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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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As Bugatti 'supercar' legend bows out, others wait in line
They have fighter jet-type accelerations, custom-made interiors and seven-figure price tags: "supercars" are centre stage at the Geneva Motor Show, even as one of its legendary stars is bowing out. 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.
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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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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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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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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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Lucy Mecklenburgh's 'cool and edgy' gym wear collection
Lucy Mecklenburgh is designing a "cool and edgy" gym wear collection. The former 'The Only Way Is Essex' star has confessed to spending half her time in her sports gear and teamed up with Ellesse to design a collection which will make women's active wear more stylish. Always in the day I'm in gym wear and then in the evening I get really dressed up which is really nice because it's like going from one end of the spectrum to the other.
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Greek and German bruisers limber up for 'rumble in the eurozone'
Schaeuble and Lafazanis, 63, have not yet sat down together around a negotiating table in Brussels, but a clash between them is unavoidable nonetheless as Athens and Berlin square up for another bail-out showdown. State stakes in all three were to be sold to private investors as part of the Greece's bail-out deal until January, when the new hard-left Syriza government pulled the plug on the plan. "No privatisation will be held in the energy sector -- neither at PPC, nor at DEPA nor at HELPE," Lafazanis said at the time.
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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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