A gun, gelignite and axe attack at 10,000ft
IT was a normal Aussie flight, except for the passenger with a sawn-off rifle and two sticks of gelignite who wanted to fly to Singapore. But a fellow passenger with an axe had other ideas …
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$386m, 1100 apartment jewel in Sydney metro plan
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‘All of us have suffered this trauma’
A year after northern beaches woman Justine Ruszczyk was shot dead in the US by a cop, her father John gives an emotional interview detailing the moment ‘it all fell apart’ for him when he got the dreaded phone call that his daughter had been killed.
Aussie diver feared Thai cave boys would die
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Martin Bryant: Monster on the inside
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Tracking a Nazi loot train
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‘God help me to make good my vow’
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The Caliph of Terror unmasked
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