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It took two hours of fat jokes, F-bombs and a cameo by a $5000 kangaroo but Rebel Wilson is officially the toast of Hollywood following her hosting debut at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards. Wilson said she wanted to ensure the show had a distinctly Australian feel and so the “fat, simple girl from Australia” opened the show wearing a hot pink tracksuit emblazoned with koalas.
At the crossroads between east and west in the desert nation of Turkmenistan, a quiet battle is under way for natural gas, oil and influence, and the U.S. and Europe are losing out to China and the Muslim world
Most days it is easy to think God may have forgotten about Afghanistan, but there can be a day when you feel like you are in heaven. We were invited by the United States Agency for International Development to witness the dedication of Afghanistan’s first national park: The Band-e-Amir National Park, a series of six crystal-blue lakes surrounded by heart-stopping cliffs and natural dams that capture the imagination. “‘If you look at the beauty,’ as we say in our language, ‘it’s poetry for your eyes, for your mind and for your soul,'” said the former Prince of Afghanistan, Mustafa Zahir, who attended the opening ceremony.