01 Oct 06 | Armitage Auctions, September 27, 2006.
What: Victorian burr walnut dresser.
Price: $2700.
What: Large china cheese dish.
Price: $100.
01 Oct 06 | Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI (1685-1740); Annie Besant, British social reformer (1847-1933); Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-born pianist (1904-1989); James Whitmore, US actor (1921);
01 Oct 06 | 'Ratbag' sentence appeal call; McDermott blackmail charge.
01 Oct 06 | Atrocity spotlight on top officials; Hamas supporters on the march; Fence to stop illegal immigrants.
01 Oct 06 | Curfew shuts down Baghdad; 12 killed in suicide bomb; Bush labelled 'lying failure'; Relatives angered by court.
01 Oct 06 | Lawyers to delay appeals; Security tight on Bali.
01 Oct 06 | Palm Island calm urged; Rape charges dropped; Spies bombed trains: India.
01 Oct 06 | Williams seeks alcohol help; Queen offers Muslim prayer room.
01 Oct 06 | THE female driver of a white 2005 Toyota Corolla hire car was taken to the Launceston General Hospital with minor injuries after a two-car collision at the corner of Wellington and Frederick streets, Launceston, about noon yesterday.
01 Oct 06 | COLES Mowbray supermarket closed its doors for the last time yesterday, and many of its regular customers weren't happy.
Hazel and Roy Cameron, of Invermay, have shopped at the supermarket for 20 years.
01 Oct 06 | MANILA - The death toll from Typhoon Xangsane in the Philippines has risen to 61, with 69 still missing.
01 Oct 06 | INNSBRUCK, Austria - It wasn't "Snakes on a Plane", but an Austrian Airlines jet made an unscheduled stop as a precaution after a passenger sneaked a hamster aboard and the rodent escaped.
01 Oct 06 | LONDON - Marie- Antoinette, France's last queen, owes her reputation for loose living to London- based French blackmailers who made it all up, according to a British academic.
01 Oct 06 | Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
- Jules Verne, French author (1828-1905)
01 Oct 06 | LONDON - Zara Phillips, the Queen's granddaughter, was named Equestrian of the Year yesterday.
The 25-year-old, 11th in line to the throne, was awarded the trophy by the Horse of the Year Show in recognition of her individual gold medal at the World Equestrian Games at Aachen in Germany, making her only the third rider to hold both the World and European championships titles concurrently.
01 Oct 06 | Vaas for Middlesex; Ricketts in semis; Burrow out.
01 Oct 06 | Chargers grab TAC honours; Crouch strikes, so do thieves; Allsop takes it easy with goals; Germans fire up after India scores.
01 Oct 06 | AUSTRALIA'S best junior players showed their talent on day two of the Australian junior squash championships at the Devonport Squash Club yesterday.
01 Oct 06 | Local footy fans weren't about to let not being at the game stop them from having a good time, as Raelene Morey reports.
01 Oct 06 | TWO people walked away after a light plane made a heavy landing in Hobart yesterday. The pilot was forced to put the plane down on a grassy area after the plane experienced difficulties near Cambridge Airport in the early afternoon.