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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - An illegal immigrant from Egypt, charged in Memphis with using a fake Social Security number, is set for trial in March. A federal judge put 29-year-old Mahmoud Maawad on the court's March docket today without setting a specific trial date. Maawad has drawn attention because at the time of his arrest in September he possessed a DVD on "how to look and act like a pilot" and a map of the Memphis airport. Authorities have said they have no evidence linking Maawad to terrorists but want to keep him behind bars, anyway, until he goes to...

Fighting on the beaches exposes ugly side of life By Richard Guilliatt With police warning Australians to stay away from the seafronts and the city bracing itself for another weekend of violence, our correspondent explains the pressures behind the cultural hostility AS A mob of 5,000 “proud Aussies” fought “wogs and Lebs” at Cronulla Beach in Sydney on Sunday, one of their ringleaders — Glen Steele, a lifelong resident and former rugby player — angrily explained why Lebanese immigrants have become unwelcome on this strip of suburban surf beach. Pointing to the old saltwater pool at the end of the...