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MCDONALD'S has again faced criticism that it's a purveyor of junk food that markets to children at its annual shareholder meeting.
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a nine-year-old girl who asked CEO Don Thompson to stop "tricking kids into eating your food". Delete the scoop?
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THE model made peace with her curves - and her career took off.
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"I think being happy is the most important thing in life and it’s one of the hardest things to achieve. Being content and happy with who you are is unfortunately really hard for a lot of people." Delete the scoop?
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Bus passengers have found new ways to ride free on myki.
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The Bus Association of Victoria has said a small number of passengers are damaging their cards and then using a recording on their mobile phones of the myki "beep" to fake their validation so drivers do not question the fare.
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A MASSIVE explosion from a meteor which crashed into the Moon was visible to the naked eye on Earth, NASA says.
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A boulder-sized meteor slammed into the moon in March, causing an explosion so bright anyone looking up at the right moment would have spotted it, NASA said Delete the scoop?
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A BOWL, cake tin and spoon is all it takes to create this moist banana, pineapple and passionfruit favourite.
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A BOWL, cake tin and spoon is all it takes to create this moist banana, pineapple and passionfruit favourite. Delete the scoop?
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In the unlikely event you've been wondering what it might be like to be a bear's dentist - or a bear's breakfast, for that matter - some footage has come our way that will leave you with a) no further questions, and b) backing away, nice and slow,...
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The footage, provided by alaskabearsandwolves.com, was captured during filming of the The Great Bear Stakeout, a documentary about a team of cameramen and ecologists observing grizzly bears for five months in Alaska Delete the scoop?
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Just over a year since the last major redesign to Google+, Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra has revealed at I/O 2013 that the search company is completely reworking the layout of its social...
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There's also something called "Auto Awesome." By detecting the kinds of photos you take, Google is going to try to make other improvements. For example, if you upload a series of similar photos taken in a short period of time Google will automatically make an animated GIF out of it. If you upload a set of group photos it will stitch together one picture so that everyone is smiling. It will also make auto panoramas and HDR photos if you upload the right kinds of pictures. Delete the scoop?
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One woman offers insight into her life as a sex worker; why she does it and what she tells her children.
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One woman offers insight into her life as a sex worker; why she does it and what she tells her children. Delete the scoop?
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Suri Cruise is bringing out her very own fashion line – at just seven years old.
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The daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes has just inked a multi-million dollar deal and her label has reportedly been named Suri. Delete the scoop?
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It's not right, but it's okay: L.A.-N.Y. passengers are fine after emergency landing in Kansas City
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An American Airlines flight from Los Angeles International to New York's John F Kennedy Airport was forced to make an emergency landing in Kansas City Friday after an unidentified woman refused to stop singing Whitney Houston songs. Delete the scoop?
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HE came from a broken one, spent a year without one and now his own home is a multimillion-dollar penthouse in Chicago's Trump Tower. For stockbroker, author and philanthropist Chris Gardner, there's no place like home.
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"She used to say 'son, I had to do so much, with so little, for so long, that I could do anything with nothing'. When that’s your example, it’s up to you to go forward. She would say ‘the cavalry ain’t comin’ son; it’s just me and you’. stockbroker, author and philanthropist Chris Gardner ( introduced to the rest of the world by Hollywood, when played by Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness ) Delete the scoop?
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The Nine Network has been accused by Greenpeace of buckling under pressure from the beverage industry for the last-minute yanking of an ad promoting recycling.
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“The 9 Network took the money and now they've bottled it,” Greenpeace campaigner Reece Turner said. “There's something seriously wrong when TV networks are happy to show gambling, rape and pillage, but are too afraid to air an ad for recycling.” Delete the scoop?
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In the place of guns and masks, this cybercrime organisation used laptops and the internet.
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New York: A gang of cyber-criminals in 26 countries stole $US45 million ($A44.47 million) in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then fanning out around the globe to drain ATMs, Delete the scoop?
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Former prime minister Bob Hawke has paid tribute to his late former wife Hazel for being a ''constant support'' through difficult times.
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Hazel Hawke died on Thursday, aged 83 after suffering for many years from dementia. Delete the scoop?
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Yahoo! says it is rebooting its languishing photo-sharing site Flickr with plans to make it "awesome" again.
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Yahoo! said at an event in New York City's Times Square on Monday that it is now offering users 1 terabyte of online storage for free. One terabyte is 1,024 gigabytes – enough to store more than 500,000 images at a resolution common to most smartphones. Delete the scoop?
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The Tax Office has spent $5.2 million to enable Apple Mac users to lodge their tax returns online this year.
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TEENAGERS aged 15 to 19 are Australia's most dangerous people, new figures from the Australian Institute of Criminology showing violent crime is highest among this group.
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Teens are responsible for a disturbing number of bashings, robberies, abductions and sexual attacks and 17-year-olds are the worst offenders.
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Sydney has been having a big problem with oversized trucks driving into tunnels that are too low. So Sydney needed a stop sign that is absolutely impossible to miss. Here it is and it's amazing.
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It's a curtain of water with a stop sign projected onto it. You can have as many overhead stop signs as you want, but as this 10 News video report shows, truck drivers still crash their trucks into these low-overhead tunnels. Sydney was tired of the delays, the costs of the damages, and the threat that a truck crash would get someone killed Delete the scoop?
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Across the country, from legal 21-and-over Denver dispensaries to black-market NYC delivery services, steeply priced strains of "killer bud"?so thick with
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Most commonly created by a technique in which high quality pot is blasted with butane that is then extracted, these cannabis concentrates approach 70%-to-90% THC Delete the scoop?
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A healthy alternative to dairy, or not worth the risk?
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Traditional forms of soy foods include tofu, bean curd and tempeh (principally used in Indonesia). In Japan, traditional forms include miso soup, edamame and a fermented form of soy called natto. "Traditional forms of soy are all fairly intact, they haven't been broken down into components; the whole bean is eaten, or has been processed by the traditional food technology, like fermentation," Wahlqvist says Delete the scoop?
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VIDEO footage of a drunk tourist lunging out of his car and charging a wild elephant at South Africa's famous Kruger National Park caused an uproar on Monday.
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unidentified man charging towards the startled animal. With friends cheering and encouraging him, the man runs towards the elephant, falls to the ground but gets up again and bolts in the direction of the animal. Delete the scoop?
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THE Australian dollar is holding below parity with the US greenback following better-than-expected American retail sales data.
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At 7am AEST today, the local currency was at 99.53 US cents, almost half a US cent below yesterday's close of 100 US cents. Delete the scoop?
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FOR $1, you can buy a slice of sunburnt country in outback Queensland. Richmond, population 827, in the state's northwest, has put up four 800sq m town blocks in a "buck for a block" ballot.
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FOR $1, you can buy a slice of sunburnt country in outback Queensland. Richmond, population 827, in the state's northwest, has put up four 800sq m town blocks in a "buck for a block" ballot. You need to build within two years.. Delete the scoop?
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SHE loves pretty pink dresses, her collection of bears, decorating her jewellery with stick-on "bling" and listening to the band One Direction.
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A mothers love has no gender boundaries ~ "I realise I've lost my son," she said."But now I think to myself, I've got two boys and two girls. They're all good kids. How lucky am I?" Delete the scoop?
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Fourteen-year-old Gianna Chien has discovered that the iPad 2 can in some cases interfere with life-saving heart devices.
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If a person falls asleep with the iPad 2 on the chest, the magnets in the cover can "accidentally turn off" the heart device, said Chien, a high school freshman in Stockton, California, whose father is a doctor. "I definitely think people should be aware. That's why I'm presenting the study." Delete the scoop?
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