澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-08-06

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The election campaign has stepped briefly¹ back in time with Kevin Rudd and John Howard duelling over who should lead the country. John Howard launched a stinging attack on Julia Gillard at a Liberal Party fundraiser last night, calling her a total failure. And Mr Rudd said Tony Abbott isn't fair dinkum and he can't sit back and watch him slide into office.

The stepfather of missing six-year-old girl Kiesha Abrahams says police have asked him where he dumped her body. Robert Smith has told The Daily Telegraph that police absolutely think that he's killed her. Kiesha was reported missing on Sunday, but hasn't been seen by anyone outside her immediate² family for a month.

Model Naomi Campbell has testified at the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor. Mr Taylor's accused of using blood diamonds to buy weapons for Sierra Leone's rebels. Ms Campbell said she was given some dirty-looking stones in 1997 and was later told they were from the former leader.

The United Nations says Pakistan's worst floods in living memory have affected³ more than four million people. Torrential rain has drowned parts of the country, with at least 1,600 people confirmed dead and many more still missing.

And US officials have charged 14 people with providing money, personnel and services to the Somali militant⁴ group al-Shabab. Prosecutors⁵ say they raised the money by telling people the funds would help the poor and needy⁶ in Somalia. But the money is said to have gone to al-Shabab which the US and Britain consider to be a terrorist group.