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Someone just tried to sell this 1,700-year-old piece of the New Testament on...
An early Christianity scholar saved a 1700-year-old piece of the New Testament on eBay.On Saturday, Dr Geoffrey Smith told the annual conference of the Society of Biblical Literaturein Atlanta, USA,...
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A street cleaner found an explosive suicide belt in a bin, possibly ditched...
The brother of one of the Paris terrorist attackers may have ditched his explosive belt and abandoned his mission.The Paris police have confirmed that a belt found by a street cleaner in a trash can in...
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People are learning how to control their smart homes from inside Minecraft
Rarely has switching a light bulb on and off been this exciting:That’s a gif posted in a blog entry titled “Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft”.The author, “giannoug”, says he came up with the...
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8 iconic cars that 'disrupted' motoring forever are up for auction for over...
The phrase “disruption” has been so overused this year, Clayton Christensen, the Harvard professor who introduced the theory behind it 20 years ago, recently had to set the record straight on exactly...
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China's stocks got smashed again
China's stock market sell-off accelerated in late trading on Friday as news that the regulator's investigation into securities firms shook traders' confidence. The composite index in Shanghai is down...
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Yahoo accidentally published this hilarious review for Rihanna's unreleased...
Pop singer Rihanna is an all-time best-selling artist, having shifted more than 200 million records in her short career.In the last couple of years, Forbes has ranked the now 27-year-old in its top 5...
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Australia's Taronga Zoo has one of the rarest monkeys in the world, and it's...
Taronga Zoo is celebrating the newest addition to its family with the birth of an orange Francois’ Langur — one of the rarest monkeys in the world.The baby monkey, named “Nangua” after the Mandarin...
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12 amazing photos show 4,000 people gathered in Sydney for the international...
Around 4000 people gathered outside the iconic Sydney Opera House yesterday for the annual Dîner en Blanc “chic picnic” event.The “dinner in white” concept was launched 27 years ago in Paris by...
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Activity across China's manufacturing sector tanked last month
China’s manufacturing PMI report for November has come in below expectations.According the government, the index slipped to 49.6 in November, missing expectations for an unchanged reading of 49.8.PMI...
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Emerging market debt may be 'the next shoe to drop'
Emerging markets and China have been the primary driver of global growth in the years since the GFC.When the developed world fell into a dark economic hole and spent years crawling out of it, emerging...
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Citi's 2016 forecasts for every major commodity, in one chart
The outlooks for 2016 are rolling in. Here are Citi’s predictions on commodities:As you can see Citi is forecasting rallies in oil prices and a huge increase in natural gas, which Australia is well...
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Australia is on to its 25th year without a recession
Australian economic growth accelerated in the September quarter of 2015, increasing 0.9% leaving the annual rate of growth at 2.5%. Markets has been expecting a quarterly increase of 0.8%, with the...
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Emerging market manufacturers are having a hard time
Global manufacturing conditions continued to meander in November, with strength in Europe and the US offsetting weakness in emerging markets, particularly from Asia.The J.P. Morgan-Markit global...
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A dust devil tore through a music festival — and dancers rushed inside of it...
Australia is known for many things: deadly animals, the beach, and fearless people who are sometimes a little bit crazy too.At the recent Earthcore music festival in Victoria, a group of revellers...
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A huge legal case in Turkey hinges on whether the President looks like Gollum...
A Turkish physician is sweating on whether he’ll be sent to jail for publishing a photo comparing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Gollum.Dr Bilgin Ciftci thought the resemblance was uncanny...
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If you want to know how good Steph Curry is, watch Andrew Bogut not bother...
Sometimes it’s difficult to measure how great sportsmen and women compare against each other.You get weighed down by books of stats, the current state of leagues, endorsement-related PR hype, and...
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The world's most epic surf competition is happening right now — here are the...
The break, off Maui, Hawaii, is called Jaws, which tells you all you need to know about the conditions at the World Surf League’s inaugural Pe’ahi Challenge.Jaws is the most world’s largest and...
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A huge brokerage being investigated after China's market crash can't find 2...
Amidst a bone-jarring 40% plus decline in Chinese stocks earlier in the year, Chinese authorities wheeled out unprecedented measures to stem the markets losses. Futures trading was limited, some...
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Neil Robertson just became the first person ever to win a snooker final with...
Australian snooker champion Neil Robertson just collected one of the great sporting holy grails.In winning the UK Championship for the second time, the 33-year-old became the first player to make a 147...
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Actually, Japan didn't go into recession
After initially being reported as a quarterly contraction of 0.2%, leaving the economy in a technical recession, Japanese economic growth surprised to the upside in the September quarter with an...
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