'This is for you, champ' - Oscar
Pretoria – Oscar Pistorius gave a disabled Icelandic boy the gold medal he won at one of his competitions, the boy’s mother told the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday.“He took the medal off himself and put it around my son’s neck and said ‘this is for you, champ’. We still have that medal. It was a very lovely gesture,” Ebba Gudny Gudmundsdottir said to questioning from Pistorius’s lawyer Barry Roux.He was presenting evidence in mitigation of Pistorius’s sentencing for murder.She said her mother..>> view originalFact-checking the Clinton and Trump speeches after Orlando
(AFP/Getty Images) The presumptive presidential nominees — Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump —gave dueling speeches on June 13 in the aftermath of the Orlando mass shooting. We combed through the speeches to find factual assertions that were worthy of fact checking. There were many more such claims, of dubious provenance, in Trump’s speech, so his section of the fact check is longer. The quotes are in the order in which they were delivered. As is our custom in such roundu..>> view originalPhilippines Islamists behead second Canadian hostage
Brexit fears wipe $30b off ASX
Markets are spooked as next week's UK vote appears at the moment to be leaning towards the "leave" option, which could spark a massive worldwide sharemarket sell-off and send the British pound plummeting. Photo: Bloomberg Australian shares crashed in a broad-based $30 billion sell-off on Tuesday, as global fears around a potential British exit from the European Union caught up with local investors.Markets are spooked as next week's UK vote appears at the mome..>> view originalVisa of anti-gay Muslim cleric under review, says Turnbull
The immigration department is reviewing the visa of a Shia Muslim cleric who toured Orlando in March and argues that homosexual acts are punishable by death under sharia law. British-born medical doctor and preacher Farrokh Sekaleshfar is giving lectures throughout the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at the Imam Husain Islamic Centre in Sydney’s south-west. Related: Cleric who preached death for homosexual acts and toured Orlando visits Sydney Sekaleshfar, who spoke in Orlando in March, told ..>> view originalApple WWDC: meet the nine-year-old Australian coding whiz
Video will begin in 5 seconds. Apple WWDC 2016: five things to watch for With Siri now open to third-party developers, expect to hear a lot more from the virtual assistant as it expands to Mac and Apple TV. PT1M4S 620 349 Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference brings together app developers from all walks of life, and the youngest to make the trip to San Francisco this year was Anvitha Vijay, a grade four student from Mount View Primary School in Melbourne.Anvitha, now..>> view originalDuchess Kate and Prince William return to Northern Ireland but children stay home
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge following the annual Order of the Garter Service at Windsor Castle yesterday. Photo: Matt Dunham/PA Wire Prince William and Kate on their first visit to Northern Ireland in 2011 The newly-engaged Kate’s first visit to Belfast The Duchess of Cambridge arrives for the service. Photo: Chris Jackson/PA Wire The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will make their first visit to Northern Ireland as a married couple today - but George and Charlotte will..>> view originalEU court backs Britain over child benefit residency rule
EU court backs Britain over child benefit residency rule By Reuters Published: 03:07 EST, 14 June 2016 | Updated: 03:07 EST, 14 June 2016 BRUSSELS, June 14 (Reuters) - The European Union's top court ruled on Tuesday that Britain can deny family allowances to foreign workers with children living abroad, one of the hot-button issues in Britain's looming referendum on EU membership.The European Court of Justice said a rule that makes allowances conditional on the right to reside in Bri..>> view originalSuspect in France police killing had been sentenced for jihad links: sources
Suspect in France police killing had been sentenced for jihad links: sources Updated June 14, 2016 17:28:28 A man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group killed a French policeman and his partner, in what authorities have described as an "appalling terrorist act." Key points:French policeman and partner killed, 3-year-old son survives"Appalling terrorist act": French Interior MinisterSuspect was sentenced in 2013 for jihadist linksAttack comes as France hosts Eu..>> view original
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