Daily Archive for February 23rd, 2010

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Wake up to sleep problems

FORGET Sleepless in Seattle. They are sleepless in Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, the Isa, Kalgoorlie, Kangaroo Island, and the Sunshine Coast.

Trinity’s tribute page trashed

QUEENSLAND police have again been forced to act after offensive material was posted on tribute pages for a murdered Bundaberg girl.

Users create 50m tweets per day

TWITTER users are creating 50 million messages of 140 characters or less each per day, the micro-blogging service said on Monday.

The Yanks are coming

A SmartCompany investigation into the influx of US-based companies targeting the Australian market has revealed at least eight brands set to arrive in 2010.

Weird books vie for oddest title

WORM hunters, lethal robots and Nazi spoons are in the running for Britain’s quirkiest literary award, the Diagram Prize for year’s oddest book title.

Soccer star trapped by excavator

COFFS Harbour soccer star Ben Mackay was trapped under a five tonne excavator that rolled off the side of a truck and toppled down a steep incline yesterday.

Giant George is tallest dog ever

GUINNESS World Records says a Great Dane in the US standing 3 feet, 7 inches (1.09 metres) tall from paw to shoulder is the tallest dog ever on record.

Dubai property prices bottom out

DUBAI’S battered real estate prices have nearly bottomed out and should start to recover, but probably not until at least next year.

Most test tube kids healthy

MORE than 30 years later, researchers say they are finding only a few medical differences between “test-tube” children and kids conceived the traditional way.

Superman comic sells for $US1m

A RARE copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $US1 million ($A1.11 million), smashing a record set just last year.