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SHADE-Y CHOICE: Artist and film-maker Sam Taylor-Johnson was chosento direct the big screen version of thesmash hit novel 50 Shades of Grey. Shepreviously helmed 2009’s Nowhere Boy,the account of John Lennon’s youth. The50 Shades trilogy by author EL Jameshad sold more than 70 million copies.

INXS TV SHOW: Former Packed To TheRafters star Hugh Sheridan is among thecast for the Seven mini-series Never TearUs Apart: The Untold Story of INXS,playing bass guitarist Garry Gary Beers.Seven had not announced when it wouldbe screened, Fairfax reported.

ROYAL SURPRISE: The Duke and Duchessof Cambridge had "decided not to find out"the sex of their baby, royal officials say.The baby would be delivered in the privateLindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital inPaddington, west London - where PrincessDiana had her sons. The baby was due inmid-July, BBC News reported.

GERMAN PUSH: Angela Merkel'sconservatives wanted to lift the use ofGerman in Europe if they were re-electedin September, calling for the language tobe treated on a par with English andFrench in top Brussels EU institutions,BusseltonMail.com.au reported.

STAR FOR LOPEZ: Actor/singer JenniferLopez received the 2500th star on theHollywood Walk of Fame and brought her5-year-old twins, Max and Emme, to theceremony, where she gave an emotionalspeech. Boyfriend Casper Smart alsoattended, OTOC reported online.

EntertainmentWorldANCIENT CITY: Archaeologists hadfound a ‘lost’ 1200-year-old city on aCambodian mountainside around 40kmfrom Angkor Wat, the world’s largesttemple. Mahendraparvata was foundusing laser technology by the Universityof Sydney, Scotsman.com reported.

Odd SpotAS at June 15, at least 5109 Americanshad died by shooting in the US in the pastsix months, compared with 4409 USsoldiers killed in Iraq in the same period.

Source: Online magazine Slate

Did You Know?AUSSIE actor Toni Collette, who starredin Muriel's Wedding, faked appendicitiswhen she was 11 and was so convincingthat doctors removed her appendix.

Source: The Guardian (London)

CHILD DRIVING: A man was charged after GoldCoast police allegedly caught a seven-year-oldboy driving a car at Surfers Paradise. It wasalleged the 41-year-old man from NSW wasdrunk and riding in the passenger seat whenpolice pulled over the car, being driven by theseven-year-old about 3am, News Ltd reported.

Australia

PALMER DENIAL: Billionaire Clive Palmer’sQueensland Nickel denied financial trouble wasthe reason behind its decision to pull fundingfrom several Townsville organisations in thestate's north. Speculation had been mountingthat Queensland Nickel was in financial strifeand jobs might be axed, ABC News reported.

PURPLE COIN: Australia became the secondcountry – after Canada – to release a colouredcoin and it should be in people’s pockets by thisweek. Governor-General Quentin Brycelaunched the regal purple-striped $2 coincommemorating the 60th anniversary of QueenElizabeth II's coronation, Fairfax reported.

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Odd SpotBRITISH women spent 59 days of their livesshaving their legs, a study found. And 35% ofwomen polled said it was their least favouritebeauty chore. The second most detested washairstyling, with eyebrow plucking third.

JACKSON CALLING: Crowe also revealedKing of Pop Michael Jackson used to callhis home phone with prank calls. “He'dring me and in a strong voice say, ‘Thereis an emergency and you need to leave thebuilding’. I'd ask, ‘Who is this?’And he’dsay, ‘Do not worry Russell, just kidding,this is Michael.’,” Crowe said.

DOYLE LEAVES: Melissa Doyle wasleaving Seven’s Sunrise program afternearly 15 years, with Weekend Sunriseco-host Samantha Armytage to take herchair on the breakfast show. Doyle wouldstay with Seven where she would host aprime time program, News Ltd reported.

LAVISH MONKS: Thailand's Buddhismbody was monitoring monks nationwide forinappropriate behaviour after complaintsignited by a video showing monks flying ona private jet. The YouTube video showedone of the monks wearing stylish sunglassesand carrying a luxury brand travel bag,CBC News reported.

FORTUNE EXPOSED: Authorities inEgypt valued the wealth of ousteddictator Hosni Mubarak and his familyat $1.3 billion “in cash and in shares incompanies in Egypt”. “Mubarak usedhis power and enriched himself and hisrelatives,” the state prosecutor said.

CROWE DIRECTS: Russell Crowe wouldmake his feature directorial debut when hehelms and stars in The Water Diviner. Thefilm was to be set in 1919 and would tell thestory of a father who traveled to Turkey tofind his two sons who were missing afterthe battle of Gallipoli, News Ltd reported.

EntertainmentWorldLONG DAY: More than 20,000 celebrantsgathered at the famed Stonehengemonument to mark the Northern summersolstice. The cloud cover prevented brightsunshine at dawn of the longest day of theyear in the northern hemisphere but ajoyous spirit prevailed.

BIKIE BANNED: Former bikie gang leaderVince Focarelli was banned by the ParoleBoard from attending the grounds of AdelaideUniversity. The uni said its solicitors hadraised concern for the safety of staff andstudents after Mr Focarelli started attendingthe city campus regularly, despite not beingenrolled, ABC News reported.

TOP JOB: An Irish internet entrepreneur whoconvinced adventurer Bear Grylls, sprinter UsainBolt and actor Hugh Jackman to support him hasbeaten 330,000 competitors from 196 countries towin one of six positions in Tourism Australia's bestjobs in the world competition. Allan Dixon, 26, haswon the job of outback adventurer in the NorthernTerritory. The pay is $100,000 for six months.

Fun Fact$US6 BILLION - that’s how much tax the world’srichest man, Bill Gates, says he’s paid in total. He hasgiven $28 billion to charity and was still worth $56billion. His three kids will inherit ‘just’ $10 million each.

Did You Know?ACCORDING to Aboriginal legend, there is acave on the Wessel Islands off Australia’s northfilled with doubloons and weaponry of an ancientera. African 1000-year-old coins had been foundon the islands, News Ltd reported.

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Australia

Did You KnowYOTHU Yindi frontman MandawuyYunupingu, 56, who died at home lastmonth after a battle with renal disease,was the first Aboriginal person fromArnhem Land to gain a university degree.

A CAMERA-shy Belorussian beaverkilled a fisherman, biting into an artery inhis leg and causing him to bleed todeath. The 60-year-old was trying tophotograph the critter when it attacked.

DRINK LATER: Doctors and academics calledon the Government to raise the drinking age to21 to cut the risk of harm from early drinking.According to one recent report, almost two-thirds (63%) of drinkers aged 18 to 24 years saidthey drank alcohol to get drunk and one third(35%) reported not being able to stop drinkingonce they’d started, SBS News reported.

Source: Guardian, Fairfax

In Putin’s mind-set, there’s nothing wrong with filching a statuette or a smallBrueghel or even a Bengal tiger. To him, it’s just share and share alike.”

— An anonymous diplomat, commenting onRussian President Vladimir Putin’s long-rumouredsticky fingers.“

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GROWTH SLOWS: Australian economicgrowth slowed in April, but continued totrack above trend, a leading indexshowed. The Westpac-MelbourneInstitute index, which predicts the rateof economic growth three to nine monthsin the future, grew at 5.4% in April,above a long-term trend of 3%.

LOCK IT IN: Borrowers were increasinglychoosing fixed home loans, as interestrates hit their lowest levels in recenthistory. According to official figures theproportion of borrowers taking out fixedloans, rather than variable, had passed20%, ABC News reported.

BRAINY BUBS: Babies who put on 40%of their birth weight in the first fourweeks had an IQ 1.5 points higher by thetime they were aged 6, compared withbabies who only put on 15% of theirbirth weight, a European study found,ABC New reported.

RIPPED OFF: The ACCC said consumerswere fleeced $93 million in scams in thepast year, but the actual number couldbe much higher because many wentunreported. The ACCC received almost84,000 reports of scams, an increase of9%, ABC News reported.

BusinessHealthALLERGY OVERKILL: Allergy warnings onpackaged foods were so overused it wasdifficult for people to make sensible choices,Australian researcher Professor Katie Allensaid. As a result, many parents of allergicchildren ignore some of the cautionscompletely, News Ltd reported.

Did You Know?ANXIETY, or excessive worrying, is themost common psychological problem inAustralia and affects 14% of thepopulation, according to the Bureau ofStatistics.

Did You Know?AT some point, genes from at least eightretroviruses became incorporated intohuman DNA. They now performimportant functions in reproduction, yetare entirely alien to our genetic ancestry.

SMOKERS COSTLY: Employees whosmoked were costing companies morethan $3000 a year each through smokingbreaks alone, Fairfax reported. The USresearch published in the TobaccoControl journal found smokers costemployers a total of $6000 a yearcompared to someone who never smoked.

Odd SpotTHE average Australian household paid $8.94a week in bank fees, a reduction of 19c a weekcompared with the previous year. Customerspaid a record $11.3 billion in fees last year, theAustralian Bankers Association admitted.

Fun FactTHE sun’s core is so hot that a piece of it the sizeof a pinhead would give off enough heat to kill aperson 160km away.

Source: QI television show

Did You Know?THE antioxidant concentration in hot cocoa wasalmost twice as strong as red wine, two to threetimes stronger than green tea and four to fivetimes stronger than black tea, a study atCornell University determined.

Q: In grammar, ‘theslimy snake slitheredslowly’ is an example ofwhat?

Q: Which singer had ahit with the 1988 dancetrack The Only Way isUp?

A: He was a beekeeper

Q: Is Eimeo a seasidesuburb of Mackay, Cairnsor Bundaberg?

A: The Milky Way A: Finland

Q: What did EdmundHillary, the first man toclimb Everest, do for a

Q: Is Helsinki the capitalcity of Norway, Swedenor Finland?

Q: Via lactea is theclassical Latin name forwhich celestial body?

A: Yazz A: Mackay A: Alliteration

No longer will northern Australia be seen as the last frontier - it is, infact, the next frontier.”

— Oppisition Leader Tony Abbott, announcingThe Coalition’s 2030 Vision for DevelopingNorthern Australia.“

TechnologyPAY UP: Young people were more willing topay for online news than other age group, astudy showed, TheGuardian.co.uk reported.According to the survey of 11,000 net users innine countries, 20% of 25-34-year-olds saidthey had paid for online news compared withless than 10% of those aged over 55.

INSTAGRAM VIDEO: Users of Facebook’sphoto-sharing app, Instagram, would now beable to take videos as well as still photographs.The app would allow clips lasting 3-15 seconds.Users would also be able to add the filters thatepitomised Instagram photographs. The appwould vie with Twitter’s Vine.

BOTH WAYS: Samsung unveiled the Ativ Q, atablet that could switch between the Windows8 and Android operating systems. It came justover a fortnight after Asus unveiled its laptop-tablet hybrid which also ran Microsoft andGoogle’s systems. One analyst said he expectedthis to be a trend that other firms would follow.

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Q: Who starred inmovies The Hustler,Hud, Harper, and Harryand Son?

A: A diamond

Q: Who wrote the novelsRage, Monsoon,Warlock, and Men ofMen?

A:Arthur Phillip

Q: Which is the onlystate in the US thatbegins with the letter‘P’?

A: Martial art

Q: Cut, clarity. colour,and carat set the valueof which gemstone?

A: Paul Newman

Q: Which sea captaincommanded the FirstFleet to Australia?

A: Wilbur Smith

Q: Is jujitsu a Japanesemartial art or paper-folding craft?

A: Pennsylvania

Odd SpotPEOPLE’S closest friendships were formedwith their colleagues – particularly if theirworkplace environment was stressful, researchconducted by the Lancaster University in theUK concluded.

PRICE PAIN: With the Aussie dollarfalling, overseas travel and online retailprices were expected to jumpimmediately. Petrol was expected tofollow within weeks, Nine News reported.Imported goods, including appliances,TVs and consumer electronics would risesteadily, retailers said.

NET SALES: Businesses in Australiareaped more than $237 billion inrevenues from orders made on theinternet in 2011-12, the AustralianBureau of Statistics said. Net orders forAustralian products and services rose by25% in 2011-12 over the year before.

DEMENTIA HOPE: A study showed post-menopausal women on testosteronetherapy showed improved verbal learningand memory, offering a promising avenuefor research into memory and ageing.Dementia, estimated to affect more than35 million people worldwide in 2010, ismore common in women than men.

AUTISM RISK: Pregnant women who wereexposed to high levels of air pollution weretwice as likely to have a child with autismas women who lived in low pollution areas,a US study said. The data came from alarge survey of 116,430 nurses that beganin 1989, TheNews.com.pk reported.

FASHION VICTIM: Australian fashionretailer Lisa Ho was closing up shop and100 people were out of work, with a buyerunable to be secured despite a high levelof interest. The collapse of Lisa Ho wasattributed to tough trading conditionsaffecting all Australian retailers.

BusinessHealthCANCER CLUE: A rodent that never gotcancer could hold the key to preventingor treating malignant tumours, scientistssaid. Lab studies showed the skin cells ofthe naked mole-rat were high in a naturalsugary substance that stopped tumoursdeveloping, BBC News reported.

Fun FactIF YOU drilled a tunnel straight through the Earthand jumped in, it would take 42 minutes and 12seconds to get to the other side.

Source: QI television show

Did You Know?AN original Apple-1 sold for $US640,000 at anauction in Germany in November. Thecomputer was priced at $US666.66 (about$US2700 in current money) when made in1976, The New York Times reported.

Fun FactTHERE are 200-400 billion stars in ourgalaxy, the Milky Way, and a Germansupercomputer calculated there were500 billion galaxies in the universe.

Source: BBC Schools online

Did You Know?AT the Santa Rita do Sapucaí jail inBrazil, inmates can pedal to generateelectricity in return for a cut in theirsentences - a day off for every 16 hoursof effort on bikes hooked up to batteries.

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ScienceCLAPPING CONTAGIOUS: The quality of aperformance did not drive the amount ofapplause an audience gave, a study suggested.Instead scientists had found that clapping wascontagious, and the length of an ovation wasinfluenced by how other members of thecrowd behaved, BBC News reported.

CHICKS BEAT KIDS: Chicks could master skillsincluding numeracy and self-control – and evenbasic structural engineering, News Ltd reported,quoting Bristol University research. Typically,it took children until the age of four toaccomplish some of these feats. Newborn chickswere able to keep track of numbers up to five.

KING COMPUTER: The Tianhe-2, asupercomputer developed by China’s NationalUniversity of Defence Technology, hadovertaken US rivals to become the world’s mostpowerful computer by a big margin. Analystshad not expected the computer to be ready until2015, The Independent.co.uk reported.

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