Harsh advice for Bali Nine pair
Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are keeping their spirits up despite a damning confirmation. Execution looms »
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Meerkat mum passes out feeding her pups
Every new mother will sympathise with this meerkat mum. Akili was feeding her two pups at Werribee Open Zoo, when she suddenly passed out from what can only be described as utter exhaustion from the trials and tribulations of motherhood. The baby meekats have not ventured far from their mother's side since and there have been several sleepless nights.
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Brit viewers hurl insults at Crowe
Days after he snubbed the Oscars for a footy game, Russell Crowe has been pilloried over his appearance at the Brit Awards.RELATED: Madonna's epic stack onstage at the BRIT AwardsPeople queried why the actor was wearing a long coat inside while others
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Spread of Russian craters prompts safety concern from scientist
The number of giants craters appearing in the northern Russia is growing as a respected scientist raised the safety implications of the strange phenomenon. Russian Academy of Sciences member Professor Vasily Bogoyavlensky said his organisation knew of seven craters in the remote part of Russia. "Five are directly on the Yamal peninsula, one in Yamal Autonomous district, and one is on the north of the Krasnoyarsk region, near the Taimyr peninsula," he said.
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Australia 'very disappointed' at Indonesia death row ruling
Sydney (AFP) - Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Wednesday she was "very disappointed" at the failure of the latest bid to spare two Australians on death row in Indonesia, as Jakarta signalled that execution preparations were almost complete.
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Boyfriend killer pleads for life
The case of convicted murderer Jodi Arias has gone to a jury that will decide if she will be sentenced to death or life in prison for killing her boyfriend. The 2013 trial of Arias was broadcast live and became a sensation with its tawdry revelations that Arias had shot and slit the throat of her on-again-off-again boyfriend Travis Alexander. Arias, now 34, was convicted then of killing Alexander.
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Paris Hilton sent car by fan
Paris Hilton has been sent a classic car by an obsessive fan.A man named Johnny delivered the Cadillac to the 34-year-old socialite's Beverly Hills gated community on Sunday (22.02.15) but when the security guard at the gate called the blonde beauty and
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Scott Morrison's budget solution rests with revised pension home loan scheme
Most people may not be aware that the scheme exists and although the PLS is listed on the Centrelink website, it does not appear prominently.
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Berries contamination might be worse than we think: experts
The race is on to pin point the cause of a Hepatitis A outbreak which has seen 19 people struck down from eating imported frozen berries.
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Gisele Bundchen Reveals Wedding Dress
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen has given the world a rare glimpse into her wedding day, sharing a snap of herself and husband Tom Brady on Instagram to celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary. In the picture, which already has more than 168,000 likes, you can see Bundchen’s sequined wedding dress with a flared, fishtail hem. It’s one of the only photos of the dress in the public domain (and one of the only photos of NFL player Brady on his wedding day, in a tonal cream-hued three piece suit).
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Truckie 'avoids bridge toll with Bond-inspired device'
A truckie accused of using a James Bond-style retractable bumper to evade a $95 toll on the George Washington Bridge in New York City has been charged with using burglary tools, police said. Hauling a load of sweets across the bridge toward New York City on Wednesday, Pablo Ortega flipped a switch on his dashboard as he approached the toll gates over the Hudson River.
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Big hike in health insurance premiums
Australians with private health insurance are facing premium hikes that are nearly three times the rate of inflation.Health Minister Sussan Ley has approved April 1 increases averaging 6.18 per cent.She justified the increases by citing a $1 billion lift
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Zelda Williams: 'No Point' Asking Why Robin Williams Took His Own Life
Six months after Robin Williams took his own life, his daughter Zelda is opening up about what hers is like now that he's gone.
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Man threatens to sue over burial plot bungle
An 85-year-old Melbourne man is threatening to sue a cemetery after he discovered someone else was buried the grave he purchased 42 years ago.
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Bendigo councillor Elise Chapman tweets genital mutilation image to mosque supporter
The Mayor of Bendigo in central Victoria will hold talks with a councillor who used social media to post an image depicting genital mutilation and linked it to Islam. Elise Chapman published the picture in response to a Twitter user's support for plans for Bendigo's first mosque. The council voted last year to approve plans for the mosque in East Bendigo but an appeal against that decision remains before the planning umpire, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
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New hope for Bobbi Kristina Brown
Bobbi Kristina Brown is reportedly being taken out of a medically induced coma.
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Lions cut NFL star ahead of Hayne decision
As Jarryd Hayne mulls his NFL options, his most vocal supporter at the Detroit Lions has lost his job.
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Water found in astronaut's helmet after spacewalk
A US astronaut found water pooling in his helmet right after completing a six-plus hour spacewalk on Wednesday, raising new concerns about flaws with NASA's spacesuits. The water inside Terry Virts' helmet was "kind of pooling on the front side of his helmet above the eye level," European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti told mission control in Houston. Cristoforetti said Virts was in no immediate danger, even though the amount of water had increased in the moments since he first noticed it.
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Couple swallowed by sinkhole
Concerns about public safety standards in South Korea have been fuelled by shocking CCTV images of a young couple being swallowed up by a sinkhole that opened at their feet on the sidewalk in Seoul.
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Ex-detective claims major flaws in JonBenet murder case
A former leading detective in the unsolved 1996 murder of US beauty queen, JonBenet Ramsey, has admitted major flaws in the investigation. Former Colorado police chief Mark Beckner participated in an public discussion on Reddit where he openly criticised officers' initial handling of the case. The six-year-old's killer has never been found, although JonBenet’s parents, Patsy and John Ramsey, were key suspects in the case for many years, but were never charged due to a lack of evidence.
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Russia's Khodorkovsky: Putin is a 'naked king' facing economic ruin
Former Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said on Thursday Vladimir Putin was a "naked king" presiding over an economy that will weaken further, eventually provoking a battle between rival clans in Moscow. "Putin with bare chest isn't a mighty leader: He is a naked king," Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man who was arrested in 2003 after falling foul of Putin only to be released in 2013, told an audience in London. Khodorkovsky, who once controlled Russia's biggest oil company, YUKOS, said the Russian economy would weaken further and that eventually its weakness would provoke a battle between the powerful clans which dominate Russia.
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