Hard work is paying off for former Perth concreter and Dancing With The Stars champ Johnny Ruffo with a recurring role on Home And Away, as Kerry Harvey reports.
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World War Z’s Israeli wall sparks questions
Brad Pitt’s World War Z imagines a world overrun by a zombie pandemic, leading to an unlikely new global power structure. Two of the few countries that have kept the zombies at bay are Israel, which shelters Israelis and Palestinians behind a wall, and North Korea, which has removed the teeth of its citizens to prevent zombie biting
Bluray review: Django Unchained
DJANGO UNCHAINED (Universal) Director: Quentin Tarantino Starring: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo Dicaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L Jackson
Aerosmith axe show over security fears
Aerosmith have cancelled a show in Indonesia after authorities there said they had foiled a bomb plot targeting the Myanmar Embassy. Concert promoter Ismaya Live cited safety concerns as the reason for the cancellation, but it wasn’t clear if there was a direct connection to the alleged embassy plot.
Fighting off the ear worms
It is one of life’s most common irritations: the song you do not like that becomes stuck in your head.
Census Update: What the World Will Look like in 2050
Here is the world in 2050, as imagined by the U.S. Census Bureau: India will be the most populous nation, surpassing China sometime around 2025
Cicely Saunders: Dying with Dignity
For the doctors and nurses at the south London hospice it had been a wrenching weekend. Twelve patients had died between Friday and Sunday nights, and by Monday morning death’s wide swath had left the staff physically and emotionally exhausted.
All Confused On the Western Front: NATO and Libya’s Rebels Don’t Jibe
“Where is NATO?” the rebel asks, with no small amount of frustration.
THE NATION: What Is an American?
Two thousand years ago, when Western civilization was bounded by the laws and legions of the Roman Empire, the proudest words a man could utter were: “I am a citizen of Rome.” A century ago, when the world was girdled by the British Empire, the Englishman's voice sounded from the earth's far corners: “I am a British subject.” Now, in the middle of the 20th Century, the most arresting tones of history said something else: “I am an American.”What did the phrase mean? The U.S.
The Clerk Who Knew Too Much
The tip-off, says an American counterintelligence official, came from information collected over many months suggesting that the Warsaw Pact countries possessed “bits and pieces” of top-secret NATO wartime contingency plans.