Singer Madonna ends controversial world tour

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Singer Madonna, plagued by bad press for occasional late start times, for allegedly performing while tipsy, and most recently for accidentally exposing a fan’s breast onstage, wrapped her Rebel Heart world tour with two shows in Sydney, Australia, on Saturday and Sunday.



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Chris Brown responds to visa ban, wants to come to Australia "to discuss domestic violence"

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US singer Chris Brown says he wants to go to Australia to use his influence as an entertainer to raise awareness about domestic violence.
Controversial R ‘n’ B singer Chris Brown, who was this week banned from entering Australia due to a history of domestic violence, has responded...
Chris Brown responds to visa ban, wants to come to Australia "to discuss domestic violence"

2 Nigerian men were arrested in Australia over importation of 40kg drugs concealed in DVD players

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Skyscraper shaped like Beyonce"s body being built in Australia— See Pics

A skyscraper in Melbourne will be shaped like Beyonce’s body.

Beyoncé’s fiercely curvaceous frame is a showstopper for men and women alike. Now, it’s even inspired architecture. The 33-year-old singer’s body is the inspiration for a skyscraper in Australia.

“The twists and turns of this new project belie its pure and simple, first principles rationale… This project is the culmination of our significant research into how to best work with individual site and climatic constraints, brought together using our new parametric modeling techniques,” the firm writes in a statement. “The complex form — a vertical cantilever — is actually the most effective way to redistribute the building’s mass, giving the best results in terms of structural dispersion, frequency oscillation and wind requirements.”

Designers at the Aussie firm Elenberg Fraser say they were drawn to Beyoncé’s “Ghost” music video when projecting what the 68-story Premier Tower at 134 Spencer St. in Melbourne would look like. The building is expected to house retail and residential space and mimics the superstar’s shape in an artistic way and also finds function in its design.

Beyonce at the Met Gala in May 2015.

Beyonce has yet to comment on the tribute which is currently without a planned completion date. 

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Philippines woman killed in Australia by cheap phone charger

Australian authorities issued a warning about cheap, non-compliant USB-style chargers after a young woman died from apparent electrocution while using a laptop and possibly a smart phone.

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The 28-year-old was found wearing headphones and with her computer in her lap with burns on her chest and ears at a home in Gosford, north of Sydney.

Police are still investigating the circumstances of the death but the Department of Fair Trading, which has assisted with the case, suggested a sub-standard mobile phone charger could be to blame.

The woman, whom reports said was from the Philippines but had recently become an Australian citizen, had headphones plugged into her laptop, which was connected to a power socket to charge.

“The phone was also plugged into a USB-style charger. That charger had failed,” Lynelle Collins from the New South Wales Department of Fair Trading said.

“Somehow power from that charger has connected to her body. Whether she had it (the phone) to her ear or was holding it in her hand, we don’t know.”

Collins said ideally people should avoid using their mobile phones while the devices were charging, but in any case they should avoid non-approved chargers.

“We are trying to alert people to the concern that sometimes when you buy really cheap chargers, they aren’t compliant with… (safety) standards,” she said.

Fair Trading said it had removed a number of unapproved and non-compliant USB-style chargers, travel adaptors and power boards from sale in Sydney after the death.

They said the devices did not meet essential safety requirements and were often made of inferior plastics and other insulation materials.

“These devices pose a serious risk of electrocution or fire,” Fair Trading commissioner Rod Stowe said in a statement.

Maximum penalties for selling devices that fail Australian standards are Aus$87,500 (US$82,500) and/or two years imprisonment for an individual and a Aus$875,000 fine for a corporation.

The woman’s death is the only known fatality in Australia potentially linked with the chargers, but a report from China in 2013 suggested a woman was electrocuted while making a call on a phone that was charging.

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Philippines woman killed in Australia by cheap phone charger