Main stories in WA today

AAP General News (Australia)
04-11-2007
Main stories in WA today

PERTH, April 11 AAP - The main stories in today's The West Australian.

Page 1: A boy told the horrific story yesterday of how he was kidnapped from a busy
Perth street by two homosexual perverts and raped, tortured and abused for three weeks.

Page 3: Australia will increase its troop commitment to Afghanistan for the third time
since the war began.

Page 5: The mining company at the centre of the Esperance lead scandal is trying to
persuade Fremantle Ports to ship its metal.

World: China has complained bitterly after the US finally said it was taking their
dispute over pirated movies, music and books to the World Trade Organisation (Beijing).

Finance: A little known Perth financier has launched an ambitious $75 million rescue
bid for endangered animal drug developer Chemeq, fuelling a sharp recovery in the biotech's
hard-pressed share price.

Sport: The greatest player of football's modern era, Wayne Carey, has rated West Coast
dynamo Daniel Kerr ahead of the 2004 Brownlow medallist Chris Judd as the AFL's best player.

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