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Lady Gaga is set to electrify Australian audiences with her highly anticipated return after an 11-year break. The global pop icon has officially announced The MAYHEM Ball tour, marking her first-ever stadium performances in Australia. This tour will support her latest chart-topping album, Mayhem , which debuted in March 2025 and has already taken the global music scene by storm. Tour Dates and Cities Australian fans can expect three massive shows in major cities: 1. Melbourne – Marvel Stadium on December 5, 2025   2. Brisbane – Suncorp Stadium on December 9, 2025   3. Sydney – Accor Stadium on December 12, 2025   These shows will be the first time Lady Gaga performs in Australian stadiums, elevating the experience to a whole new level of spectacle and sound. Fans in Perth and other cities have been voicing hopes that more dates might be added, but for now, these three mega-events are the centerpiece of her Australian return.   Tickets and Presale Information ...

It is granted that many analysts have hinted the unlikelihood of the break out of world war III from the Syrian conflict having monitored the dispositions of the super powers to an all-out war. Indeed, the super powers especially the US and allies are cautious with their reactions to Russia's provocations. Russia herself has taken to denials to the army of accusations from the West - a smart way of making the West believe that Russia is not out to challenge. The obvious caution against war by the super powers notwithstanding, the Syrian conflict is capable of taking the world by surprise leading to the much prophesied Armageddon. This position is hinged on a number of premises: (1) The conflict has many actors - prominent among them are the Assad's troops, Russia, ISIS, USA, Rebels, Turkey, Kurds, Hezbollah, Australia, etc. Each time I look at the array of actors in the conflict and there interests, it reminds me of the Hobbesian State of Nature where everybody...

After their “offensive” lack of work ethic on The Block, contestants Sarah and Jason have been given one week to prove themselves or they will be booted off the reality show. The married pair, who forfeited their room reveal this week, were slammed by the judges and host Scotty Cam on Sunday night’s episode for taking their privileged position on the television show for granted. RECOMMENDED: The history of Aguleri - complete version The Melbourne couple however insisted they were simply panicked parents worried their travelling kids could get caught up in a terrorist act.The children, Greta, Oscar and Henry, aged between 8 and 12, were staying with Sarah’s sister-in-law during the three months of filming The Block. The thirteenth season of Australian reality television series The Block premiered on 30 July 2017 on the Nine Network. Was The Golden State Warriors Scores 2017 Rigged?

Sir John ‘Warcup’ Cornforth was an Australian-British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions. Stereochemisty is the study of the spatial arrangement of atoms that form a molecule and how that affects the properties of a chemical compound. This field of study is confusing that even Cornforth had difficulties explaining it, and had once admitted that it is difficult to explain it to a layman. He met the love of his life over a broken beaker. Busy working in the lab as a second year, Cornforth was approached for help one day by fellow student Rita Harredence, who had cracked a Claisen flask by accident. An accomplished glassblower, John was able to repair the receptacle using a blowpipe. Their eyes met as he returned it to her and, by all accounts, sparks flew. The pair were inseparable from that moment on and married in 1941, having three children together: John, Brenda and Philippa. This popular s...

Nettie Stevens is credited with pioneering sex determination which she put its responsibility on males. The discovery remained a paradigm shift from the former ways of looking at human chromosomes. In recognition of this ground breaking achievement of all ages, Google launched a Doodle showing the genius peering through a microscope at the XY chromosomes. Stevens may not be a household name, but her contributions remain pivotal to the scientific community. Nattie Stevens found that male sperm carry XY chromosomes while the female egss carry Y chromosomes. In her study on Mealworms, she concluded that fertilization is only possible with male sperm.

Friday the thirteenth is trending all over the world today, Friday, May 13, 2016.Every Friday the thirteenth is widely known as "an unlucky day." Thus, some people habour the fear of the number, thirteen (13) which is known as triskadekaiphobia. Rooted in Greek "tris" means "three", "kai" means "and", "deka" means "10" and "phobos" meaning "fear" or "morbid fear."  Some said that the fear for the number, thirteen is also a reason for the fear of Friday the 13th, called paraskevidekatriaphobia ( a long word, I bet). Other reasons for the fear of Friday the thirteenth in the lores are: 1. Jesus was crucified on Friday. 2. Dan Brown linked it to the mass killing of Knight Templars at the dawn on Friday, 13 October         1307 3. Legendary rapper Tupac was killed on Friday the 13th after leaving Mike Tyson's boxing             match in Las Vegas. 4...

Who is the next Myanmar president? The next Myanmar president is Htin Kyaw. When was Htin Kyaw elected as Myanmar's president? Htin Kyaw was voted as the president in a joint meeting of the legislature christened Union Parliament.The retired bureaucrat from the National League for Democracy (NLD) won 360 out of the 652 votes cast. What is the biography of Htin Kyaw? Htin Kyaw is the second son the of the renowned Burmese Literary writer, poet, scholar and former Burmese professor Min Thu Wun, who was also an elected NLD Member of Parliament in 1990 elections from Kamayut Township, Yangon.  He passed away at the age of 95 in 2004. Htin Kyaw is also the son-in-law of the late U Lwin, one of the founders of the NLD. Writing under the pen name Dala Ban (named by his father after an ethnic Mon warrior of Myanmar’s past), U Htin Kyaw’s most famous book in Burmese is about the life of his father and titled: The Father’s Life: Glimpses of my Father (A Ba Bawa;...

Did Russia really ordered her forces to withdraw from Syria? Yes, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin in a statement ordered the defence ministry and the whole armed forces to withdraw their main presence from Syria starting from today. Has there been any Russian military withdrawal from Syria since the order? Yes, according to the defence ministry, "The first group of Russian planes has flown out of the Hmeimim air base for their permanent bases on the territory of the Russian Federation." What is the reaction of the West in Russia's withdrawal from Syria? The West and the US were cautious with the withrawal. they welcomed it nonetheless. What is the implication of the Russia's withdrawal from Syria on the Syrian crisis since 2011? The withdrawal is believed by analysts that it would give the Geneva Peace Talks on Syria, a push. The peace talk has entered its second day today.

Tailing the coordinated terrorist attacks in strategic places in Paris, France Friday night, the Facebook allowed users to overlay their profile pictures with transparent French flag in condolences to the victims of the dastardly act. This should have been seen as a noble act but it was not. What then went wrong? The supposedly well-meaning act was condemned by people from North and South as very partial given that their were other more horrendous acts of terrorism all over the world than that of the Paris. Nothing of that sort was put in place by the popular social media site, Facebook. One could make a litany of them but of particular importance were the Kenyan Attack that left 147 persons dead (Paris death toll is less than 130) and the thousands that died to daily attacks by Boko Haram in Nigeria's North-East region. Peaople querried: Were those ill-fated Kenyans and Nigerians less human? How many black's bloods make up one white's blood (according t...

I bet you will marvel at this piece of art which is notable for looking real. The Fallen Angel was created by Chinese artists, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu; a pair reputed for blurring the lines between the art and reality. They achieve their feats using materials such as human fats.This spectacular sculpture unveiled in Beijing, China depicts a woman lying motionless on the ground and to illustrate her fall from grace, she features featherless wings.

Often you heard it said: Once in a blue moon. The world will view the rare occasion blue moon today Friday the 31st. NASA advised that the name should not fool you. Blue moon simply means two full moons occurrence in one calendar month. Ordinarily, a typical year has just 12 full moons but this year will have 13 full moons. Blue moons could be gray or white just like every other moons at night. There are however rare occasions when moon could actually be blue; especially when their was a volcanic eruptions. Todays moon could be red. "Often, when the Moon is hanging low, it looks red for the same reason that sunsets are red, NASA explains. "The atmosphere is full of aerosols much smaller than the ones injected by volcanoes. These aerosols scatter blue light, while leaving the red behind." I bet you would like to do what you do once in a blue moon tonight; you have an excuse. 

NASA releases the first ever close up images of the dwarf planet, Pluto. From the images taken, 50 miles from Pluto by the New Horizon unmanned spacecraft, there were icy heights as high as the Rockies; there were also Canyons on the planet's moon, Charon. Conspiracy theorists however described those images as a hoax by NASA. The New Horizon phoned home and declared the mission a success to a tumultous shout of joy from the NASA staff. Presently, the spacecraft is already one million miles beyond Pluto and three billion miles from the Earth.

I call Google Glass, a masterpiece from the search giant. The device which has not been manufactured in commercial quantity comes with voice controls such that you could say: "Okay Glass, take picture," and it will take. Now here is the breaker: the next patent of the glass will come with hand gesture recognitions! As demonstrated in the image above, it recognizes hands' frame. Pictures so taken can change orientations according to the shape you make with hands: Circular or landscape. That is amazing! 

An unmanned space craft guns for the un-explored Pluto planet today.This will allow scientists the closest look at the dwarf planet. You can follow the trend with the Twitter hashtag: #PlutoFlyBy. T-5 hours. Only 154,355 miles / 248410.3km left till closest approach! So close, you can count on 1 hand. #PlutoFlyBy pic.twitter.com/qDxQbQJfVl — NASA New Horizons (@NASANewHorizons) July 14, 2015 As the contdown continues, there were jitters that the space craft could be lost in collision with debris around the planet Pluto, according to principal investigator Alan Stern. It's like Christmas in July & we've been up all night! Thanks for following along on this 9+ year journey! pic.twitter.com/uAgN7dwMB2 — NASA New Horizons (@NASANewHorizons) July 14, 2015 The 100 million dollar spacecraft named New Horizon will come closest to the planet today at 7:49 am (1149 GMT) at the speed of 30,800 miles (49,570 kilometers) per hour.New Horizons will send a signal to E...

Lady Gaga goes gaga in a photo shoot in her private jet where she almost went naked in a fish net jump suit. She is also to make her debut in movie industry as an evil character. She has been meeting with Series' Custume Designers for custumes that will give her the horror look for the movie. "She's been very collaborative and incredibly fun," Murphy shared. "When you work with somebody like her you sign up for something larger than life. That's what you want."

Suicide Squad is set to come out in the theatres come August 5, 2016. The trailer shown in the San Diego Comic-con has been pirated and is in circulation. The Leto stuff is prettily devoted to car chase, gun fight and helicopter crashing. “All this good vs. evil sh-- is played out,” said director David Ayer, “It’s time for a bad vs. evil.”

The world remembers the inventor of instant noodles, Momofuku Ando. The Taiwanese-Japanese inventor, Ando whose instant noodles revolutionized the food world, was born during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in 1910, moved to Japan at the age of 23 became a Japanese citizen following World War II. He died in Osaka on Jan. 5, 2007, at the age of 96.

TPB recovers from the overwhelming December 9, 2014 raid that sent it offline. There seems to be no much loss of data. The home page has the same feel. However, Contact Us, RSS and Register links land users in an error 404 message. Coming back 31 st January, Pirate Bay placed count down on her homepage. It was an obvious hint that they would commence their torrent services to users February 1. They have already commenced.

  Five US Navy planes disappeared in the triangle area in 1945   The mystery surrounding the disappearance of planes in the notorious Bermuda triangle might have been solved. You reserve the right to agree with the theory or no. Bermuda Triangle is an imaginary angle on a sea having its vertices at Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. It has been suspected to be a mysterious region that had swallowed up many planes and ships. Conspiracy theorists believed many things including that it was the gate of hell.

Facebook comes back online after about 30 minutes of outage. A notorious hack team, Lizard Squad claimed responsibility which the Facebook spokesperson quickly denied.