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Near naked stars turn out for 2013 Billboard Awards

settings.While denim clad Chris Brown and Ed Sheeran chose to dress down in jeans for the awards ceremony held in Las Vegas, chiffon, lace panels and flesh were on the style mandate for many of the female singers and starlets who also walked the blue carpet.The awards, which are based on the album charts, digital singles sales and radio airplay in the US, played host to a huge line up of stars including...

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Political pin ups want to be voted 'Bachelor of the Year'

presenter Reuben Mourad was entered into the Cleo Bachelor of the Year awards by Channel 10. The first known gay contestant hopes the competition can build promotion and funds to help buy a wheelchair swing for a charity close to his heart.Political heavyweights, a landscaper, a gaggle of professional athletes and an openly gay weatherman have been named as Australia’s most eligible bachelors.magazine...

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Gunfire from Syria hits Golan Heights

Israeli military says gunfire from Syria has hit the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.The military said on Monday that the gunfire did not cause any damage or injuries. The military says it believes the fire was accidental.Israel has found itself in a difficult position as clashes from Syria's civil war rage near its frontier with the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau captured from Syria in the 1967...

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Suns' Smith is latest AFL knee victim

settings.Gold Coast ruckman Zac Smith is the latest player to have his season cut short as part of a plague of serious knee injuries that has swept the AFL.The Suns announced on Monday that the 23-year-old will need a reconstruction after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his right knee during Saturday's win over the Western Bulldogs.Smith hurt his knee in an innocuous incident during...

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Melbourne's Hart apologises for abuse

Archbishop Denis Hart has taken responsibility for the sexual abuse of children by priests and says hearts are heavy with a deep sense of shame about their crimes.Archbishop Hart says the scandal is one of the saddest times in his priesthood and one of the darkest chapters in the church's history.He told a Victorian parliamentary inquiry on Monday he would work with the community on "the eradication...

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Focus on community, not markets: Sheldon

vice president Tony Sheldon wants Labor to focus more on building communities and less on promoting market power ahead of this year's election."I think we have been so successfully captured by market rhetoric that some people in the Labor Party have started to believe it," Mr Sheldon said on Monday."We believe that there is a market that has an appropriate part to play in our society and in our economy...

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Thurston says Leichhardt wanker chant ok

not one of rugby league's Immortals yet but North Queensland star Johnathan Thurston wears the "wanker" tag from opposition supporters as a badge of honour.He revealed the slight - frequently used against Queensland icon and Immortal Wally Lewis during his playing days - was a crowd favourite when he visited Leichhardt Oval, which Thurston will do again when the Cowboys play the struggling Wests Tigers...

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Qld oil well leaks 240,000 litres

leaking well in far south west Queensland has been plugged after spewing nearly 250,000 litres of oil out of the earth.Santos says the flow from its well, near the Queensland-South Australia border, was stopped on Monday afternoon.Matt Doman from Santos says remediation work will start as soon as the site has been assessed."That will involve removing the oil from the surface and the likely replacement...

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Vic govt waters down its construction code

Victorian government has eased its crackdown on building unions after a Federal Court ruling that its construction industry code had discriminated against workers.The government said on Monday that pending an appeal against the decision the code will no longer apply to enterprise bargaining agreements (EBAs).Finance Minister Robert Clark said its construction industry watchdog, the Construction Code...

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Nadal back to fourth in tennis rankings

- Former No.1 Rafael Nadal on Monday moved back to fourth in the world tennis rankings after his victory at the Italian Open in Rome.Nadal, who slipped in the rankings after missing seven months through injury, continued his impressive comeback form with a comprehensive 6-1 6-3 defeat of Roger Federer to claim his seventh Rome title.Less than a week out from the French Open, the Spaniard trades places...

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