Queen’s New Year outing in limbo

THE Queen’s next appearance at a New Year’s Day church service is uncertain, as high-profile celebrities made her honours list.

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Santa gunmen kill 35 clubbers

TWO gunmen allegedly dressed as Santa have opened fire inside an Istanbul nightclub, killing 35 people in a NYE terror attack.

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This ‘listicle’ will drive you crazy

THERE are many things you might prefer to leave behind in 2016 and one is this list of annoyingly overused words.

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UN backs Russia-led Syria peace plan

THE UN Security Council has unanimously backed a Russian-Turkish peace plan for Syria, including an ongoing ceasefire.

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Website picks which celeb will die next

A MACABRE website that guesses which celebrities will die each year only correctly tipped 12 out of 50 deaths during 2016 but is happy with its “good form”.

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Creator of Kinder Surprise dies

WILLIAM Salice, who helped create the hugely popular Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs for children, has died in Italy aged 83.

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Hubby’s silent treatment lasts 20 years

A JAPANESE man engaged in an epic sulk after refusing to talk to his wife for 20 years despite still living together.

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Trump’s odd NYE tweet to ‘enemies’

DONALD Trump has sent out a bizarre New Year’s tweet, sending love to his “enemies” who “have fought me and lost so badly.”

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How the world is ringing in 2017

AS 2016 draws to a close, revellers around the world are bidding a weary adieu to a year filled with political surprises, prolonged conflicts and deaths of legendary celebrities.

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How celebs celebrated New Year’s

CELEBRITIES around the world have shared pictures and videos of them saying goodbye to 2016 and ringing in the New Year.

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Police baffled by Michael’s death

A POST-MORTEM examination meant to clear up how George Michael died has instead only added to the mystery.

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Sydney study friends’ tragic ending

AN AUSTRALIAN resident found guilty of murdering her Sydney college friend with a cyanide-laced iced coffee has spent her first Christmas behind bars.

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Witnesses report ‘horror film’

SIX victims of the Berlin market attack have been identified as witnesses reveal what it was like watching a ‘horror film’ unfold.

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Trump hits back at Clinton on Twitter

PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump has taken on Bill Clinton in a new tweet attack, after the former president questioned his intelligence.

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Trump vows to wipe out ‘terrorists’

PRESIDENT-elect Donald Trump vowed today, a month before he takes office, to wipe “terrorists” off the face of the Earth.

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$500 for drug dealer hit job

AN LA man has been sentenced to life for his wife’s murder almost 25 years after he claimed she was slain by gang members.

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‘I thought it was a theatrical flourish’

A PHOTOGRAPHER recounts the chaos that unfolded as he captured the scene when a gunman assassinated Russia’s ambassador to Turkey.

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Annoyed China hits back at Donald Trump

PRESIDENT-elect Donald Trump accused China of stealing from the United States. Amid rising tensions between the superpowers, China has hit back.

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Russian official shot dead in Moscow

BREAKING: THE head of a Russian foreign ministry department has been shot dead at a Moscow apartment, according to local media.

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We were warned of festive attacks

ISLAMIC State warned a month ago that it would carry out sickening attacks during the holiday season in an eerie foreshadowing of the horror in Berlin.

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What we know about gunman

THE gunman who assassinated the Russian ambassador was a 22-year-old former cop who had been investigated for an attempted coup.

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Nine dead in Berlin market attack

BREAKING: A truck has slammed into a crowd of Christmas shoppers in Germany killing nine people and leaving many others injured.

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Terror fears in market carnage

BREAKING: A large truck has ploughed into a crowded Christmas market in Germany’s capital with reports of at least one dead.

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Assassination a chilling warning for Putin

“AS LONG as our lands are not safe, you will not be safe.” This is the chilling warning a gunman had for Russia after he shot their ambassador dead in Turkey.

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Russian ambassador assassinated

RUSSIA’S ambassador to Turkey has been shot dead at an art gallery by a gunman chanting Islamist slogans.

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Ecuador rocked by deadly earthquake

ECUADOR’S coast has been rocked by a 5.8-magnitude quake and at least 15 aftershocks, leaving one woman dead.

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Three hurt in Zurich Islamic centre shooting

THREE people have been hurt in a shooting at an Islamic centre in central Zurich, the Blick newspaper reports.

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‘Aleppo girl’ makes it to safety

BANA al-Abed, the Syrian girl whose tweets offered a tragic account of life in war-torn Aleppo has been evacuated to Turkey.

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‘Drunk’ intruder thought baby was dwarf

A DAD has told of the horrifying moment he caught a stranger holding his baby in his US home in the middle of the night.

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Trump votes uncertain amid Russia ‘hack’

PRESIDENT-elect Donald Trump’s fate rests in the hands of Electoral College members, who are being encouraged to cast their ballots against the billionaire.

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Stallone’s ambitions in Trump cabinet

DONALD Trump reportedly wants to hire actor Sylvester Stallone for a job in the arts but the Rambo star said he would rather work with war veterans.

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Korea’s ‘Female Rasputin’ on trial

THE confidante of impeached South Korean president Park Geun-hye has denied allegations of extortion on the first day of her high profile trial.

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Moore to front ‘conscience’ fines

AMERICAN documentary filmmaker Michael Moore says he will cover the fines of any Republican Electoral College members who vote against Donald Trump.

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‘Place where children have stopped crying’

HEARTBREAKING new footage of the Aleppo siege shows children too devastated by the brutal war to shed tears. Warning: Distressing content.

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Woman raped after chasing thief

A WOMAN, aged 21, chased down a man who stole cash from her handbag and got it back. As she walked away, he raped her.

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Fears grow for missing teenage girl

A FOURTEEN-year-old Scottish girl has been missing for four days from her home and police are becoming increasing concerned for her welfare.

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Toddler shot dead in road rage act

A THREE-year-boy being taken on a Christmas shopping trip by his grandmother was shot dead when a motorist opened fire on her car.

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‘Cinderella’ slipper clue in MH370 mystery

AN AUSTRALIAN group may hold key evidence washed up onshore from missing flight MH370, including a slipper from one passenger.

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Aussie makes Miss World Top 20

AUSTRALIA is still in with a chance at the crown in this year’s Miss World pageant, with Madeline Cowe making the final Top 20.

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Venezuela cash crackdown ‘a victory’

VENEZUELA’S president said Sunday that the sudden decision to scrap the country’s most-used currency bill was an economic triumph.

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Seeing red: Behind China’s brazen move

CHINA and the US face the biggest test to their relationship in years after Beijing seized a navy drone. But what’s really behind the move?

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Aussie professor ‘jailed in Turkey’

AN AUSTRALIAN uni professor has reportedly spent months in a Turkish jail without charge amid an ongoing purge of opponents.

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Man’s throat slit in Thailand

THAI police are investigating the bizarre death of a western man whose throat was slit and body was found tied to a concrete pole in the ocean.

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Tourists taken hostage in castle

A TOURIST has died in a shootout between police and militants who are holed up in a medieval castle in Karak, Jordan.

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‘Little kids were running for their lives’

A US WEDDING turned tragic after a eucalyptus tree collapsed on the bridal party as they posed for photos, killing a woman.

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Syrian evacuation buses attacked

BUSES evacuating ill and injured people from war-torn Syria have been attacked and burned, according to reports.

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Saddam taunted US over ‘faulty’ intel

SADDAM Hussein reportedly poked fun at US claims he had WMDs, branding Americans “ignorant hooligans.”

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Trump: ‘Let China keep stolen drone’

CHINA has agreed to return a US naval drone it seized in the South China Sea — but Donald Trump says they should keep it.

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Stunning ghost town in the desert

ONCE bustling villages and cities suddenly abandoned and now frozen in time have long intrigued the human race. But Kolmanskop is different from all the rest.

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Hillary’s holiday party ‘like a wake’

SHE lost her campaign for the White House to Donald Trump. So when Hillary Clinton threw a Christmas party to thank her supporters, it was, of course, subdued.

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US glider seized in South China Sea

TENSIONS in the South China Sea are hotting up after China seized an underwater glider that entered the territory, which is US is calling an “unlawful seizure”.

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Henry Heimlich dies aged 96

HENRY Heimlich, the man who was saving lives only months ago with his world-famous manoeuvre, has died.

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Trump: China drone nab ‘unpresidented’

DONALD Trump might want to invest in a dictionary if his response to China seizing a US navy drone is anything to go by.

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Hot teacher aims to break stereotypes

THE ‘world’s hottest maths teacher’ says he is on a mission to break down stereotypes that attractive people can’t be intelligent.

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‘You were nasty, mean and vicious’

DONALD Trump says his supporters were “nasty and mean and vicious” during the US election campaign, while admitting some got violent.

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Powerful earthquake strikes PNG

A MAGNITUDE 8.0 earthquake has struck off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, with a tsunami warning issued, according to reports.

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Jaw-dropping photos of the year

FROM elections to the Olympics, from the Oscars to Oscar Pistorius, these are the images that have shaped and shocked throughout 2016.

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‘I was the worst fugitive’

COURT documents have revealed more details about New York real estate heir Robert Durst’s hideous crime and why he never fled.

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‘We didn’t expect it to be at this scale’

ISLAMIC State’s network of tunnels is more vast and incredible than we ever imagined. A look under the earth where IS lived like rats.

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Car bomb blast hits bus in Turkey

SEVERAL people were wounded in an explosion close to a public bus transporting soldiers in Turkey, which has seen a spate of deadly bombings.

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‘I know who killed JonBenet’

A GRAND juror in the JonBenet Ramsey case breaks secrecy laws to reveal he knows who killed her and how he was silenced over her parents.

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Trump’s nasty Vanity Fair tweet backfires

DONALD Trump took a public swipe at Vanity Fair magazine last week, saying its numbers were terrible. Well, that’s all changed now.

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Brutal punch video finally released

IT HAS been two years since Joe Mixon punched a woman in the face in a US restaurant. Now is the first time the shocking video can be seen.

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Germany’s big threat to Facebook

GERMANY has threatened the social media powerhouse over the proliferation of fake news, with these massive penalties thrown on the table.

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The world is ‘united in horror’

OUTGOING President targets Syrian conflict in his final press conference of the year, including what he said in his confrontation with Vladimir Putin.

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Boy, 12, tried to bomb market

CLAIMS that a 12-year-old boy radicalised by IS tried to detonate bombs at a popular German market full of Christmas crowds.

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Michelle Obama: US feeling hopeless

MICHELLE Obama has told Oprah Winfrey that the US needs “a grown up” in charge and that Americans have lost “hope”.

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Duterte: ‘I killed about three of them’

PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte has confirmed that he shot dead at least three men while mayor of the southern city of Davao.

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Kim Jong-un’s drunken request had followers in tears

WHEN the North Korean leader woke up after a night of heavy drinking, he couldn’t understand why his military leaders were crying.

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Teachers given right to bear arms

ON THE fourth anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, a Colorado school district has voted to allow its teachers to carry guns.

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Life savings blown on cyber hostesses

THOUSANDS squandered by 14-year-old seduced into buying gifts for girls he’d never met, but who he said felt like “real friends”.

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Russia ‘pushing migrant’ rapes in Germany

THE secret services in Russia may encourage refugees to carry out sex attacks on German women in a sick bid to oust Angela Merkel from office.

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Armed police storm London Tube station

A PACKED rush hour London train station has been evacuated due to a police investigation, with reports of a ‘knifeman’ on the platform.

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‘She was minced, only her legs were left’

A RUSSIAN factory worker died after she fell into a giant mixer filled with boiling chocolate and couldn’t get out.

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US Federal Reserve raises interest rates

THE US Federal Reserve is increasing interest rates for the first time in a year and the second in a decade.

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Kidman marches towards Oscars

NICOLE Kidman has continued her award-season momentum, with a Screen Actors Guild nomination. However, Joel Edgerton and Mel Gibson missed out.

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Notorious jewel thief ‘strikes again’

HER criminal career spans six decades and two continents, but police say 86-year-old Doris Payne is not slowing down.

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Girl gang sexually assaults footballer

THREE women plied a footballer with booze before cutting veggies over his naked body in a bizarre sex game, a UK court heard.

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Who’s who in Trump’s Cabinet

AS Donald Trump finalises his last few Cabinet positions, we take a look at those he has selected to ‘Make America Great Again.’

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Teen still bullied after taking her life

A TEXAS teen killed herself in front of her family due to relentless bullying. But the harassment hasn’t stopped.

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Civilians flee ‘hellish corner’ of Aleppo

THE battle for Aleppo is over, but the humanitarian crisis continues as authorities scramble to evacuate at least 50,000 civilians from the war-torn city.

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Did Duterte really kill drug dealers?

AN ADMISSION by the Philippines President that he killed drug dealers himself could see him impeached, as those close to him try to walk back his comments.

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Horror the world needs to see

THE images are heartbreaking and distressing. But the subjects want the world to see their deaths, even if they’re confronting. Warning: Graphic content

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Woman’s grandson with missing child

A WOMAN has told of her shock at seeing her grandson carrying a baby that she recognised from Facebook as a missing child.

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The best pictures of 2016

IT HAS been a year of momentous changes and AFP has captured many of them in its best photos of 2016. WARNING: Graphic images.

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Arctic sees hottest year on record

WARMING at the top of the world went into overdrive, happening twice as fast as the rest of the globe and extending heat into cooler months.

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Controversial aircraft in new crash

THE crash of an advanced US Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor off the coast of Okinawa this morning has seen renewed calls for the controversial aircraft to be grounded.

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Russian subs in Syria scare

NATO is scrambling to find up to two Russian cruise-missile submarines believed to be lurking near French and US aircraft carriers operating off the coast of Syria.

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Nation divided over hot rebel fighter

A DANISH beauty who dropped out of university to fight Islamic State terrorists in the Middle East faces jail time in a case that has split Danes.

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Bad news for Britain’s favourite dish

THE quintessential British dish of fish and chips could soon be off the menu, as new research shows climate change is threatening the classic meal.

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Woman bashed over cab fare dispute

A DANCE student claims she was left battered and bruised after a taxi driver savagely beat her during a heated argument over the fare.

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Top secret Area 51 ‘invades’ Nevada

THE US Air Force’s top secret Area 51 research facility in the Nevada Desert is growing. And that’s got neighbours about to lose their property up in arms.

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‘A complete meltdown of humanity’

IN A dramatic development in “one of the worst humanitarian disasters in years”, Syrian rebels have reached a cease-fire deal.

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Shipwreck captain jailed for 18 years

A COURT has ruled that the captain of a boat that sank killing up to 700 migrants was responsible for the Mediterranean’s worst disaster since WWII.

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Bali cop’s wife won’t accept ‘a cent’ from Connor

THE wife of the Bali police officer allegedly killed by Sara Connor and her British boyfriend has rejected the offer of a “donation” by the Australian.

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The country that doesn’t exist

ONE of the world’s most crucial relationships is in jeopardy, and it all comes down to a tiny piece of land that hasn’t been acknowledged for decades. Until now.

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‘I don’t give a toss what anyone thinks’

A UK mum accused of child abuse for buying her kids 300 Christmas presents last year is back with an even bigger haul.

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Kanye West meets with Trump

KANYE WEST has said he will run for president in 2020. So why did he meet with Donald Trump as the President-elect finalised his Cabinet?

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Babies had ‘maggots in genitalia’

A US COUPLE, whose infant twin girls were allegedly found skeletal and crawling with maggots, has been arrested.

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Good deed for gamer trolled online

ONE teen was speechless when store employees bought him a WiiU after seeing him playing the display model every day. What happened next is shocking.

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What to know about Trump’s pick

DONALD Trump has confirmed Rex Tillerson as his pick for Secretary of State. Here’s what you need to know about the ExxonMobil chief.

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UN: Woman, kids killed execution style

THE UN says Syrian pro-government forces have conducted at least 82 execution-style killings of civilians, including women and children, in recent days.

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Bali cop widow will ‘never forgive’ Connor

THE widow of a murdered Bali police officer has demanded Sara Connor and David Taylor receive the maximum penalty, despite an emotional letter read during Connor’s trial.

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Husband set wife on fire ‘like a candle’

A HUSBAND who set his wife on fire “like a candle” after she discovered he was having an affair has been found guilty of murder.

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‘Breaking Bad’ murderer ordered to kill ‘by Satan’

A CRYSTAL meth-addicted Breaking Bad fan who killed and dismembered a cop he met on a gay dating app will spend at least the next 24 years behind bars.

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Vogue model asked if she is an MI5 spy

A MAN on trial for abducting his Scots Vogue model girlfriend claims she was an MI5 spy who dated and drugged him for information.

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‘It’s doomsday’: Hundreds killed in chemical attack

THE end of a long and bloody war is nearing but the use of deadly weapons is escalating. Those trapped inside Syria’s Aleppo have no way out.

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‘It will be worse than a nuclear bomb’

IT’S been billed as an imminent disaster, putting millions at risk. Scientists say if vital work is not completed in time, whole towns will be destroyed.

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Thousands of women walk off the job

THOUSANDS of women across the US are staging a mass walkout to protest against Donald Trump’s election victory.

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Fighters in ‘dangerous’ clash

CHINA has accused Japanese fighter jets of firing ‘jamming shells’ as six of its own planes flew over disputed waters near the island of Okinawa.

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’Murdered’ star’s brilliant last gasp

THERE’s a dark, sinister explanation behind the biggest supernova ever seen. Last year, ASASSN-15lh flared brighter than 20 Milky Ways. Turns out it was being eaten alive.

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Lost da Vinci drawing stuns art world

A MAN recently walked off the street in Paris and handed an auctioneer a handful of old sketches. Amid the collection of scribbles was a lost da Vinci drawing worth $25 million.

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Missing teen found after five years

A GIRL who was last seen getting into a mystery car outside her US school half a decade ago has been found living under a new identity.

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Nice terror attack suspects arrested

FRENCH cops have arrested 11 people suspected of aiding the terrorist who fatally crushed 86 revellers with a truck in Nice.

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Why Australia disagrees with Trump

DEFENCE Industry Minister Christopher Pyne has contradicted US president-elect Donald Trump on this supercharged international debate.

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Saudi woman faces lashes over Twitter pic

A WOMAN in Saudi Arabia who posed for a photo in public without a hijab has been arrested and faces being lashed.

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Trump, Russia attack hacking claims

BOTH the Kremlin and US President-elect Donald Trump have tried to dismiss CIA claims that Russia interfered in the US election.

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‘He had a wild look in his eye’

A MAN has been arrested after an alleged stabbing at a London train station, as witnesses report he chased down commuters with a knife.

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Catwoman’s boyfriend arrested for fight

FELINE-FEATURED socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein’s ongoing catfight with her boyfriend has taken another violent turn.

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Two police shot during drug raid

JUST A day after the funeral of a slain cop in Georgia, two more officers have been shot during a raid on a home in the southern US state.

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Sick boy, 5, dies in Santa’s arms

A SANTA Claus impersonator’s attempt to cheer up a terminally-ill five-year-old with a surprise visit turned tragic when the little boy died in his arms.

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Syrian military close to Aleppo victory

SYRIAN troops have seized 98 per cent of the eastern part of Aleppo, leaving only a tiny enclave packed with rebels and civilians.

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Former pastor kills daughter and himself

A FORMER pastor in Portland, America shot dead his daughter and himself after leaving a chilling message for his wife in the family’s home.

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Inside Santa’s real workshop

LONG working hours, low pay and squalid accommodation — welcome to the real toy factory where your Christmas presents are made.

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China’s warning to Trump

CHINA’S media has sent a provocative warning to the US, saying it faces ‘hostile’ retaliatory action if Donald Trump supports Taiwan’s independence.

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These graves are better than your home

AS THE death toll from Mexico’s war on drugs reaches the tens of thousands, drug king pins are spending $390,000 on their pimped out tombs.

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Last man standing now NZ PM

MORE than a decade after he tried and failed to become the country’s leader, Bill English is New Zealand’s new Prime Minister.

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Socialist Santa seizes sackful of gifts

WELCOME to Venezuela, where a basket of groceries costs a month’s wages and the government confiscates millions of toys to play Santa at Christmas.

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Former farmer becomes New Zealand PM

BILL English, a committed Catholic with six children, has been appointed as New Zealand’s new prime minister following the shock resignation of John Key.

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US super-tech fighter jet bombs out

THE fate of the F-35 stealth fighter rests in Donald Trump’s hands after the Pentagon claimed reports of its progress were ‘misleading’ in a leaked memo.

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New York making Trump kids’ lives ‘horrible’

EVER since President-elect Donald Trump’s win, his family’s life in America’s biggest city has been turned upside down. Locals are making his kids’ lives uncomfortable.

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Captive wife wrote ‘call 911’ on parcel

A VETERAN UPS worker has been hailed a hero after he noticed a captive wife’s desperate plea for help scrawled on a parcel and called cops.

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IS recaptures ancient Palmyra

ISLAMIC State has regained control of Palmyra, nine months after it was driven out of the ancient city by Syrian forces.

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Oil tycoon set for top diplomat role

DONALD Trump’s pick for Secretary of State is an accomplished oil executive — but his positions may upset some of Trump’s diehard supporters.

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Bob Dylan ‘in awe’ over Nobel prize

BOB Dylan was a no-show at ceremony to pick up his Nobel Prize, but instead sent Patti Smith who flubbed her lines.

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Kim’s wife ‘secretly gave birth to heir’

KIM Jong-un’s wife’s eight-month public absence sparked fears she was killed. Now there are rumours she had a baby boy.

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Chilling tales behind Japan’s ‘evaporating people’

SINCE the mid-1990s, it’s estimated that at least 100,000 Japanese men and women vanish annually. They are the architects of their own disappearances.

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Italy names new prime minister

ITALY’S foreign minister will replace Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who resigned after a crushing referendum defeat.

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Free booze on flights could soon end

SOME of Asia’s marquee airlines that spoil passengers with free alcohol and in-flight entertainment may soon have to kick the habit.

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Egypt blast hits Cairo cathedral

TWENTY-TWO people have died and 35 are injured after a bomb was lobbed inside Cairo’s main Coptic Christian cathedral.

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Church roof collapse kills at least 160

THE corrugated iron roof of a crowded church caved in on top of worshippers, with a hospital director warning the final death toll is likely to be far higher.

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Church roof collapse kills 60

THE corrugated iron roof of a crowded church has caved in on top of worshippers, with 60 bodies found as a crane moves the huge pile of debris.

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Cindy Brady actress fired over hate speech

SUSAN Olsen, who played Cindy Brady in The Brady Bunch, has been fired from a Los Angeles radio station over homophobic hate speech.

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At least 20 injured in Istanbul blast

TURKEY is on high alert again with reports that at least 20 people have been wounded by an explosion outside a football stadium in Istanbul.

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Republicans reject rigged election reports

REPUBLICANS have dismissed reports about a secret CIA assessment finding that Russia sought to tip the US presidential election in Donald Trump’s favour.

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Time for another Inconvenient Truth

TEN years on, Al Gore’s Oscar-winning climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth is getting a sequel, to premiere in January.

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‘I saw a sex act in aisle four’

PROTESTERS have been arrested at New York’s annual Santacon after they brawled with drunken Kris Kringles at a bar.

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AA Gill dies after brief cancer battle

TOP food writer AA Gill has died just weeks after revealing he was suffering from an “embarrassment of cancer”.

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‘It’s your fault. Vow breaker’

A FORMER chaplain shot dead his daughter and then spray-painted a revenge note to wife who was divorcing him before killing himself.

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Journo missing for four years is ‘alive’

NEW information suggests that photojournalist and former Marine, Austin Tice, is alive, four years after going missing in Syria.

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‘I’ll devote zero time to Celebrity Apprentice’

DONALD Trump has denied that he will remain executive producer of Celebrity Apprentice a day after his spokeswoman defended the move.

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Colombia’s president accepts Nobel prize

COLOMBIAN President Juan Manuel Santos has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the 52-year conflict with left-wing rebels.

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Thousands rescued after Indian storm

A FLEET of ships and helicopters have been used to evacuate thousands of tourists stranded due to a cyclonic storm off eastern India.

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US sends more troops to crush IS

THE US will send more troops to Syria but it also told Middle Eastern nations to ‘get in the game’, after failing to offer more military muscle.

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Arnie defends Donald Trump

ARNOLD Schwarzenegger, star of the new version of Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice, has defended the President-elect’s call to retain a stake in the show.

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Worst criminals’ final moments

CHEESEBURGERS, steak and peanut butter cups formed some of the last meals of the 19 men killed on America’s death row in 2016.

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Manila’s sickening funeral parlours

INSIDE Manila’s gruesome funeral parlours where an average of five brutalised corpses are brought in to each one every night. Warning: Graphic content.

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Trump put his trust in this Aussie

HE’S one of Australia’s successful business exports and a friend of Malcolm Turnbull. Now Donald Trump has given him a key role to help shape America.

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Contiki bus plunges off cliff

A CONTIKI tour bus bound for Indonesia’s Gili Islands has plunged off a cliff while packed with tourists, leaving at least one person dead and more injured.

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Teen missing days after being harrassed on train

A MUSLIM student who said she was harassed by a group of Donald Trump supporters on the New York subway has now gone missing, police say.

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Gambia President concedes defeat, oh wait!

AFRICAN nation in outrage after President Yahya Jammeh graciously conceded defeat in a national election, but surprised everyone a week later.

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Zookeeper’s near miss with lion

A ZOOKEEPER giving a demonstration about not showing fear has screamed for his life after a lion broke through a fence and charged him.

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Teacher calls Trump’s election ‘terrorism’

A PROFESSOR has been filmed calling Donald Trump’s election an “act of terrorism”. The student who leaked the video has been threatened.

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Mass killer chuckled during confession

DYLANN Roof wanted the world to know he hated black people and thought they were criminals. But he surprised himself with the scale of his church massacre.

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Pizzagate shooting a ‘false flag’

CONSPIRACY theorists who believe Hillary Clinton is running a child sex ring out of a pizza shop think a shooting there last week was a staged event.

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Anti-Islam MP guilty of discrimination

ANTI-ISLAM politician Geert Wilders has been found guilty of inciting discrimination, a conviction he slammed as a “shameful” attack on free speech.

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Solomons struck by second quake

ALREADY rocked by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake on Friday, the Solomon Islands has been hit by a second earthquake in as many days.

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What’s happened to Syria’s men?

MORE than 100 Syrian men aged between 30 and 50 fled for their lives 10 days ago. And they haven’t been seen since.

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Man ‘still alive’ in mortuary

THE family of a South African motorcyclist killed in an accident left in shock after visiting a mortuary to view his body.

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Obamas break tradition with Xmas card

THE Obamas sent out their final White House Christmas card ... and have broken with tradition by using this image.

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Obama orders election hacking probe

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has ordered a probe of email hacking during the US election after reports that Russia was behind the cyber attacks.

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Is Ivanka set to be first lady?

MELANIA Trump will stay in New York for the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency. Now, rumours are rife that his daughter, Ivanka, may fill in as first lady.

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Deadly bomb blast near pyramids

SIX policemen were killed and three wounded when a roadside bomb exploded on a road used to transport tourists to the pyramids in Egypt.

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Aleppo exodus as rebels face defeat

HUNDREDS of civilians streamed out of the war-torn city of Aleppo as Russian and Syrian government forces rained bombs on a crumbling rebel army.

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Islamic State’s sick tactics to keep city

IT’S been seven weeks since Iraqi forces launched a campaign to retake Mosul, and Islamic State fighters aren’t giving up without a fight.

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Dog’s sad farewell to dying owner

A DYING man’s beloved dog was brought to his hospital bedside to say goodbye after he suffered a brain haemorrhage. WATCH IT HERE

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Six killed in Egypt bomb blast

A BOMB that exploded before Muslim prayers next to a checkpoint in Cairo has reportedly killed six police officers.

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The President who just got impeached

SOUTH Korean parliament just impeached its female President Park Geun-Hye over a corruption scandal. This is what happens next.

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‘Change everyone and everything’

THEY could reverse cancer, eliminate obesity and alter genes forever. What you need to know about the group changing “everything”.

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Killer executed at third attempt

A MAN convicted of killing a convenience store clerk has been put to death in Alabama, hours after the state’s execution plans were twice put on hold.

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