Fishy Porn And Heath Ledger’s Raped Nuns Are Popular In Australia
Fishy Porn And Heath Ledger’s Raped Nuns Are Popular In Australia
SAYS Rupert Murdoch’s news.com.au, his Australian news service online:
AS another year draws to a close we could ruminate sagely from the journalistic tower on the defining moments of 2008 – the global financial crisis; terror in Mumbai; the China quake; the historic election of a black president in the US.
In true awards style, the list is a count down to the big number one story. What is it, then: Obama, Mumbai or China?
100. Doctors give ‘Tree Man’ hope for future
99. Fast food fan fined for monster gorge
98. Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson lands BBC in new controversy
97. Dad rapes girl in hospital bed next to sick son
96. Married at 9, slain by parents at 17
95. The seven biggest iPhone disappointments
94. $15m for photo of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s twins
93. ‘Worst teen’ in 24/7 care on isolated West Australian farm
92. Man dies in bucks day paintball tragedy
91. Gordon Ramsay reportedly in affair with ‘professional mistress’ Sarah Symonds
90. Bali bomber and smiling assassin Amrozi died pale and afraid
89. Outcry over topless shots of model Zippora Seven, 16
88. Media plays it for laughs on April Fool’s day
87. Brett Lee’s wife Liz Kemp breaks silence over split
86. Mum backs dog, chides son for pulling ears before mauling
85. Wikipedia users reject Corey Delaney entry
84. Extreme perversions made prostitutes refuse Fritzl
83. Aussie bars among the ‘world’s best’
82. David Thorne and the mysterious spider drawing email
81. Jealous husband puts wife on eBay
80. Angry Seven bosses ask Today Tonight’s Anna Coren to leave
79. Richard Wilkins shares the love with LA engagement
78. Judge lets girl change ridiculous name
77. Struggling with the mortgage? Get out now
76. Coogee Bay Hotel in Sydney ‘served human faeces in ice cream’
75. World Youth Day ‘will be a boost for sex industry’
74. Virgin flights for one cent
73. Elisa Roberts friendship with Amamoor teen divides town
72. Video ‘shows UFO, aliens flying over Turkey’
71. House prices fall in top suburbs
70. The best paid job? It’s not what you think
69. Raunchy new Miley Cyrus pictures leaked
68. Sunbathers ignore drowned girls’ bodies
67. House prices fall in most capital cities
66. Desperate son ‘had sex with mum in Darwin home’
65. Boat crash: Four women, one man dead in harbour accident
64. Brooke Hanson busy dancing at the bars
63. Why men visit brothels – a prostitute’s view
62. Home and Away star Bobby Morley used as a ‘meat puppet’
61. Powerball winner pockets $58 million
60. Jail for raping woman in front of mates
59. Irate reporter’s stinging spray
58. Croc chomps on shark
57. 40 men gang-raped me, says nun
56. Baby Lali born with two faces in cranofacial duplication
55. Jessica Simpson dress makes her a pornstar at Lake Tahoe
54. Game show sex cheat the biggest loser
53. Veronicas’ Jess Origliasso to sue ex over porn photos
52. NRL stars named in toilet sex scandal
51. Facebook curse hooks Bono as girls tell of night with U2 star
50. Cash thrown at economic woes
49. Python nearly swallows wallaby whole at Cairns university
48. Boy, 5, made to walk two-and-a-half hours to school
47. Kyle Sandilands’s X-rated Jennifer Hawkins stoush
46. Mutant fish ‘killing people in river’
45. Driver survives after wrapping a $250,000 Ferrari around a pole in Adelaide
44. Australia’s worst places to buy
43. Australian Idol star Levi Keremea in fatal hotel plunge
42. Aussie teen stalked, raped, shot in India
41. Kochie blames Nine for Sunrise ambush
40. Racy Stephanie Rice facebook photo hits Hollywoodgossip.com
39. Photographer Gavin O’Neill hits back at Bingle topless shots
38. Missing Xbox runaway Brandon Crisp found dead
37. Schoolgirl ‘raped in front of classmates’
36. Most petrol-hungry cars named and shamed
35. Naughty Nikki caught out on Facebook
34. Brisbane Broncos rugby league footballers under investigation
33. 19-year-old Abraham K Biggs commits suicide live on webcam
32. Weatherman David Brown vanishes from Sunrise radar
31. What are the best iPhone plans in Australia?
30. Cosmetic surgery addict injected cooking oil into her face
29. Crowd jeers suicidal jumper to his death
28. ‘Mate, your girlfriend was a bloke’
27. Kevin Rudd’s national apology to Stolen Generations
26. Orgies return to hedonistic nude resort at Mossman
25. Incest couple John and Jenny Deaves’s first child died
24. Teenage inmates in Darwin detention centre ‘orgy’
23. Network sorry over Sonia Kruger’s racial remarks
22. Sex act horror in South Australian school toilets
21. Lindsay Lohan confirms lesbian lover Samantha Ronson
20. All Saints actor Mark Priestley found dead
19. YouTube-style porn threatens studios
18. Ex-Idol Paula Goodspeed found dead outside judge Paula Abdul’s home
17. Man’s penis stuck in park bench
16. Man ‘had sex with girl in Perth, mum made video’
15. Big Brother’s Rima in porn shock
14. The secret life of a call girl
13. Google unveils Street View across Australia
12. First picture of son leaves mum horrified
11. The Veronicas’ Jess Origliasso caught in porn storm
10. Brendan David Dennison remanded in custody over Waterloo balcony death
9. Giant spider snapped eating bird in backyard near Cairns
8. ‘Alien’ creature creates monster stir
7. Bigfoot body ‘found and put in freezer’
6. Patrick Swayze ‘says goodbye as cancer spreads’
5. Stephanie Rice’s wild side emerges on Facebook
4. Reporter Hannah Hodson faces sack over Pink interview
3. Cut-price 3G iPhone in Australia by July 11
2. Woman’s fishy-smelling mystery solved
1. Heath Ledger dead of ‘drug overdose’
That’s right, none of them even get a mention in the top 100.
Is this because readers prefer salacious tales of crime, sex and celebs, or because these are the stories that are pushed to the fore and now pass for news?
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