Nicole Kidman is travelling to Melbourne to begin filming Lion, a movie based on the true story of a small boy who boarded the wrong train in India, ended up lost and alone on the streets before being adopted by Tasmanian couple, and then finding his way back to his village using Google Earth.
The movie is based on the book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley.
Nicole will play Saroo’s adoptive Mum opposite David Wenham, 49, who plays the Dad.
Three children are dead and a fourth is in hospital after the car in which they were travelling plunged into a lake in the Victorian town of Wyndhamvale.
All the children are said to be under the age of six. Their mother, who was reportedly driving, is under police guard in hospital.
Horrified onlookers splashed their way into the water and smashed the windows of the car in an effort to get the children out. The lake is a popular place for children to ride their bikes and scooters.
Superintendent Stuart Bateson says it wasn’t yet known how the car ended up in the water.
A wealthy British businessman has been arrested in Hong Kong after his 15-year-old daughter fell to her death from the window of their luxury apartment building.
The Guardian reports that Nick Cousins, 58, who is the managing director of the Hong Kong office of British insurance brokers Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT)was arrested alongside the girl’s mother, who is a former Filipina maid.
Police have said there was “no suspicious element” in the girl’s fall.
The South China Morning Post said the 15-year-old lived with her younger sister in the $10 million, four-bedroom apartment in one of Hong Kong’s most exclusive neighbourhoods, Repulse Bay.
Her mother, who remains in custody, arrived in Hong Kong in the 1990s to work as a domestic. She is charged with overstaying her visa. The Post report says that both of the girls were born in private hospitals, and their births were never formally registered. They had never gone to school but were educated by private tutors.
A man has been arrested over the disappearance of Stephanie Scott, who has been missing since Easter Saturday.
The 24-year-old man was arrested in Leeten late on Wednesday evening, and police claim he is expected to be charged with murder, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
Hundreds of volunteers had begun a painstaking, house-by-house, street-by-street search for a vibrant 26-year-old bride-to-be who disappeared from her home a week before her planned wedding.
Stephanie Scott, a popular teacher in the NSW country town of Leeton, was due to be married this weekend, but hadn’t been seen since Easter Saturday.
Her distraught family, including fiancé Aaron Leeson-Woolley were in the process of cancelling the wedding, while also hiring a helicopter to search for Stephanie and her little red car, which is also missing.
Leeton is a flat, pastoral plain but there are many country roads, ditches, irrigation channels and dams.
Police said Stephanie’s last known movements included a phone call she made on Easter Saturday to a bus company about transportation for her wedding; and an email exchange with a friend, in which she expressed joy at her upcoming nuptials.
She may have been travelling in a red Mazda 3 sedan, with registration BZ-19-CD.
Happy anniversary, Charles and Camilla.
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary today.
Charles and Camilla married in a civil ceremony at the Windsor Guildhall on April 9, 2005. Their relationship dates back at least 35 years, to a cheeky meeting at the polo.
They will celebrate at Balmoral, where they spent their first anniversary.
Camilla had a rocky start to royal life, with many blaming her for the break-up of Charles’ first marriage to Diana, but a YouGov poll this week found that 49 per cent of Britons now support the idea that Camilla will become Queen when Charles becomes king.
You think you’re addicted to your phone? Meet the Apple Watch.
The first reviews of the new device, which doesn’t go on sale for a fortnight, are out today, and by common assent, the Apple Watch is infuriating, slow, elegant, irritating, beautiful and absolutely addictive.
The New York Times’ reviewer said it ‘took three days for me to fall for the Apple Watch. But once I fell, I fell hard.’ USA Today says you can’t pinch and zoom, like you can on the iPhone, but otherwise, it’s amazing.
The watch will be priced from a low of $US350 up to $17,000 for the gold model.
A white police officer from South Carolina, USA, has been charged with murder after video emerged of him shooting a black man in the back.
The police officer, Michael Slager, originally told investigators he fired his weapon in self defence.
However, a video shot by a passerby on his phone makes plain that Walter Scott, a father of four, was not only running away, he was several metres away when he was shot in the back five times, after being pulled over for a traffic infringement.
The victim’s mother Judy says she could barely watch the tape of ‘my son running, and being shot. It tore my heart to pieces.’
A mother who poisoned her five-year-old son to death with salt has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
A jury found that Lacey Spears killed her five year old son because she suffered from Munchausen by proxy, a syndrome in which a parent poisons a child to gain sympathy, affection or even donations.
Lacey chronicled her son’s many illnesses on Facebook and a personal blog.
