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Italian singer and former supermodel Carla Bruni says she’s “not
yet” married to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, putting an end to
speculation they had tied the knot in secret.
Bruni, 40, told today’s edition of the left-wing daily
Liberation that she and Sarkozy were planning to get married, but
she did not give any further details.
The couple’s whirlwind romance has [...]

Elvis fever is alive and well in outback Australia,
writes Guy Wilkinson.
Straddling a gleaming Harley-Davidson, the man with the mammoth,
black quiff is working the crowd into a frenzy.
Cupping a hand around one ear, he motions for further applause,
as the sun reflects off his glinting gold sunglasses.
“You can take me for a ride anytime!” shrieks one middle-aged
woman, [...]

Australian actor Heath Ledger loved his home town of Perth
because locals gave him the space to be himself.
Angry at being pursued by photographers in Sydney, Ledger found
refuge in the United States, where the former Guildford Grammar
schoolboy died early today, possibly from a drug overdose.
Ledger, who spent much of December and January in Perth with his
family [...]

FOR the first time in almost 20 years, the number of Australians
going overseas for their holidays is poised to overtake the number
of foreign tourists coming here, as one market booms and the other
stagnates.
Preliminary estimates by the Bureau of Statistics suggest that
foreign tourism into Australia stagnated again last year. Tourist
numbers totalled 5.65 million, a rise of [...]

Central Coast striker John Aloisi had perhaps more reason than most to celebrate the Mariners’ remarkable minor premiership triumph.
The league plate was Aloisi’s first title in 16 years of professional football.
But, perhaps just as important for Central Coast’s grand final bid, the results of the dramatic final day conspired to give the Socceroos hero an [...]

THE L-plate driver crashed. She had a wonderful ride for 13
days, but Ana Ivanovic wasn’t ready to win a grand slam tournament
yesterday. She lost control of the wheel, and her forehand, late in
the first set.
“I still think I have a lot of grand slam finals in front of
me,” said Ivanovic, who seemed to sustain minimal [...]

JUST before 9am, before the team bus had pulled away from the
kerb outside the Holiday Inn in Adelaide’s Hindley Street, Adam
Gilchrist broke the news none of his teammates expected.
He waited for each of them to climb on board and take his seat.
The bus was quiet, with each player absorbed in his pre-match
routine and pondering his [...]

Senator Barack Obama appeared headed for a badly needed victory
in South Carolina’s Democratic presidential primary today after a
bruising fight with Hillary Clinton marked by increasingly nasty
personal attacks.
A Zogby poll taken before voting began gave Obama solid support
among African-American voters in his quest to be the first black
president, with a 15-point lead over Clinton.
A win would [...]

THERE is a particular moment each morning when my husband,
having ironed his shirt and scanned the paper, leaves for work.
“I’m late,” he’ll say, looking at his watch and pushing his chair
from the table, “I must go”.
I’m standing at the kitchen counter in my running clothes,
putting jam on toast, or cutting the pith from an orange, [...]

Kofi Annan said he had witnessed “gross and systematic human
rights abuses” on a visit to western Kenya, where some 81 people
were killed in the flashpoint Rift Valley province.
Police said yesterday 45 died in ethnic clashes in the
provincial capital of Nakuru, bringing the death toll since
Thursday to 81.
Other bodies had been recovered on the outskirts of [...]