Vic: Main stories in today's Melbourne papers = 2

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Vic: Main stories in today's Melbourne papers = 2

THE AGE:

Page 1: A special police taskforce has reopened up to 12 drug squad cases after allegationsthat evidence has been fabricated and some convictions could be unlawful; Georgie Parkerwins second gold logie; A teacher persuaded Robert Steinhaeuser, the teenager who shothimself after killing 16 people at his former school, to stop his rampage.

Page 2: Logies fashions; Secret Life of Us wins inaugural Boozies award from AustralianDrug and Alcohol Foundation.

Page 3: Patients would be told the true cost of their taxpayer-subsidised medicinesunder a plan being considered by the federal government; Mornington Peninsula art collectorwho bought a Sidney Nolan for a couple of hundred pounds in 1957 could become a millionairewhen it sells this week.

World: pakistan's highest court backs coup leader as president; Diet wars broke outin America at the weekend as Robert Atkins, the best-selling champion of the high-fat,high-protein diet, struggled to recover from a cardiac arrest; Ruth Handler, who createdBarbie, the world's most popular doll, has died at 85 of complications from colon surgery;Three North Koreans have embarrassed the Chinese government by entering the grounds oftwo Western embassies and successfully seeking asylum.

Business: A controversial decision to award an investor more than $80,000 after a brokerfollowed market practice and cancelled an errant transaction threatens to change the waythe industry deals with trading errors; Australia will consider lodging a complaint withthe world trade umpire after the United States Congress backed new laws boosting subsidiesto American farmers.

Sport: Carlton's injury woes deepened immeasurably yesterday, with Scott Camporeale,Adrian Hickmott and Darren Hulme joining the casualty list; Kim Clijsters, the world'sthird-ranked women's tennis player, is considering playing for Australia; Olympic championCathy Freeman faces an anxious few days before having a medical scan that will determineher running schedule and Commonwealth Games aspirations.

AAP ag/ao

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