This year celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by cheering on your team at the Donnybrook Cup. USA TOMAHAWKS v IRELAND WOLFHOUNDS WHEN: Saturday, March 19 at 4pm WHERE: Charles Martin Stadium Northeast Philadelphia Ticket & Event information: http://rugby2011.ticketbud.com/donnybrookcup
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More than a week since the waters receded, the enormity of Brisbane’s flood disaster is starting to sink in. But the community spirit that has shone like a beacon throughout the hardships shows no signs of abating, with volunteers expected to be out in force across the weekend. Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said the council
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Mumbai, Jan 19 (IBNS) Cricket’s greatest prize, the ICC Cricket World Cup, arrived back on the sub-continent today and was handed over by ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat to the ICC President Sharad Pawar at the historic Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai. With just 30 days to go to the start of the ICC
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Rural Australian towns braced for another week of flooding Sunday as a vast lake continued to spread across the country’s southeast and a potential tropical storm threatened the northeast. The flooding began more than a month ago in Australia’s northeast Queensland state, where 30 people have died, more than 30,000 homes
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(Reuters) – The iconic image of an Australian with a long cool beer in hand may not hold true forever, with statistics showing Australians are drinking less beer these days than at any time in the past 61 years. In a report titled “No Longer a Nation of Beer Drinkers,” the Australian Bureau of Statistics
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The USA Rugby League (USARL) has named seasoned coach, businessman and sports administrator Peter Illfied the organization’s inaugural Chairman. Illfield preliminarily lays out his vision for the new USARL, a high-level, semi-professional Rugby League competition in the USA formed on the principles of transparency, accountability and equal voting and equity participation by its participants. The
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IF THE number of utterances of ”Oh – my – God!” and ”Gorrr-geous!” was a barometer of just how much Oprah Winfrey liked Australia, what about her compatriots whom Tourism Australia is anxiously courting? As Winfrey’s series of Australian ”infomercials” airs across the US, tourism agents are gauging signs that Americans are responding to the
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Get ready to see the Flying Kangaroo in Texas. In case you missed this news last week, Australian carrier Qantas announced it is shelving service to San Francisco in favor of flights to Dallas/Fort Worth — the hub and hometown airport of oneworld partner American. Air Transport World sums up the move, writing: “Oneworld partners
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Come join a huge Australia Day party featuring Aussie beer happy hour(s) + Pies, Sausage Rolls, & other food specials. There will be plenty of Australian music, including the chance to join in a rousing rendition of Advance Australia Fair. It’s also a chance to help out in some fundraising for the Philly Hawks Australian
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New design is here! Follow the links and get your very own Australia Day 2011 Dan Milbourne design t-shirt! Visit http://www.danmilbourne.com/ and purchase one today, while stocks last. Don’t know who Dan Milbourne is? Let’s ask him… Since 2001, I’ve has been specialising in areas such as Apparel (Clothing) Design, Web Design, Graphic Design and
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