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A former journalist and mother of two has won the Labor Party’s pre-selection to contest the western Sydney seat of Macquarie at the next federal election.
Last night Susan Templeman was chosen as the Labor candidate with 84 votes to 34 over former policewoman Donna Ritchie.
Ms Templeman worked in commercial radio in the 1980s and early [...]

Wellington, Mar 20 (ANI): An online chat show has turned a Kiwi woman into an instant celebrity with 25,000 followers on Twitter.
Lisa Etheridge, 39, a mother of one from Auckland, signed up for an account with micro-blogging website Twitter as part of a Unitec class exercise to promote relations with sister universities in Ireland and [...]

London, March 20 (ANI): A sceptic challenged an Indian tantric to kill him live on television, after the guru proclaimed that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers.
Sanal Edamaruku, self-appointed sceptic-in-chief of Indian Rationalists’ Association, demanded Pandit Surender Sharma to exterminate him.
Both men were invited to a talk show for the challenge.
The [...]

It is fairly unusual for real-life events to intrude into the personal life of a journalist (except for fictional reporters), but for me, the Waterfall train crash, south of Sydney, was that event.
Now it is in the news again, with the ABC’s report that RailCorp has still not implemented a recommendation that passengers be able [...]

LOS ANGELES: A US army sergeant on Tuesday sued the makers of Oscar-nominated film ‘The Hurt Locker’ five days before the Academy Awards, claiming that the central character in the film is based on him.
Master sergeant Jeffrey Sarver believes screenwriter Mark Boal based “virtually all of the situations” in the film on events involving him [...]

New York, March 5 (ANI): Sean Penn has expressed his ire on critics, who have slammed his Haiti relief effort as a move to distract the world’s attention from his divorce, by saying he wants them to die of rectal cancer.
Earlier, the actor’s divorce with Robin Wright Penn had hit the headlines and critics had [...]

Washington, Sep.18 (ANI): The Pakistan Army’s initiative to sponsor local militias, or the lashkars, as they are commonly known, may have been working in its favour against the Taliban, however some people feel such move could back fire in future.

Backed by the [...]

London, Sept 15 (ANI): Two Belgian ‘Hitler-hunters’ claim to have traced 39 relatives of the Fuhrer in Austria and the US.

Journalist Jean-Paul Mulders and historian Marc Vermeeren say that they pinned down on Hitler’s kin by matching the DNA of the Nazi leader to discarded cigarette butts in an Austrian village, a used paper napkin [...]

Baghdad, Sep. 14 (ANI): Iraq has postponed the release of the journalist who threw his shoe at former US President George W Bush in Baghdad last year.raqi television journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi will be released from prison a day later than expected, his brother said.

“He [...]

London, Sep 12 (ANI): The handshake by world’s most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden has been described as limp, and like shaking a wet fish by a producer of CNN who met the terror mastermind.

CNN producer Peter Bergen, who wrote The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al-Qaeda’s Leader, met the most [...]

Kunduz (Afghanistan), Sep 9(ANI): British journalist Stephen Farrell, who was working for the New York Times when he was kidnapped in Afghanistan four days ago, has been rescued by a team of US special forces.

Farrell and his colleague Sultan Munadi went [...]

London, September 8 (ANI): A journalist was recently thrown out of a press conference after he offended pop sensation Lady Gaga by questioning her if she has a penis.

The journalist asked: “Do you have a penis?” reports the Sun.

However, the Poker Face hitmaker came up with a fitting reply to the humiliating question, she said: [...]

New York, September 7 (ANI): A new tape of late singer John Lennon’s interviews has him saying that fellow Beatles member Paul McCartney was the most important person to him apart from his wife.

“I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner,” the New York Post quoted the Times of London [...]

London, September 3 (ANI): Russell Crowe seemed to have settled scores with an Australian newspaper columnist who mocked him for smoking and eating fatty meal – by challenging her to a duel on a bike.

Journalist Annette Sharp ran a story in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph entitled: “Smokes and fatty foods – the fitness regime for Rusty” [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Sep. 4 (ANI): T. Ananthan, who is contesting as for a seat in Malaysian Indian Congress central working committee has declared that five delegates who vote for him in September 12 elections will get free air tickets to Chennai.

The former journalist is offering five return air [...]

Moscow, Sep. 2 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday expressed concern over the missing of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Rajshekhar Reddy.

Patil is in constant touch with the chief secretary and taking all information about his whereabouts.

Patil today arrived at Moscow [...]

New Delhi, Sep 2 (ANI): Malaysian High Commissioner to India has advised his fellow countrymen to take extra precaution as the spate of fatal Indian road accidents involving them is worrying.

High Commissioner Tan Seng Sung said recent accidents, where Malaysians lost their lives showed that travellers need to be more careful when planning their [...]

London, Aug 30 (ANI): Britney Spears was forced to hit the road just months after a public breakdown because she faced financial ruin, says the author of a new book.

Best-selling author and journalist Steven Dennis claims in a new book, ‘Britney: Inside The Dream’, that she stood to lose as much as 100 million [...]

New Delhi, Aug. 28 (ANI): The star cast of the upcoming Bollywood film ‘Mohandas’ visited Rajghat, the memorial of Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi here on Friday.

The movie is the directorial debut of cinematographer Mazhar Kamran who has [...]

Peshawar, Aug.26 (ANI): Monday’s incident in which an Afghan journalist, Janullah Hashimzada, was brutally murdered in Jamrud sub-division of Khyber Agency has once again highlighted that the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the Federally Administered Tribal [...]