Babble Wrap 05.11.08: Americans Storm The Voting Booths
Posted by Amber Robinson at 9:51 AM on November 5, 2008
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Americans storm the voting booths
Americans have turned out in force to vote, as last-minute opinion polls confirm Barack Obama’s lead, but offer slivers of hope for rival John McCain in some key states. The Australian
Vote cast by Barack Obama’s grandmother will count
Saving grace – the absentee presidential vote cast by Barack Obama’s grandmother Madelyn Dunham before she died will still count.
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Eight-year-old finds bag of guns
An eight-year-old boy has stumbled across several high-powered rifles as he was walking through a park in Sydney’s inner-west yesterday afternoon, police said. SMH
Mortgage rates cut again
Yesterday’s rate cut of 0.75 points – the third in three months – brings the total fall in the bank’s cash rate since September to 2 percentage points, undoing almost five years of rises. However, banks are refusing to pass on the full rate cut. The Age
Rape victim stoned to death in stadium
An Islamist rebel administration in Somalia ordered that a girl, 13, be stoned to death for adultery after the child’s father reported that she was raped by three men. SMH
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