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Australian Artist Margaret Olley dies, aged 88

July 26, 2011
Australian Artist Margaret Olley dies, aged 88

Margaret Olley at her home in Paddington.  Photo: Brendan Esposito Australian painter Margaret Olley has died, aged 88. A spokeswoman for the Art Gallery of NSW says Olley was found dead at her Paddington home in Sydney, early on Tuesday morning. The cause of her death was unknown at this stage, the spokeswoman said. Olley...
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Survivors of Norway’s massacre tell of their escape from the gunman

July 24, 2011
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Roger Boyes and Matthew Campbell From: The Sunday Times July 24, 2011 Rescue workers evacuate survivors from the Norwegian island where a gunman went on a killing rampage. Picture: AFP Source: AFP IN his hospital bed in Oslo, Adrian Pracon felt safe at last from the man who massacred his friends by a lakeshore...
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Singer Amy Winehouse dies at age 27

July 24, 2011
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By JILL LAWLESS – Associated Press,SYLVIA HUI – Associated Press (Reuters/Michael Dalder/Files) LONDON (AP) — Amy Winehouse, the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive habits overshadowed a distinctive musical talent, was found dead Saturday in her London home, police said. She was 27. Winehouse shot to fame in 2006 with the album “Back to Black,”...
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British artist Lucian Freud dies aged 88

July 22, 2011
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PHOTO: ‘Foremost figurative artist of his generation’: A Sotheby’s auction house worker displays Freud’s Self-Portrait with a Black Eye (AFP: Shaun Curry) PHOTO: Dead at 88: Lucian Freud last year (AFP: Stephan Agostini) MAP: England British painter Lucian Freud, whose uncompromising portraits made him one of the world’s most revered and coveted artists, has...
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Man used clipseal bags as condoms in having sex with stepdaughter, 13

July 10, 2011
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By Mark Oberhardt From: The Courier-Mail June 30, 2011 1:49pm A MAN who used clipseal sandwich bags as makeshift condoms when having sex with his 13-year-old stepdaughter was caught when he sent her to get a morning-after pill from a hospital, a court heard today. The District Court in Brisbane heard the man, 38,...
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Texan driver so drunk he didn’t realise the body of the man he hit was in passenger seat

June 30, 2011
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A TEXAS driver was so drunk he struck a man walking along the highway early yesterday and never realised the victim’s body fell into the passenger side of his car. The drunk driver, who was stopped by police not far from the scene of the Houston accident, told investigators he thought his black Mazda 626 struck...
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Teen girl stoned to death for beauty contest

June 1, 2011
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A teenage boy has allegedly claimed the stoning to death of a Muslim girl who participated in a beauty contest was justified under Islam. Katya Koren’s body was found after entering Miss Ukraine.   Police in the Ukraine have launched a murder investigation after the battered body of Katya Koren was found in a...
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Dumped rubbish chute baby found alive

May 25, 2011
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The teenage mother of newborn baby boy has been arrested after the child was found dumped in a garbage chute of a US housing complex. Police say the baby’s mother, 18-year-old Laquasia Wright, was arrested on charges of attempted murder and endangering the welfare of a child. The bundled-up infant was discovered by the...
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Teen ‘sucked through sunroof’ in deadly twister

May 25, 2011
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A Facebook group has been set up for a high school graduate who is missing after being sucked out of his car by the deadly weekend twister in the US. A Joplin family is desperately appealing for help to find 18-year-old Will Norton, who was travelling home with his father from his graduation ceremony...
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Paul Rogers, who killed Tania Simpson and Kyla, became tormented loner after break-up

May 19, 2011
Paul Rogers, who killed Tania Simpson and Kyla, became tormented loner after break-up

TRAGIC STATEMENT: An unsmiling Paul Rogers’ final post on Facebook – and victims Tania Simpson, daughter Kyla, 5, and friend Antony Way. UNDER FIRE: A coronial inquest into the death of Kyla Rogers (pictured), her mother Tania Simpson and her boyfriend Antony Way will look at police procedures. Picture: Supplied < Prev 1 of 5...
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