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Matthew Benns is Editor-at-Large at The Daily Telegraph. He is a career journalist from Fleet Street to Sydney and has covered stories all over the world, tracking tigers in the Russian Far East to finding Elvis Presley’s first girlfriend in Biloxi, Mississippi.

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Packer’s bold new Las Vegas Frontier

JAMES Packer is rolling the dice on a new $2 billion casino in Las Vegas that he wants to be the most luxurious on the famous gambling strip.

Packer to build casino in Las Vegas

BILLIONAIRE Australian casino mogul James Packer is returning to Las Vegas to build a new casino on the world famous gambling strip.

Crate rate: $500,000 for public art

A WESTERN Sydney company has offered to build Lord Mayor Clover Moore’s giant upside-down milk crate artwork for a fifth of the $2.5 million set aside to pay for it.

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Former Origin great Sean Timmins (Black tee-shirt) goes to Karratha mine to talk about depression. Photographer: Tangiora Hinaki

Tough times in the world of ‘real’ men

THEY are Australia’s hard men – footballers and miners – better known for being tough than getting in touch with their emotions. “Men are too proud and don’t want to look soft,” agreed former NRL stalwart Shaun Timmins.

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General, generic photos from the Gold Coast Airport. Jetstar plane touches down on the runway. Picture: Brendan Radke.

Flush your drugs, Jetstar warns its high flyers

A JETSTAR crew member told passengers there were sniffer dogs waiting at the airport and suggested they flush their drugs away before landing.

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Flush your drugs, Jetstar warns its high flyers

A JETSTAR crew member told passengers there were sniffer dogs waiting at the airport and suggested they flush their drugs away before landing.

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Flush your drugs, Jetstar warns its high flyers

A JETSTAR crew member told passengers there were sniffer dogs waiting at the airport and suggested they flush their drugs away before landing.

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Jetstar warns passengers to flush dodgy items

A JETSTAR crew member told passengers there were sniffer dogs waiting at the airport and suggested they flush “anything you shouldn’t have” before landing.

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WIRE: A gull flies near a Qantas, top, and Emirates A380 as they fly in formation over Sydney Harbour in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, March 31, 2013. The airlines have announced a partnership deal. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Qantas pilots fear missiles over Iraq

QANTAS rejected costly diversions to flights over Iraq because it insists it is safe, despite its own pilots being worried they could be downed by a missile.

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A convoy of hearses carrying coffins containing the remains of victims of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, drive past flags fluying at half-mast while leaving the Eindhoven Airbase to Hilversum on July 23, 2014, after a ceremony following the arrival of a Dutch Air Force C-130 Hercules plane and an Australian Royal Australian Air Force C17 transport plane with the first bodies of the 298 victims of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane crash in eastern Ukraine. The first bodies from flight MH17 arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday almost a week after it was shot down over Ukraine, as the conflict flared yet again near the Malaysian airliner's crash site. AFP PHOTO / ANP / VALERIE KUYPERS ** Netherlands Out **

MH17 victims’ credit cards, phones stolen

AN Australian security taskforce to be deployed to secure the MH17 crash site has been assigned a sickening new duty: stop the looting.

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