澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-09（在线收听）

A service will be held in an airbase in the United Arab Emirates today for two Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan. The Brisbane-based combat engineers, 26-year-old Sapper Darren Smith and 21-year-old Sapper Jacob Moerland were killed by a roadside bomb. The Defense Minister John Faulkner and Defense Force Chief Angus Houston will attend the service.

The Prime Minister will hold crucial talks on the mining tax today when he heads to Western Australia. Mr.Rudd met BHP Billiton's chief Marius Kloppers in Sydney yesterday and today in Perth he will meet Fortescue Metals Group's Andrew Forrest. Mr.Forrest is one of the strongest critics of the tax.

Golfer Tiger Woods will return to Melbourne in November to defend his Australian Masters title. On his website, Woods says he is looking forward to playing at The Victoria Golf Club. The Herald Sun reports today the Victorian taxpayers will have to pay half of the three-million-dollar bill.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has met Baroness Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street for a private meeting. Lady Thatcher visited Tony Blair and Gordon Brown shortly after their elevation to the country's leadership, back in 1997 and 2007. Lady Thatcher was the Tory prime minister between 1979 and 1990.

And North Korean bodyguards have shot dead three Chinese citizens. China's Foreign Ministry says the incident happened last Friday. A fourth person was injured.