Besieged Advocaat ponders Portugal clash
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Dutch coach Dick Advocaat has a lot on his mind 48 hours before the Netherlands’ Euro 2004 semi-final against Portugal - not least just what does he need to do to win over the critics back home.
Advocaat has been subjected to a barrage of at times fairly personal criticism from the Dutch media along the [...]
Claws out over Turnbull preferences claims
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High-profile Wentworth independent candidate Danielle Ecuyer says a senior journalist tried to pressure her to give her election preferences to sitting Liberal Member and Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Ms Ecuyer, who is running against her former partner, Labor candidate George Newhouse, and Mr Turnbull on an anti-pulp mill platform in the eastern Sydney seat, says she [...]
Sport
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Australian winger Lote Tuqiri says there will be no room for sentiment when he lines up against Fiji in the Pool B World Cup match in Montpellier on Sunday.
Tuqiri was born in Fiji and still has close ties to the country, frequently returning to the tiny Pacific Island nation to visit family and friends.
He even [...]
Retiring Beattie proud of track record
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Outgoing Queensland Premier Peter Beattie says achievements in education and record low unemployment levels are highlights of his time in office.
Mr Beattie today announced his retirement, effective from Thursday.
He has been in the top job for more than nine years and is the longest serving of all current state and territory leaders in Australia.
He will [...]
Spoilers and hysteria as Harry Potter’s end nears
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Millions of Harry Potter fans around the world are just hours away from learning the fate of the fictional boy wizard and his Hogwarts friends as the final instalment in the seven-book series hits shelves this morning.
Readers young and old lined up outside book stores in major cities on Friday, many dressed like their heroes, [...]
Pete Doherty releases personal journal
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British rock star Pete Doherty lays bare his drug addiction, “unbearable and intolerable” relationship with supermodel Kate Moss and hopes of marrying her within months, in a journal published overnight.
The Books of Albion: The Collected Writings of Peter Doherty is an often rambling account of the Babyshambles and former Libertines frontman’s rise from would-be popstar [...]
Beatles’ Sgt Pepper celebrates 40 years
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Mae West said: “No, I won’t be in it - what would I be doing in a lonely hearts club?”
So the Beatles personally wrote to the Hollywood vamp who then agreed to join Fred Astaire and Karl Marx on the cover for Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which celebrates its 40th anniversary today. [...]
‘Sopranos’ filming locations draw mobs of fans
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Every Saturday afternoon, the staff at the Satin Dolls go-go lounge clears the bar of matchbooks, coasters, napkins and anything else not nailed down because a sold-out tour bus is on the way from New York.
But the luxury coach heading for the nondescript, windowless building on a busy stretch of New Jersey highway is [...]
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