Australians have overwhelmingly welcomed the final chapter of a mystery that has captivated the nation for 32 years: Did a dingo really take a baby that vanished from an outback campsite in 1980?

Settling a 1980 case that split Australia and led to a mistaken murder conviction, a coroner ruled that a dingo took a baby from a campsite in the Outback, just as her mother said from the beginning.

A coroner today opened Australia’s fourth inquest into the most notorious and bitterly controversial legal drama in the nation’s history: the 1980 death of a nine-week-old baby whose parents say was taken by a dingo from her tent in the Australian Outback.

The growl came first, low and throaty, piercing the darkness that had fallen across the remote Australian desert. A baby’s cry followed, then abruptly went silent.

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Two dingoes that mauled a three-year-old girl on an Australian beach have been caught and will be destroyed, authorities said today.

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AUSTRALIA has launched a new inquiry into the death of baby Azaria Chamberlain to re-examine claims she was snatched and killed by a dingo at Uluru, or Ayers Rock, in 1980.

Australian authorities are to revisit the 30-year-old dingo baby case after an emotional plea from the woman wrongly convicted of murdering her daughter.

A MOTHER who was wrongly convicted of murdering a baby who infamously disappeared in the Australian outback 30 years ago has pleaded for her daughter’s death certificate to be changed to state a dingo was responsible.

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The first ever bus service between Ireland and Australia today set off on its mammoth expedition taking it across the world in 13 weeks.

ETIHAD AIRWAYS, the national carrier of the United Arab Emirates, is adding two extra weekly services between Dublin and Abu Dhabi from December 13, providing a choice of six non-stop flights each week.

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It’s a giant red monolith jutting out of an Outback plain, but one Australian tourist couldn’t spot Ayers Rock despite parking only 100 yards away with his headlights pointing at the landmark.

The brother of baby Azaria Chamberlain, whose disappearance in the Outback 24 years ago became one of Australia’s most enduring mysteries, revealed today he had been vilified as a suspected killer.

A British tourist who went missing this week in the Australian Outback after visiting Ayers Rock was found dead by Aborigines today.

An elderly man is refusing to talk to police about his sensational confession that he knew that a wild dog had stolen a baby from an Outback camp 24 years ago, in one of Australia’s most mysterious deaths.

THE mother of a baby killed 24 years ago by a wild dog in the Australian Outback said yesterday she bears no grudge toward a man who claims he knew the infant’s fate but did not tell authorities.

The mother of a baby killed 24 years ago by a wild dog in the Australian Outback said today she bears no grudge toward a man who claims he knew the infant’s fate but did not tell authorities.

An Australian pensioner is to be interviewed by police after claiming he can provide conclusive proof that a dingo savaged a baby girl to death 24 years ago, officers confirmed today.

An old man’s claim that he shot a wild dog that snatched a baby at Ayers Rock in the Australian Outback nearly a quarter of a century ago today revived an investigation into one of the country’s most enduring mysteries.

ONE of Australia’s most enduring mysteries, the fate of a baby killed by a dingo in the Outback 24 years ago, took another twist yesterday with an elderly man saying he retrieved the baby’s body from the jaws of a wild dog he shot.

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The father of a young woman traveller who died in an arson attack with 14 others at a backpackers’ hostel in Australia said he and his wife will be on a “memory trail” when they fly out today to take part in a special ceremony.

Aborigines have decided to ban tourists from climbing Uluru, the giant monolith in central Australia also known as Ayers Rock.

A 63-year-old Austrian man has died of a heart attack while climbing Ayers Rock in the Australian Outback.