quote [ Australian hip hop has taken on a greater diversity by developing its own unique flavour with a focus on the Aussie battler, jovial, larrikin lyrics and the heavy use of samples and sound bites. ]

quote [ Trapwire is the name of a program revealed in the latest Wikileaks bonanza—it is the mother of all leaks, by the way. Trapwire would make something like disclosure of UFO contact or imminent failure of a major U.S. bank fairly boring news by comparison. ]

quote [ Spain's high-class escorts are refusing to have sex with the nation's bankers - until they open up credit lines to cash-strapped families and firms.

Madrid's top-end prostitutes say their indefinite strike will continue until bank employees 'fulfil their responsibility to society' and start offering bigger loans for struggling Spaniards, it has been claimed. ]

quote [ A Brazilian diplomat says New South Wales police have much explaining to do over the death of a student who was tasered on the weekend. ]

quote [ The pictures leaked on a site called Motherless after an anonymous user asked forum posters what celebrity they wanted to see nude. After a few posters offered some suggestions, another anonymous user posted these nude photos of Christina Hendricks. ]

quote [ on a university campus in Japan. Carrion crows and humans line up patiently, waiting for the traffic to halt.

When the lights change, the birds hop in front of the cars and place walnuts, which they picked from the adjoining trees, on the road. After the lights turn green again, the birds fly away and vehicles drive over the nuts, cracking them open. Finally, when it’s time to cross again, the crows join the pedestrians and pick up their meal. ]

quote [ FUS RO DAH! In Real Life!!! ]

quote [ It turns out that scattering cash into the wind would have been more efficient than the U.S. system for awarding reconstruction contracts during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. A two-year inquiry by a congressionally created panel finds that at least 15 percent of the $206 billion-with-a-B spent on wartime contracts thus far has been lost to waste, fraud and abuse. ]

quote [ Finding the average face of women across the world was a tough job but someone had to do it. That incredibly tedious task fell on the shoulders of a budding author who sifted through thousands and thousands of images just to find what he claims is the average face of women in different nationalities. ]

quote [ Doctor Who actress Elisabeth Sladen has died following a battle with cancer. She was 63.

The Liverpool-born star, who played the Doctor's assistant Sarah Jane Smith since the Seventies, passed away this morning after suffering from the illness for some time. ]