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Surprise birth: The next 24 hours are critical to the baby elephant's survival.

Baby elephant walk

An elephant calf has taken its first steps at Sydney's Taronga Zoo despite being declared dead in his mother's womb on Sunday.

  1. A sign at the front of the Church of Scientology building in Castlereagh Street in the Sydney CBD 'Extremist views'

    Australian of the Year joins growing calls for a Senate inquiry into the Church of Scientology.

  2. Soldiers guard a crime scene in Ciudad Juarez Mexico's femicide

    Young women in Mexico are being targeted in sadistic sexual violence known as "femicide".

  3. Ecologist Max Tischler Outback in bloom

    Queensland's flood has been a godsend for native animals and plants.

  4. David Taylor NRL preview

    Grandstand's Raman Goraya offers his predictions for the 2010 NRL season.

  5. HMAS Collins submarine In too deep?

    Military chiefs are being warned not to get out of their depth when buying new submarines.

  6. Acrobats from This Side Up wow the crowd during their show 'Controlled Falling Project' In pictures

    The Adelaide Fringe Festival's weird and wonderful, from ABC reader Conan Whitehouse.

  7. What do you do with abandoned batts? Video Driven batty

    Freight and supply companies are asking for help as they are left with abandoned insulation.

  8. cane toad March of the toads

    Cane toads appear to have invaded one of Australia's last wilderness areas.

  9. Colonel Imam, Mullah Omar's guerilla warfare trainer Taliban godfather

    The ABC's Sue Lannin meets the self-styled godfather of the Taliban.

  10. basket of fruit and vegetables Hunger Pains

    How will Australia tackle the food security challenge? Factory farming? Have your say.

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    Multimedia investigation into the plight of Iraqi refugees living in Jordan.

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Cover of darkness

Australian nurse in Haiti says cases of rape are on the rise as US troops prepare to leave.

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US Army bomb techs give their reaction to the portrayal of their work in The Hurt Locker.

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Is it worth having workers' retirement savings put at risk, and traded at the mercy of the market?

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Does Hurt Locker's Oscars win signal audiences appetites for war movies are changing?

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Live Tweets, photos, video and more from the 82nd annual Academy Awards.

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