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Cheekymonkey caper

SYDNEY: Awoman has been chargedwith having amonkey called Cheeky in her possession after it wasstolen from awildlife park on the NSW south coast.Police say the secure animalenclosurewas broken into onSaturday, and amarmosetmonkeywas stolen. Police later raided ahome at Koonawarra, and setCheeky free.

Concern overmissing girl

SYDNEY; A 15-year-old girl is missing in central westNSW, police say. Teagan Cunneen-Harmer wasreportedmissing by her family in Parkes onMonday.Police believe shemay have been spottedwalkingalong the Newell Highway, north of Parkes, about10.30am (AEDT) and again at Peak Hill about12.30pm (AEDT) onMonday.They are concerned for her welfare given her age andthe rainyweather onMonday and yesterday.

Swimming ‘makes’ kids smart

BRISBANE: Learning to swim couldmake childrensmarter, Queensland researchers believe.A Griffith University research projectwill survey 10,000 youngsters agedup to five to find out if swimmingadvances physical, social, intellectualand language development afterevidence found swimmers tended tobemore confident than others.

Police confirm prosthetic leg is Zahra’s

Zahra Baker

LOS ANGELES: The Zahra Ba-ker murder investigation hastaken another grim turn withNorth Carolina police confirm-ing a prosthetic leg found dum-ped in bushland belonged to themissing Australian 10-year-old.

US prosecutors on Mondayalso continued to build a crimi-nal case against Zahra’s Ameri-can stepmother, Elisa Baker,

with a grand juryindicting her forwriting a fake ran-som note to ‘‘un-lawfully’’ and ‘‘fel-oniously’’ obstructpolice investig-

ating Zahra’s disappearance.Elisa, 42, who met Zahra’s

father Adam on the internet, al-legedly wrote the bogus ran-

som note several hours beforepolice were alerted on October9 that Zahra was missing.

Police believe Wagga Wagga-born Zahra may have met withfoul play weeks before October9 and have not ruled out Elisaor Adam as suspects.

Police were searching bush-land yesterday near where herstepmother once lived and

found Zahra’s prosthetic leg.Elisa has been in custody

since October 10, unable tomake bond, which was lifted to$US92,000 after one of her bio-logical daughters, Amber Fai-rchild, testified she feared forher safety if Elisa made bail.

Adam was arrested last weekon unrelated charges to Zahra’sdisappearance, but was bailed.

Traumatic brain injurywon’t happen overnightSYDNEY: Australianresearch has found thedamaging effect of atraumatic brain injury,caused by a car crashor hard blow to thehead, unfolds not overminutes or days butover months.

The study, conductedat the University ofMelbourne, under-scores the fragility ofthe brain but it has alsouncovered a broad‘‘window’’ in which ef-

fective treatment couldimprove an outcome.

‘‘We have demon-strated that changes inbrain structure andfunction after trau-matic brain injury aredynamic, and continueto progress and evolvefor many months,’’ saidProfessor Terry O’B-rien, head of the uni-versity’s Department ofMedicine. ‘‘This opensup a window of oppor-tunity,’’ he said.

Corby ‘hopes’ raised

Prime Minister Julia Gillard is officially welcomed at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, whereshe met with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday

By ADAM GARTRELL

in Indonesia

I amquite optimisticINDONESIA’S president hasleft the door open to grantingclemency to Australian drugsmuggler Schapelle Corby.

Prime Minister Julia Gil-lard raised Corby’s clemencyplea with Susilo BambangYudhoyono during theirfirst official talks inJakarta yesterday.

Ms Gillard told Dr Yud-hoyono the Australian gov-ernment supported Corby’sclemency plea, which waslodged earlier this year andargues the Queenslander issuffering depression and amental illness that could en-danger her life.

Asked later if he wouldgrant Corby clemency DrYudhoyono did not rule itout, despite previously say-ing he would not grant clem-ency to drug smugglers.

But he placed more em-phasis on ongoing nego-tiations for a prisoner trans-fer agreement, which couldsee Corby back in Australia.

‘‘This is what we need to

develop — the balancing ofthe principle of ‘justicemust be upheld’ and the con-sideration of the humani-tarian aspects,’’ he said of apossible agreement.

‘‘I am quite optimistic thatwe will be able to developsuch a framework.’’

Corby was arrested at Baliairport in 2004 with 4.2 kg ofmarijuana in her boogieboard bag and is now servinga 20-year sentence.

Ms Gillard said she hadalso raised the cases of threeof the Bali Nine drug smugg-lers — Scott Rush, AndrewChan and Myuran Suku-maran — who are on deathrow with final legal appealspending.

‘‘Should those legal pro-ceedings finalise with Aust-ralian citizens facing thedeath penalty then at thatpoint the Australian govern-ment would indicate its sup-port for clemency,’’ she said.

Dr Yudhoyono was also as-ked whether he supportedMs Gillard’s proposal for anasylum seeker processingcentre in East Timor but said

he still needed more details.‘‘To ensure that the re-

gional processing centre is aproper way in improving theeffectiveness in our regionalco-operation in dealing withpeople smuggling,’’ he said.

‘‘Indonesia is open to thatbut we have to discuss indepth to ensure once againthat this is a solution to ourregional problem.’’

Some Indonesian officialshave complained it will actas a magnet, bringing moreasylum seekers to the region.

The leaders also discussedeconomics and trade, agree-ing to negotiate a compre-hensive economic partner-ship agreement.

‘‘One that not only compre-hends further trade liberalis-ation but deals with the fullrange of economic issues thatbring our countries to-gether,’’ Ms Gillard said.