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Adidas has succumbed to pressure from Brazil’s tourism ministry and pulled sexist T-shirts that were labelled “offensive” and “shocking” by the Brazilian government. The government said the T-shirts, which were on sale for the lead-up to the World Cup, associated Brazil with sexual tourism – an image the country has been desperately trying to shed. […]

Sports Illustrated magazine will feature a fully-clothed woman on its cover next month with teenage Sochi Games gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin. The 18-year-old prodigious talent, who is the first American woman to win the slalom event in over four decades, has been dubbed by the magazine America’s “New Teen Idol.” The image of her wearing […]

Troubled former swim star Grant Hackett boarded a plane for the United States last night to seek professional treatment for his alleged addiction to the controversial prescription sleeping drug Stilnox. His decision to seek professional help follows the strange incident at the Crown Casino in Melbourne on the weekend when he was photographed in the […]

Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, the so-called South African Blade Runner, is the subject of a social media campaign that promises to reveal “the hard truth” about the events that led to the shooting death of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at their home in Pretoria on Valentines’ Day last year. A Twitter account called @OscarHardTruth, allegedly […]

Charlotte Dawson’s former husband, Scott Miller, has said through a spokesman that he is “deeply shocked and saddened” by her death “even though they had not been in contact for some period of time”. The Olympic silver medallist recently appeared on 60 Minutes in what was his first public interview in more than a decade and […]

He will become the Prefect for the Economy of the Holy See and will be responsible for preparing the Holy See and Vatican’s annual budget, as well as financial planning and administration of the Vatican Bank, which has been plagued by allegations of waste poor decision-making. Cardinal Pell, 72, served with Pope Francis, then Cardinal […]

Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member of the von Trapp family singers who were immortalised in the stage musical and film The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 99. It was due to Maria’s ill health that Captain Georg von Trapp arranged for a governess to be seconded from a nearby […]

Hackett, a 1500m gold medallist at both the Sydney and Athens Olympics, was caring for his four-year-old children, twins Jagger and Charlize, at Crown Casino when he awoke in the early hours of Saturday morning to discover his son missing from his room. Without either shoes or a shirt, the 33-year-old searched the corridors around […]

“Yellow is the colour of sunflowers and daffodils,” the grade six student once wrote. “The colour of Sponge Bob, the Tour de France winner’s jersey, happy faces, post-it notes … it’s the colour of happiness and optimism, of enlightenment and creativity, sunshine and spring.” Luke’s grandmother, Josephine Batty, travelled from England and fought back tears […]

A heart-warming and hilarious video made for her grandparents, showing a happy and healthy little girl who kept telling her dad that Mum was her favourite, went viral and was watched by almost than 9.5 million people. But in a cruel twist of fate for a family that brought so much joy, Maddie died suddenly […]