Margot Robbie to jump out of plane for birthday
New Neighbours stunner Margot Robbie is making sure her 18th birthday this Wednesday is one to remember – by jumping out of a plane.
The self-confessed daredevil is going to make sure this milestone is one to remember.
She will take advantage of a two-week break in filming to go home to the Gold Coast and celebrate the big day with her boyfriend and her best mate.
“I have always planned to jump out of a plane on my 18th,” she said. (story)
Lara Logan involved in sex triangle with Aussie
She’s one of America’s hottest TV newswomen, now Lara Logan is making news for herself from Baghdad where she’s been labelled a homewrecker for her tryst with an Aussie newsman and the husband of a US Embassy worker.
The sultry 60 Minutes reporter and former swimsuit model is in the middle of a naughty sex scandal involving herself and two of her war zone lovers, Australian CNN war reporter Michael Ware and a American civilian contractor Joe Burkett.
Burkett’s wife Kimberly is a US Embassy worker and has accused Logan of destroying the Burkett’s marriage.
She claims the sultry 37-year-old correspondent seduced him while bullets flew overhead and also accuses Logan of teaming up with him to take her 3-year-old daughter away. (news)
Grand Theft Auto IV inspires real life crime
The game, released in Australia last month, is the No 1-selling game on the Xbox 360 console and is rated MA15+ in Australia,
In the real-life re-enactment of the game, the crazed youths’ rampage involved mugging, several break-ins and an attempted car-jacking in Garden City.
“They decided they were going to go out to commit robberies and emulate the character Nico Belic in the particularly violent video game Grand Theft Auto,” said Nassau County Police detective-lieutenant Raymond Cote.
“These teens have difficulty separating fact from fiction, fantasy from reality. It was quite alarming.” (news)
System failed Gary Bell’s children
The desperate plight of three children found murdered by their violent father yesterday was known to the NSW Department of Community Services, which gave up on them.
Just days earlier, the children’s father Gary Bell, 44 was released by police on bail after bashing his wife, with the officers notifying the beleaguered department about Jack, 7, Maddie, 5 and Bon, aged just 18 months.
Last night, hours after their tiny bodies and their dead father were found in a 4WD at the family’s home at Pericoe on the Far South Coast, DOCS admitted it failed to reach the family and offered the excuse that staff had tried.
It is believed the children and father had been dead for days. (news)
Australia becoming new drug trafficking hub
Australia is one of the world’s fastest growing international trafficking hubs for illegal drugs including cocaine, ice and speed, a key United Nations report has found.
Trafficking in these drugs has tripled in Australia in the past 12 months, figures from the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) World Drug Report 2008 show.
The surge means the country now rates third in cocaine smuggling growth – behind African hotspot Nigeria and South America’s Uruguay – compared to data from the previous year.
The report, released at the UNODC’s headquarters in Vienna, also found:
The UNODOC World Drug Report is a comprehensive snapshot taken each year of the state of drug addiction, trafficking and policing around the globe. (news)
