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Hospital workers visiting the home of a 79-year-old woman from the Caulfield area found the skeleton of a dead dog, rooms piled with rubbish and discarded cigarettes.

When you can't see squalor

The Caulfield woman's beloved dog had decomposed on the floor, her fridge was packed with rotting food and a box had become her toilet.

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Is buying a beach box worth it?

Anita Josefsson at her beach box on Mills Beach.

Iconic rainbow-coloured bathing boxes have potential to be a more shrewd property investment than a house.

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Student filmed bashing dog on balcony

The Samoyed got to its feet after being repeatedly whipped with the coat hanger, only to be hit again.

Chinese university student banned from owning animals for five years after neighbour recorded him violently kicking his pet.

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'I have a terrible regret'

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015 file photo, Sean Penn speaks during a forum with young entrepreneurs during the IMF and World Bank annual meeting in Lima, Peru. Late Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, Rolling Stone magazine published an interview that Guzman apparently gave to Penn in his hideout in Mexico months before his recapture. In the article and interview, Penn describes the complicated measures he took to meet the legendary drug lord. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Sean Penn says officials are trying to put him in the cross-hairs of feared drug cartel after El Chapo's capture.

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Detention centre self-harm 'epidemic'

Mohammad Albederee at the Manus Island detention centre.
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A culture of self-harm among asylum seekers in Australian detention centres looks to have reached crisis point.

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$A plunges, global stocks tumble

"Markets have to go through several stages and right now they're just holding their head and crying.": Wall Street is getting increasingly pessimistic about an imminent recovery.

Market carnage cntinues with the Aussie dollar tumbling to its lowest mark since April 2009 and global stocks falling sharply. 

2016: The year of the bear

Ripples from oil's extended price slump are threatening to spread and slow global growth further.

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Hoodlum's journey to Hollywood

Hoodlum Entertainment's Tracey Robertson at the company's Brisbane offices: 'I'm a producer, that's what we do. We just make things happen from nothing.'
Dominic White

A US network series commission is a life-changing moment for any producer, as Tracey Robertson found out.

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Is your business toast? 

David Sonter's business burnt to the ground but he says "the gloves come off in a good way" between businesses which are usually rivals.
Caroline James

Disasters like bushfires, floods and hail storms can all destroy an unprepared business.

In praise of boredom

Nowhere else (besides, say, a prison) is this pain of endless boredom more acute than in the workplace.
James Adonis

We live in a world petrified of boredom but maybe a little ennui is not such a bad thing.

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