澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-05-04(在线收听

 The White House now says that Osama Bin Laden was not armed when American soldiers shot him dead. The government’s also backtracked on its claim that Bin Laden’s wife was used as a human shield. And it marks all the contradictions and finger-pointing. The head of the CIA has revealed that America didn’t tell Pakistan about the operation because it feared it might get back to the terrorist leader. 

 
Sony has admitted up to another 25 million of its customers may have had their personal details stolen. The company has found a second security breach in its Online Entertainment network, which it’s also shut down. Hackers had earlier broken into its PlayStation Network and that affected 77 million users. Sony shares have dropped four per cent since the crisis began. 
 
Auckland continues to mop up after a tornado swept through the city. At least two people died and dozens of people were injured there. The twister tore through the suburb of Albany, tossing cars aside, uprooting trees and tearing rooves of houses and a shopping centre. 
 
The Federal Government is still struggling to convince voters of the merits of its carbon tax. The latest Newspoll shows 60 per cent of them are opposed to the tax. Just 30 per cent say that they will support it. 
 
And British counter-terrorism police said they’d arrested five men in the north-west of the country. The men were taken into custody near a nuclear power plant. Earlier reports suggested the men were filming the area, but authorities say it doesn’t appear that an attack was imminent.
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