<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/asia/oceania/australia/post?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Casting Off  Cookies?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10762-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10762-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There is a panic in the land, and it started on "Sesame Street." The rumors, they are rampant. Taken together, in dark tones, and one could fear that the beloved boulevard is rapidly transforming into the Avenue of the Politically Correct Puppetariat.]]></description><author> Jennifer Frey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australian in Capitol Standoff Also Went to the White House]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51668-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51668-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Australian man who waged a standoff with police at the U.S. Capitol on Monday went to the White House last weekend and asked to meet President Bush, authorities said yesterday.]]></description><author> Del Quentin Wilber</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Seized At Capitol Will Be Deported]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47981-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47981-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A 33-year-old Australian man who was tackled in a standoff with police at the U.S. Capitol on Monday will be deported, and no criminal charges will be filed against him, authorities said yesterday.]]></description><author> Del Quentin Wilber</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bomb Scare Disrupts Capitol]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43957-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43957-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A man with two suitcases at the U.S. Capitol and asking to see the president prompted a standoff yesterday that ended when police tackled him. They later blew apart one of his bags.]]></description><author> Del Quentin Wilber and Spencer S. Hsu</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venom as a Prelude to New Drug Treatments]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11879-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11879-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A better understanding of what snake venoms are -- and how snakes cooked them up over eons of evolution -- may promise new drugs for cancer, heart disease and a variety of other ills.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hobbit-Like Ancestor Had Sophisticated Brain]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4326-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4326-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's not the size of the brain that matters. It's the way it's arranged. That's the conclusion of researchers studying the skull of a tiny, Hobbit-like human ancestor who lived on a remote Indonesian island 18,000 years ago.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detainee Sent Home to Australia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45643-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45643-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Mamdouh Habib, an Australian citizen released from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after more than three years, arrived in Sydney yesterday and was immediately freed by the Australian government. He boarded a small aircraft with his wife and child and flew to another location in the country.]]></description><author> Dana Priest</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blair Urges Action Against Global Warming]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39701-2005Jan26.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39701-2005Jan26.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The world's most powerful nations must act now to curb global warming, British Prime Minister Tony Blair told world leaders on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Alone in Seeking Ouster]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27841-2005Jan21.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27841-2005Jan21.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A Bush administration campaign to replace the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency has faltered after all 15 countries approached by U.S. diplomats -- including Britain, Canada and Australia -- refused to support the plan, U.S. officials said in interviews.]]></description><author> Dafna Linzer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four Car Bombings Kill 16 in Baghdad]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19661-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19661-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Four car bombs killed at least 16 people around the capital on Wednesday, and Iraq's most-wanted man asserted that his followers had carried out the  attacks.]]></description><author> Doug Struck</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel Logistics Delay Detainee's Repatriation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22245-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22245-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A week after the United States agreed to release Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib to his home country of Australia, the accused terrorist has become stuck in a logistical no-man's land.]]></description><author> Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing Less]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9684-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9684-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Philip Glass's new symphony -- set to debut at the Kennedy Center Jan. 20 -- is anything but minimal.]]></description><author> Tim Page</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perry Timothy Jecko; Actor and Olympic Swimmer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10981-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10981-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Perry Timothy "Tim" Jecko, 66, an actor on Broadway and in regional productions and a member of the 1956 U.S. Olympic swim team, died Jan. 11 at his home in Madison, N.J. He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, 18 months ago.]]></description><author> Patricia Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Will Transfer Five  Guantanamo Prisoners]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A982-2005Jan11.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A982-2005Jan11.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An Australian terrorism suspect who says he was tortured in an Egyptian jail after being sent there by the United States will be released from U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, along with four British citizens, the Pentagon announced.]]></description><author> Carol D. Leonnig  and Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tsunami Aid Could Hamper Other Relief]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51750-2005Jan5.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51750-2005Jan5.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[International aid officials and development experts are voicing concern that the outpouring of generosity from the world's governments may deplete resources for other pressing needs in much poorer countries.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Refugee's Cry Echoes:  'We Didn't Get Anything']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33197-2004Dec29.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33197-2004Dec29.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[At the Indonesian military's primary airfield here, cartons of instant noodles, bottled water and medicine were stacked high inside a hangar Wednesday, awaiting delivery to camps filled with desperate tsunami victims. Two Australian military transport planes landed with more water, military rations and medicine, adding to a mountain of assistance marshaled at the base.]]></description><author> Alan Sipress</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brought to Digital Life]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9679-2004Dec18.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9679-2004Dec18.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Digital technology is radically changing the 165-year-old photography industry, creating turmoil and excitement as people buy digital cameras at rates far exceeding industry projections. <br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outback, Up Close]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58786-2004Nov17.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58786-2004Nov17.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  If only this page were in color. Then you could see for yourself the acid red and turquoise of Ben Shearer's remarkable watercolors depicting the Australian Outback. His pictures are so rich in pigment and precise detail that from afar they might pass for photographs. Nearly all were generated during Shearer's travels in a light aircraft over vast stretches of Australia's toughest terrain. Images alternately register as hallucinogenic and spiritual, making this inhospitable land look like a place you want to visit -- and soon. Just don't go expecting to track the exact vistas Shearer did. The artist admits to embellishing the compositions just a bit, grafting one view onto another to arrive at landscapes a Mars rover would love.]]></description><author> Jessica Dawson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Shoots for Mach 10]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38020-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38020-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The agency plans to prove that the 40-year-old dream of "hypersonic" flight -- using air-breathing engines to reach speeds above 3,800 mph is a reality. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B> -The Washington Post</b></font>]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aussie  Stomping Grounds]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9464-2004Oct29.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9464-2004Oct29.html?nav=rss_world/asia/oceania/australia/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:41:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bogan. Bad Impersonator. For Love or Money. <br>These are some of my favorite souvenirs from a month-long trip to Australia earlier this year. They aren't B movies, soap operas or comic strips. They are wines. And they make me smile just to hear the names.]]></description><author> Nancy Lewis</author></item></channel></rss>