Trip World News

Langham Melbourne Masterclass The best international
chefs and winemakers lead a culinary journey.
Cellar Door at Southgate Victorian winemakers present
their best drop.
World’s Longest Lunch 25 lunches statewide, including
1200-seat table at Flemington Racecourse.
Restaurant Express Two-course lunches for $30 at some of
Melbourne’s best restaurants.
Out of the Frying Pan Media and industry experts discuss
the future.
My Last Supper World’s best chefs [...]

AFTER two months as Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd has blown out
nearly as much hot air as John Howard did in a year.
When it comes to leaving on a jet plane, that is.
Overseas travel is an essential part of a prime minister’s role
to lead Australia in the world. But flights are also major
contributors to global warming: [...]

MR SMITH is going to Washington. On his first trip as Foreign
Minister, Stephen Smith will meet top US officials to defend the
Federal Government’s plans to pull Australian combat forces out of
Iraq at a time when supporters of the war are growing confident the
US troop “surge” has been successful.
And, in a further attempt to extinguish bushfires, [...]

WHEN Russell Crowe first told Jason Taylor he wanted to take
South Sydney to the US for a pre-season camp, the coach had some
reservations about how it would affect their preparations so close
to the premiership kick-off.
But any drop off in the intensity of training has been more than
compensated by the way the players have bonded during [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]