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As you are probably now aware, Oscars presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway called out the wrong winner for the best picture award yesterday at the Academy Awards. But who are they?
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, human-interest, community-and-society, united-states
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| UpdatedTwo tourists are paying SpaceX an undisclosed sum to take a trip around the Moon in 2018, in what would be the first privately funded space flight beyond the International Space Station.
Topics: space-exploration, astronomy-space, united-states
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Muhammad Ali's son and former partner speak out about being detained by airport officials in Florida, describing it as religious profiling and "the kind of wrong" the boxing great fought against.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, united-states
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| UpdatedAlmost 1,000 English Bulldogs — and their owners — come together in Mexico City in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest number of the breed concentrated in one place.
Topics: human-interest, animals, mexico
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| UpdatedAbu Sayyaf extremists in the Philippines release a video showing the beheading of German hostage Jurgen Gustav Kantner, in the first sign the brutal Filipino militants carried out a threat to kill him after a ransom deadline lapsed over the weekend.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, philippines, germany, asia
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Japanese auto parts maker Takata pleads guilty to fraud and agrees to pay a $1.3 billion penalty for concealing a deadly defect in millions of its air bags.
Topics: automotive, corruption, united-states
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| UpdatedLeicester City finally decides to show up, thumping Liverpool 3-1 days after sacking miracle-worker manager Claudio Ranieri.
Topics: sport, soccer, english-premier, england
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Formula One moves with the times, relaxing social media rules to allow teams to interact with fans with live footage and short-form videos from the paddock.
Topics: sport, motor-sports, formula-1, social-media, spain
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| UpdatedAn Australian producer whose image was mistakenly used in the In Memoriam segment at the Oscars says she is "alive and well", and was "devastated" by the use of her image in place of her collaborator.
Topics: academy-awards-oscars, event, film-movies, human-interest, united-states
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New antibiotics need to be developed urgently to combat 12 families of bacteria, the World Health Organisation says, describing these "priority pathogens" as the greatest threats to human health.
Topics: health, diseases-and-disorders, medical-research, doctors-and-medical-professionals, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedCambodia cancels a counter-terrorism exercise with Australia, just two months after holding its first major army drills with China.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, terrorism, world-politics, cambodia
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| UpdatedWarren Beatty and Faye Dunaway read out the wrong best picture winner in "the craziest Oscar moment of all time", but how did it happen?
Topics: academy-awards-oscars, united-states
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump proposes a $US54 billion ($70 billion) increase in military spending to be funded by cuts elsewhere in government, including in foreign aid, the White House says.
Topics: budget, government-and-politics, world-politics, defence-and-aerospace-industries, defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, donald-trump, us-elections, united-states
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| UpdatedSeconds after La La Land mistakenly receives the Best Picture award at this year's Oscars the internet responds with shock, horror and amusement.
Topics: academy-awards-oscars, awards-and-prizes, arts-and-entertainment, united-states
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Police in Papua New Guinea appeal for help to capture Joshua Kaluvia, one of the killers of Iranian asylum seeker Reza Barati, after he escaped from jail for a second time.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, crime, refugees, immigration, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThousands of civilians flee western Mosul as government forces continue to push Islamic State militants back in their last key stronghold in Iraq.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, terrorism, iraq
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| UpdatedThe most coveted award of the Oscars descends into chaos, with an unprecedented blunder seeing La La Land mistakenly named the Best Picture winner, instead of Moonlight.
Topics: academy-awards-oscars, event, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, human-interest, awards-and-prizes, actor, united-states
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| UpdatedJimmy Kimmel singles out some of Hollywood's elite while hosting the 88th annual Academy Awards. We take a look at some of the highlights from his Oscars debut.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, comedy-humour, human-interest, united-states
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| UpdatedThe Iranian winner of best foreign language film condemns Donald Trump's "inhumane" US travel ban, after boycotting the awards "out of respect for the people of my country".
Topics: academy-awards-oscars, event, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, human-interest, awards-and-prizes, actor, united-states
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| UpdatedDonald Trump is bypassing mainstream media outlets, which he calls "fake news", and giving favour to conservative news organisations. So how should the media respond?
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, media, united-states