Timor demands Malaysia return its teens

KIRSTY Sword-Gusmao, the wife of East Timor's Prime Minister, has demanded an Australian woman return to Dili 15 Timorese teenagers who have been under her care in Malaysia for several years.

Kidnap couple OK to talk

SACRAMENTO. Kidnap accused Phillip (pictured right) and Nancy Garrido can talk by telephone in two tightly controlled, five-minute calls over the next six weeks, a judge in California has ruled, but they cannot yet visit each other in the El Dorado County jail.

LETTERS

Peter Costello makes sense. "Be firm and clear: no access by boat", (November 4). Those who oppose refugees arriving by boat are not lacking in compassion for them but realise that unscrupulous people exist in the world who are ready to exploit desperately vulnerable people.

Brimble chose to take drug, jury told

DIANNE BRIMBLE was a free-thinking 42-year-old woman who took the drug blamed for her death "freely and voluntarily, without pressure or duress", a jury has been told.

Drug use concealed, Brimble trial told

MARK WILHELM had asked a friend soon after Dianne Brimble's death not to tell anyone he had offered her the drug GHB, a court heard yesterday.

New Optus BlackBerry Plans

Two Optus Blackberry plans offer unlimited email from $9.99.

Dual winner Mullett wants more: an apology

PAUL Mullett had two victories yesterday. Not only were all perjury charges against the former police union head dropped, but the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of legal representation was given to police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland.

Letters

Science and lobbying are poles apart

Optus Makes It Harder To Call Home

ANGRY customers have accused Optus of greedy behaviour after it cut off their access to cheap international mobile telephone calls on Christmas Eve.

Dili Investigator Called To Canberra As Evidence Of Execution Mounts

EAST TIMOR'S top prosecutor, Longuinhos Monteiro, is flying to Canberra to be briefed on the investigation into the February 11 dawn attacks in Dili. Australian Federal Police forensic investigators have deciphered telephone calls that the rebel leader, Alfredo Reinado, made before he was shot dead at the home of East Timor's President, Jose Ramos-Horta.

Dili Out To Trace Rebel's Last Calls

REBEL leader Alfredo Reinado made or received 47 Australian telephone calls in the hours before he was shot dead at the home of East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta, investigators have found.

Rebel Made Australian Calls

REBEL leader Alfredo Reinado made or received 47 Australian telephone calls in the hours before he was shot dead at the home of East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta, investigators have found.

Would-be Assassin's 47 Calls To Australia Before Shooting

THE rebel leader Alfredo Reinado was involved in 47 telephone calls to or from Australia in the hours before he was shot dead at the home of East Timor's President, Jose Ramos-Horta, investigators have found.

Coach Keeping Macgill Keen With Regular Calls

AUSTRALIA'S coach Tim Nielsen has made several behind-the-scenes telephone calls to Stuart MacGill - a positive sign the NSW veteran will replace Shane Warne in the Test side.

Taking Telephone Calls

TAKING telephone calls in busy public places need no longer mean you have to scream to be heard. Sennheiser has developed a new Bluetooth hands-free headset that reduces all the noise-cancelling technology of high-end headphones down to a tiny scale. The VMX 100 headset monitors and cancels out cacophony around you, as well as making the voice on the other end clear.