Wade Graham became the first Australian player since Gordon Tallis in 2000 to score four tries in an international match as Australia demolished France 52-6.
France put up a fight for most of the first half and threatened to go ahead before the break, before the Canberra crowd was treated to some fine Kangaroos play after the break as the tries came flooding in.
Graham had his hat-trick before half-time, adding a fourth after the break, as Australia ran in 10 tries to one.
VENICE (Reuters) – Jane Fonda wishes the sex scene in her new movie with Robert Redford lasted longer, the 79-year-old American actress said as their latest screen collaboration “Our Souls at Night” premiered at the Venice film festival on Friday.
“I live for sex scenes with him,” Fonda told journalists in Venice. “He’s a great kisser so it was fun to kiss him in my 20s and to kiss him again in my almost 80s.”
Half a century after playing a young couple in “Barefoot in the Park”, Fonda and Redford reunite in a Netflix production directed by Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra about getting another chance at love late in life.
Redford, also the movie’s producer, wanted to make the film because so few movies are geared toward older audiences.
He also wanted to make another film with Fonda before dying.
Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn’t watched season seven’s episode seven: The Wolf and the Dragon.
The great mystery of Game of Thrones was finally resolved in the season seven finale on Monday: the true identity of Jon Snow, and whether he is in fact the rightful heir to the Iron Throne.
Thanks to the combined efforts of Sam Tarly (John Bradley) and Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead-Wright), we discovered Jon’s real name is Aegon Targaryen. We also learnt (though in truth we had known this for a while) that he is the legitimate son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, who were wed in secret after Rhaegar’s first marriage was annulled.
That means the entire history of enmity, sparked by the belief that Lyanna had been abducted and raped by Rhaegar, was based on a misunderstanding.
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The Roosters have edged out the Sharks to complete Saturday’s NRL action after the Storm shredded the Rabbitohs and the struggling Gold Coast Titans were downed by the Canterbury Bulldogs.
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One of the stars of the Dukes of Hazzard has denied indecent assault and drugs charges.
Tom Wopat, who played Luke Duke in the 1980s television series, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to grabbing a woman’s buttocks.
The 65-year-old is alleged to have touched the woman, who was a cast member of a musical he was due to appear in, on 23 July.
He was arrested on Wednesday night as he was leaving a high school where he was rehearsing for a performance of the musical 42nd Street…
Source: Dukes of Hazzard star Tom Wopat denies groping woman
Formula 2 leader Leclerc, already being linked with a seat at 2018 Ferrari customer Sauber, completed 98 laps, the penultimate of which was a 1:17.746 set in the dying minutes of the session. The benchmark was still 1.5s shy of Vettel’s pole time just three days earlier, but headline times are largely irrelevant during testing due to unknown fuel loads, engine modes and a host of new parts on every car.
Much of the attention of Tuesday’s test was reserved for what was happening in the paddock and pit lane, with Robert Kubica having his Renault seat-fitting and being pictured in race overalls ahead of his highly-anticipated test on Wednesday. The Polish driver will get his first experience of a 2017 car after two tests in modified Renaults as his remarkable journey towards a possible comeback continues.
Valtteri Bottas completed 155 laps of a Pirelli tyre test, conducted in his Mercedes W08. The test is Pirelli’s first of the week before heading to Barcelona with Ferrari, where it hopes to validate its plans for the final construction of the 2018 tyres (which must be signed off by September 1). GP3 driver George Russell finished fourth in the other Mercedes, with his quickest lap — set on the super-soft tyres — 1.4s off Leclerc’s benchmark. With race drivers Bottas and Lewis Hamilton testing both days of the post-Bahrain Grand Prix test earlier this year, Mercedes junior Russell will be in the car again on Wednesday, having already completed 119 laps.
Source: Ferrari youngster Charles Leclerc tops opening Hungary test
The radio signals from space appear to be coming “almost periodic” from Ross 128, a red dwarf star that’s not yet known to have any planets around it.
Abel Mendez, an astrobiologist at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, said the signals may be coming from an orbiting satellite, which could have been obstructing the view of the telescope.
“The field of view of [Arecibo] is wide enough, so there is the possibility that the signals were caused not by the star but another object in the line of sight,” Prof Mendez said, adding that “some communication satellites transmit in the frequencies we observed.”
Abel Mendez, an astrobiologist at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, said the signals may be coming from an orbiting satellite, which could have been obstructing the view of the telescope.
“The field of view of [Arecibo] is wide enough, so there is the possibility that the signals were caused not by the star but another object in the line of sight,” Prof Mendez said, adding that “some communication satellites transmit in the frequencies we observed.”
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian man stabbed two German tourists to death and wounded four others on Friday at a popular seaside vacation spot on the Red Sea, after apparently searching out foreigners to attack, officials and witnesses said.
The knifeman killed the two German women and wounded two other tourists at the Zahabia hotel in Hurghada, then swam to a neighboring beach to attack at least two more people at the Sunny Days El Palacio resort before being caught by staff and arrested, officials and security sources said.
It was the first major attack on foreign tourists since a similar assault on the same resort more than a year ago, and comes as Egypt struggles to revive a tourism industry hurt by security threats and years of political upheaval.
“He had a knife with him and stabbed each of them three times in the chest. They died on the beach,” the security manager at the El Palacio hotel, Saud Abdelaziz, told Reuters.
“He jumped a wall between the hotels and swam to the other beach.”
Source: Two German tourists stabbed to death on Egyptian beach
Terror charges against the alleged Bali bombing mastermind, known as Hambali, accuse the Guantanamo captive of of conspiring in the 2002 Bali, Indonesia, nightclub bombings and the 2003 attack on the JW Marriott in Jakarta that between them killed more than 200 people.
A war court prosecutor has filed the terror charges against the notorious Indonesian.
When or whether Riduan “Hambali” Isomuddin, 53, will actually go to court is not yet known. At the war court, the prosecution prepares the charges, has them delivered to the captive and also to a senior Pentagon official, Convening Authority Harvey Rishikof, for review and a decision on whether to go forward. One thing Rishikof could get to decide is whether it would go to trial as a death penalty case.
Hambali becomes the first Guantanamo prisoner charged during the administration of President Donald Trump. If Rishikof approves it, Hambali would be the 11th of Guantanamo’s 41 captives in war crimes proceedings…
Source: Alleged Bali bombing mastermind Hambali charged with terror crimes
Ms Bishop announced the death in a statement today.
She did not name the second victim, but it is believed to be Brisbane nanny Sara Zelenak.
South Australian nurse Kirsty Boden was last night named as the first Australian killed in the attack.
“We continue to work with the United Kingdom authorities who have asked that we await official confirmation of the identities of the victims, and for the families to be officially notified, before we release their names,” Ms Bishop said.
“The Australian Government has remained in close contact with the families who have requested privacy.”
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‘Apocalyptic’ superbugs that could render certain antibiotics useless are on the rise in drugs factories in India, scientists have warned.
One water sample from around manufacturing plants in the city of Hyderabad, in southern India, contained almost a million times the safe limit of antibiotics.
Hyderabad is a major production area for the global drug market. Almost all samples from the plants that supply the NHS contained superbugs resistant to multiple drugs.
‘Insufficient wastewater management by bulk drug manufacturing facilities leads to unprecedented contamination of water resources with antimicrobial pharmaceuticals, which seems to be associated with the selection and dissemination of carbapenemase-producing pathogens.
‘The development and global spread of antimicrobial resistance present a major challenge for pharmaceutical producers and regulatory agencies.’
Chief Medical Officer for the UK Government, Dame Sally Davies, has warned of the dangers of antibiotics becoming increasingly less effective.
In an interview in 2015, she told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: ‘Modern medicine as we know it – if we don’t halt this rise of resistance – will be finished.
‘Take cancer: most modern cancer treatments result in reducing your immunity and getting infections.
‘If those are bugs that are resistant to antibiotics then you are going to have a choice of do I take my chance the antibiotics won’t work, or do I do my bucket list?’
Patients infected with MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) are 64 per cent more likely to die than those with a non-resistant form of S. aureus.
People infected by resistant superbugs are also likely to stay longer in hospital and may need intensive care, pushing up costs.
The study on Hyderabad published last week in the journal, Infection, was carried out by scientists from research centres in Leipzig, Hamburg, Essen and Nürnberg-Heroldsberg in Germany, as well as from Madhapur, India.
Source: Indian drug factories’ waste is fuelling superbug rise | Daily Mail Online
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for all sides to exercise restraint when dealing with North Korea during a phone call with US President Donald Trump, as Japan conducts joint drills with a US aircraft carrier strike group headed for Korean waters.
The carrier group was sent by Mr Trump for exercises in waters off the Korean peninsula as a warning, amid growing fears North Korea could conduct another nuclear test soon in defiance of United Nations sanctions.
Angered by the approach of the US carrier group, a defiant North Korea said at the weekend it was ready to sink the USS Carl Vinson and on Monday called the deployment “an extremely dangerous act by those who plan a nuclear war to invade”.
“The United States should not run amok and should consider carefully any catastrophic consequence from its foolish military provocative act,” Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party, said in a commentary.
Jessie Keith Miller was thrown into the international spotlight in the late 1920s when, escaping from the boredom of her life in Melbourne, she fled to the UK where she managed to convince British aviator Bill Lancaster to let her be his co-pilot.
Even though she’d never flown before, she became the first to woman fly across the equator — a 22,000km flight from England to Australia.
According to author Chrystopher Spicer who researched Miller’s life for his latest book, she achieved a multitude of ‘firsts’ for Australia. Spicer told The Huffington Post Australia due to unsavoury controversy in her life, Australians soon forgot about Miller (whose tongue-in-cheek nickname was ‘Chubbie.’)
Source: Australian Firsts: Jessie Keith Miller, The First Aviatrix To Cross The Equator
