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Sydney - An Australian woman who developed cancer after washing her husband's asbestos-contaminated working clothes was awarded A$374 000 (about R1,5-million) by a court here on Friday.

The air was declared clean, but the carcinogen asbestos was found in dust and debris hurled into midtown Manhattan by a steam pipe explosion the day before, New York City announced Thursday. The ...