Dad on phone as son hit by Warner six
Afghanistan's bowlers weren't the only ones feeling the pain after David Warner's rampaging innings. Warner's touching gesture »
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Bali Nine duo will not be killed this week: Widodo
Indonesia President Joko Widodo has said the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, along with eight other convicted drug smugglers, will not occur this week. Mr Widodo said as the president, he must constitution which still allows executions and the Australian pair's verdicts "have already been decided by the court". "If you come to the drug rehabilitation centres you will see the affects drugs have on these people, 4.5 million have to be rehabilitated thanks to drug distribution which we are now trying to stop," President Widodo told Al Jazeera.
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And the average penis size is...
Okay men, time to ‘fess up: How much time have you spent worrying that your penis size isn’t, well, “normal”?
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Station worker snaps wild Kimberley weather
A station worker in the Kimberley has snapped stunning pictures of storm clouds rolling across the region during this week's heavy rains. Nerrima station cook Dan Mcintosh said the Tuesday afternoon storm missed the main station building but bought a welcome 2 millimetres of rain to the property 120 kilometre south east of Derby. Mr McIntosh said roll clouds like the once he photographed normally occurred in February and it was rare to see them so late in the year.
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Man hands in 'severed penis' at police station
A man has handed in what is believed to be a severed penis at a police station on the NSW Central Coast. Authorities say the man walked into Toukley Police Station just before midday claiming to have found a human penis inside a plastic bag.
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Devastated mum 'eats' son captured by IS
IS militants have delved to a new low and reportedly fed a desperate mum a meal of rice and meat and then told her “You’ve just eaten your son.”
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Reds ban, fine fullback Karmichael Hunt after cocaine conviction
High-profile rugby star Karmichael Hunt was banned for six weeks and fined Aus$30,000 (US$23,500) by the Queensland Reds following a drug conviction Thursday in a case that rocked Australian sport. The 28-year-old, a former rugby league international who switched to Super Rugby's Queensland Reds from Australian Rules team Gold Coast Suns this year, pleaded guilty to four charges of cocaine possession. As well his club fine, he was stripped of the Reds' vice-captaincy and ordered to pay Aus$2,500 by magistrates on Queensland's Gold Coast.
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Michelle Williams admits being a single mum is 'exhausting'
The actress admits it's tough juggling work and motherhood.
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MJ officially a billionaire - but not for the reason you think
The NBA legend's wealth has finally tipped over into 10 figures - and it seems that he has a very unlikely man to thank.
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China lowers 2015 growth target to 'approximately 7%'
China lowered its 2015 economic growth target to "approximately seven percent" Thursday, scaling down expectations in the face of "formidable" difficulties for the world's second-largest economy after its decades-long boom. The figure announced by Premier Li Keqiang is the lowest since a similar goal in 2004 and comes after China's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 7.4 percent in 2014, the slowest pace in 24 years. Last year's target was "about 7.5 percent".
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'Drunk' woman loses to landlord
A woman left paraplegic after falling over a balustrade in a rental home has failed in her claim for damages against the landlord after a judge ruled she was extremely drunk at the time. On Christmas Day 2009, Jane Hutch and her two children were toasting her new two-storey townhouse in Doubleview when disaster struck. Ms Hutch, who was 47 at the time, toppled over an upstairs balustrade and fell metres to the tiled floor below, suffering head and spinal injuries that left her permanently confined to a wheelchair.
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World's Most Expensive Cities Revealed
Sadly, two of our major cities are among the top 10 most expensive in the world.
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The Bali Nine: where are they now?
As two of the Bali Nine face execution in Indonesia, the other seven are still in jail.
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Ryan Reynolds And Blake Lively's Baby Is Allergic To Sleep
It seems Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are having a tough time with their new baby (whatever her name might be!). Reynolds joked in January that he'd had to assist with breastfeeding his new daughter, but it seems nothing is working when it comes to getting her to sleep. "Our baby in particular is, we think, allergic to sleep," Reynolds told The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
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Eric Clapton romanced Princess Diana?
Eric Clapton enjoyed a romantic liaison with the late Princess Diana, a new biography of the musician has claimed.
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US running out of room to store oil; price collapse next?
The U.S. has so much crude that it is running out of places to put it, and that could drive oil and gasoline prices even lower in the coming months. For the past eight weeks, the United States has been ...
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Cancer survivor clears medical costs with cash from Million Dollar Minute
Cancer survivor caught short with a $50,000 medical bill is now debt free after a financial windfall on Million Dollar Minute.
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Nurofen claims misleading: ACCC
The company that markets Nurofen faces legal action over claims it has misled consumers about the popular painkiller. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleges that Reckitt Benckiser's Nurofen Specific Pain Products are identical despite claiming on their packaging to treat different kinds of pain, such as migraines and tension headaches. "The ACCC alleges that these representations were false or misleading because the caplets in all four Nurofen Specific Pain Products are identical and each contain the same active ingredient, ibuprofen lysine 342mg," the ACCC said in a statement on Thursday.
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Hamburg residents take revenge on late-night revelers with urine-repellent paint
Residents of Hamburg's St. Pauli's nightclub district are getting their own back on late-night revelers who urinate on public buildings, with a new high-tech paint that sends the spray bouncing right back at them.
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Coffee pods 'harming' our planet
As the International Coffee Awards kicked off today in Melbourne, John Sylvan, the co-founder of US espresso pod brand, K-Cups, criticised his own invention. Millions of people use the do-it-yourself pods everyday, but Mr Sylvan, an entrepreneur turned environmentalist, revealed he does not use the product because he thinks they are expensive and bad for the environment. Mr Sylvan created the coffee-in-a-pod system in the ‘90’s and then sold his stake in the company for $50,000 to American coffee giant Keurig, which has made a multi-billion dollar windfall from sales worldwide.
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Bold koala strolls along main shopping strip
An audacious koala has stopped people in their tracks when it went for a leisurely walk along a main shopping street in a Victorian coastal town. Chris Kerrigan was sitting in a cafe in Portland when she noticed the tiny marsupial casually strolling past shops and even obliged a young boy who wanted a photo. The bold marsupial was captured on camera taking a leisurely stroll along a main street in Portland.
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