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The five shakers: The top five stories of the day

Shooting suspect confesses to TV crew, then hijacks their car Incredible footage from a bizarre f...
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21.19 7 Nov 2014


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The five shakers: The top five stories of the day

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21.19 7 Nov 2014


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Shooting suspect confesses to TV crew, then hijacks their car

Incredible footage from a bizarre fugitive case in Australia

An Australian TV cameraman has experienced a remarkable sequence of events that saw him become the focus of a sensational fugitive story.

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On the way to a shooting in the Noosa Heads area, where a woman had been hospitalised with head and neck injuries, a motorcyclist flagged the cameraman Peter Steer down at the side of the road.

VIDEO: Call for new legislation following Supreme Court ruling on surrogacy case

The genetic parents say they have not given up hope

The Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has welcomed a Supreme Court surrogacy decision confirming that motherhood is based on birth rather than genetics.

The court today overturned a landmark High Court ruling from last year which found that the genetic mother should be recognised on her children's birth certificates.

Benjy the gay bull faces slaughter in Mayo

The 'homoosexual' breeding bull hasn't mated with any heifers and only seems keen on other males

A bull on a Mayo farm might soon be sent to the slaughterhouse because he only shows an interest in other males.

The bull, a pedigree Charolais by the name of Benjy, was bought to breed with the farm’s heifers, but only has eyes for the farms bulls.

Crunching the numbers on Keith Barry's predictions: How much could you win?

Paddy Power have provided some mind-bending odds on the illusionist's fortune-telling

In December 2005, magician Keith Barry made a notable appearance on Tubridy Tonight.

During the interview, Barry claimed that he had predicted the day’s headlines a week before, and sealed his forecast in an envelope given to Tubridy. Sure enough, every prediction had come through – except one. There had been no ‘gas explosion.’ But less than two weeks later Barry was proven correct by an explosion at the Buncefield Depot in the UK.

Eager to repeat his display nine years ago, Ireland’s own Nostradamus yesterday posted a string of bold predictions on his Facebook page.

The John Lewis Christmas ad gets a horror film reworking

That's one unsettling penguin

The John Lewis ad had barely tugged at our heart strings and already there’s a re-cut horror version doing the rounds online.

 

 

 


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