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Have you got the World News Australia iPhone app? It's the best way to keep up-to-date with what's going on in the world. SBS presenter Janice Petersen shows you how.

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Take a global view with the SBS World News Australia app. Backed by Australia's most comprehensive world news service, the app allows you to:

- Get breaking news and views from SBS and its worldwide network of media partners. Our top stories are displayed on the home screen – the 10 biggest world and national stories of the moment.

- Quickly stream video and audio reports, including updated News in Brief bulletins. On weekdays the News in Brief bulletin will appear at above Top Stories. Or go to multimedia to select Video, Audio or Photos.

-Browse your news via our section pages – National, Sport, Science and Technology, Odd.

-Check out our Special Coverage section for more in-depth features about current issues.

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- Choose your news with home-screen personalisation, for example by topic, world region or popularity.

- Join the conversation by reading and posting comments about the issues that matter to you.

- Easily share your favourite articles using Twitter, Facebook and email.

- Improve your small-talk with our customisable local and world weather service.

WEATHER TIP: To change your default location, touch the black front-page strip, press 'edit' and move your city to lead the 'Top 3' section.

- Use AirPlay and iOS 4.3 to stream video and audio reports to your Apple TV.

- The app features some advertising. It's designed to be unobtrusive and helps us keep the app free.

PLEASE NOTE (26/5/11): An update by Facebook to its sharing service is affecting a number of iPhone apps. We're working towards a solution and will release an update in three weeks' time (includes Apple approval period)

We'd love your feedback - please send compliments and criticism to: comments@sbs.com.au.

Note: For reference purposes, streaming a 3-minute video over 3G consumes approx. 1MB of data.

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