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Well-heeled women prepare for stiletto race
Ninety-six shoe addicts have signed up for Friday's Stiletto Championship, which takes place after office hours on an indoor track in the old stock exchange building in central Paris.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 11:34 am -
New fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world
November 20, 2009, 8:21 am -
U.S. election, iPhone among decade's top 10 Internet moments
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards.
November 20, 2009, 8:20 am -
Hundreds of sheep dead after truck crash
More than 500 sheep have been killed in the crash of a livestock truck at Colac in Victoria's south-west.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 8:14 am -
Kate Moss criticised for skinny remark
Eating disorder campaigners have criticised British model Kate Moss after she backed the motto: "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" - a slogan popular with pro-anorexia websites.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 8:00 am -
All Blacks face dressing down over Twitter leak
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Neemia Tialata and Cory Jane can expect a talking to from All Blacks coach Graham Henry after revealing on the social networking site Twitter they had been left out of the New Zealand to play England this weekend.
November 19, 2009, 10:47 pm -
Ellis becomes Hogan's hero
Wrestler Hulk Hogan has been thrashed by Sport Minister Kate Ellis in an arm wrestle at Parliament House in Canberra.
ABC - November 19, 2009, 2:00 pm -
Teen sailor Jessica Watson crosses equator
Australian teen sailor Jessica Watson has crossed the equator on her round-the-world solo voyage.
ABC - November 19, 2009, 1:46 pm -
Obama gets five minutes with half-brother in China
BEIJING (Reuters) - President Barack Obama took time out of his busy diplomatic schedule in China to meet with his half-brother, who lives in the southern part of the country -- but only for five minutes.
November 19, 2009, 6:09 am -
Lost man drives nine hours to get newspaper
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An elderly man who went out to fetch a morning newspaper ended up driving nearly 400 miles after getting lost and taking a wrong turn onto a major Australian highway, police said on Wednesday.
November 19, 2009, 4:56 am -
Lawmaker apologizes for insulting rival on Twitter
OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian member of Parliament learned the hard way on Tuesday that insulting a rival legislator by Twitter is not a good idea, especially if you're sitting around the same table at the time.
November 19, 2009, 4:52 am -
Johnny Depp named People's "sexiest man alive"
NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" on Wednesday, reclaiming a title he first won in 2003.
November 19, 2009, 4:24 am -
U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry
PERKASIE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop.
November 19, 2009, 12:03 am -
State funeral for ACT political veteran
One of the most prominent figures in the ACT's early political history, Jim Pead, has died.
ABC - November 18, 2009, 3:46 pm -
600km trip to get the newspapers
A New South Wales man has recounted the tale of how a short, pre-breakfast trip to the shops turned into a 600-kilometre journey to Geelong.
ABC - November 18, 2009, 2:06 pm -
US Library of Congress honour for Sir Paul
Ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney will receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song - a US Library of Congress honour that has been bestowed on stars like Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder.
ABC - November 18, 2009, 9:11 am -
Orchestra to play in brothel
A German orchestra plans to play a concert in a brothel, in a novel effort to bring classical music "out of the concert hall and to where people are".
ABC - November 18, 2009, 9:10 am -
Woman divorces over soap opera ban
An Indian woman has successfully divorced her husband after he refused to allow her to watch television soap operas.
ABC - November 18, 2009, 6:47 am -
Make toilets cool to fix sanitation woes?
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organization, has a theory about why governments and people are so reluctant to talk about hygiene: it isn't cool.
November 18, 2009, 4:49 am -
What's in a name? More than you might think
LONDON (Reuters) - A London-based translation firm is offering parents-to-be the chance to check the meaning of prospective baby names in other languages to avoid inadvertently causing their offspring future embarrassment.
November 18, 2009, 4:48 am
