Flax bush saves tourist on cliff
A tourist from Alaska has been rescued after clinging to a flax bush on a Northland cliff for five hours. A "very high risk extraction" »
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And the average penis size is...
Okay men, time to ‘fess up: How much time have you spent worrying that your penis size isn’t, well, “normal”?
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Bali Nine pair for execution ASAP
Bali Nine pair Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran calmly left their cells at Bali's Kerobokan prison before dawn and didn't say a word.
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World's Oldest Person Misao Okawa Turns 117 — What's Her Secret?
This supercentarian credits relaxing and sushi for helping her become the sole remaining person alive born in the 1800s but her secret to longevity may be slightly more complex.
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Cramer blows the whistle on China
Jim Cramer is still lamenting on the Lumber Liquidators fiasco, and he is scared of what he is seeing coming out of China.
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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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David Walliams splits from Lara Stone?
David Walliams has reportedly split from Lara Stone after almost five years of marriage, but hopes it is only temporary.
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World's Most Expensive Cities Revealed
Sadly, two of our major cities are among the top 10 most expensive in the world.
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Rio Tinto looking to slash more jobs
Mining giant Rio Tinto is looking to slash hundreds of jobs as a new round of cost cutting gets underway. Iron ore managers have reportedly begun cutting dozens of positions at the company's Pilbara operations in Western Australia as part of a process unions fear will leave up to 800 employees out of work. Workers in the Pilbara are worried the axe will fall on hundreds of jobs over the coming weeks and have called for the company to release details of any layoffs.
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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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Eric Clapton romanced Princess Diana?
Eric Clapton enjoyed a romantic liaison with Britain's Princess Diana, a new book has claimed. The 70-year-old guitarist enjoyed a flirtation with the late princess - who separated from husband Prince Charles in 1992 - after meeting regularly at his favourite restaurant, San Lorenzo in London's upmarket Knightsbridge. Paul Scott wrote in his new book 'Motherless Child: The Definitive Biography of Eric Clapton': "One who regularly caught his eye was another San Lorenzo devotee, Princess Diana.
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Why Guys Love Round Butts
You love them. Sir Mix-A-Lot loves them. Without them, almost half of rap lyrics would be meaningless, but why do men love women with a round butt?
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Carter Holt cladding 'inherently defective', appeal court hears
Carter Holt Harvey's cladding sheets and systems used through 880 school buildings were "inherently defective" and the Ministry of Education is entitled to sue the building products maker, the Court of Appeal heard today. In the second day of a three-day hearing, the ministry's counsel, Jim Farmer QC, told Justices Tony Randerson, Lynton Stevens, and Mark Cooper that the product liability claim against Carter Holt is a preventative measure to recoup the costs posed by the faulty cladding. Whether the cladding met industry norms and standards at the time, or if Carter Holt's contracts with merchants and building contractors limited its liability were a matter of debate, and would be decided by the evidence at trial.
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Golden Gate Bridge jumper says sea lion saved him
A man who jumped off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge to try to take his own life and was kept afloat by a sea lion has said suicide prevention is now his life's work. Kevin Hines, in Australia to speak at several conferences, was a teenager struggling with mental illness and depression when he jumped off the famous bridge in 2000. Hines later spoke to a man who had been on the bridge that day and who had seen that it was not a shark but a sea lion.
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Russia's Putin calls Nemtsov's murder political
By Denis Pinchuk MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov was a shameful tragedy that carried a political su...
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Griffin makes $68M a month-after taxes: Ex-wife
There aren't many people whose earnings can make the $690 million that Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman raked in last year look low. Dias' filing is sure to escalate their ongoing dispute over child support, in which she is asking for $1 million a month in child support.
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5 cars getting attention at the Geneva auto show
Volkswagen's functional Passat family car may have taken top honors as car of the year at the annual Geneva motor show, but there is no doubt what visitors come to see at this glitzy gathering: high-end ...
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Petraeus to plead guilty to spilling secrets to mistress
Washington (AFP) - Former American military commander and CIA chief David Petraeus will plead guilty to illegally providing classified secrets to his mistress, a dramatic fall from grace for a general once lauded as a war hero.
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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.
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Airlines are at it again, changing frequent-flier programs
Airlines continue to tinker with their frequent-flier programs, sometimes in ways that help business travelers but make it harder for occasional fliers to earn a free trip. Frequent-flier programs started out simple: After flying enough trips or miles you earned a free flight, maybe to some exotic place. "That's going to come out of the hides of those travelers who are flying less frequently and flying on cheaper tickets," says Tim Winship, editor of FrequentFlier.com.
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