Waiting Room News 15, June 17 by Nick Moore

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World DOG KILLS: A 5-year-old boy whose home was destroyed in the deadly tornado that swept through Oklahoma last month was killed in a dog attack at the Arkansas home where he had been staying. The bull mastiff attacked when it saw the boy throwing a tantrum, Fox News reported.

Australia BAD BATCH: Ballandean local Joshua Lynam, 26, was the sole survivor of a bad batch of home-distilled alcohol that killed his brother and two friends. Joel Lynam, 21, was found dead at the family's property while Bryan Wilmot, 30, and Vincent Summers, 21, succumbed to methanol poisoning in the days that followed.

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Entertainment CHEF WEDS: TV chef Curtis Stone and actress Lindsay Price could have scored a fortune for a magazine spread of their wedding last week but instead released a couple of photos on social media, Fairfax reported. They married in a private villa on the Spanish island of Mallorca.

Northern Life OLDEST DIES: The world’s oldest man in recorded history, Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura, 116, died. Mr Kimura had been hospitalised for pneumonia since last month. He became the world’s oldest person on December 17th, 2012, after a 115-year-old woman from Iowa died, according to Guinness World Records.

Odd Spot AS at June 15, at least 5109 Americans had died by shooting in the US in the past six months, compared with 4409 US soldiers killed in Iraq in the same period. Source: Online magazine Slate

INDIAN PRINCE: Eliza Kewark, Prince William’s great, great, great, great, great grandmother, was of Indian origin. In 1812, Ms Kewark gave birth to Prince Williams’s maternal great, great, great, great grandmother, Katharine Scott Forbes, a forebear of Princess Diana.

MURDOCH SPLIT: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 82, filed for divorce from his third wife, Wendi Deng, 44, after 14 years of marriage. The couple, who met in China and have two daughters, reportedly had a prenuptial agreement. Murdoch's previous divorce was said to have cost him $1.7 billion. A real pea souper, Wavell Heights, early morning, Wednesday, June 12. BOY BURNED: An 11-year-old boy has been treated for burns after playing with fire and petrol in Melbourne's north-east. He and his brother were dropping burning paper into petrol-filled containers at a house when a fire erupted. The fire brigade said the boy received burns to 30% of his body, ABC News reported. HOON NABBED: A hoon was caught doing 211km/h in an 80km zone in Victoria, News Ltd reported. Frankston police clocked the 2002 Holden Commodore doing more than 130km/h over the speed limit. The disqualified driver, a 30-year-old Doveton man, told police he had never held a licence.

Did You Know? AUSSIE actor Toni Collette, who starred in Muriel's Wedding, faked appendicitis when she was 11 and was so convincing that doctors removed her appendix. Source: The Guardian (London)

KARDASHIAN BUB: Kim Kardashian, 32, gave birth to her first child – a daughter – with boyfriend Kanye West, 36, People.com reported. Her due date was widely reported to be in July. West was by Kardashian's side for the delivery, according to sources.

C Visit issuu.com/waiting-room-news and read Waiting Room News for FREE anytime you like. World RING BLUNDER: A US woman was reunited with her $23,000 engagement ring that her husband accidentally sold at a garage sale for $5. Racquel Cloutier had hidden the ring in an old watch box when she went to the hospital to give birth. The box buyer found the ring and returned it.

Australia GAME PLAN: Big game hunting in the outback could become a tourist attraction under a scheme to allow the shooting of camels, water buffalo and other animals. Feral animals would be shot by game hunters under a “conservation hunting” plan by the Shooters and Fishers Party, which would field candidates in the federal election, News Ltd reported.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROW: A US film company had filed a lawsuit arguing the song Happy Birthday to You is public property and should not be subject to copyright. The song was owned by Warner/Chappell, which collected at least $US2 million a year in licensing fees from films and TV shows, ABC News reported.

Entertainment NIGELLA SHOCK: Images that appeared to show celebrity chef Nigella Lawson being choked by her husband Charles Saatchi had been published in Britain’s Sunday People. The couple were dining at Scott’s in Mayfair when the images were taken, News Ltd reported. HURLEY HITS OUT: Eddie Perfect would invite Shane Warne and Elizabeth Hurley to see his show Shane Warne: The Musical after Hurley slammed the project via social media. The fiancee of Warne tweeted that she was “mystified” about the intent of the stage show and that it would make his kids cry, PerthNow.com.au reported.

A CAMERA-shy Belorussian beaver killed a fisherman, biting into an artery in his leg and causing him to bleed to death. The 60-year-old was trying to photograph the critter when it attacked.

JOBLESS DIP: Unemployment eased slightly to 5.5%, but with almost no new jobs created. The Bureau of Statistics estimates showed unemployment dipped from an upwardly revised 5.6% in April to 5.5% in May. The fall was driven more by a 0.1 percentage point fall in the participation rate than it was by an increase in jobs, Caboolture News reported.

YOTHU Yindi frontman Mandawuy Yunupingu, 56, who died at home last week after a battle with renal disease, was the first Aboriginal person from Arnhem Land to gain a university degree.

MODERATE WIN: Moderate cleric Hassan Rohani won Iran’s presidential election with a defeat of conservative hardliners, calling it a victory of moderation and pledging a new tone of respect in international affairs. Iran had been in a row with the West over its nuclear program.

NET REQUESTS: Federal police were obtaining Australians' phone and net records without warrants nearly 1000 times a week, Fairfax reported. AFP deputy commissioner Michael Phelan told a Senate estimates hearing AFP officers made 43,362 internal requests for “metadata” on Australians' phone and internet records last financial year.

KERR PULL-OUT: Less than three months after being dumped by David Jones, Miranda Kerr was looking to pull her beauty products from the retailer’s shelves. The model was in talks to take her Kora Organics range to rival department store chain Myer, News Ltd reported.

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BRITISH women spent 59 days of their lives shaving their legs, a study found. And 35% of women polled said it was their least favourite beauty chore. The second most detested was hairstyling, with eyebrow plucking third.

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$US6 BILLION - that’s how much tax the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, says he’s paid in total. He has given $28 billion to charity and was still worth $56 billion. His three kids will inherit ‘just’ $10 million each. Source: Guardian, Fairfax

I don’t personally know how you can walk out on children but that’s his choice, he has to live with it.”

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ACCORDING to Aboriginal legend, there is a cave on the Wessel Islands off Australia’s north filled with doubloons and weaponry of an ancient era. African 1000-year-old coins had been found on the islands, News Ltd reported.

— The Voice favourite Harrison Craig, talking about his father who left the family 13 years ago when Craig was aged 5.

C BE KIND: Please place me back neatly for the next person to enjoy. THANK YOU! SHORT WORK: Boffin had invented a pair of shorts that charge your mobile, TheSun.co.uk reported. The Power Shorts stored energy to boost the wearer's phone battery whilst they were on the move. By going for a stroll in the shorts, an average person generated enough energy to power up a battery for four hours.

ANXIETY, or excessive worrying, is the most common psychological problem in Australia and affects 14% of the population, according to the Bureau of Statistics. SOCCER RISK: Soccer players who frequently head-butted the ball - a common tactic for passing or scoring might be risking brain injury, memory loss, and impaired cognitive ability, according to a study in the journal Radiology, National Geograhic reported.

Odd Spot A RECORD-setting 5.7m Burmese python was killed with a knife in a rural US county, after it wrapped itself around the leg of the man trying to capture it. It beat the previous record by more than 30cm, Fairfax reported.

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OFFICE ARRIVES: Microsoft’s Office software came to the iPhone for the first time, offering people the ability to read and edit their text documents, spreadsheets and slide presentations at the doctor’s office or at a soccer game. The company isn’t making an iPad version, though, nor is it offering the app on Android devices. BALLOON NET: Internet giant Google launched a plan to use a ring of huge balloons to provide internet to the two-thirds of the world currently without web access. Project Loon leader Richard DeVaul says the technology could increase internet access to countries such as Africa, and in South-East Asia, ABC News reported.

Fun Fact THE sun’s core is so hot that a piece of it the size of a pinhead would give off enough heat to kill a person 160km away. Source: QI television show

But life isn’t all about cheap holidays and cut-price Nikons. Our manufacturing sector suffered under a high dollar ...”

Q: Which singer had a hit with the 1988 dance track The Only Way is Up?

LOANS RISE: Official figures showed the number of new home loans around Australia rose slightly in April. The ABS figures showed a seasonally adjusted rise of 0.8%. Lenders granted 48,475 loans in April, compared with 47,566 in March. It is the fourth consecutive monthly rise. BANKS BATTLE: Australia’s major banks were facing increasing competition from major foreign banks in mortgages, with HSBC cutting its two-year fixedrate home loan for new customers by 90 basis points to 4.59% - the lowest in the market and below its variable rate of 4.99%, News Ltd reported.

CANCER BLOW: Professional women were more susceptible to breast cancer, research revealed. The study found women in professional jobs had a nearly 70% higher risk of breast cancer, the Independent reported. The research was based on a 55-year study of women who were in their 30s in the 1970s.

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Q: Is Eimeo a seaside suburb of Mackay, Cairns or Bundaberg?

A: Yazz

A: Mackay

Q: What did Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Everest, do for a

Q: Via lactea is the classical Latin name for which celestial body?

Did You Know? AT some point, genes from at least eight retroviruses became incorporated into human DNA. They now perform important functions in reproduction, yet are entirely alien to our genetic ancestry. CAUGHT CHEATING: Singapore’s monetary authority censured banks for trying to rig benchmark interest rates, Bloomberg reported. A total of 133 traders at 290 banks tried to manipulate the Singapore interbank offered rate, swap offered rates and currency benchmarks.

Did You Know? THE antioxidant concentration in hot cocoa was almost twice as strong as red wine, two to three times stronger than green tea and four to five times stronger than black tea, a study at Cornell University determined.

— Mark Bouris, chairman of financial services group Yellow Brick Road, writing for Fairfax about the weakening Aussie.

Q: In grammar, ‘the slimy snake slithered slowly’ is an example of what? Q: Is Helsinki the capital city of Norway, Sweden or Finland? A: Finland

GENE WIN: A US Court ruled human genes cannot be patented, USA Today reported. The decision was a victory for cancer patients, researchers and geneticists who claimed one company's patent raised costs, restricted research and forced women to unnecessarily remove breasts or ovaries.

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A: He was a beekeeper

C BE KIND: Please place me back neatly for the next person to enjoy. THANK YOU! Health SUNSHINE FIND: Low levels of vitamin D could trigger high blood pressure, a study showed. UK scientists had shown a direct genetic link between lacking the “sunshine” vitamin and hypertension, or high blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart attacks and stroke, News Ltd reported.

Science FIRST ARRIVALS: The first anatomically modern humans almost certainly arrived in southern Asia within the past 70,000 years, having dispersed as small groups of pioneer settlers along coastal regions from Africa, say UK scientists who used genetic and archaeological evidence, ABC Science reported.

VOLUNTEER BENEFIT: Older adults had a lower risk of hypertension if they did at least 200 hours of volunteer service in the previous year, a survey showed. During a 4-year follow-up, people who volunteered for at least 200 hours had 40% lower odds for new-onset hypertension, website MedPageToday.com reported.

Fun Fact THERE are 200-400 billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, and a German supercomputer calculated there were 500 billion galaxies in the universe. Source: BBC Schools online

HORMONE WORRY: The number of middle-aged American men with prescriptions for testosterone was climbing rapidly, raising concerns that increasing numbers of men were abusing the powerful hormone to boost their libidos and feel younger, The New York Times reported.

Odd Spot PEOPLE’S closest friendships were formed with their colleagues – particularly if their workplace environment was stressful, research conducted by the Lancaster University in the UK concluded.

Business $82K PARK SPOT: A buyer paid $US82,000 in cash for a parking spot in a San Francisco apartment building to park his Porsche SUV, WBTV.com reported. The real estate agent who sold the space said he sold another spot in the same building for $US95,000 a few years ago. BAKE FAKE: Coles admitted only a third of its stores in Australia baked bread from scratch, despite claiming their products were “baked today, sold today”. The rest of their products, including muffins, pastries and croissants, were partially baked, frozen or “finished off” in an oven, Fairfax reported.

OFF TUNE: People classified with perfect pitch might not actually be as in tune with the notes they hear as they thought. Played a long piece of music, a study group failed to notice when scientists turned the tones slightly flat. They then misidentified in-tune sounds as being sharp, BBC News reported. DINOSAUR DISCOVERY: A graveyard of large dinosaur bones was found by The Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum near Winton in central west Queensland. Field palaeontologist David Elliott said he had not seen this many large dinosaur bones in one area for a decade, Weekly Times reported online.

Fun Fact IF YOU drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other side. Source: QI television show

Did You Know? AT the Santa Rita do Sapucaí jail in Brazil, inmates can pedal to generate electricity in return for a cut in their sentences - a day off for every 16 hours of effort on bikes hooked up to batteries. TIGHTER SQUEEZE: American Airlines was said to be planning to squeeze in more seats on many of its planes. The measure was aimed at increasing revenues after its merger with US Airlines. An increase in seats would require an additional flight attendant, GizmoCrave.com reported.

Did You Know? AN original Apple-1 sold for $US640,000 at an auction in Germany in November. The computer was priced at $US666.66 (about $US2700 in current money) when made in 1976, The New York Times reported.

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

Q: Who wrote the novels Rage, Monsoon, Warlock, and Men of Men?

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