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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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City of Angels

City of Angels

There is a striking scene early in "City of Angels," where all the angels who live unseen in our midst, gather at the beach to watch the sun rise. The camera moves above them, showing the endless rows of ethereal men and women, all garbed in black. Then the camera moves in on the face of Seth, an angel played by Nicolas Cage, and as the sun rises, he smiles and his entire face lights up. You see, ... ...

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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 ...

  • Campaign to merge US with Australia fails

    THE campaign to force US President Barack Obama to look at merging the US and Australia to create a new super nation called Ameristralia, where inhabitants eat hotdogmeatpies and the coat of arms features a bald eagle with a koala's head, is dead. A petition on the White House's official website calling for the US and Australia merger failed on Friday to receive the 100,000 signatures ...

  • How asylum seekers escaped immigration centre went to casino and checked into hostel in Cairns.

    AUTHORITIES are investigating how seven Vietnamese asylum seekers escaped an immigration centre on Cape York, flew 810km south, visited the casino and checked into a backpacker hostel in ...

  • Respect is the key for cyclists on rides in Cairns

    The South Australian-based Ironman competitor and full-time firefighter finished fourth in last year's Cairns Ironman event and will arrive in the Far North this week to race both the Coral Coast and 70.3 Half Ironman events.But he said since the birth of daughter Elodia last year, his priorities have completely changed and with this in mind he has gladly thrown his support ...

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