澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2009-10-27（在线收听）

One of the convicted killers of heart surgeon Victor Chang is to be released next month. Victor Chang was killed in 1991 during a kidnap attempt on his way to work at Sydney’s St Vincent's Hospital. Phillip Choon Tee Lim was convicted of the murder the same year and will have served his minimum sentence of eighteen years as of November 11th.

An Australian customs ship carrying 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers remains anchored off the Indonesian coast. The group was expected to be transferred to an Australian-funded detention center yesterday morning. It is believed Indonesian Immigration officials yesterday started processing the asylum seekers while at sea.

Security forces in Iraq were on high alert the day after two suicide bombs ripped through Baghdad, the death toll from the blast has risen to 155 and more than 500 people were injured. The Iraqi government says the bombings were an attempt to prevent elections in January.

And a new report predicts that one in seven Australians will suffer type 2 diabetes by the year 2050. That's double the present level of the people with the disease. The dramatic increase will cost the nation more than 14 billion dollars a year, the office of the study have called for greater government investment in the disease.

We will have more news later.