so that weapons could be ... 

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  Rupert Murdoch's mother Elisabeth dies at age 103

  Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, a prominent Australian philanthropist and mother of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has died at age 103. News Ltd., the Australian ...