Kentucky Fried Chicken has been ordered to pay $8.3 million to a girl in Australia  who suffered severe brain damage and was paralyzed after eating a Twister wrap. Monika Samaan was 7 years old when she suffered salmonella encephalopathy – a brain injury linked to food poisoning –  in October 2005. Several other family members [...]

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If you’re planning to visit Australia this year, you might want to stay out of the water. A snorkeling guide was attacked by a 10-foot tiger shark this month in what was already Australia’s third attack of the new year. That’s as many shark attacks Australia normally sees in a whole year. David Pickering, 26, [...]

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Here are your top stories for this Thursday, December 29, 2011: – Ron Paul back in Iowa – Kim Jong Il‘s funeral held in N. Korea – Sen. Ben Nelson retiring – Crocodile attacks lawn mower

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Australian police are frantically attempting to defuse a bomb that’s been strapped to around the neck of an 18-year-old girl in a wealthy neighborhood of Sydney. The situation is a “very serious and sensitive matter,” says New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Mark Murdoch. Police don’t yet know exactly how the “collar bomb” got strapped [...]

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Well, Lady Gaga, it looks like the yolk’s on you! The Queen Monster had some eggs thrown at her by some angry protestors after leaving a gay bar in Sydney. It’s thought that the group of egg tossers was angry over Gaga’s recent performance of “You and I” in a wheelchair while dressed as a [...]

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Let the awesomeness begin as a spectacular Irish dancing flash mob breaks out in Central Station Station. Over 100 dancers, including members of Riverdance and school children, spread a little St. Patrick’s Day cheer in Sydney. It was Organized and coordinated by Tourism Ireland & Jason Oremus, Chris Naish, and the Sneaky Steppers crew. Watch [...]

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One teenager in Australia got a little more than she bargained for when she set up her 16th birthday party as a public “event” on Facebook, and more than 200,000 people said they were going to come to her house. The unnamed girl, who lives in Sydney, had originally wanted her classmates to come, so [...]

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Singer Jimmy Buffett has been hospitalized after falling from the stage during a concert in Sydney, Australia last night. Buffett fell while playing “Lovely Cruise” and he reportedly suffered a head injury after tumbling off the stage in the middle of his performance. Fans were told to leave the Hordern Pavilion shortly after the fall, [...]

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It turns out cats really DO have 9 lives. A kitten gave her owners the surprise of their lives when she happened to come out of the family washing machine.  It was a bit dizzy and confused having just survived an entire cycle. Brendon Rogers of Sydney,Australia says 4-month-old Kimba must have somehow gotten into [...]

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Sorry, China, thanks for playing our game…but you lose. Team China has been stripped of an Olympic bronze medal it was awarded back in 2000 at the Sydney games after it was revealed that country’s gymnasts were underage. The IOC has said that Dong Fangxiao was only 14 years old at the time of the [...]

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BREAKING: WHITNEY HOUSTON DEAD AT 48 Things don’t seem to be improving any for Whitney Houston. Fans reportedly walked out of her show in Sydney on Wednesday night after her voice began to fail. The diva was previously under the microscope for putting on a humdrum show in Brisbane on Monday.  Many say that she [...]

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New Year’s Eve was spectacular with fireworks displays around the world ushering in the new decade. There’s no doubt that the folks in Sydney, Australia know that the New Year has arrived. The fireworks display there was truly spectacular. Of all the displays we’ve seen from last night, the one in Sydney stands out as [...]

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