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Snoop Dogg has agreed to become an Olympic torch bearer. The hip-hop star recalled an emotional, iconic moment watching Muhammad Ali light the cauldron at the 1996 Atlanta Games. He hopes to recreate some of that magic for the global audience that will be watching the Paris Olympics. “It […]
Last September, as the celebration picked up steam inside a cramped South Sudanese locker room in Araneta Coliseum in Manila, Luol Deng paused to reflect on surrealness of it all. How Deng, a 15-season NBA veteran, had come to spend the last four years in a new role: president of the South Sudan Basketball Federation. […]
“If you’re struggling with something, talk to someone, get the help that you need, don’t wait till it’s too late”, this is the advise that Kalesi Volatabu, founder of Drug Free World Fiji shared on the Pacific Beat podcast. Reports have surfaced on the increasing cases of meth, […]
Violet Langan is a Brisbane pastor who also moved to Australia from Fiji and helps households struggling to afford bills and food explained that groceries have become quite expensive even for this the employed. “It’s just too expensive for things that have risen in costs, the basics. You don’t get much out of $100,” she […]
Pastors Meli and Evelyn Tamanisau lead PAL workers in to in cooking and giving out food. They said that the number of people coming for meals has grown. The pastors started cooking meals before the COVID pandemic, when Mr Tamanisau was working at Sun Pork, and the […]
KFC just made things pretty exciting in Australia by launching a wild pop-up restaurant to celebrate the addition of a new permanent menu item. Three new burgers, the ‘Original Crispy’, the ‘Original Crispy Cheese and Bacon’ and the ‘Original Crispy Stacker’, are now available to hungry Aussies at KFC stores around the country. However the […]
A fourth-year computer science student specializing in data science at the Vellore Institute of Technology, went viral on LinkedIn after using AI to translate American sign language (ASL). Priyanjali Gupta got the idea from her mom, who pushed her to put her engineering degree to good use. She made the model using Tensorflow Object Detection to translate […]
Australia’s most recent millionaire, 19-year-old Keegan Payne has the nation defending him after an interview on live television with Sky News. A million dollar win like that would be huge for anyone, but the story was particularly sweet because Keegan worked two jobs and lived at home with his family of eight, who he said […]
19-year-old North Territory teen Keegan Payne went fishing with his family on Sunday (28-04) and hooked himself a Barramundi. But, this was no ordinary barramundi, this young lad caught himself a million dollar fish. The 67cm barra which had been tagged as part of a nine-year-long Million Dollar Fish angling competition, in the […]
From Compton to the Hollywood walk of fame. Dr. Dre’s career in and out of Hip Hop has led him to be one of the most respected names in the music scene. The legendary producer got his very own star cemented into the ground Tuesday in an […]
