The Bachelor Australia 2017: Jen reveals what we didn’t see before her exit

FOLLOWING a whirlwind of drama that resulted in her hysterical exit, The Bachelor’s Jen Hawke has exposed the crucial scene Australia didn’t see during Thursday night’s meltdown.

“It’s a shame Australia didn’t see Florence confirm I wasn’t lying and that Lisa did say Matty was there for fame,” she told news.com.au.

“It would’ve been dynamic and a shift change if the golden girl was talking smack about the golden guy.”

The self-confessed villain came under siege when she told Matty J her fellow contestant Lisa had admitted she wasn’t attracted to him and thought he was in the competition to build his social status.

Viewers watched the other girls turn on Jen and slam the claims as false before she eliminated herself and stormed out of the competition.

But Jen says what was shown on television was very different to what played out that night in the mansion. She told news.com.au Florence confirmed the claims but it was edited out. She also explained how she overheard Lisa’s admission.

“I was in my bedroom and Lisa walked into Florence’s room with Elise and said he’s (Matty) just here for fame and to stay in the public eye and he’ll pick a girl to suit his lifestyle and that he’s not here for love,” she said…

Source: The Bachelor Australia 2017: Jen reveals what we didn’t see before her exit

Kendall Jenner poses topless in La Perla underwear campaign

KENDALL Jenner has posed topless for her latest lingerie campaign — wearing only a pair of red lace knickers.

The Victoria’s Secret model is pictured braless and wearing a G-string in her new La Perla campaign.

It’s the latest in a long line of sexy shoots for the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star, 21.

This week, she wore Sydney-based label Bec and Bridge in New York, sans bra, while out in Soho with her BFF, Bella Hadid.

Jenner has spoken previously about why she just doesn’t feel the need to wear a bra, saying she “really just doesn’t care”.

“I’m not embarrassed by my body,” Jenner said.

“I really don’t see what the big deal is with going braless!,” Jenner wrote on her blog last year, in a post titled “Free The Nipple”.

Source: Kendall Jenner poses topless in La Perla underwear campaign | Perth Now

2000 more homes to be evacuated as ‘toxic’ smoke from huge fire blankets Melbourne

Another 2000 residents could be evacuated from their homes on Friday as a massive fire at a Coolaroo recycling plant continues into its second day, shrouding parts of Melbourne in toxic smoke.

Paramedics responded to five triple-0 calls for people with respiratory problems overnight.

Four of those people were hospitalised.

Eight people were treated by paramedics at the relief centre set up at the Broadmeadows Aquatic Leisure Centre for displaced locals…

Source: More homes set to be evacuated as ‘toxic’ smoke from huge fire blankets Melbourne

Trump’s claim to have won 18 club championships ANOTHER FAKE NEWS

Trump’s claim to have won 18 club championships wasn’t quite as impressive as it seemed.

The Post’s David A. Fahrenthold reports that five of President Trump’s properties feature a fake Time magazine cover of Trump from 2009. It’s a funny story, but as Fahrenthold notes, it also feeds into a pattern with Trump: His serial fabulism and resume inflation. 

Toward the end of the election, I discovered another example of this at his golf clubs. Specifically, I found that Trump’s claim to have won 18 club championships wasn’t quite as impressive as it seemed. I’m re-posting that piece here.

A plaque at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., lists the nine men who have won the club’s championship. One of the names will be familiar: “Donald J. Trump” was the champion in 1999, 2001 and 2009.

Those are apparently 3 of the 18 club championships Trump claims to have won over the years. He has cited these victories as proof that he’s a winner in all facets of life. “Even in golf, I’ve won many golf club championships,” he told Time magazine last year. “I don’t know if you guys play golf. But to win a club championship is hard, literally hard. And you have to beat scratch players. You got a lot of good players.”

But not all of those 18 championships were created equal, it seems.

First off, Trump is listed as the 1999 club champion, but the course didn’t have its official grand opening until Jan. 8, 2000, according to a contemporaneous Palm Beach Post report. The course did have what the Post called a “soft opening” on Nov. 1, 1999…

MORE: That fake Time cover isn’t the only thing inflating Trump’s accomplishments at his golf clubs – The Washington Post

Kim Jong-un’s sick torture chamber. WARNING: Confronting content

WARNING: Graphic contentBEATINGS, rape and starvation.

Many detainees are tortured into confessing crimes they didn’t even commit.And this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the treatment of inmates inside Kim Jong-un’s torture chambers and prison camps.

Inside Kim Jong-un’s sick torture chamber. WARNING: Confronting content. https://t.co/gpQZN6LaDu

— news.com.au (@newscomauHQ) June 26, 2017

The brutality of the North Korean regime was once again cast into the international spotlight following the death of 22-year-old American student Otto Warmbier last week.While the brutal conditions inside North Korea’s prison camps and detention centres are well documented, less is known about how the American came to be in a coma in the first place.However a 2012 video could provide some clue as to how North Korea treats its detainees and prisoners…

Source: North Korea’s prison camps: What put Otto Warmbier into a coma?

Big shark bumps into WA boogie boarder

A man has been treated for shock after has was knocked by a great white shark while boogie boarding in Western Australia’s south.

A man has been treated for shock after has was knocked by a great white shark while boogie boarding in Western Australia’s south.

The man was less than 50 metres offshore at Casuarina Point in Bunbury on Sunday morning when the big shark bumped his board.

He was shaken by the close encounter but managed to make his way back to shore and raise the alarm, which prompted the beach to be closed, a Surf Life Saving WA spokesman told AAP.

A St John Ambulance spokesman said the man had been treated for shock but was not injured and did not need to be brought to hospital.

Hungry Hollow beach has also been closed.

Source: Big shark bumps into WA boogie boarder | Perth Now

Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s National Security Adviser, Dead at 89

Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter who helped broker the Camp David peace accords between Israel and Egypt, worked to normalize relations with China and launched controversial efforts by the U.S. to arm Islamic fighters battling the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, has died. He was 89 years old.

His death was announced on social media Friday night by his daughter, MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski, according to the Associated Press.

Mr. Brzezinski, known to his friends as “Zbig,” was considered for decades a leading expert on international affairs. He worked in the State Department for President Lyndon Johnson and advised several Democratic presidential campaigns, including those of Hubert Humphrey and Barack Obama, on international affairs.

He was staunchly anti-communist but vigorously argued U.S. diplomatic decisions should be grounded in strategic and practical reasoning, not ideology.

By

Cameron McWhirter

MORE HERE: Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s National Security Adviser, Dead at 89 – WSJ

UK Olympic Germain Mason killed in crash during ride with Usain Bolt

BRITISH Olympic silver medallist Germaine Mason has been killed in a motorbike accident as he rode in a convoy with Usain Bolt in Jamaica.

Mason, who won silver at the Beijing Games in 2008, died in a crash as he rode home from a party with pals in Kingston on Thursday morning, The Sun reports.

The 34-year-old died at the scene after losing control of his bike amid claims he swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle.

He had been on a night out with triple world and Olympic champion Bolt, along with sprinter Michael Frater.

Mason grew up on the Caribbean island, but switched allegiances to represent Great Britain in 2006 ahead of the Olympics in China two years later.

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness tweeted after his death: “Our sincere condolences to sporting fraternity.”

This story originally appeared in The Sun

Source: Germain Mason killed in motorbike crash during ride with Usain Bolt | Perth Now

Broadchurch writer promises a ‘dark and emotional’ finale ‘I wept as I wrote it!’

Driver who killed 13 people was texting when crashing head-on with church bus…

Hack your brain to remember almost anything – CNN.com

The reigning World Memory Champion, Alex Mullen, can memorize the order of a deck of cards in 17 seconds. But in some ways, he’s just as forgetful as the rest of us.

“I still forget plenty of basic things, like where I left my keys,” said Mullen, a medical student at the University of Mississippi.

Memory champion Alex Mullen memorized the order of a deck of cards in 21.5 seconds at the 2015 World Memory Championships. He later set the current world record under 17 seconds.

Memory athletes such as Mullen can remember hundreds or even thousands of random words, numbers and images — a feat that may seem unbelievable to onlookers. But according to a study published today, anyone can train their brain using the same tricks as the world’s top competitors, reshaping their brain’s networks in the process.

For the study, researchers recruited 23 of the world’s top-ranked memory athletes and compared their brains with those of people who had never practiced memory techniques at all. Then, they put some of the newcomers through a memory training program and observed how their brains changed.

The more the rookies practiced the techniques, the more their brain scans started to resemble the memory athletes’ — and it took only six weeks.

MORE: Hack your brain to remember almost anything – CNN.com

TV show 24: Legacy apologises after using real footage of Kenya shopping centre terror attack

The producers of 24: Legacy said they were ‘deeply sorry’ for including footage from a 2013 attack on a shopping centre in Kenya which killed 67.

Source: TV show sorry for using real terror footage | Daily Mail Online