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  • Isla Fisher had near to death experience on sets of Now You See Me

    Australian actress Isla Fisher, who will be seen in Louis Leterrier's Now You See Me, recently revealed her near to death experience on the sets. Fisher is playing the role of an escape artist in the movie and is seen doing death-defying stunts, including her main stunt inside a water tank. "On the third day, in one of the last shots, there was a problem with the safety and my chain caught ...

  • Harris picks out chief weapon Starc to rip through English top-order at Ashes

    Australian bowler Ryan Harris has singled out his pace counterpart Mitchell Starc as the team's potentially ' chief weapon' for the Ashes series in England. According to Harris, the Australians had been training with the ball that would be used for the series, with the bowlers achieving significant swing, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Harris further said that if Starc kept going at his ...

  • Flintoff to return to cricket duty with yesteryear stars T20 clash with Oz

    Former England captain Andrew Flintoff is set to make a comeback to cricket with two Twenty20 matches involving yesteryear English and Australian cricket stars, with the back-to-back Ashes series underway. Flintoff, who has been victorious in his one-bout boxing career, which he adopted following his retirement from cricket, will be back on more familiar territory and will join former Test ...

  • Racist Oz broadcaster Morrow spared the sack but banned from marquee events this season

    Veteran Australian sports commentator David Morrow will not be sacked by ABC Radio for his racist remarks, but will be banned from working during this season's marquee rugby league events so that he can complete training and cultural awareness programs. Morrow, Rugby League caller and the voice of National Rugby League (NRL) for ABC Radio, was suspended by the national broadcaster management ...

  • Prince Harry names himself ginger queen

    Prince Harry dubbed himself the "Ginger Queen" in a bowling match against Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia on Friday. The 28-year-old royal, who snuck with Imbruglia into a bowling alley to have some fun, mocked his own strawberry-blond hair when he inputted 'Ginger Queen' as his name on the electronic scoreboard, the Daily Star reported. Later Sam Branson, 27, playboy son of billionaire ...

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Basic Instinct 2

Basic Instinct 2

In the 14 years following the release of Paul Verhoevens Basic Instinct, the notorious erotic thriller that made her a star, Sharon Stone has been trying to live down the character of cold-hearted seductress and possible ice-pick-wielding murderess Catherine Tramell. Shes ... ...

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  • Oz cricketer apologises for calling woman accusing rugby star Teo of assault as psycho bad news

    An Australian cricketer has offered an apology for a tweet in which he called a woman accusing Australian rugby league star Ben Te'o of assaulting her, as 'bad news' and 'psycho'. Following on the footsteps of the David Warner Twitter fiasco, batsman Chris Lynn, who plays for the domestic Queensland Bulls, became the centre of another firestorm following the tweet in which he insulted the woman ...

  • Twitter ranting Warner calls for ban on IPL spot-fixers

    Australian Test batsman David Warner has said that the Indian players caught in the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scandal should be banned from cricket. In a candid interview with Malcolm Conn, one of the journalists, whom Warner insulted on Twitter along with another journalist Robert Craddock for an article by Craddock on the seedier side of the IPL, the cricketer appeared to move ...

  • Canberra home unit block hit by fires

    Thirty people were evacuated from apartments in Canberra after a fire broke out in a ground floor unit, in one of two fires in the ACT on Saturday ...

  • Abbott pledges to work for Geelong

    Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has pledged to create jobs in Geelong should he become prime minister, after news Ford will stop making cars in Australia from 2016. Some 510 jobs will go in Geelong, where Fords have been made since 1925. Mr Abbott told the Liberal Party Victorian State Council there was a future for Geelong beyond the smoke stacks. "I pledge myself to work for more jobs ...

  • Goodes wants girl who abused him supported

    Sydney captain Adam Goodes says the teenage girl who called him an "ape" during Friday night's game against Collingwood at the MCG needs support and counselling. Goodes says if the girl wants to contact him and apologise for the racial slur he will talk to her and explain how hurtful it was. He has called on people to stop abusing the 13-year-old Collingwood fan through social ...

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