Main stories in Thursday's AM program

AAP General News (Australia)
08-04-2011
Main stories in Thursday's AM program

SYDNEY, Aug 4 AAP - Main stories in Thursday's AM program:

- Fears about the US debt crisis continue to grip the US and Europe, spooking consumers
and many economists who see the makings of a renewed global downturn.

- Almost 75,000 workers at the Federal Aviation Administration are on unpaid leave
because the organisation's funding wasn't extended before the Congress recess over the
American summer.

- Internet security company McAfee says it's uncovered six years of cyber attacks targeting
governments, international agencies, multi-national companies and sporting organisations.

- News has broken in the UK of another phone-hacking case, this time involving former
wife of Sir Paul McCartney, Heather Mills, and the Trinity Mirror newspaper group.

- Police in Sydney say they're puzzled by what appears to be an elaborate extortion
attempt on a schoolgirl, who had a device strapped to her neck by an intruder overnight.

- Federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese later on Thursday will release an implementation
study for a fast train between Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, at a cost of
between $61 and $108 billion.

- Prime Minister Julia Gillard is set to announce that Australia's aged care-sector
will be forced to house two different generations for the first time, baby boomers and
their parents.

- Dementia advocates are calling on town planners to consider the needs of older people
when redesigning suburbs, including simple changes like better lighting and non-slip floor
surfaces.

- Television pictures of the frail former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak wheeled
into court were met with cheers from the relatives of some of the 850 protesters killed
during Mubarak's crackdown on anti-regime demonstrations.

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