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Sydney Fashion Festival 2011: Myer’s Big is Beautiful controversial show.

Australian department store Myer hosted Big is Beautiful fashion launch during Sydney's Fashion Festival 2011

…proud to support Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival, Sydney and invites you to join us for our Big Is Beautiful Fashion Launch. The show will feature the very latest trends in plus size fashion for sizes 16 to 24. It’s fashion designed for real women with a fuller figure. For Spring Summer 2011 Myer is excited to be re-launching Big Is Beautiful and introducing Leona + by Leona Edmiston and both bran…

Major security breach at Sydney Airport.

A major security breach at Sydney Airport has caused long delays for about 2000 Qantas airlines passengers

…. “Our hands were tied once those two passengers got through. “We had to get every single passenger out of that area and back through the gates.” Qantas spokeswoman Olivia Wirth said 12 flights were delayed and 2000 passenges affected by the security breach. Olivia Wirth said they had notified the Australian Federal Police and a full investigation would be carried out. The securi…

7 Qantas passengers flying from London to Sydney injured, as the jet struck severe turbulence

…aviation pioneer Charles Kingsford Smith, and declared that no damage had been caused and it was fit to return to the skies. Qantas jet was due to arrive in Sydney late on Sunday. Qantas has received 12 of the 20 A380 “double decker” supersets it has ordered. Just last week the airline reassured passengers there was no risk to safety after cracks were found on the wings of several A380 jets owned…

Kim Kardashian’s Persian kitten Mercy dies after only four months

Kim Kardashian received the white Persian kitty from her rapper boyfriend Kanye West last September, but was unable to care for it herself after discovering she was allergic

…discovering she was allergic. “I had fallen SO in love with Mercy that I wanted to try everything I could to keep her, but I didn’t think it was safe to resort to injections,” Kim Kardashian told her 16.7 million followers Friday. On October 16, Kim Kardashian passed along the responsibility of the furry feline to her sister Khloe’s assistant Sydney Hitchcock, who had lost her own cat after 17 ye…

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher at Ampersand cafe in Sydney for two days in a row

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher had to be pretty enamored with Ampersand in Sydney's Paddington neighborhood to visit the place two days in a row

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher had to be pretty enamored with Ampersand in Sydney’s Paddington neighborhood to visit the place two days in a row. The lovebirds hit up the cafe and bookstore first on Friday, which prompted the chef to excitedly announce that he’d cooked for the Hollywood pair. In response to questions about what they ate, the chef said: “Mila had our Mediterranean poach…

Russell Crowe and Danielle Spencer split after nine years

Russell Crowe and his wife of nine years, Danielle Spencer, have separated

…l Crowe has also missed most of the games of the Sydney rugby league club in which he has a financial interest and has left his wife to care for their children. He has six films coming out in the next 12 months – Man with the Iron Fist, Les Miserables, Broken City, Superman, Noah and the Winter’s Tale. Russell Crowe and Danielle Spencer met 22 years ago on the set of the movie The Crossing, but be…

Earth Hour 2012: famous landmarks from all around the world plunged into darkness to highlight climate change

The Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge plunged into darkness today to raise the profile of climate change

…e the devastating floods. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the Washington-based environmental group that organizes the event, said the number of countries and territories participating had grown from 135 last year to 147 this year. Organizers say businesses and residents in 6,400 towns and cities are taking part. Libya, Algeria, Bhutan and French Guinea are among those participating for the first…

Earth Hour 2012: turn off your non-essential lights from 20.30 to 21.30 and save the planet

Earth Hour 2012 will take place on March 31, 2012 from 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m., at participant's local time

…h Hour 2011 was the biggest year in the campaign’s five year history, reaffirming it as the largest ever voluntary action for the environment. It took place in a record 5,251 cities and towns in 135 countries and territories in all seven continents. It had an estimated reach of 1.8 billion people across the globe. In addition to this, the campaign’s digital footprint grew to 91 million…

Australia: surfer wounded in a shark attack, the third incident this month

A 26-year-old Australian man has been seriously wounded in a shark attack while was swimming off Coral Bay beach, in the third such incident this month

A 26-year-old Australian man has been seriously wounded in a shark attack while was swimming off Coral Bay beach, in the third such incident this month. According to Australian police, the man was swimming off Coral Bay beach when a 10ft (3 m) tiger shark bit his arm. The attack came one day after a surfer was seriously injured in a shark attack north of Sydney. Shark attacks in Australia average…

Australian woman thrown off train after swearing and abusing fellow commuters

The Australian woman was filmed swearing and abusing people on a train in Sydney

…the train was caught on camera and has become a hit on YouTube. The video shows the young blonde spitting, swearing and hitting Sydney commuters until they finally snap and kick her off the train. The 14-minute clip has already been watched by over 12,000 people. The commuters initially try to ignore the ranting woman as she spits at them while shouting: “F*** off you c****, come on you little dog…

Sandy Island in South Pacific does not exist, say scientists

Sandy Island in South Pacific, shown on marine charts and world maps as well as on Google Earth and Google Maps, does not exist

…ound only the blue ocean of the Coral Sea. The phantom island has featured in publications for at least a decade. Scientist Maria Seton, who was on the ship, said that the team was expecting land, not 1,400 m (4,620 ft) of deep ocean. “We wanted to check it out because the navigation charts on board the ship showed a water depth of 1,400m in that area – very deep,” Dr. Maria Seto…

iPad Mini goes on sale around the world

Apple's new iPad Mini has gone on sale around the world

…as keen to get his hands on the 7.9-inch slate. “It’s light, easy to handle, and I’ll use it to read books. It’s better than the original iPad,” Patrick Li said. There were queues of 100 or more outside Apple stores in Tokyo and Seoul when the device went on sale, but when the company’s flagship Hong Kong store opened staff appeared to outnumber those waiting in line. The i…

Nocturnal Scintillans: Bondi Beach “Red Sea” as rare algae bloom turns water the color of blood

Tourists heading for famous Bondi Beach were left high and dry today after a rare natural phenomenon turned the water blood red

Tourists heading for famous Bondi Beach were left high and dry today after a rare natural phenomenon turned the water blood red. Bondi was among several popular beaches in and around Sydney, Australia, which had to be closed after a huge algae bloom transformed the sea into something resembling a scene from a Jaws movie. But despite the warnings a number of intrepid beachgoers were seen venturing…

Earth Hour 2013: Switch off your light for one hour on March 23

Millions of people around the world switch off their lights for an hour to mark Earth Hour on the last Saturday of March each year

…live in harmony with nature. The organization functions through a network of more than 90 offices in more than 40 countries worldwide. Its first office was founded in Morges, Switzerland, on September 11, 1961….

Australia in $500 million drugs seizure after breaking Hong Kong-based ring

Australian police have seized drugs worth over $500 million dollars and broken up a Hong Kong-based drugs ring

…ake place. The investigations into the syndicate began in August 2011 after a tip-off from the US Drug Enforcement Administration, police said. The drugs were found in a shipment of terracotta pots on 19 July. The suspects will face charges for importing and possessing drugs in a Sydney court.  …

Mel Greig and Michael Christian are taken off air following Jacintha Saldanha’s death

Mel Greig and Michael Christian are taken off air following Jacintha Saldanha's death

…outhmead hospitals, it is believed the nurse chose to apply for a job at King Edward four years ago and appears to have been living in the nursing accommodation ever since. She has a son called Junal, 16, and daughter, believed to be 14. She stayed in London when she was working before returning to her family on days off. The St James’s Palace statement said the duke and duchess “were…

Alwen Hughes: Rolf Harris’ wife says he is struggling to cope with his arrest in Operation Yewtree

Rolf Harris’ wife, Alwen Hughes, has spoken of the entertainer’s torment at his arrest for alleged sexual offences in Operation Yewtree

…ions of abuse had surfaced. Rolf Harris, 83, was finally named this week after being quizzed by police in Jimmy Savile case late last year and arrested last month. Alwen Hughes, who wed Rolf Harris in 1958, told the friend: “My poor husband. It’s terrible, we’ve been really worrying about it. We’ve both been having sleepless nights over it all.” Meanwhile, reports in Australia say detectives inves…

Andy Whitfield, “Spartacus” star, dies of non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Andy Whitfield in Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Andy Whitfield, who played Spartacus in “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” Starz television series, died on September 11 in Sydney, Australia.     Andy Whitfield, Spartacus: Blood and Sand star, dies of non-Hodgkin lymphoma   “On a beautiful sunny Sydney … morning, surrounded by his family, in the arms of his loving wife, our beautiful young warrior Andy Whitfield lost his 18-…

Facebook photo with a large sum of cash leads to robbery in Australia

Two masked men have paid a visit to a house in south-eastern Australia, hours after a teenage girl posted a photo on Facebook of a large sum of cash

Two masked men have paid a visit to a house in south-eastern Australia, hours after a teenage girl posted a photo on Facebook of a large sum of cash. The robbers, armed with a knife and a club, struck the home of the 17-year-old girl’s mother in the country town of Bundanoon on Thursday, police say. Her mother told the men her daughter no longer lived there. Two masked men have paid a visi…

Qantas A380 with 258 people on board forced to land in Dubai after an engine problem occurred

A London-bound Qantas A380 with 258 on board was forced to divert to Dubai after an engine problem occurred on Friday

…we will look to get the aircraft back in the skies as soon as possible,” Qantas spokeswoman Olivia Wirth said on Friday. Each Qantas A380 is powered by four Rolls Royce engines. The carrier has 10 A380s in service and is due to take delivery of two more by the year-end. It also has two more on order and deferred the delivery schedule for six others. Stephen Fry later tweeted that he was on…

Helicopter crashes into New York’s East River. One British tourist dies.

The Bell 206 tourist helicopter, which was not equipped with floats, was pulled from the East River hours after the crash

…k Swanson told the New York Post. The helicopter was registered N63Q, and was reportedly owned by Paul Dudley, 56, who is also the director of Linden Airport in New Jersey. The helicopter was built in 1976 and formerly operated as a “news chopper”. Paul Dudley, a married father-of-three and an experienced pilot who has flown helicopters for more than 20 years, remained at the scene while the other…

Nuckin Futs won the right to use the name, despite outrage

…rade Marks Act. The Act states that anything that is regarded as shameful, offensive or shocking to ordinary people had to be rejected. Solicitor Jamie White did not agree with the finding and began a 12-month campaign on behalf of the company to get the name registered. The suggested words were part of the everyday language of Australians, he considered, and drew up a five-page legal document cat…

Qantas pilot investigated after frolicking with female passenger in first-class

A Qantas pilot faces the prospect of losing his job after getting frisky with a first-class section female passenger on a long-haul flight between London and Sydney

A Qantas pilot faces the prospect of losing his job after getting frisky with a first-class section female passenger on a long-haul flight between London and Sydney. The Qantas pilot was off-duty pilot and he was not wearing uniform, but he stunned passengers in the first-class section of the flight to Australia with his amorous antics. Pilot’s behaviour in the luxury premium seats, which have pr…

A real Star Trek’s warp drive would blow up any solar system, say scientists

Australian physicists warn that the reality of faster than light Star Trek’s “warp drive” might be rather different, after simulating what a “real” warp drive might do

…rp drive” might be rather different, after simulating what a “real” warp drive might do   The Alcubierre drive is a theoretical faster-than-light drive dreamt up by physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994, where a bubble of “negative energy” around a craft expands space and time behind it, while compressing space in front of it. The drive could make faster-than-light travel possible – at le…

Christmas sweater for iPhone launched by InspireMyCase

InspireMyCase has launched a range of iPhone cases plastered with scenes inspired by tacky Christmas sweaters

From jolly looking polar bears to Santa riding on his sleigh, InspireMyCase has launched a range of iPhone cases plastered with scenes inspired by tacky Christmas sweaters. InspireMyCase is promoting four different designs this holiday season “to enable people to add a little bit of personality, fun or style to their cases”. Until December 19 the company is running a Facebook competition, giving…

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