WA: Main stories in The West Australian

AAP General News (Australia)
04-20-2000
WA: Main stories in The West Australian

PERTH, April 20 AAP - Main stories in today's edition of The West Australian:

P1: Imminent DNA legislation is expected to unlock so many unsolved crimes, WA's justice
system will need a big injection of money to cope. Picture story of young girls screaming
as they queued outside the Karrinyup shopping centre from 6am to wait for Popstars, aka
Bardot, come on stage.

P2: Three years and almost $670,000 after returning to Australia, the fabled Yagan's
skull is no closer to reuniting with its headless body.

P3: Len Patterson's dying wish is for justice for his wife Annie's tragic death at
Fremantle Hospital after her leg had been amputated in 1997. Ananova, a computer-generated
newsreader described by her creators as a cross between Posh Spice, brainy British TV
personality Carol Vorderman and Kylie Minogue, has begun her job delivering the headlines
in cyberspace (London).

World: A landmark human rights trial in the Aceh province opened amid heavy security
with 24 low-ranking soldiers and a civilian charged with massacring 57 unarmed villagers
(Jakarta). Italian PM Massimo D'Alema resigned yesterday after 18 months in power (Rome).

Finance: WMC has finally resolved the problem of what to do with its worrisome Kambalda
nickel assets, revealing yesterday a plan to sell and lease back some mines. Smorgan Steel
has launched an innovative $785 million bid for Email with a plan to spin off its target's
whitegoods business as a separate listed company. Australian shares rallied strongly yesterday
after a powerful performance from Wall Street overnight. Merchant bank Grant Samuel &
Associates has ploughed $10 million into Dome Coffee Group in return for a 50 per cent
stake in the Nedlands-based company. Woolworths chief executive Roger Corbett said yesterday
the retailing group would seek opportunities for overseas business alliances to boost
its e-commerce strategy.

Sport: AFL: West Coast and Fremantle have demanded an end to late starting night games
in the wake of the failure of the matches to draw crowds. Julia Greville, the Atlanta
bronze medallist, slipped into a Fastskin swimsuit, the first to be tried by a resident
WA swimmer. The suits and detailed information packs arrived in Perth yesterday afternoon.

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