KATHERINE Hull has big things in mind for 2008, and she is not only thinking about her golf.Hull, whose two-under-par 71 at Kingston Heath yesterday put her into contention in the Women’s Australian Open, says her recent trip to Rwanda and Kenya has been %26quot;life-changing%26quot;.The 25-year-old Queenslander, who sponsors three African infants through World Vision, [...]
APART from a few fine restaurants, George Parade in the city
houses nothing more than rubbish bins and rats. At lunchtime
yesterday, however, it was the scene of a lavish banquet inspired
by the cult food movie, Big Night.
The acclaimed 1996 film tells the story of two Italian brothers
who emigrate to the US in the 1950s to open [...]
Volkswagen’s sleek new Passat gives more expensive Europeans a
run for their money.
THE Passat is Volkswagen’s family car and while it is the
company’s No. 3 best-seller, it still accounts for about 3000 sales
a year.
The Passat was formerly the forgotten car in the VW line-up but
the new-generation model released in March 2006 with a sleeker new
look and [...]
IS THERE anything amazing about a bunch of Crows and Magpies fighting it out in the desert? Not usually. But in this case, it’s the Adelaide Crows and the Collingwood Magpies, it’s a game of Australian rules football and the desert is not in Australia but in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, in the [...]
A PLOT to lure a British Muslim soldier to his death and behead
him “like a pig” has been outlined to a jury.
The man behind the plot was Parviz Khan, 37, an unemployed
teaching assistant from Birmingham, central England, who wanted to
post film of the atrocity on the internet to “cause panic and fear
within the armed forces [...]
SLOVAKIA has named its top woman player, Daniela Hantuchova, in
its squad for the Fed Cup tie against the Czech Republic although
her participation is still uncertain.
“Daniela promised us last year to represent at least at one
match at Fed Cup. We hope it will be this attractive game with the
Czechs,” non-playing captain Mojmir Mihal said in Bratislava [...]
Lenny Kravitz claims he hasn‘t had sex for three years.
The American Woman singer - who is renowned for his
womanising ways - insists he is staying celibate until he finds the
perfect woman.
Kravitz, 43, told Maxim magazine: “It’s just a promise
I made until I get married. Where I’m at in life, the women have
got to come with [...]
An aspiring Australian model rescued from a kidnap ordeal in Colombia will return home to Perth next week.
Bobbi April McGeachin, 22, was saved this week by Colombia’s anti-kidnapping squad who raided a home in the resort town of El Rodadero, near Santa Marta on Colombia’s Caribbean coast.
She had been held for a $US30,000 ($A34,600) ransom.
It [...]
German holidaymakers will be able to indulge their love of
naturism by taking to the skies nude on special flights being
launched this year, a travel company said today.
“In the former East Germany, naturist holidays were a much-loved
way of spending the best weeks of the year,” said the founder of
OssiUrlaub.de, Enrico Hess.
“We want to make that freedom [...]
Lenny Kravitz claims he hasn‘t had sex for three years.
The American Woman singer - who is renowned for his
womanising ways - insists he is staying celibate until he finds the
perfect woman.
Kravitz, 43, told Maxim magazine: “It’s just a promise
I made until I get married. Where I’m at in life, the women have
got to come with [...]
