Fart caused fire in midst of surgery

A PATIENT who passed gas during an operation was badly burned when the fart ignited a laser being used in the surgery, a hospital report states.

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China won’t be pleased about this

FOREIGN Minister Julie Bishop has confirmed the Australian government is open to conducting joint patrols with Indonesia in the South China Sea.

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What’s Trump always trying to hide?

HE has built his election campaign around Hillary Clinton’s lack of integrity — and those 33,000 missing emails — but it turns out Donald Trump uses similar tactics to frustrate his opponents trying get him before the courts.

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What’s Trump always trying to hide?

HE has built his election campaign around Hillary Clinton’s lack of integrity — and those 33,000 missing emails — but it turns out Donald Trump uses similar tactics to frustrate his opponents trying get him before the courts.

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Trump ‘compromised’ by Russian spies

A VETERAN spy has reportedly come forward with information about Donald Trump and his ties with Russia, after calls yesterday for the FBI to release “explosive information” on the relationship.

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How big a deal are Clinton’s emails?

DONALD Trump has leapt on fresh revelations in Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, doubling down on his claim the drama is “worse than Watergate”.

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‘Impact had a devastating effect on Earth’

SCIENTISTS have uncovered evidence of a “giant impact” that had a devastating effect on Planet Earth.

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Donald Trump’s number one fan speaks out

SILICON Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, facing a barrage of hatred for his public support of Donald Trump, has warned that what the Republican presidential nominee represents “isn’t crazy and it’s not going away”.

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US deploys bizarre floating ‘golf ball’

PENTAGON chiefs have dispatched its weirdest secret “Star Wars” weapon from Pearl Harbor in Hawaii to intercept North Korean nuclear missiles bound for California.

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Why Google thinks Hillary’s a liar

DONALD Trump’s been calling Hillary Clinton a liar for months, and now it appears Google agrees with him.

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Why Google thinks Hillary’s a liar

DONALD Trump’s been calling Hillary Clinton a liar for months, and now it appears Google agrees with him.

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The hidden cost of Apple’s new product

APPLE’S forthcoming MacBook Pro line-up is the thinnest and fastest ever released by the tech giant.

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MyGov goes down at tax deadline

THOSE scrambling to lodge last financial year’s tax return will have an extra day before the deadline after technical issues with the MyGov website caused people to be locked out of the online platform.

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China’s new stealth fighter jet

CHINA’S newest warplane, the J-20 stealth fighter, will make its first public flight at the Zhuhai Air Show, its manufacturer announced Monday, as Beijing flexes its long-range military muscles.

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Zika could shrink a man’s testicles

NEW research has revealed that the Zika virus could shrivel a man’s testicles, lower his testosterone levels and leave him infertile, experts have warned.

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Zika could shrink a man’s testicles

NEW research has revealed that the Zika virus could shrivel a man’s testicles, lower his testosterone levels and leave him infertile, experts have warned.

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‘Cataclysmic’ shock coming for Australia

MILLIONS of jobs, billions or dollars worth of trade and the stability of the global financial system could be at risk following the “cataclysmic” impact of a Trump victory next Tuesday.

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The boogie-woogiing president’s daughter

A WOMAN believed to be one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two daughters has boogie-woogied her way through a televised rock’n’roll dance competition.

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No justice for ‘single-digit millionaires’

SILICON Valley billionaire Peter Thiel justified his decision to fund Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media on Monday, insisting it’s hard for “a single-digit millionaire” to pursue justice.

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Putin plots while world distracted

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin could launch an all-out assault on Syria while the world is watching the US Presidential election, intelligence sources have suggested.

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Clinton’s ‘second daughter’ dragged into scandal

THE US presidential campaign is entering a frantic final week as both sides grapple with the fallout from the FBI’s announcement surrounding newly discovered emails, and the spotlight is suddenly on Huma Abedin.

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Holocaust hero Wallenberg declared dead

SWEDISH authorities have formally pronounced World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg dead, 71 years after he disappeared in Hungary.

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FBI chief ‘may have broken law’

THE top Senate Democrat has said that FBI Director James Comey may have broken the law when he disclosed 11 days before the election that investigators had newly discovered emails that may be relevant to the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

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‘Might as well have had his eyes closed’

THIS is the harrowing moment a truck driver was caught on camera fatally ploughing into a mum and three children moments after scrolling through music on his mobile phone.

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Fugutive killed in dramatic shootout

A MASSIVE, weeklong manhunt for a suspect in a string of violent crimes, including the killing of two relatives, the shooting of three police officers and multiple carjackings, has ended in a shootout that left the man dead in western Oklahoma.

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Iraqi special forces near IS-held Mosul

IRAQI special forces advanced on the Islamic State-held city of Mosul from the east on Monday, taking heavy fire but entering the last IS-held village before the city’s eastern limits and clearing a path that was followed by army units.

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‘I was stuck with a crazy person’

A DERANGED man who sexually assaulted a young backpacker as she lay partially paralysed from a cliff fall near a popular Thai beach resort has had his sentence halved.

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‘It’s an astronomical amount of money’

THE crowdsourcing goal was modest: $US5,000 ($6,500), enough to help a few dozen people camping in North Dakota to protest the nearby construction of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline. The fund has since topped a staggering $1 million.

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Where has Kim Jong-un’s wife gone?

FEARS are growing for the safety of North Korea’s first lady who has vanished from public view for the past seven months.

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