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Taylor Swift's feud with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West has gone nuclear
It's not yet a bloody feud of Shakespeare's Montague-Capulet proportions, but an ongoing fight over Kanye West's song "Famous" involving Taylor Swift has gone up another notch after West's wife, Kim...
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Nintendo shares are getting destroyed as the Pokémon Go effect wears off
The amazing ride of Nintendo shares, fueled by the wild spread of the smartphone game Pokémon Go, appears to be over.The Japanese tech giant's shares more than doubled in value after the launch of...
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PIMCO poached the boss of giant hedge fund the Man Group to be its new CEO
French businessman Emmanuel (Manny) Roman is the new CEO of global investment management firm PIMCO.He is an investment professional with nearly 30 years experience, most recently as CEO of the Man...
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China continued to produce more steel than the rest of the world combined...
For the fourth month in a row, China produced more steel than all other nations combined in June.According to data released by the WorldSteel Association on Wednesday, a group that accounts for...
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A bizarre new Australian ad shows what humans would look like if they could...
In a shift from its traditional road safety campaigns, the Transport Accident Commission has collaborated with a leading trauma surgeon, a crash investigation expert, and a world-renowned Melbourne...
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The tide may be turning for US crude production, says CBA
After years or relentless selling, crude oil prices rebounded spectacularly earlier this year with Brent and WTI futures near-doubling in the space of just over three months.The chart below, courtesy...
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China is accelerating away from the rest of the world when it comes to new...
It’s been a good 12 months for new car sales, as shown in the charts below, supplied by Macquarie Research.The first shows the year-on-year increase in sales worldwide.And the second looks at sales...
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A harrowing new report has found children as young as 10 being tortured in...
The ABC Four Corners report into the abuse of children as young as 10 in the Northern Territory prison system shocked the nation when gut-wrenching footage appeared on TV screens in homes across...
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VIDEO: A one-armed Australian robot can build a house four times quicker than...
Fastbrick Robotics, an ASX-listed company based in Perth, has created a robot brick layer, a form of 3D printing which can create the shell of a house without being touched by human hands.The Hadrian...
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The yen has been on a wild ride amid rumors about Japan's stimulus package
The Japanese yen has been trading in a huge 2% range in the Asian session on speculation on the size and type of stimulus from Japan’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) and central bank.Comments from Japanese...
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Bank of Japan stuns markets with only tiny change to policy
After all the hype and expectation around the potential use of so-called helicopter money, the Bank of Japan has delivered just a slight tweak to Japanese monetary policy by voting to increase the...
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I used Dyson's super-powerful, £300 hairdryer — here's why people will buy it
I hate the time and effort it takes to blow dry my hair.Often I’ll go without, putting it in a damp up-do just so I don’t have to bother with the process.So when I got the opportunity to try Dyson’s...
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P.J. O'Rourke on how the rise of Trump and global populism may prove as...
P.J. O’Rourke is worried. Having spent a career lobbing verbal bombs at political elites, the veteran satirist believes the wave of populism sweeping the world could turn out to be as important as the...
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China's manufacturing continues to sputter
Activity levels across China’s manufacturing sector contracted last month for the first time since February, albeit by the smallest of margins.The latest manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI),...
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Major Chinese state paper calls for a military strike on Australian ships...
China's state-run Global Times has published an editorial attacking Australia for supporting the recent international ruling on China's activities in the South China Sea and called for strikes on any...
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The evidence is mounting that the disappearance of MH370 was a deliberate act...
A new report investigating the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 suggests the plane was under the control of a pilot when it crashed into the ocean.In an article published in The Australian,...
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Reserve Bank of Australia cuts cash rate to record-low 1.5%
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut interest rates by 25 basis points to a fresh record-low of 1.50% at its August monetary policy meeting, a decision that was expected by a majority of economists...
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For the first time in years the US is importing more oil than it produces
For the first time since January 2014, the US imported more crude oil last week than it produced, thanks largely to a surge in OPEC supply.The chart below, supplied by the Commonwealth Bank, shows the...
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A key commodity in China's industrial boom went crazy on Monday
When it comes to the raw ingredients used to make steel, coking coal, compared to iron ore, rarely gets a mention.Whatever the reason, be it the wild gyrations in the iron ore price or other factors,...
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This Olympic champion was bombarded with over 40,000 insults after beating...
It looks like Mack Horton struck a nerve.After his stunning 400m freestyle win over Chinese champion Sun Yang, Horton is now battling tens of thousands of trolls trying to make his life miserable on...
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