Australian beef producers will see the tariffs they face phased out slowly over 18 years - while the sugar cane industry has been left out altogether.

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It's also experimenting with a rather ingenius (and super glossy) take on the classic cane, that looks like something out of a sci-fi film.

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BP, an official sustainability partner based in the host city, is rolling out biofuels made from sugar cane and grasses to fuel to more than 5, 000 vehicles.

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She walked out the door using a cane.

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When I came back out, we got his plastic bag of clothes and cane together and gave the nice World Services employee a tip to take him downstairs to wait for the shuttle.

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Through the tap of her cane, which, like an echolocating bat, sends a small sound out into the world, she could detect the size and constituents of the space through which she was walking.

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Recently vast tracts of productive land has been out of commission as floods hit farmland Australia, which exports its wheat and sugar cane around the world.

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