Amazon outage causes chaos

AMAZON’S giant servers crashed today causing chaos for millions of companies and people that use the cloud service and affected everything from larger web sites to people’s smarthomes and even library catalogues.

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Queensland will keep sweltering

BRISBANE has sweltered through its hottest summer on record, with an average temperature 2C warmer than normally felt at this time of year.

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Top bags for your hi-tech gear

TECH bags have come along way from the very standard, and very ugly, black briefcase with a section for a laptop.

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Possible cult link in jogger case

THE kidnapping of a California mum who was found bound and beaten on the side of a road three weeks later might be connected to a “cult,” according to a new report.

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Dark past of accidental Oscars star

ACCIDENTAL Oscars star “Gary from Chicago” has a dark role in his past — as an ex-con who served more than 22 years in prison for attempted rape.

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U2 sued for $6.5m over ‘song theft’

IRISH rockers U2 are being sued by a British songwriter and guitarist who claims they stole one of his songs for their blockbuster 1991 album, Achtung Baby.

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Nurse ‘secretly filmed naked patients’

A NURSE allegedly took secret photographs and videos of eight naked patients — including a 17-year-old girl — during appointments at a dermatology office in the US.

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