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www.ntnews.com.au Tuesday, July 17, 2012. NT NEWS. 11 P U B : NTNE-WS-DA-TE:17-JGE:11 CO-LO-R: C-M Y-K Simply SMS SHOW and your name to: 197 197 66 * (Salmat Interactive SMS cost 55cents inc GST). If you are under 18 you must ask the account holder before using this service. Competition closes 22/7/2012 at 11.59pm. Competition will be drawn 23/7/2012 at 9.00am. For SMS help please call 1300 131 276. Winner will be contacted by phone. Multiple entries accepted. HOW TO WIN: To celebrate the 61st anniversary of the Royal Darwin Show, NT News and the Royal Darwin Show are teaming up to give away 20 Family passes! Dont miss out on the opportunity to WIN the ultimate fun-filled family day out at the show this year. For more information please visit www.darwinshow.com.au or download the free iPhone app. 2012 Royal Darwin Show 26th, 27th & 28th July Darwin Showgrounds, Winnellie Supporting the Year of Farmer Our farmers. Our Future. 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Hes the top cat TALKEETNA, Alaska: Themayor of a sleepy US town is feline fine. Stubby the part-manx cat clawed his way on to the political scene of Talkeetna, Alaska, through awrite-in campaign just after hewas born 15 years ago. KTUU-TV reports residents disliked the mayoral candidates years ago, so they encouraged enough people to elect Stubbs as awrite-in candidate. The town has nearly 900 residents. Man recovers car 42 years on LOS ANGELES: Aman has recovered a prized sports car stolen from him 42 years ago after seeing it on eBay. Robert Russell told police he had never given up searching for the 1967 Austin Healy after it was stolen from his Philadelphia home in 1970. The retired salesmanager, 66, originally paid a friend $US3000 for the car, now valued at $US23,000. It had sentimental value as it was stolen themorning after he took his wife-to-be on their second date. Get your genes to fit LOVE BAN NEW DELHI: Police in northern India are investigating a village council after it banned love marriages and barred women younger than 40 from shopping alone or using mobile phones in public. The council, or panchayat, in the predominantly Muslim village Asara in Uttar Pradesh state, also insisted women cover their heads in public, Press Trust of India reported. DUBLIN: Britain is set to offer DNA gene tests to screen out lovers, as the world enters a new era of eugenics, a top scientist has revealed. Professor Armand Leroi, of Imperial College London, told the Euroscience Open Forum 2012 tens of thousands of unborn babies with Downs syndrome and other illnesses were aborted every year, as the cost of doing a genetic map of a person had fallen from $1 billion a decade ago to about $4000. He told the conference in Dublin it would be common within 5-10 years for people to pay for a read-out of their entire genetic code, enabling people to choose their partners based on genetic compatibility, not love, to ensure a healthy baby, Britains The Telegraph online reports. The news has raised alarm among religious groups. The Christian Medical Fellowships Philippa Taylor told the Daily Mail: Our societys increasing obsession with celebrity status, physical perfection and high intelligence fuels the view that the lives of people with disabilities or genetic diseases are somehow less worth living. We must recognise and resist the eugenic mind set. LEWINSKY JIBES TEL AVIV: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Israel for top-level talks expected to focus on Irans nuclear program and the stalled Palestinian peace process. She arrived on a flight from Egypt where tomato-throwing protesters had taunted her with chants of Monica, Monica in reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal when her husband, Bill Clinton, was president. ELECTIONVIOLENCE DILI: Sporadic acts of violence have continued after a weekend of unrest in East Timors capital Dili. Dozens of cars were torched and security personnel fired shots in the air on Sunday night to disperse crowds as violence broke out in the wake of recent parliamentary elections. Police said one person was killed and four policemen were injured but the situation had since largely been brought under control. KILLER FLOODS TOKYO: Evacuees in Japan have started returning to their homes after record rainfall forced hundreds of thousands to flee and left at least 32 dead or missing from landslides and floods. The rainfall struck southwest Japan, with muddy water flooding houses after rivers burst their banks. Tourists play in a pool of mud during the 15th Boryeong mud festival at Daecheon swimming beach in Boryeong, 190km southwest of Seoul. The annual festival, which runs until July 24, aims to encourage the use of mud for cosmetic skin-care and to promote tourism in the region