The Pontiff Benedict XI has officially described World Youth Day 2008 and the people of Sydney as extraordinary, as he pronounces it ‘ex-tra-or-di-nary’.
Pope Benedict stated, that it was “great to see the ‘face of youth’ not being represented by Miranda Kerr, for once”.
Sydney has enjoyed 3 weeks of hosting young people from all over the [...]
Addressing a conference yesterday, Premier Nathan Rees made a rather strange and clumsy comment on the status of traffic congestion in Sydney.
“It’s like being in love. If you think you are in love, you are in love. If you think you are in traffic, you are in traffic.”
Reaction ranged from baffled silence to nervous laughter. [...]
Bush pledges $700 billion to rescue economy, $400 billion in World of Warcraft gold. More finance news available here.
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First, a faulty computer unit caused a Qantas jetliner to nosedive sharply twice during a flight to Perth. Then seven people were injured when the driver of a Qantas bus was forced to swerve to avoid hitting an airport operations vehicle.
Now, it has come to light that Ralph Fiennes was on a flight from Singapore to [...]
Virgin mobile has just announced it has recently finished filming a series of television ads featuring Aussie cricketer Shane Warne. “It’s a smart move when my experience using mobile phones, especially texting is so well known”, states Warne.
The company hopes that the rise in popularity of SMS messages will spread to other consumers by showcasing [...]
Foxtel scheduling assistant Adrian Blaxland was dismissed Friday, after repeatedly giggling through CEO Kim Williams’ speech to staff.
Williams’ address on the future technological advancements into digital services of the Pay-TV carrier, were interrupted by Mr Blaxland giggling, coughing and wiping his eyes. This raucous behaviour resulted in a number of warnings from Blaxland’s Team [...]
Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull has admitted that he smoked pot when he was at University.
Not only did he inhale but he and some of his young liberal friends also went ‘on a pizza run’. He reports “that we were like, dude let’s go grab some wood-fired and we went down to Alfredos Eastern Suburbs [...]
Kevin Rudd held a press conference today to inform the Australian public that he is in constant contact with world leaders. Sources claim that this may be through on-line networking tool Twitter.
Prime Minister Rudd has promised that he will hold daily press conferences to inform anyone who is around of “measures into the future, going [...]
Coca-Cola’s addictive new flavour Traditional Coke is released today. It is set to join the ranks of other successfully released flavours such as Cherry Coke, Vanilla Coke and Diet Coke with Lemon, This is a significant move in the on-going Cola war with Pepsi’s, Blue, Max and Diet Max.
In a bid to try and market [...]
The hottest couple of 2008 are no longer together. Insiders confirm that Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom have officially split-up with reports that Orlando was jealous of “Miranda’s relationship with an Aussie DJ”
Friends are surprised that the unique combination of an actor dating a model did not last longer than 6 months.
Miranda Kerr who is [...]