Buscar este blog


Paying $9 for a 30¢ service

Sydney Morning Herald - 
Expensive ... a return booking online for a family of four on Ryanair costs an extra $72. Photo: AP Unpopular credit and debit card surcharges imposed by airlines are under investigation, writes Clive Dorman.

Race to the MVP

ESPN - 
The Race to the MVP Ladder is a weekly look at our inside favorite to walk away with the Maurice Podoloff Trophy (otherwise known as the NBA MVP).

Stakes raised as Posco play makes Rinehart a $20bn woman

The Australian - 
WHEN South Korean steel giant Posco moved this week to acquire 15 per cent of Gina Rinehart's next money-spinning mine in the Pilbara, it unwittingly upped the stakes in a war that is tearing apart the billionaire's family.

Letters: Unhappy campers

Sydney Morning Herald - 
My partner and I mapped out a travel plan of New Zealand's South Island from Christchurch and selected a campervan. The staff at the Christchurch van hire company were friendly, helpful and took us through the van's workings.

Home is where the form is

BigPond News - 
By Daniel Ramus and Bradley Dawson "Australia play better in their home conditions, it will be different when they come to India ... they cannot beat us here and we will feel very happy." Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, president of the Board of Control for ...

Bloodbath to hit Australian real estate, global property analyst Jordan Wirsz says

NEWS.com.au - 
US real estate analyst Jordan Wirsz believes Australia is heading towards a property bloodbath as the global economic downturn spreads.

Saturday Sleuthing: Tander's ex-HRT Valvoline Commodore

V8 Supercars Championship Series - 
First Winner: Tander took this car to his first V8 Supercar race win in the 1999 season. Here he is on his way to second overall to Jason Bright at Darwin that year.

Manchester United Premier League

ESPN - 
Manchester United will go into their game at the Emirates against Arsenal on Sunday afternoon knowing that they will have slipped behind Tottenham in second place, or will need to play catch up again to rivals Man City.

Evolve III make Windows 7 look and feel like Windows 8 - on a tablet

NEWS.com.au - 
The Evolve III team is confident their 15th version of the tablet is "flawless". Picture: Charles Brewer Source: news.com.

Hart searching for improvement

Collingwood - 
When you are appointed as the defensive coach of the most frugal backline in the competition, how do you improve it? That's the task former Adelaide star Ben Hart faces in his first season as an assistant coach at Collingwood.

Inside the Lavish Life Of Web's Mr. Dotcom

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Wall Street Journal - 
By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER, CHRISTOPHER S. STEWART and LUCY CRAYMER Kim Schmitz legally changed his surname to Dotcom at some point over the last decade, a homage to the technology that made him a millionaire and that has now landed him in a New Zealand ...

Screen gems

AFL.com - 
By Luke Holmesby 8:00 AM Sat 21 Jan, 2012 AS THE AFL begins its new five-year $1.25 billion broadcasting agreement, we can expect to see some groundbreaking innovations as Channel Seven and Foxtel look for ways to get value for money.

A Test hundred with a hangover

ESPNcricinfo.com - 
Batting at the highest level is hard enough, but doing so with a raging hangover adds another dimension to the challenge. At Lord's in 1973, Garry Sobers, one of the greatest players to have graced the game, did just that, and what's more, ...

A-League owner wants Perth NRL team

Fox Sports - 
By Phil Rothfield Go west ... Sage is hoping to replicate Nathan Tinkler's Newcastle model. Source: Richard Polden / News Limited The NRL has found its next Nathan Tinkler - a Perth business tycoon who wants to buy his own NRL team in the west.

The rise of the overclass

Telegraph.co.uk - 
We've all heard of the 'underclass': now its mirror image - a super-rich elite that is equally cut off from the rest of us - is defining the political debate.

What's the controversial site Megaupload.com all about?

CNN International - 
By Doug Gross, CNN Former Megaupload users took to Twitter and other sites to complain that they'd lost legal material because of the crackdown.

I thought Dad was dying in our arms: Ronnie Corbett's adoring daughter on his ...

Daily Mail - 
By Rebecca Hardy Sophie Corbett has her eye out for a quirky, colourful hat to wear to Buckingham Palace next month when she goes with her father Ronnie to collect his CBE from the Queen.

Bernard Tomic's girlfriend Donay Meijer has beauty and brains

Herald Sun - 
More pics: Donay Meijer BLONDE bombshell Donay Meijer has shelved her own lucrative career dreams to support her man. The Gold Coast stunner has revealed she is happy to take a back seat to beau Bernard Tomic while he pursues his Australian Open dream.

Matt Golinski's dad confident his son will recover

ABC Online - 
By Janel Shorthouse Celebrity chef Matt Golinski has had more than ten surgical procedures and remains in a critical but stable condition following the Boxing Day fire that tragically claimed the lives of his wife Rachael and children, Sage, ...