WA: The main stories in the 0900 ABC news

AAP General News (Australia)
08-07-2008
WA: The main stories in the 0900 ABC news

PERTH, August 7, AAP - The main stories in the 0900 ABC news:

- A military court at Guantanamo Bay has convicted Osama Bin Laden's former driver
of supporting terrorism, a charge which carries a maximum life sentence.

- The Olympic city has woken to a blanket of white haze as pollution defies Chinese
efforts to clear the air for the games.

- The director of the Reserve Bank says policy uncertainty about climate change is
costing the economy.

- The construction industry's weakened for a fifth month in a row.

- The new state opposition leader, Colin Barnett, has suggested he'll seek to revive
his Kimberley canal plan, saying he intends to think big on the issue of water policy.

- Traffic restrictions are still in place at the intersection of Roe and Tonkin highways,
after a fatal crash this morning.

- A helicopter transporting firefighters has crashed in northern California, leaving
nine people missing, presumed dead.

- Australian modern pentathlete Angie Darby has been cleared to compete in the Olympic games.

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