Main stories in today's AM program

AAP General News (Australia)
04-21-2008
Main stories in today's AM program

SYDNEY, April 21 AAP - Main stories in today's AM program:

* Not everyone walked away from Parliament House yesterday happy with results of the 2020 Summit.

* Prime Minister Kevin Rudd rebuffs critics who say the summit's ideas were already Labor policy.

* The marathon US Democrat presidential campaign is finally drawing to its conclusion.

* US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made a surprise visit to Iraq, and praised
the work of the Iraqi president and prime minister.

* Research finds link between the sense of smell and post traumatic stress disorder.

* Interview with Australian surgeon operating on Palestinians in Gaza as violence escalates.

* Forty years after British MP Enoch Powell made his famous "rivers of blood" speech,
immigration is still a major issue in Great Britain.

* Australia is facing a rosy economic future, according to leading analysts Access Economics.

* A court ruling could determine payouts for individuals caught up in the Opes Prime collapse.

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