Twins Separated from Bangladesh Intensive Care: Hospital

SYDNEY news update: Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna have left intensive care as they continue their remarkable recovery from surgery to separate their conjoined heads, the hospital said.
The two-year-old girls, rescued from a Dhaka orphanage, moved to a shared room on the normal ward on Monday, just a week after the 32-hour operation to disconnect their fused skulls, brains and blood vessels.

“They are sharing a room together and settling into their new environment,” Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital said in a statement.

“The girls are getting to know the new staff who will be caring for them now that they have left intensive care.”

The twins’ heads remain heavily bandaged but they have appeared otherwise well, with Trishna awake and talking two days after surgery and Krishna blowing a signature raspberry when she was woken from a medical coma on Saturday.

Their condition has amazed medical staff who nursed them back to fitness after they arrived in fading health from Bangladesh two years ago, and gave them just a 25 percent chance of both recovering completely from the separation.

“We’re all so proud of our children’s hospital and we’re so proud of the quality of the nurses and the staff and the doctors that we’ve got there,” Victoria state Premier John Brumby told Fairfax radio.

“This was just another great example where these two children, who I think, to be honest, many of us thought were not going to get through, have come through, fingers crossed at this stage, with flying colours.”

The girls’ 22-year-old mother, who was unable to care for the sickly babies and handed them to an orphanage soon after their birth, has said she hopes to travel to Australia to see them.

Death Proof, Death Proof Cast

Death Proof, Death Proof Cast: Quentin Tarantino has earned his name, Total Film named him the 12th greatest director of all time. He has won an Academy, a Golden Globe ,BAFTA and the esteemed Palme d’Or Awards, while also being nominated for an Emmy and a Grammy.

Not bad for a guy born in 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and a son of a health care executive /nurse, and a musician.

His heritage stemming from, Italian American from his father and Irish and Cherokee Native American Indian.

He has directed some of the 90’s most watched films such as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and Jackie Brown.
His debut to films was after dropping out of school at the age of 15 and with his childhood friend Adam Olis, began making movies in his backyard.

One popular film Death Proof was written as well as Directed by Tarentino. It stars Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell, Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan, Jordan Ladd, Vanessa Ferlito, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Tracie Thoms and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

It centres around a psychopathic man who stalks young women before takig to murdering them in staged car accidents using his “death proof” stunt car.

It was released Theatrically in the States as part of a double feature with Planet Terror by Robert Rodriguez. IT was also released on DVD outside the States.

It is a film paying tribute to muscle cars, slasher films and exploitation, popular back in the 1970’s.
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Kylie Minogue’s bedding line ‘Kylie at Home’ popular in UK

Aussie pop princess Kylie Minogue is fast becoming popular among UK shoppers, with her new bedding line ‘Kylie at Home’ doing a brisk business. ‘Kylie at Home’ offers a range of bed linen, cushions and throws, making Minogue, 41, the latest newly fledged soft-goods designer. The range, co-designed with UK home furnishing company Ashley Wilde, is a girlie, slightly camp cornucopia of satin, taffeta, sequins and sparkles inspired by the Showgirl tour’s feathered headdresses and Minogue’s grandmother Nain

Declared Disaster, Floods in Australia

SYDNEY : Australian authorities declared a natural disaster along parts of the country’s east coast on Saturday as heavy floods cut the main road linking major cities, stranding thousands of people.

Torrential rain soaked the Coffs Harbour region north of Sydney overnight, swamping the arterial Pacific Highway with flash floodwaters that isolated almost 5,000 people, emergency officials said.

About 40 people had to be evacuated from the area hit by the raging floods and New South Wales emergency services minister Steve Whan declared a natural disaster, releasing state funds.

More than 500 millimetres (20 inches) of rain had fallen in the past two days, Whan said, in the fifth major flooding incident to hit the region this year.

“I guess one of the things we’ve seen predicted from climate change consistently is that the rain and the weather events will come in more storms and more short-term deluges,” he said. “Unfortunately that’s the pattern that we seem to be seeing this year in the area.”

Floodwaters were expected to peak at five metres (yards) at Coffs Harbour on Saturday afternoon before easing, the State Emergency Service said, describing as “drastic” the cumulative effect of recent downpours.

“Weather conditions have eased considerably over the last few hours. However, we still have some 4,800 people isolated by floodwaters in a number of north-coast communities,” said SES spokesman Phil Campbell.

Intense storms hit the east coast late last month, generating more than 10,000 lightning strikes and disrupting train and flight services.

Tens of thousands of homes and businesses were blacked out and a man was killed when his car hit a tree in torrential rains.

Britain’s Prince William to visit Australia, New Zealand

SYDNEY : Britain’s Prince William will embark on his first official tour of the Commonwealth in January, visiting Australia and New Zealand to ‘get to know’ the people, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Monday.

Prince William, second in line to the British throne, will travel to Sydney and Melbourne from January 19-21 after opening New Zealand’s new Supreme Court in Wellington.

“The visit originated from a request to the government of Australia by Prince William to visit the country so as to begin to get to know Australia and its people,” Rudd said in a statement.

The visit, Prince William’s first since he travelled here as an infant in 1983 with the Prince and Princess of Wales, is likely to renew debate about Australia’s status as a constitutional monarchy.

Queen Elizabeth II, New Zealand and Australia’s head of state, is regarded with much affection here and Rudd, although an avowed republican, has said that cutting Australia’s ties with the British monarchy is not a priority.

Prince William will meet a broad range of Australians as he focuses on his “core interests” of supporting defence personnel, helping young people fulfil their potential, and sustainable development, Rudd said.

“The Prince will also use the visit to learn more about local indigenous issues and visit the bushfire-ravaged countryside in Victoria,” he added.

British media have reported that the 27-year-old prince has arranged the visit during a break in his training to become a helicopter pilot with the Royal Air Force.

Pammie denies appearance in reality show

Actress Pamela Anderson has rubbished reports that she is set to star in a high profile British reality TV show.

The ‘Baywatch’ babe insists she will never lay her life bare for the cameras.

Anderson was reportedly approached by TV executives for two U.K. series ‘I”m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here’ and ‘Celebrity Big Brother’.

However, she has vowed never to appear in reality programmes.

“Hell, no! No way, no. Never. Absolutely not. No and no,” the Daily Express quoted her as saying.

Lindsay flees her thief-ransacked Hollywood Hills home

‘Mean Girls’ star Lindsay Lohan has left her thief-ransacked Hollywood Hills home and moved into a condo.

Lohan, 23, moved to the West Hollywood condo with tight security after telling pals she felt her mansion had been “tainted” by the burglars.

“Lindsay moved in at 3 a.m. a few weeks ago to give the paparazzi and any other prospective burglars the slip,” the New York Post quoted a source as saying.

The actress, who was a victim of the Beverly Hills Burglar Bunch, had 128,000 dollars in cash and designer clothes stolen from her home on August 23.

Anna Friel turns ghosthunter!

English actress Anna Friel anticipates meeting the ghosts of Audrey Hepburn and Truman Capote at the London’’s Royal Haymarket Theatre after hearing rumors of supernatural happenings on the stage in the past.

The Pushing Daisies star is presently performing in a stage version of Audrey Hepburn’’s 1961 classic Breakfast At Tiffany’’s at the venue.

“Everyone keeps talking about this ghost. Supposedly I think that Capote is in the corner or Audrey Hepburn is there watching, but I”ve never seen her,” the Daily Star quoted her as saying.

Actor Patrick Stewart had earlier reported experiencing the presence of supernatural elements while performing in ‘Waiting for Godot’.

Friel added: “Patrick Stewart, who was in Godot beforehand, said he saw it on-stage and it came out of a box. I keep looking now!”

“The music in my room has gone up a few times but I just put it down to an electrical glitch.”

Beauty queen Rachael Finch enters Celebrity MasterChef semi-finals

Miss Universe Australia Rachael Finch is turning on the heat with her culinary skills- she has entered the semi-final on Celebrity MasterChef.

The beauty beat SBS Dateline host George Negus and Sydney Swans player Ryan O”Keefe to reach the next stage.

Finch apparently wants to get rid of the stereotype that models generally don’t have a preference for food.

“Travelling around the world, wherever you go, people think that models don”t eat,”” the Daily Telegraph quoted her as saying.

“I can tell you I love food and love cooking, and that’’s why I really wanted to go on the show. I”m half Ukrainian, I”m always eating,” she added.

She won the judges praise with Atlantic salmon and crepes, apart from winning the pressure test with a complicated scollop and truffle tart.

Australian cricketer Simon Katich, INXS vocalist Kirk Pengilly, Biggest Loser trainer Michelle Bridges and Olympic swimmer Eamon Sullivan are some of the other contestants who have made it to the semi-final.

Thousands gather worldwide on day of climate protests (AFP)

AFP – Kicking off with thousands gathering on the steps of Sydney’s iconic Opera House, global warming protests took place around the world Saturday to mark 50 days before the UN climate summit.

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