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Dustin Hoffman accused of sexual harassment

Dustin Hoffman accused of sexual harassment

Dustin Hoffman accused sexual harassment

Dustin Hoffman accused sexual harassment, Dustin Hoffman has been accused of sexual harassment against a 17-year-old intern in 1985.

Writer Anna Graham Hunter alleges that the actor, now 80, groped her on the set of TV movie Death of a Salesman and spoke inappropriately about sex with her.

“He asked me to give him a foot massage my first day on set; I…

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Liberal Stephen Parry to resign over dual British citizenship

Liberal Stephen Parry to resign over dual British citizenship

Liberal Stephen Parry resign dual British citizenship

Liberal Stephen Parry resign dual British citizenship, The president of the Senate, Liberal Stephen Parry, has announced he will resign from parliament after being told by UK authorities that he holds British citizenship.

Parry announced on Tuesday that he believed his father’s British birth may have put him in the same position as Coalition…

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Japanese man killed & dismembered nine victims over two months

Japanese man killed & dismembered nine victims over two months

Japanese man killed dismembered nine victims two months

Japanese man killed dismembered nine victims two months, A Japanese man arrested after police found nine dismembered corpses in his house has confessed to killing all of his young victims over a period of two months after contacting them via Twitter, according to media reports.

Takahiro Shiraishi, 27, has also confessed he “assaulted” all of…

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Australian state minister apologises after Irish 'racism' row

Australian state minister apologises after Irish ‘racism’ row

Australian state minister apologises Irish ‘racism’ row

Australian state minister apologises Irish ‘racism‘ row, An Australian state minister has apologized for a “racist” claim that people should beware of anyone arriving at their home with an Irish accent, following a series of household scams involving British and Irish backpackers.

In comments that caused an uproar among the Irish community…

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Eight dead as truck hits cyclists in New York attack

Eight dead as truck hits cyclists in New York attack

Eight dead truck hits cyclists New York attack

Eight dead truck hits cyclists New York attack, the Uzbek national who plowed through a New York bicycle path, killing eight people, was associated with Islamic State but “radicalised domestically,” the state’s governor Andrew Cuomo has said.

The suspect, 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov, was shot by police at the end of the rampage in lower Manhattan…

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Scientists have designed virtual human brain cells

Scientists have designed virtual human brain cells

Scientists have designed virtual human brain cells

Scientists have designed virtual human brain cells,For centuries, scientists who have dedicated their lives to studying the human brain have attempted to unlock its mysteries

The role the brain plays in human personality — as well as the myriad of disorders and conditions that come along with it — is often difficult to study because studying the…

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Winner of the WTA Elite Trophy in Coco Bhandev

Winner of the WTA Elite Trophy in Coco Bhandev

Winner of the WTA Elite Trophy in Coco Bhandev

ZHUHAI, China (AP) — Second-seeded CoCo Vandeweghe opened the WTA Elite Trophy with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Chinese wild-card entry Peng Shuai on Tuesday.

Vandeweghe overcame a slow start and two service breaks in the first set, recovering to finish with six aces and converting five of her eight break-point chances in the Bougainvillea group.

“I…

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Dustin Hoffman accused of sexual harassment

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Dustin Hoffman accused of sexual harassment

Dustin Hoffman accused sexual harassment

Dustin Hoffman accused sexual harassment, Dustin Hoffman has been accused of sexual harassment against a 17-year-old intern in 1985.

Writer Anna Graham Hunter alleges that the actor, now 80, groped her on the set of TV movie Death of a Salesman and spoke inappropriately about sex with her.

“He asked me to give him a foot massage my first day on set; I did,” Hunter wrote in the Hollywood Reporter. “He was openly flirtatious, he grabbed my ass, he talked about sex to me and in front of me. One morning I went to his dressing room to take his breakfast order; he looked at me and grinned, taking his time. Then he said, ‘I’ll have a hard-boiled egg … and a soft-boiled clitoris.’ His entourage burst out laughing. I left, speechless. Then I went to the bathroom and cried.”

Hunter detailed Hoffman’s alleged treatment of her over her five weeks on set in a diary that she mailed to her sister at the time. “Today, when I was walking Dustin to his limo, he felt my ass four times,” she wrote. “I hit him each time, hard, and told him he was a dirty old man.”

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She claims that on set, she was told to put up with his behavior by a supervisor who told her to “sacrifice” some of her values for the sake of the production.

“At 49, I understand what Dustin Hoffman did as it fits into the larger pattern of what women experience in Hollywood and everywhere,” she wrote, looking back. “He was a predator, I was a child, and this was sexual harassment. As to how it fits into my own pattern, I imagine I’ll be figuring that out for years to come.”

Hoffman has responded to the article with an apology: “I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. I am sorry. It is not reflective of who I am.”

The Tootsie star’s reputation has often been troubling. On the set of Kramer vs Kramer, he slapped Meryl Streep to improve her performance in a dramatic scene while also taunting her about the death of her boyfriend. “I was getting divorced, I’d been partying with drugs and it depleted me in every way,” Hoffman said of his behavior at the time.

The story comes after a deluge of similar stories of sexual harassment within Hollywood against producer Harvey Weinstein, film-maker James Toback and actor Kevin Spacey. Today has also seen six women accuse director Brett Ratner of sexual harassment, including actors Natasha Henstridge and Olivia Munn.

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Mars might have ‘levitating’ sand

Mars might have ‘levitating’ sand

Mars might have ‘levitating’ sand

Mars might have ‘levitating’ sand,Mars’ sand can walk on water.

During summers on Mars, the combination of warm temperatures, deposits of ice and the planet’s thin atmosphere could be causing sand to levitate.

Mars can get as hot as 70 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer which melts some of the planet’s ice deposits.

But Mars’ atmosphere, which has just…

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Tigers return ultimately measured by performance

Tigers return ultimately measured by performance

Tigers return ultimately measured

Tigers return ultimately measured, Tiger Woods still has more majors than comebacks.

But the gap is narrowing.

Woods said he will return to competition at the Hero World Challenge the week after Thanksgiving — an 18-man field in the Bahamas with no cut — just over seven months after fusion surgery. That was his fourth back surgery in a little more than two years,…

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NASA releases stunning ‘jack-o-lantern’ sun image

NASA releases stunning ‘jack-o-lantern’ sun image

NASA releases stunning ‘jack-o-lantern’ sun image

NASA releases stunning ‘jack-o-lantern’ sun image,An incredible image released by NASA shows the Sun bearing a striking resemblance to a jack-o-lantern.

The image was captured on Oct. 8, 2014 by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which watches the Sun at all times. The orbiting space observatory was launched on Feb. 11, 2010.

“Happy…

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Liberal Stephen Parry to resign over dual British citizenship

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Liberal Stephen Parry to resign over dual British citizenship

Liberal Stephen Parry resign dual British citizenship

Liberal Stephen Parry resign dual British citizenship, The president of the Senate, Liberal Stephen Parry, has announced he will resign from parliament after being told by UK authorities that he holds British citizenship.

Parry announced on Tuesday that he believed his father’s British birth may have put him in the same position as Coalition colleagues Fiona Nash and Barnaby Joyce, who were ousted from the parliament over their dual citizenship.

On Wednesday afternoon Parry said it was with a “heavy heart” he has been informed he is a dual citizen through descent and used his statement to thank colleagues and constituents for the past six-and-a-half years he sat in the Senate.

He will formally resign on Thursday.

Liberal Stephen Parry to resign over dual British citizenship

With Parry’s resignation – which he garnished with a quote from Abraham Lincoln, writing, “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me” – 10% of the Senate has been made to resign for section 44 concerns since the July election.

Parry’s vacancy is likely to be filled by the former tourism minister Richard Colbeck, who lost his Senate seat in a factional war with Eric Abetz before the last election, which ended with Colbeck relegated to fifth on the Tasmanian Senate ticket. There are some questions over whether Colbeck’s subsequent work, including sitting on a Tasmanian government working group, could be considered vulnerable to challenge under the part of section 44 that prohibits indirect profit from an office of the crown. However, earlier this week, Liberals appeared confident Colbeck would be able to take up the position.

Parry’s decisions as president of the Senate are not believed to be under examination. While the president does have some executive functions, similar to the Speaker position in the lower house, the decisions are made by the Senate chamber itself.

The governor general can accept resignations from senators, if the president is not available, under the constitution.

But while Parry’s position may not cause the government the same issues it potentially faces from decisions the former ministers Nash and Joyce made, there is anger and bemusement the Tasmanian representative oversaw six referrals to the high court for citizenship conflicts and did not consider his own until after Friday’s high court ruling.

The soon-to-be-vacant presidency is already the subject of debate within the Coalition, with the lucrative position, which adds a further 75% of a senator’s $199,040 base salary, seeing interest from the Nationals’ John “Wacca” Williams and the Liberals’ Ian Macdonald.

Traditionally, the position has belonged to a Liberal MP when the Coalition has been in government.

Labor has compared the Turnbull government to a “soap opera” as it seeks to capitalise on the latest citizenship crisis.

Labor, though continuing to hose down calls for an audit, seems content to let the “death by a thousand cuts” saga play out and has latched on to Parry’s belated check as proof of a government in “chaos”.

“We’ve got members of parliament dropping like flies, we’ve got the leader of the Nationals one minute saying that he’s absolutely confident that he’s eligible to be in the House of Representatives, and the next minute telling us he always had a gut feeling that he wasn’t eligible,” the acting opposition leader, Tanya Plibersek, said.

“We’ve got internal fighting over who’s going to replace Fiona Nash, with the Liberals and the Nationals at each other’s throats.

“We’ve got Barnaby Joyce saying that the Liberals should be grateful to the Nationals for the fact they’re in government at all.

“We’ve got Larry Anthony saying that the Coalition agreement holds but only for now. We’ve got Julie Bishop doing her best to elbow the prime minister out of the way while he’s out of the country.

“Now, in the last 24 hours, the revelation that despite the fact the government has assured Australians that everything’s just fine, there’s been another senator whose eligibility is under doubt. This isn’t a government, it’s a soap opera.”

Government MPs have been sent out to do their best to hose down Labor’s calls of chaos, with Bridget McKenzie telling Sky the government has been calmly dealing with the challenges section 44 has presented, while acting prime minister Julie Bishop said there was no need for panic or hubris.

“The business of parliament will continue, of course we would rather not be in this position but we will deal with it.”

But, behind the scenes, the government is examining what impact Joyce and Nash’s decisions may have had. Penny Wong has written to Bishop to ask about “the loss of potentially invalid decisions the attorney general is now considering”.

The Greens have continued to push for a full citizenship audit of all MPs, which has been embraced by some Coalition members, including Craig Kelly and Eric Abetz, but is unlikely to win enough support to succeed.

Speaking to Sky following Parry’s announcement, Kelly expanded his call for an audit to include candidates at the last election, using the rationale that preferences from the Greens helped elect Labor MPs.

“The high court has ruled on this, you are disqualified from the last election, therefore we should actually have a look at the last election, especially in seats where the sitting member of parliament is only there because they got the preferences from a Greens candidate,” he said.

“We have several of the Greens knocked out in the Senate, how many of those Greens candidates whose preferences got Labor members over the line actually weren’t qualified to be on the ballot paper?”

Labor maintains its party vetting processes have been stringent enough to catch any potential issues before a candidate nominates or, in harder cases, like Sam Dastyari, that enough “reasonable steps” to renounce potential conflicts have been taken to meet the high court’s test.

Examinations of Coalition MPs’ family backgrounds are understood to be continuing, following Friday’s high court ruling that citizenship by descent is in conflict with section 44.

“Fingers are crossed there are no more but it’ll be through luck more than anything else,” a Coalition source said.

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Rose keeps alive his streak of winning

Rose keeps alive his streak of winning

Rose keeps alive his streak of winning

SHANGHAI (AP) — Justin Rose was down to his last couple of events when he rallied from eight shots behind at the HSBC Champions to keep alive an important streak. This is his eighth consecutive year with at least one victory.

His streak on the PGA Tour ended last year, though Rose counts the gold medal he won in the Olympics.

“I’ve prided myself on winning…

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Muellers Witch Hunt Finds Nothing on Trump

Muellers Witch Hunt Finds Nothing on Trump

Muellers Witch Hunt Finds Nothing

Muellers Witch Hunt Finds Nothing, It’s no surprise that the Russian-Trump collusion was nothing but a sham or distraction from the real news. Obama and the Democrats were hoping most Americans weren’t paying attention to real news so they could keep you focused on this fake news story. However, we all know the Russian-Trump collusion has been nothing more than a…

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Philadelphia Eagles trade Dolphins

Philadelphia Eagles trade Dolphins

Philadelphia Eagles trade Dolphins

Philadelphia Eagles trade Dolphins The Philadelphia Eagles are all-in to try and make a Super Bowl run. The Eagles traded a 2018 fourth round pick to the Miami Dolphins in exchange for running back Jay Ajayi, according to multiple reports, ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline. The Eagles run game was already solid — fifth in rushing for 129.2 yards per game —but…

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NASA releases eerie playlist of spellbinding space sounds

NASA releases eerie playlist of spellbinding space sounds

NASA releases eerie playlist of spellbinding space sounds

NASA releases eerie playlist of spellbinding space sounds,We all already know that there are lots and lots of spooky places here on Earth. That weird abandoned house a few blocks over might give you chills when you drive by it and graveyards are always a bit unsettling at night, but what about space?

Over the years, NASA has recorded all…

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Japanese man killed & dismembered nine victims over two months

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Japanese man killed & dismembered nine victims over two months

Japanese man killed dismembered nine victims two months

Japanese man killed dismembered nine victims two months, A Japanese man arrested after police found nine dismembered corpses in his house has confessed to killing all of his young victims over a period of two months after contacting them via Twitter, according to media reports.

Takahiro Shiraishi, 27, has also confessed he “assaulted” all of his eight female victims, the Fuji TV network said, using a Japanese media euphemism for sexual attacks.

Prosecutors were questioning Shiraishi, who has reportedly admitted cutting up the bodies and throwing parts out with the rubbish, then sprinkling cat litter over the remains in an effort to cover up the evidence.

In all, 240 pieces of bone belonging to nine people, including heads and limbs, were discovered inside coolers and toolboxes at his apartment, the Tokyo Shimbun said.

The grisly case has shocked Japan, and pictures of the nondescript apartment building in a quiet residential area were splashed across the country’s front pages.

“Killing room” was the headline in the Nikkan Sports tabloid. “One murder a week” wrote the Sports Nippon.

Details also began to emerge of how investigators tracked down the suspected killer and trapped him using the same medium he used to lure his victims – Twitter.

Police were led to Shiraishi while investigating the disappearance of a 23-year-old woman, who had reportedly tweeted she wanted to take her own life.

Her brother managed to hack into her Twitter account, noticed a suspicious handle, then tweeted about his sister’s disappearance, media reports said.

One female follower told him that she recognised the Twitter handle. The brother asked her to contact the person, while he also reported the case to police, the Yomiuri daily said.

The woman managed to convince Shiraishi to come to a train station, where investigators waited and followed him to his house, media say. Immediately after he returned to his apartment, police knocked on the door and found a white bag belonging to the missing sister, the Yomiuri said.

“When investigators asked the whereabouts of the sister, Shiraishi said ‘inside the cooler’, pointing at it,” the Yomiuri said.

Shiraishi has reportedly told police that four of his victims were teenagers, four others were about 20 years old and the other was in his or her late 20s. There were eight female victims and one male.

He contacted his victims via Twitter and killed most of them on the day he met them, he is reported to have told authorities.

He moved to the flat in Zama, a south-western suburb of Tokyo, on 22 August and contacted victims by tweeting that he would help their plans to kill themselves, the Mainichi Shimbun daily reported.

Shiraishi told police he killed his first victim, a female acquaintance, shortly after moving there, and spent three days dismembering her body, the Yomiuri Shimbun said. He then killed her boyfriend who asked about his missing girlfriend, the Yomiuri said, citing unnamed police sources.

Police believe that Shiraishi acted alone, the Tokyo Shimbun said. However, his motives remain unclear, and investigators are questioning whether it is possible to kill a person almost every week without neighbours noticing sounds of altercations or screams.

Neighbours have since reported noticing a foul smell emanating from the flat.

Shiraishi told investigators he kept the body parts because he was afraid he might get caught if he discarded them. He has been charged with improper disposal of one body but police are searching for evidence he killed all nine.

While Japan prides itself on its low crime rate, it is no stranger to high-profile violent crimes. In Japan’s bloodiest case for decades, Satoshi Uematsu is accused of killing 19 people and attempting to kill or injure 24 others at a disability centre near Tokyo in July 2016. In 1997, a 14-year-old schoolboy decapitated an 11-year-old and placed the head at the gates of his school.

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