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June 22, 2012

Sea otter covers eyes with paws while swimming

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Watch this super-cute sea otter pup taking a leisurely swim and covering its eyes with its paws.

According to the otter-loving YouTuber who uploaded the vid (KatieOtter501), otters spend a lot of time chilling and often cover their eyes.

“Wild sea otters spend between 50 to 60 percent of their time resting, taking breaks between feeding, grooming and socialising throughout the day and night. Often otters rest with their paws over their eyes, perhaps because it is a comfortable position in which to keep their short paws out of the cold water,” she wrote.

Cute overload!

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June 21, 2012

Oprah Winfrey loses 11kg in six weeks

Oprah Winfrey is one of the world's most famous yo-yo dieters and it appears she's at it again, losing 11kg in just six weeks.

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Oprah Winfrey is one of the world’s most famous yo-yo dieters and it appears she’s at it again, losing 11kg in just six weeks.

The 58-year-old talk show host has dropped two dress sizes thanks to a special low-kilojoule diet prepared for her by a Hollywood chef.

“Oprah has absolutely flipped for the new chef,” an insider told The National Enquirer.

“The personalised diet Oprah’s been following uses a combination of fruits and vegetables, fish, chicken and lean meat. It’s low in fat and kilojoules but still leaves her feeling full.”

Oprah is now eating three portion-controlled meals a day and completing gruelling treadmill workouts with her trainer Bob Greene.

She is said to be keen to lose the weight she put on due to the stress of launching her OWN TV network last year.

The TV mogul has repeatedly spoken about how challenging her new project has been, but friends say she now feels ready to lose weight again.

“Deep down Oprah knew she had the willpower to lose it again if she took the right approach and she’s finally found a plan she really likes,” the source said.

“This program is a lifestyle change and it stresses eating the right kind of foods to sustain energy and good health and Oprah just loves it.”

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June 21, 2012

Wife beater not brave after all: Humane Society rescinds award

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Governor General Quentin Bryce.

The Humane Society has stripped a man of his bravery award after The Australian Women’s Weekly revealed he had been jailed for beating his wife.

During a series of attacks, Paul Francis McCuskey kicked his partner Jeannie Blackburn in the head so hard he snapped her optic nerve and left her blinded in one eye.

He also kicked her in the stomach while she was pregnant. She later miscarried.

Earlier this year The Weekly revealed that despite his conviction for domestic violence, McCuskey, had been given a merit award for his bravery by the Humane Society after he and his cohort of fire-fighters helped save an elderly woman and her pets during Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires.

The society initially decided to let the award stand. However, the story prompted Governor General Quentin Bryce — a patron of the society — to write to the award’s organisers, saying: “Violence against women should not be tolerated or condoned whenever it occurs, not least in a situation that is an affront to the very principles for which the Royal Humane Society stands … if the society is to banish violence against women, I suggest a zero tolerance is the only way forward.”

It also prompted Jeannie’s supporters to begin a petition to have McCuskey stripped of the award. It gathered 18,000 signatures.

Earlier this week, the society unanimously voted to reverse its position and strip McCuskey of the award.

“I am completely overwhelmed by the support the public has given me on this issue,” said Jeannie.

“It’s an incredible victory for the huge community of people who have come together to take a stand against domestic violence.”

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June 21, 2012

Fifty Shades of Grey outsells Harry Potter

So-called 'mummy porn' novel 50 Shades of Grey has overtaken Harry Potter to become the fastest-selling paperback of all time.

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So-called ‘mummy porn’ novel 50 Shades of Grey has overtaken Harry Potter to become the fastest-selling paperback of all time.

The erotic book is the first in British author EL James’ X-rated trilogy and this week beat previous records set by JK Rowling and The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown.

James — a 49-year-old mother of two whose real name is Erika Mitchell — says she wrote the book to offer women a “holiday from their husbands”.

The novel is about Ana Steele, a young female virgin who begins a depraved sexual relationship with a much older billionaire, Christian Grey.

Readers are given every filthy detail of the couple’s numerous romps, complete with explicit language. Many of their encounters involve sado-masochism and scenes that wouldn’t be out of place in a hard-core porn film.

Initially, sales of the story were limited to the discreet e-book variety but hard copies are now flying off the shelves.

Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels 50 Shades Darker and 50 Shades Freed are the top three books on the Dymocks Bestseller list and it’s hard to find a bus, plane or train in the country that doesn’t have someone reading a copy on board.

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Rick Stein reveals the Australian restaurant he’d still love to eat at

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Naomi Watts smiles in red lipstick beside her new memoir book cover Dare I Say It

Naomi Watts announces new memoir, opens up about shame and secrecy

Jodi Picoult's new book By Any Other Name.

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June 20, 2012

Big is beautiful: 110kg woman wins pageant

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A woman weighing 110kg has taken out the title of Miss Large Israel in the country’s annual ‘Fat and Beautiful’ contest – proving that big really is beautiful.

Vered Fisher, 22, who served in an Israeli Army intelligence unit before vying for tiaras in beauty pageants, beat 15 other plus-sized contenders for the title last weekend.

“Nobody said only thin girls are beautiful,” modelling agent and pageant sponsor Esterica Nagid told Reuters. “I am not encouraging fat, but if it exists, then this is the place for it.”

The Fat and Beautiful pageant, now in its 20th year, requires all entrants to be a minimum weight of 80kg.

Israel’s new Miss Large Beauty, Vered Fisher, centre.

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Vered Fisher accepts her prize.

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Backstage at Miss Large Beauty.

Miss Large Beauty contenders getting ready backstage.

Pre-show nerves kicking in.

Awaiting the big announcement.

The girls await their turns onstage.

The models gather backstage.

Final touch-ups before the grand entrance.

Four models proudly display their curves.

All the contestants appearing on stage.

A contestant prepares for her appearance on stage.

Waiting nervously for the judges to make their decision.

“You are pretty as you are and you can succeed,” said the pageant’s sponsor.

Relief backstage after the pageant ended.

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June 20, 2012

Adele song wakes girl from coma

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Charlotte Neve (left) and British singer Adele (right).

A seven-year-old girl has woken from a coma after listening to her favourite Adele song on the radio, just minutes after doctors told her parents to say goodbye to their daughter.

Charlotte Neve suffered a brain haemorrhage in her sleep in April. She was taken to Leeds Hospital in the UK where she underwent surgery to stop the bleeding on her brain.

Doctors stopped the haemorrhaging, but Charlotte was left in a coma. Two days later she suffered a series of strokes and doctors told her mother Leila, 31, that there was little hope of her surviving.

But as Leila climbed into her daughter’s hospital bed to say goodbye, Charlotte’s favourite song — Adele’s ‘Rolling in the Deep’ — came on the radio. Leila started sing to her as they had done together previously and her daughter smiled for the first time since the haemorrhage.

Within minutes she had regained consciousness and two days later she was speaking and moving, stunning her doctors.

Two months have passed since Charlotte woke from her coma and she is learning to walk again and has even gone back to school and dance classes.

“It’s a complete miracle. Doctors told me to say goodbye and I thought I was going to lose my little girl,” Leila told the UK’s Telegraph.

“I climbed into her hospital bed to give her a cuddle — she was wired up to machines and unresponsive — and Adele came on the radio.

“I started singing it to her because she loves her and we used to sing that song together.

“Charlotte started smiling and I couldn’t believe it. It was the first time she had reacted to anything since the haemorrhage. The nurses were astounded and told me to keep singing, and she smiled again.”

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Video: Toddler sings Adele

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June 19, 2012

Where have modern manners gone?

Nobody on the train would give my 84-year-old father a seat. Would you?

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It was the 7.45am train from Sydney’s Asquith to the airport. My clearly white-haired dad, aged 84, climbed on, followed by mum, aged 82, while I struggled in with their suitcases.

The seats were all fall and the passengers fixedly fiddled with laptops and newspapers. My blood boiled.

“Excuse me,” I said, as calmly as I could. “Would anybody like to give my parents a seat?”

Mr Black Suit on a laptop continued to ignore me, tapping away on his keyboard.

Suddenly I couldn’t help myself. I tapped his 22-year-old shoulder and repeated, “Dad has had a heart attack. Is it okay if he sits there?”

Shamefaced, Black Suit slunk away, but I was left feeling dirty for my public outburst, and upset for Dad.

Mum admonished me for disciplining people on the train in the same way I sometimes reminded my six-year-old son about his manners.

“You can’t organise people on trains like that,” she said.

It was probably my fault for taking my parents on a morning commuter train, but they needed to be at the airport to fly back to Queensland after a wonderful family visit.

But surely adult train passengers should have the same sort of manners that I expect of my year one boy.

So what would you have done?

P.S. Thank you to the 50-something woman who offered a seat to mum but I was acting on principle over Mr Black Suit.

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June 19, 2012

Kim Kardashian put on birth control by mum at 14

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Kim Kardashian recently; a self-posted bikini pic aged 14 (Credit: Getty; Kim Kardashian)

Kim Kardashian has opened up to Oprah, revealing the intimate details of her teenage sex life on Oprah’s Next Chapter.

In the first episode of a two-part series, Kim has admitted to being “almost 15” when her mother, Kris Jenner, put her on birth control.

She disclosed that the choice was made after Kim said she wanted to be sexually intimate with her boyfriend at the time, who was a friend of the family.

“When I did want to have sex the first time, I was almost 15,” Kim said. The reality television star discussed the broad-mindedness of her mother, who welcomes open conversations of a sexual nature with her children.

It was Kris, who is now Kim’s “momager”, who encouraged her to go on birth control.

Oprah, who has exposed her fair share of celebrity confessions, was clearly shocked by the admission, to which she responded with a simple “wow”, before moving on to the next question.

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June 18, 2012

Camilla and Sophie succumb to the Kate effect

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The Duchess of Cambridge’s style is copied by millions of women worldwide so perhaps it was only a matter of time before Camilla and Sophie followed suit.

The Duchess of Cornwall and the Countess of Wessex turned up the annual Order of the Garter service at Windsor Castle yesterday wearing pastel outfits that perfectly coordinated with Catherine’s own white Alexander McQueen coat dress.

The three women looked strikingly similar as they watched their husbands take part in the procession, right down to their matching nude heels, a trademark of Catherine’s.

Sophie, Catherine and Camilla at the Order of the Garter service.

The three royals appeared to have much to talk about.

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Catherine wore white, Camilla cream and Sophie blush.

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All three ladies wore Catherine’s trademark nude heels.

William wearing his Order of the Garter uniform.

Queen Elizabeth II at the annual service.

Charles and William.

The Queen and Prince Philip arrive at Windsor Castle.

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June 18, 2012

Prince William: 30 years in the spotlight

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The past few months have been all about Queen Elizabeth, but another royal has something to celebrate this week – Prince William turns 30 on June 21.

The Duke of Cambridge is reportedly planning a low-key celebration, with wife Catherine, brother Prince Harry and a few close friends in attendance.

To celebrate William’s big day, we have put together a collection of pictures documenting his journey from chubby-cheeked royal baby to fully-fledged future king.

Which picture is your favourite?

William and Harry at Kensington Palace in 1985.

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Charles, Diana and baby William in 1983.

Diana plays with William at Kensington Palace in 1983.

Charles and Diana introduce baby William to the world in 1982.

William in the grounds of Kensington Palace in 1983.

Charles, Diana and William at Kensington Palace in 1983.

Diana and William in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1983.

January 12, 2013: The first official portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge has been unveiled in london. Artist Paul Emsley revealed the work to a private audience, which included the royal couple.