Bali Nine executions put on hold
The executions of the Aussie Bali Nine duo has been delayed to clear all legal processes, a spokesman said. 'A change of mind' »
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Katie Price shows off 'natural' chest
Katie Price has shown off her "natural" breasts for the first time. The 36-year-old star had to have her most recent implants removed last month after suffering from complications from the breast reduction operation. Katie has now unveiled the size of her normal bust by posting a photo on her YouGossip page.
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Groom of 12yo 'child bride' jailed
A man who married a 12-year-old girl in an Islamic ceremony in New South Wales has been jailed for at least seven and a half years.The 27-year-old man pleaded guilty to the charge of the persistent sexual abuse of a child after he told police he married
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Prince Charles frustrated by Middletons
Britain's Prince Charles is reportedly frustrated by the influence Duchess Catherine's parents have in Prince William's life. The 66-year-old heir-to-the-throne is said to feel upset that his son and daughter-in-law - who are expecting their second child together - spend so much time with her parents Michael and Carole Middleton, including a recent holiday to Mustique, while he rarely gets to see his grandson Prince George, 19 months. The family have made few, if any, trips to Charles' Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire over the past year, with insiders speculating William is keen to protect his family from a similar "stiff" upbringing to the one he endured, while Carole is said to not get along particularly well with William's stepmother Duchess Camilla.
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Hockey urges use of cheap money
Treasurer Joe Hockey has urged businesses to use record low borrowing rates to turbo-charge the economy. Mr Hockey on Friday conducted a media blitz a day after releasing the five-yearly Intergenerational Report. The report warned of lower incomes, tax hikes, higher government debt and massive budget deficits for the next four decades unless action is taken to improve productivity, workforce participation and economic growth.
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Will Smith: 'I fell in love with my costar'
Will Smith has confessed he fell in love with Stockard Channing after the two co-starred in Six Degrees of Separation. Will Smith may be happily married to Jada PInkett Smith - but she wasn't always the woman on his mind. In a recent interview with GQ, Smith, 46, admitted that he fell deeply in love with a female co-star 25 years older than him while he was experimenting with method acting while filming Six Degrees of Separation with Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland.
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Memories of great Cup goal resurface amid Giggs speculation
A combination of a stony countenance and a couple of throwaway comments from an old chum was all it took to spark speculation about Ryan Giggs's future at Manchester United this week. It all came before a match guaranteed to remind every United fan what a revered position Giggs holds at the club, with Monday's FA Cup quarter-final against Arsenal prompting inevitable memories of when the Welshman scored what might just be the competition's greatest goal. The idea that the United icon could be pining for pastures new was aroused by assistant coach Giggs remaining granite-faced as his overjoyed boss Louis van Gaal turned to him to celebrate United's late winner at Newcastle after another unconvincing performance.
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Cancer crusader loses own fight
Only months ago, young mother-of-two Leanne Russo was fundraising for cancer research, quietly hopeful she had beaten a rare and devastatingly aggressive form of breast cancer. Tragically, Perth Glory is now fundraising for her husband Gary and their children Ilana, 5 and Jaden, 2, after the 36-year-old lost her battle on February 3, her body riddled with secondary cancers. How could this be happening to me," she wrote on her fundraising page for the Weekend to End Women's Cancer.
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Kerr reveals top fit tip
Miranda Kerr has revealed an unconventional trick for helping her keep her famously toned body in top condition. Rather than the intensive yoga and running routines she has spoken about in the past, the Aussie supermodel and entrepreneur said it was bouncing on a trampoline with her four-year-old son Flynn that made her feel most vital. "Nothing beats dancing and jumping on the trampoline with my son," Kerr said.
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As Bugatti 'supercar' legend bows out, others wait in line
The last Bugatti Veyron ever to be made has pride of place at the show for auto enthusiasts to bid farewell after the brand announced last month that it had sold the 450th and final model of the car with its 16-cylinder monster engine that produces up to 1,200 horsepower. "With the Veyron we created a modern icon, and this show is an opportunity to put the car on a pedestal and celebrate, and say thank you to everyone involved, and close the chapter," Stefan Brungs, Bugatti's head of sales, told AFP. Sweden's Koenigsegg, for instance, boasts it makes not "supercars", or even "hypercars", but full-blown "megacars".
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Odd execution flight photo 'not a selfie'
Bizarre 'selfie' pictures have emerged of Senior Commissioner Djoko Hari Utomo with Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran on their last flight before execution. Indonesia President Joko Widodo has said the execution of Chan and 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".
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Where the most millionaires are moving-and fleeing
According to a new study from global real estate consultant Knight Frank with Fragomen, the immigration specialist for the wealthy, more millionaires than ever are looking for homes in other countries. So where are millionaires moving from and going to to? The second largest millionaire loser is India, which saw 43,400, or 27 percent of its millionaires, leave the country in those 10 years.
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Mars' giant sea revealed
By measuring the different amounts of common H2O (which we know as water) and HDO (where one of the hydrogens is replaced by deuterium, a heavier version of the same element), as well as how much of either of them escapes out of the atmosphere over time, researchers can estimate the former water content of an alien body. It's like looking at a mixture of water and oil, explained the study's first author Geronimo Villanueva, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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Judge: More time needed to seek higher Revel bids
A bankruptcy court judge says more time is needed to seek higher bids for Atlantic City's former Revel Casino Hotel. Judge Gloria Burns delayed a decision Wednesday on the proposed $82 million sale of the shuttered gambling hall to Florida developer Glenn Straub. Leo Pustilnikov, Shomof's partner, says he's interested in making a formal bid soon.
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IS 'bulldozed' ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, Iraq says
The Islamic State group have begun bulldozing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq, the government said, in the jihadists' latest attack on the country's historical heritage. IS "assaulted the historic city of Nimrud and bulldozed it with heavy vehicles," the tourism and antiquities ministry said on an official Facebook page. An Iraqi antiquities official confirmed the news, saying the destruction began after noon prayers on Thursday and that trucks that may have been used to haul away artefacts had also been spotted at the site.
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Warner comforts young boy hit by massive six
A young boy in the crowd was left in tears after being hit in the hand by one of David Warner's mammoth sixes. An ice pack seemed to soothe the young boy's woes, but the Warner rampage continued as the 28-year-old approached his double century.
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Australian Dollar at Potential Turning Point
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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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Greece seeks to plug its 'Bermuda Triangle' of lost taxes
It could be a scene from a thriller: a ghost ship abandoned in the crystal-clear bay of a Greek island, its hold crammed with millions of illegal cigarettes, the crew nowhere to be seen. Every country in Europe has a problem with cigarette smuggling but in Greece -- which has the highest proportion of smokers of any developed country -- it has mushroomed since the economy sank into crisis.
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This is how long it takes to become a millionaire
Author Thomas Corley has been busy studying the habits of the rich and poor over the last five years, and through that research has found how long it takes to make it rich. “That’s how long it took the average self-made millionaire, according to my data.
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Ex-cricketers sent 'substantial' tax demands: report
David Gower has vowed to fight an "appalling" and "unfair" tax demand with which he and several other former top England cricketers have been hit with by British authorities. The Guardian reported Friday that some "very substantial" tax demands have been sent to investors in film finance schemes which Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is challenging claiming they constitute tax avoidance. Among those who have been sent "accelerated payment notices", the daily said, are former captain Michael Vaughan, England's Ashes-winning skipper in 2005.
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