SYDNEY Charlie McAvoy Jersey , Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Australian share market rose 2.3 percent at the close of Friday, reaching a six-and-a-half year high.
At the official market close, the benchmark S&PASX200 index was up 133.9 points, or 2.33 percent, at 5,877.5 while the broader All Ordinaries index added 127.8 points, or 2.24 percent, to 5,835. 5.
Materials led the market rally, gaining 4.08 percent as a sector. Rio Tinto led the rally, posting its biggest gain since 2011 surging 6.49 percent and BHP Billiton rose 4.79 percent.
Energy stocks also were up 3.93 percent, with Beach Energy surging 2.78 percent, Oil Search lifting 3.88 percent, Santos gaining 4.35 percent while Woodside Petroleum rising 3.99 percent.
Financials were up 2.09 percent. ANZ lifted 2.17 percent, the Commonwealth Bank rallied 2.16 percent, National Australia Bank rose 2.1 percent while Westpac lifted 2.29 percent.
Consumer staples added 1.46 percent as a sector. Woolworths gained 0.93 percent while Wesfarmers rallied 1.92 percent.
Meanwhile, Qantas was 4.3 percent higher and Telstra rose 2.17 percent.
Sims Metals was a star performer surging 10.64 percent, its biggest jump since 2009, after delivering a strong lift in interim profit.
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?GLASGOW, Britain, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Ri Se Gwang from Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Sunday won men's vault final at 2015 World Gymnastics Championships held in Glasgow, Scotland.
?The 30-year-old gymnast achieved a total score of 15.450 points in two jumps with the same difficulty of 6.40.
?Romania's Dragulescu Marian got the second place by 15.400 points, while the United States's Whittenburgh Donnell garnered 15.350 points for the third place.
?Verniaiev Oleg and Radivilov Igor, both from Ukraine, gained the fourth and the fifth respectively by 15.283 and 15.083 points.
?Russia's Abliazin Denis, Japan's Shirai Kenzo and South Korea's Kim Hansol became the sixth, seventh and eighth respectively by 14.850, 14.516 and 14.500 points.??
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TEHRAN, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The possible independence referendum of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region would isolate the Kurds, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani said Monday.
"Although this could be an attractive topic, it will in fact isolate the Iraqi Kurds, will increase pressures on them and will virtually weaken the Kurds and Iraq," Shamkhani said in a meeting with the visiting first deputy for the secretary general of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Kosrat Rasul.
The stable, secure and unified Iraq will help the progress of the Iraqi nation, he said, adding that the friends of Iraq should support this approach.
Dividing and weakening Iraq will only benefit the enemies of Iraq, he stressed.
On Monday, Iran's army chief Major General Mohammad Hossein also touched upon the threat to the integrity of Iran's neighbors and said that at the time when the Iraqi army have defeated the Islamic State militants, talking of an independence referendum of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region would cause new problems and challenges in the region.
Besides, Iran's Foreign Ministry said earlier that the plan of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region to hold an independence referendum in September was inconsistent with the Iraqi constitution.
"The Kurdistan Region is part of the Republic of Iraq," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said, adding that such unilateral decisions would only aggravate the situation in the Arab country.
A united, stable and democratic Iraq would guarantee the interests of all people of that country, he added. g out of 2 miles of Dubai's shoreline for making various construct.