Parental leave scheme fares poorly on global scale

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Brosque hatches plot to please Pim and Sky Blues

ALEX BROSQUE has a plan to help Sydney FC win the A-League title and make it into Pim Verbeek's Socceroos squad for the World Cup: hold out for the end of the season and then take up a foreign loan option in March.

Sweden and Israel clash over press freedom

THE Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, flew to London last night amid an escalating diplomatic crisis between Israel and Sweden over allegations in a Swedish newspaper that Israeli soldiers had killed Palestinians in order to harvest their organs to sell.

Call to revise .05 limit

AUSTRALIA'S .05 blood-alcohol limit should be re-examined in light of overseas experience showing a .02 limit reduces road fatalities, Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Stephen Fontana has said.

Spaliviero acquitted of soliciting to murder

CHARLOTTE LINDSTROM was 19 when she arrived in Sydney on a working holiday and fell for a man who was twice her age, drove a Porsche and stashed cash behind his fridge.

Lindstrom told she must testify before going home

THE NSW Government has refused to consider an application by Charlotte Lindstrom to be repatriated to serve the remainder of her jail term in her home country of Sweden until she has testified in two coming trials.

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Boys Missing On Visit To Sweden

THE Family Court has granted permission to reveal the identities of two Melbourne boys and their Swedish mother who have been missing for more than a month in a bid to help find them.

Missing In Sweden: Melbourne Father's Dash To Find Sons

AN AUSTRALIAN man has flown to Sweden to search for his two sons who have been missing along with their Swedish mother for a month.

Grey Hot

On a trip to Sweden recently, I was faced with the unusual dilemma of being surrounded by too many good looking people. (I know, poor me.) Everywhere I looked people were too tall, too thin and way too good-looking. It was fun a first, but after a while it just got boring - until something very strange happened; I started to become attracted to the not so tall, the not so thin and yes, even the not so good-looking. The same thing has happened this year with my wardrobe. After being surrounded by ...

Minor Fault

The Australian Seniors Team (Bill Haughie-David Lilley, John Lester-Gaby Lorentz, Zoli Nagy-Ron Klinger, David Hoffman non-playing captain) started very well in the 2007 Seniors Cup in Shanghai. After Day 1 the team was coming first with wins over Sweden (18- 12), Thailand (24-6) and Guadeloupe (21- 9). Three marginal results 17-13 vs Poland, 16-14 vs Germany and 16-14 vs NZ left us in 4th spot after Day 2.

No Such Thing As A Neat Ending

Mohammed Sagar has finally found a home, in Sweden. But he says he can't settle down until he receives justice from the Australian Government, writes James Button.

Sydney To Sweden Gripping Yarns From

IN THE APTLY titled Frantic (Macmillan, $32.95), former ambulance officer Katherine Howell has written an adrenaline rush of a thriller. It is about a female paramedic in Sydney and is as addictive as it is exhausting; I was burnt out just reading it.