The countries driving out millionaires
More millionaires than ever are looking for homes overseas, but there is one particular country where they are leaving in droves. Exiled oligarchs »
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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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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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Mars' once-giant sea revealed
Mars once had enough water to cover the entire planet, according to research published Thursday in Science.But based on analysis of the planet's surface, it's more likely that the planet had most of its liquid water in one ocean that covered 20 percent
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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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Chan, Sukumaran executions may be delayed
The executions of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan could be further delayed, but Indonesia's president has said "no way" to a prisoner swap offer. The Australians, now positioned on the island of Nusakambangan for execution, can't be executed this week as Indonesia's Attorney-General HM Prasetyo has not signalled their 72-hours notice period has begun. "About notification, it's a minimum three days before the execution," he said on Thursday.
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Mexico president wraps up UK visit with $1bn oil deal
Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto ended his three-day state visit to Britain on Thursday by overseeing the signing of deals that boost ties between the two countries in energy, including a $1 billion oil agreement. Under the deal, Britain will provide Mexican energy firms with a $1 billion credit line (908 million euros) for buying British technology. Pena Nieto was joined by Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael in the city of Aberdeen, the hub of Britain's North Sea oil industry.
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Jared Leto Debuts Shocking New Haircut
If your heart was only a little cracked over hearing that Jared Leto cut off his lovely long locks, well that ticker is about to completely crack upon seeing his new platinum blond ‘do. Showing up at Balmain’s Paris Fashion Week show, the actor looked more like Draco Malfoy transferred to a prep school from Hogwarts and dressed inappropriately for the sunny weather than his usual cool rocker self. While it was always known that he would drastically alter his appearance to get into character — he’s the most method actor out there, losing more than 14 kilograms for Dallas Buyers Club and practically going nuts himself in Girl, Interrupted and American Psycho — becoming a bottle blonde was an unexpected twist in this week’s episode of Jared Leto’s Amazing Man Hair.
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Pregnant woman discovers 'labour pains' actually bowel cancer
An expectant mother has received the devastating news that the pain she thought was caused by the early arrival of her child was in fact bowel cancer. The Daily Mail reported that a year ago 32-year-old British woman Nina Langley was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, a disease which sometimes has similar symptoms to bowel cancer. Nina Langley, 32, pictured with baby Teddy and fiance Ed Cusick, was forced to undergo an emergency caesarian after doctors discovered she had bowel cancer that had spread to her liver.
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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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Lion opens tourists’ car door during safari
Forget opposable thumbs, one enterprising lion has figured out how to open car doors with its teeth and terrify unsuspecting tourists. Youtube user Joshua Sutherland posted a video of his family on safari in South Africa when a female lion approaches the car and yanks open the door, amidst the passengers’ screams.
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How to save for retirement when you’re broke
As retirement age is getting closer, she’s worried about how she can save enough funds to support herself when she eventually retires. According to a joint study by the University of Melbourne and Towers Watson, only 53 per cent of couples and 22 per cent of single people are on track to achieve a comfortable level of retirement income. Saving enough for retirement is never an easy prospect, especially if you’re broke and struggling to make ends meet.
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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. A local interest group has applied the special water-repellent paint, also used in shipbuilding, on two especially frequented buildings in the renowned nightclub district near the port to deter "Wildpinkler", as Germans call them. "This paint job sends a direct message back to perpetrators that their wild urinating on this wall is not welcome," Julia Staron, who organized the group, told Reuters.
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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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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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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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US billionaire says WWII Japanese ship found in Philippines
Manila (AFP) - Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen said Wednesday he had found one of Japan's biggest and most famous battleships on a Philippine seabed, some 70 years after American forces sank it during World War II.
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Kim Kardashian Goes Platinum Blonde
Kim Kardashian's blonde do' was big news at Balmain's PFW show. On Thursday, Kim Kardashian debuted newly platinum locks at Paris Fashion Week for the Balmain runway show. The reality star thanked colourist Lorri Goddard, who is also behind Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Lawrence’s colour, for getting the colour in “one try.” If you know anything about going platinum, that is an impressive feat.
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Islamic State torches oil field near Tikrit as militia advance
Islamic State militants have set fire to oil wells northeast of the city of Tikrit to obstruct an assault by Shi'ite militiamen and Iraqi soldiers trying to drive them from the Sunni Muslim city and surrounding towns, a witness said. The witness and a military source said Islamic State fighters ignited the fire at the Ajil oil field to shield themselves from attack by Iraqi military helicopters. The offensive is the biggest Iraqi forces have yet mounted against IS, which has declared an Islamic caliphate on captured territory in Iraq and Syria and spread fear across the region by slaughtering Arab and Western hostages and killing or kidnapping members of religious minorities like Yazidis and Christians.
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Hackers threaten phone in your pocket, experts warn
The boom in smartphones among often careless users has made happy hunting for hackers, whose virus attacks and hijacking of unprotected mobiles are multiplying, experts warn. Security analysts and companies at this week's Mobile World Congress, a top wireless telecom fair in Barcelona, Spain, said phone makers and users must be on guard to stop hackers getting into your pocket. "With smartphones we are going through what we went through 15 years ago with personal computers," said Tanguy de Coatpont, head of the French branch of international anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab.
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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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