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  • Search on for Indo-Canadian man missing in Australia

    A frantic search is on for a 25-year-old Indo-Canadian man who went missing in a national park in Australia. Prabhdeep Srawn of Brampton in the Canadian province of Ontario was last seen May 13 parking his rental vehicle at village Charlotte Pass and entering the Kosciuszko National Park in the Australian state of New South Wales, according to local media. A law student of Bond University in ...

  • CA considering social media policy after Warner Twitter rant

    Cricket Australia (CA) chief James Sutherland has said the governing body might need to consider implementing a social media policy after Australian Test batsman David Warner's recent Twitter controversy. He said there had been no discussions about developing a social media policy for players, but admitted it is something that CA is considering. Sutherland insisted he will continue to ...

  • Enhanced contract payments for Australian cricket eves

    Cricket Australia (CA) Tuesday announced a restructuring of the contracting system for women players which will result in the Australian female cricketers becoming some of the best paid female athletes in the country. CA approved a restructure of the contract system with a move from a three-tier payment system to a squad-ranking system. The top player retainer increases substantially from ...

  • Newly identified immune protein could stop diabetes in its tracks

    An immune protein that has the potential to stop or reverse the development of type 1 diabetes in its early stages, before insulin-producing cells have been destroyed, has been identified by Melbourne researchers. The discovery has wider repercussions, as the protein is responsible for protecting the body against excessive immune responses, and could be used to treat, or even prevent, other ...

  • Social network addiction taking over lives Australian study

    The 2013 Yellow Social Media Report has analyzed that a growing number of Australians are using social network at an addictive rate wherever they can, even in toilet cubicles! According to the study, three out of every five internet users are accessing these sites more than five times a day, making it a total of seven hours a day. In a report by News.com, the study found that the time spent by ...

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Naughty Girl (Cette sacreé gamine) [DVD]

Naughty Girl (Cette sacreé gamine) [DVD]

No one will ever accuse Brigitte Bardot of being a particularly great actress, but she had the rare kind of screen presence that lifted even the slightest movie to heights it otherwise would never reach. ...

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  • South Australian Tourism Commission using short films to show new side to city

    THE secret Adelaide night life that rivals Sydney's; Chinatown's hidden treasures; chef Simon Bryant joining the new food-truck culture - these windows into Adelaide life are part of a South Australian Tourism Commission campaign using films made by independent film-makers. The SATC commissioned 10 filmmakers to shoot a short feature showing why they love the state - and the results went ...

  • Australia set to cull 10000 wild horses

    SYDNEY (AFP) - A controversial cull of up to 10,000 wild horses in Australia's harsh Outback reportedly began Wednesday in a bid to control the feral animals which officials say are destroying the land.The Central Land Council said animals -- including horses, donkeys and camels -- were dying in their thousands due to a lack of food and water and a cull was necessary on humanitarian and ...

  • Trout reels in cycle in Angels rout

    Mike Trout hit the first cycle of 2013 in MLB as Baltimore snapped a six-game losing streak by edging the New York Yankees.The Seattle Mariners tasted defeat for the fifth straight game, thumped 12-0 by Trout's Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday.Trout hit the cycle as he managed a single in the third inning, a triple in the fourth, a double in the sixth and a home run in the eighth.Trout, 21, ...

  • Melbourne pub funnels profits into charity

    A Melbourne CBD bar is putting philanthropy ahead of profit in donating all of its earnings to not-for-profit organisations in the developing ...

  • Gillard meets schoolkids in Sydneys west

    Prime Minister Julia Gillard has returned to Sydney's west, mingling with school children ahead of a community cabinet meeting. Ms Gillard met students and teachers at Auburn West Primary School on Wednesday morning, ahead of the cabinet meeting at Regents Park Christian School in the safe Labor seat of Blaxland at 6pm (AEST). It comes two months after her week-long sleepout in Rooty Hill ...

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