Fed: Milestones of the Week

AAP General News (Australia)
04-06-2007
Fed: Milestones of the Week

SYDNEY, April 6 AAP - Milestones for the week



VOWED - Retired swimmer Ian Thorpe to clear his name after results of a drug test which
showed unusual levels of naturally occurring hormones were leaked to a French newspaper.



SENTENCED - David Hicks to seven years imprisonment, with all but nine months suspended
to be served in an Australian prison.



DIED - Liberal senator Jeannie Ferris after a long battle with ovarian cancer, aged 66.



CLOSED - Beaches on Australia's east coast due to a tsunami warning after a powerful
earthquake devastated the western provinces of the Solomon Islands.



FOUND - The body of promising Australian ice skater Morgan Innes, 14, who was missing
in Sydney Harbour after a ferry collided with a wooden motor cruiser.



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