meth-smoking population outbreak of TB

Aust meth users 'dry tinder' for TB

'You do have a fair old whack of methamphetamine use, and that is pretty bad for your lungs,' Dr Story told AAP.
'Your meth-smoking population is probably a very good example of dry tinder just waiting for a spark to drop onto it and away it goes,' he said.
Globally about one third of the world's population has TB, with 1.7 million people dying each year from the disease.

 

Khaled Kahwaji, 29, from Rhodes

Khaled Kahwaji, 29, from Rhodes, was spoken to by police at Petersham around 12:30pm on Friday March 15, 2013 - six hours later his body was found on Wilbur St, Greenacre.
Kahwaji was charged with the murder of Saba Kairouz in August 2010.

Investigators are focusing their main line of inquiry to include a retaliation attack in relation to that murder, but are also investigating links with the shooting of a crime family matriarch on Auburn road at Auburn last Saturday.
The victim in that case, revealed by this newspaper earlier this week, was the aunt of Supermax inmate Bassam Hamzy, the founder of the organised crime group Brothers For Life.
Police later said they were bracing for an escalation in violence over the attack, which saw her shot four times in the legs at her front door.

 Witnesses living on Wilbur St at Greenacre said they tried to help Kahwaji as he lay on the road just after being shot in the back of the head about 6pm Friday night.

Daxchan Selvarajah, 21, to remain in custody

A Sri Lankan asylum seeker had been out of immigration detention for eight days and had been living in university accommodation without authorities' knowledge when he allegedly sexually assaulted a sleeping female student. 
A magistrate this afternoon, March 07, 2013, ordered Daxchan Selvarajah, 21, to remain in custody on charges of breaking into the woman's unit at Macquarie University and indecently assaulting her early on February 21. The 21-year-old will return to court next month.

Hyundai-Samsung doomed?

North Korea scraps peace pacts 

Are Hyundai and Samsung doomed?

While North Korea is not deemed capable of any nuclear strike on the US mainland, there are growing fears that it will mount some provocation in the form of a missile test or a similar artillery assault.

'To me, this feels like the most dangerous situation since the Korean War,' said Paik Hak-Soon, a North Korean analyst at the Sejong Institute in Seoul.
'The North is cornered more than ever in the international community and will keep pushing ahead with even more confrontational moves militarily,' said Paik.

Will Hyundai and Samsung be shelled out of existence?