Labour warns new bug 'worse than fruit fly'
A bug that's even worse than the fruit fly has arrived and may be establishing itself in this country, Labour is warning. 'Almost every crop at risk' »
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Jessie J Excited For Nude Photo Leak
Jessie J is looking forward to her naked photos being leaked online as part of the recent hacking scandal as she's not embarrassed by her sexy shots
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10 Costly Mistakes Shoppers Make at Supermarkets
You could easily save money on groceries by shopping smarter.
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Jada Pinkett Smith likes Will's sex scenes
Jada Pinkett Smith is happy to watch her husband Will Smith when he features in sex scenes.
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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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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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Firing squads, blast walls and dangerous diplomacy in Somalia
Mogadishu (AFP) - A navy flak jacket over his sky-blue shirt, Neil Wigan peered through the bulletproof glass window at six uneven wooden poles in front of a sand dune.
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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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Margot Robbie Recalls Her Awkward Encounter with Clint Eastwood
The Focus actress reveals what she did to annoy the 84-year-old star at the Oscars.
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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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Fatal blows while Amber Lundy on floor
A forensic scientist has told the Mark Lundy murder trial that his daughter was on already on the floor when fatally hit about the head.
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Apple ordered to pay $533 million for patent infringement
By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc has been ordered to pay $532.9 million after a federal jury in Texas found that its iTunes software infringed three patents owned by paten...
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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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Gisele Bundchen Reveals Wedding Dress
Sequinned, sparkly and very slinky: that's what the 34-year old supermodel wore on her wedding day.
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Astronomers find giant black hole in early universe
A black hole 12 billion times as massive as the sun has been found in a glowing quasar that existed when the universe was just a fraction of its current age.
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Justices appear to favor Muslim denied job over headscarf
Have you heard the one about the Sikh, the Hasidic Jew, the Muslim and the nun who walked into a job interview? Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito channeled his inner stand-up comic Wednesday in indicating ...
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Barker 'gutted' by Team NZ's treatment
Dean Barker's been dropped as Team NZ's helmsman and the former skipper says he's "gutted" at the way he's been treated.
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X Factor convicted killer seeks public support
An X Factor contestant convicted of manslaughter insists he has nothing to hide.
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10 states with the highest minimum wages
See where the lowest-paid workers earn the most.
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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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IS executioner 'Jihadi John' named as London graduate
London (AFP) - "Jihadi John", the masked Islamic State group militant believed responsible for beheading of at least five Western hostages, has been named as Kuwaiti-born computing graduate Mohammed Emwazi from London. "Jihadi John", nicknamed after Beatle John Lennon due to his British accent, is believed to be responsible for the murders of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning and American aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig.
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