Lives are being endangered by a rising number of people making absurd calls to triple zero asking for lifts home, pizza and even help opening cat food, the Ambulance Service of NSW says. Not only do the calls delay emergency operators for minutes a time, they can also lead to an ambulance being needlessly deployed. [...]
Dannii Minogue has opened up about the loves of her life, describing how she “became a ghost” during her relationships with Julian McMahon and Jacques Villeneuve, and how she knew Kris Smith was “the one”. In her autobiography, My Story, the singer, actress and TV personality details her heartbreaks, the highs and lows of her [...]
Two centre-right parties agreed to ban the burqa in the Netherlands as the price for parliamentary support from the anti-Islam Freedom party for their planned minority government. The Netherlands would become the second European Union country to ban the burqa after France, in what many see as a shift to the right which has dented [...]
Fidel Castro has gone from Cuba’s commander in chief to its de facto “blogger-in-chief,” posting constant opinion columns online, singing the praises of the internet age, even hailing Wikileaks and sites like it as the common man’s tool to greater worldwide transparency. Now, if only his fellow Cubans could get in on the cyber-party. Less [...]
NEWPORT, Wales – Europe are determined to make a flying start when they launch their bid to regain the Ryder Cup from the United States here Friday as the famous golfing showpiece tees off. Two years of meticulous planning by Europe captain Colin Montgomerie and United States counterpart Corey Pavin will come to fruition at [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. – A massive rainstorm drenched the East Coast from the Carolinas to Maine on Thursday, causing at least four deaths, flooding roads and washing away months of dry weather. The worst of the rain fell in North Carolina, where Jacksonville picked up 12 inches — nearly a quarter of its typical annual rainfall [...]
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Meg Whitman’s campaign for governor was thrown into turmoil Thursday as the Republican sought to fend off new evidence that she knowingly had an illegal immigrant housekeeper on her payroll for nearly a decade. Whitman denounced the allegations as a “baseless smear attack” by Democratic challenger Jerry Brown in what has [...]
MADISON, Mississippi – Arjun Atwal, who in August became the first player from India to win a US PGA title, fired a six-under par 66 to share the lead after the first round of the Viking Classic. Atwal was alongside Zimbabwe’s Brendon de Jonge and Americans Bill Lunde, Ken Duke, Bill Haas and Brett Quigley [...]
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