By Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Jack Latimore Thunggutti elder Aunty Ruth Dunn in Bellbrook on the NSW Mid North Coast.Credit:Janie Barrett When Aunty Ruth Dunn was a child, she lived under the rule of an Aboriginal mission manager who controlled most aspects of everyday life. The days of the mission manager are long gone, it has been 15 years since the […]
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Number of top degrees FALLS for the first time ever following criticism of grade inflation during Covid pandemic The number of first-class degrees awarded to students has fallen Just 32 per cent of undergraduates were given the top award in 2021/2022 This is a fall of four percentage points compared to the previous year it marks the first decrease in first-class […]
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‘There’s no “there” there’: Dismissive Biden says he has ‘no regrets’ over handling classified documents and snaps at the PRESS for asking him about the scandal instead of storm damage and climate change Biden said in California a ‘handful’ of documents were in the ‘wrong place’ He told reporters ‘there’s no there there’ and he has ‘no regrets’ He admonished […]
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Elvis impersonator Dave Black is “all signed up” after bagging his first record deal aged 52. The former ticket inspector, who won over the nation’s hearts when we revealed his story, has recorded a single with London-based Impact Records. Dave, who spent his £10,000 redundancy on singing lessons and fake leather suits, plans to take his hip-swivelling act to Las […]
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Bookmark Sign up to the Chill newsletter for UK holiday inspiration We have more newsletters Jade sex eggs, Japanese shibari rope bondage and tantric massage might not be the most obvious therapeutic tools – but for one tight-knit island community, they are the keys to unlocking ultimate "sexual healing". Thailand's Ko Pha-Ngan is more commonly known as a bucket list […]
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King Charles has announced plans to rip up the lawn at his Sandringham Estate to make room for a new ‘eco-project’. The 74-year-old previously said he hoped to make a ‘climate-friendly Topiary Garden’ in a bid to boost the estate's biodiversity. The ‘eco-project’ is set to include more than 5,000 healing Yew tree hedging plants. READ MORE: Prince Harry's Spare […]
Read moreThe U.S. government hit its borrowing limit Thursday, causing the Treasury to activate "extraordinary measures" to keep paying the government's bills. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sent a letter Thursday morning to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, noting that a "debt issuance suspension period" will begin on Thursday, Jan. 19 and last through Monday, June 5. As part of that, the government […]
Read moreCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder goes on trial next week in the highest-profile reckoning yet to arise from a $60 million federal bribery investigation that federal prosecutors call the largest corruption case in state history. The 2 1/2 years since the Republican's arrest have seen the toppling of a Fortune 500 energy company's CEO and […]
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Forced to eat their dead siblings, left to suffer painful infections and bred to become hugely obese… then killed to make coats: Finnish fur farm horrors revealed in undercover video Animal rights group has shared footage inside Finnish fur farms Video shows appalling conditions of obese, near blind animals in cages Despite EU condemnation of fur Finland is second largest […]
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