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  • 2 Ford units to be shut in Australia in Oct 2016 2 Ford units to be shut in Australia in Oct 2016

    MELBOURNE - Ford Motor Company Wednesday announced plans of closing its local manufacturing operations in Broadmeadows and Geelong in October 2016 thereby forcing 1,200 people out of work. Spelling the end of the iconic Ford Falcon in the country, Ford Australia president Bob Graziano announced that the carmaker would shut its Victorian facilities in October 2016, bringing an end to nearly ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • DC comics win court case over Melbourne gyms Superman workout

    DC Comics has won a Federal Court case against a Melbourne gym over the term 'Superman Workout' which the company used to promote its products, allowing the fitness company to register 'superman workout' as a trademark. The gym Cheqout had had been using the phrase to describe its workout DVDs and video clips, but DC Comics challenged the trademark, saying Cheqout's consumers would think it was ...

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Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende) [DVD]

Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende) [DVD]

When most people think of Ingmar Bergman, they immediately think of aesthetically dense, serious, dark filmsthe kind that virtually define foreign art. Images that spring to mind include the hooded white visage of Death from The Seventh Seal (1957), the faces ... ...

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  • Australia India strengthen agriculture skills ties

    Australia and India today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop and strengthen cooperation in skills training in the agriculture sector. The MoU results from the joint commitment of the Australian and Indian Prime Ministers in October 2012 to build bilateral partnerships between skills councils in key industry areas, including telecommunications, retail, mining, ...

  • Brazilian girls bid to sell virginity now turns into reality TV series

    Australian filmmaker Justin Sisely, who controversially filmed 'Virgins Wanted,' a documentary where a man and a woman auctioned off their virginity, has transformed the film into a reality series. The project in the beginning was supposed to be a feature-length documentary but now Sisely is promoting it as a reality TV series - set to debut at MIPCOM, an entertainment trade fair in October in ...

  • Ford to close manufacturing operations in Australia slash 1200 jobs

    Ford will close its manufacturing operations in Australia and 1200 workers will lose their jobs in October 2016. Ford Australia president and CEO Bob Graziano said that the company would shut the Geelong engine factory, costing 510 jobs, and the Broadmeadows car assembly line, shedding another 650 positions, reports News.com.au. Sacked workers have been offered a 39 million-dollar rescue ...

  • Oz pace attack shaking in their boots after ominous English swing against Kiwis at Lords

    Australia's much-vaunted pace attack had to sit up straight and take notice of England's prowess with the swing and seam bowling at the first day of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's. Although captain Michael Clarke does not want his team losing focus and getting too engaged in England's series with New Zealand, but Stuart Broad's ominous second-innings spell in the first Test ...

  • Aussie Hughes says English mentor to play key role in Ashes preparation

    Australian Test cricketer Phillip Hughes has said that English county mentor who reinvented him as a Test batsman will play a key role in his preparation for the Ashes. Crediting his Worcestershire coach Steve Rhodes with rejuvenating his career in 2012 after he was dumped from the Test side midway through the 2011/12 summer, Hughes said that Rhodes helped him believe in himself again after ...

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