Courier-Mail

Harry, this is your Courier-Mail update for Friday, 04 January 2008

Weather: Brisbane 21C - 26C. Rain or shower at times Statewide Weather

Diff, the dog left stranded on a mountain for three nights, has been rescued. Pic: Steve Pohlner
Dramatic rescue | Diff's ordeal in pictures

From drought to flooding rains

08:36am: A LOW which dumped more than 200mm of rain on parts of the south-east dropped up to 90mm on Somerset Dam - but Wivenhoe Dam has largely missed out.

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Alyssa to dive into acting

SUPERBABE Alyssa Sutherland celebrated the dawning of 2008 with a few days of deep-sea diving with her American boyfriend on the Great Barrier Reef.

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Publican blows up the pokies

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Five houses lost in bushfire

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Man survives 47-storey fall

US doctors say they have never seen anything like it: A window washer who fell 47 stories from a Manhattan skyscraper is expected to walk again.

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Ganguly falls for 67

SAURAV Ganguly fell for 67 just before drinks on the morning of the third day of the second Test, leaving India at four for 293 in reply to Australia's 463.