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Most popular Aussie web searches of '07 from Yahoo!7

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Here is the final list of Yahoo!7's top searches of the year, with more able to be found at the Yahoo!7 Pulse website.

Top news stories

1.    Federal Election 2007
2.    Death of Anna Nicole Smith
3.    Equine influenza
4.    The Pasha Bulker and Newcastle floods
5.    Death of Luciano Pavarotti
6.    Californian wildfires
7.    Royal Ocean Liners Queen Mary 2 & Queen Elizabeth 2 visit Sydney as well as USS Kitty Hawk
8.    Australia beats England in the Ashes
9.    Andrew Johns’s drug scandal
10.  Lunar eclipse

Top sport

1.    Australia beats England in Ashes
2.    David Beckham joins Galaxy
3.    Tour de France 2007
4.    Efficient wins Melbourne Cup 2007
5.    Greg Norman honoured as the 27th legend of Australian Sport
6.    Jonathan Thurston wins his second Dally M Player of the Year medal
7.    Aussie captain Liz Ellis resigns but not before leading Australia to the world championship title in Auckland
8.    Roger Federer claims his fourth Tennis Masters Cup title in Shanghai
9.    Golf’s $1.5 million Australian Masters tournament
10.  Australian women’s basketballers Lauren Jackson and Penny Taylor named all stars

Top Sporting Scandals

1.    Ben Cousins – Ban from the AFL for a year after the AFL Commission found him guilty of bringing the game into disrepute
2.    Andrew Johns – Admitted to using drugs and suffering bipolar disorder
3.    Tour de France - Rocked by a series of doping scandals
4.    Allan Border Medal presentation 2007 – Romance as Lara Bingle accompanied beau, Test cricketer Michael Clarke
5.    Chris Benoit – Former WWE World Heavyweight champion in suicide/murder case
6.    Chris Mainwaring – Former West Coast Eagles’ death was shrouded in controversy over drugs
7.    Formula One leaders McLaren - Kicked out of the 2007 constructors'  title race and fined over spying controversy involving Ferrari
8.    Ian Thorpe - Drug scandal allegations continued
9.    Shane Warne – Constantly in the news over his text obsession and scandalous love life
10.  Olympics - Air pollution/air quality concerns for athletes at Beijing