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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"Should our mother die for what she's done?"
Wealthy Australian businessman Bob Ellis was murdered in his Bali home and his sons say they just "want justice served" — but do they condone the death penalty for their mother? Noor Ellis was charged with the premeditated murder of her 60-year-old husband Bob. Something inside her like a spirit or a monster that just, you know, pushed her to do it," John Ellis told Sunday Night.
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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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Kindergarten pupil left stranded on bus for hours
First On 7: Angry parents have lashed out after a little girl was left locked inside a kindergarten bus for more than five hours in country Victoria. Little Alexis Batt is just four weeks into kinder but yesterday learned a very harsh lesson - a bus ride can turn into something horrific. The four-year-old was left trapped alone on the bus, which had been returned by its driver to the depot, after she failed to hop off when it stopped at her kindergarten.
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SW man issues deadly disease warning
Busselton's Dave Roe has urged the community to be conscious of a disease that kills one Australian every six hours. In June 2013, Mr Roe visited his GP to check on a birthmark on his toe which had recently changed colour. The next day, a melanoma 1.1mm thick was removed from his left foot and the site was covered with a skin graft.
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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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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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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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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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Cate Blanchett Adopts A Daughter
Cate Blanchett and husband Andrew Upton adopted a baby girl, their fourth child, reportedly named Edith. Cate Blanchett's fairy-tale ending has come true: She's a mum again! The Cinderella actress recently welcomed her fourth child, a daughter, with husband Andrew Upton through adoption, her rep confirms to WHO.
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Migrants lazy way to grow economy: Hockey
Treasurer Joe Hockey says immigration is the lazy way to grow the economy. Mr Hockey said the government was forecasting a drop in immigration as a percentage of the total population. "Immigration is a rather lazy way to try to grow your economy," Mr Hockey told ABC radio.
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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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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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Uber driver goes extra mile to return passenger’s belongings
After losing her bank cards, cash, and driver’s license in an Uber taxi, Josie Chan, a make-up artist from London, was left “speechless with tears” when her driver returned all of her belongings with a personal handwritten note. “Thank you Mr.Jamshid @Uber_LDN who kindly posted my bank card, driver’s license.
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Perth faces big growing pains
Perth will have to find space for at least another two million people by the middle of the century, putting pressure on the city's transport, health and education systems. Intergenerational Report figures suggest the nation's population is growing even faster than expected. The fourth Intergenerational Report predicts Australia will be home to almost 40 million people by 2055.
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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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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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Microsoft warns Windows PCs also vulnerable to 'Freak' attacks
Hundreds of millions of Windows PC users are vulnerable to attacks exploiting the recently uncovered "Freak" security vulnerability, which was initially believed to only threaten mobile devices and Mac computers, Microsoft Corp warned. News of the vulnerability surfaced on Tuesday when a group of nine security experts disclosed that ubiquitous Internet encryption technology could make devices running Apple Inc's iOS and Mac operating systems, along with Google Inc's Android browser vulnerable to cyberattacks. Microsoft released a security advisory on Thursday warning customers that their PCs were also vulnerable to the "Freak" vulnerability.
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Australian Dollar at Potential Turning Point
DailyFX.com - Receive the Weekly Speculative Sentiment Index report via PDF via David’s e-mail distribution list. AUDUSD - The ratio of long to short positions in the AUDUSD stands at -1.14 as 47% of traders are long. Yesterday the ratio was -1.18
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