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Hobart shipbuilder Incat puts finishing touches to ferries bound for London's ...

A Hobart shipyard has almost finished its project to build two passenger ferries bound for London's River Thames. Incat Tasmania has been building two 35-metre, high-speed ferries for the past six months and is due to deliver them at the end of July. >> view original

Royal Hobart Hospital staff angry over lack of representation on new health ...

Staff at Tasmania's only teaching hospital are angry there is no clinical member from the south on the governing council for the state's new health organisation. The nine member council includes two clinicians from the north and two from the north-west ... >> view original

Boer War soldiers remembered in Hobart ceremony

"The one that is buried here is Hodgman, who of course is an ancestor of some sort to the existing Premier of Tasmania." Reg Watson said the War started before federation when Tasmania was a self-governing colony. "We had a minister of war and there ... >> view original

Gail Mabo in Tasmania for Reconciliation Week to speak in Hobart on Mabo Day

Gail Mabo, in Tasmania to speak during Reconciliation Week, says her father Eddie's spirit asked her to "walk in his shoes" some 20 years after his death in 1992. "Dad empowered me in that he wanted me to be in public speaking, but first I had to do ... >> view original

Cassie and Matt's House Rules Tasmania $248000 mortgage

In 2014 they bought their first home together in the Hobart suburb. It comes with its pink bathroom, purple bedroom and fluorescent green carpet. "We want to preserve the character of the home; maintain that 1960s feel but modernise it," Cassie said ... >> view original

Syrian rebels, Qaeda 'advance on regime in Idlib province'

A rebel alliance including Al-Qaeda's Al-Nusra Front seized more territory in northwestern Syria overnight, strengthening its position on the borders of two key largely regime-controlled provinces, a monitor said Saturday. The Army of Conquest rebel alliance ... >> view original

Pope Francis Urges a Divided Bosnia to Heal, Declaring 'War Never Again!'

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Coming to a country whose national anthem has no lyrics because its bickering ethnic groups cannot agree on them, Pope Francis on Saturday called for greater religious reconciliation and an end to the sectarian ... >> view original

Ukraine crisis to dominate G7 summit in Germany

Leaders from the world's richest countries are due to attend the annual G7 summit in the Bavarian Alps in Germany. They are expected to use the meeting to maintain diplomatic pressure on Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Greece's debt crisis and ... >> view original

California student Fernando Rojas accepted to every Ivy League school

Rojas also was accepted by Stanford University and two nearby schools, the University of California, Irvine, and California State University, Fullerton. Fernando Rojas, 17, a Fullerton High School graduate, poses for a photo in Fullerton, Calif. with literature ... >> view original

Egyptian court overturns ruling that listed Hamas' as terrorist group

Last February, a tribunal listed Hamas as a terrorist group after two separate private suits were filed by two lawyers against the group, accusing it of interfering into Egypt's internal affairs and supporting Islamist insurgents that targeted military and police ... >> view original