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NICK HUGHES-DENUTO | Health and Wellbeing | Contact A former executive salesman and "Black diamond earner" for the controversial workout supplement Isis-Genix, Michael Schnell spoke to the Betoota Advocate today about his time in the fast-lane of shady "health and wellbeing" pyramid schemes. “Essentially it uses the same basic principles of recruiting followers into a cult, they target people who are down on their...

1 April, 2015. 12:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact   A suspected member of a far-left militant group behind the live hostage situation involving a Turkish prosecutor in an Istanbul courthouse, is not really that keen on people seeing the lower half of his face, according to reports. While reportedly demanding that the police officer allegedly responsible for the killing of a teenager at a...

27 March, 2015. 15:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The co-pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps, named as Andreas Lubitz, appeared to want to "destroy the plane", officials say. Lead investigator, Scott Minto has cited information from the "black box" voice recorder, saying the co-pilot was alone in the cockpit during what has been described as the...

1 March, 2015. 13:01 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact KREMLIN OFFICIALS investigating the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov have claimed Islamist extremists, not Putin, may have been behind his death. Other possible motives listed by the Investigative Committee, which has Vladimir Putin as its executive, included trying to destabilise the Russian president, the Ukraine conflict and his personal life. However, intelligence...

13 February, 2015. 15:30 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact RESIDENTS of one small southern parish are celebrating today after a controversial bill passed city council - allowing animals to marry one another. Jackson Parish in northern Louisiana held elections earlier this week and the Animal Marriage Act (2015) was a hot topic among candidates. It passed unopposed and will be written in to the local law books...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The band members of iconic Canadian rock outfit, Nickelback have today confirmed their next musical project - and it is very exciting news. Davenport Theatrical Enterprises, the production company behind the award-winning production of "Kinky Boots", announced this morning, “singer and musical actor Chad Kroeger has chosen the Broadway adaptation of the 1997 action blockbuster Con-Air to be the next musical...

29 January, 2015. 13:10 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Journalist | Contact Hours after a public face-to-face meeting and brief discussion during halftime of Tuesday night's Miami Heat-Milwaukee Bucks game in Miami, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. met privately for more than an hour to continue discussing terms for their proposed May 2 megafight. They met inside Pacquiao's hotel suite and "it was...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -Employees of a McDonald's fast-food restaurant in the Texan suburb of South Houston have today spoken about their relief to see former world wrestling great, Booker "Booker T" Huffman, subdue a lone gunman during an attempted robbery of the outlet on Tuesday evening. It's believed Mr Huffman, a former WWE wrestler and current commentator,...

28 February, 2015. 10:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] Early last month, seventeen people, including journalists and police and three gunmen -  died in France during a terrifying week that started with the execution style murder of several journalists inside their Parisian CBD newspaper office The bloodshed ended with a hostage-taking at a Jewish deli in which four hostages were killed. The attacks...

13 January, 2015. 12:15 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SOCIAL MEDIA and parts of Nigeria are on fire today as news of Jennifer Lopez's Golden Globes "nip slip" surfaces. Also, France is still in shock after the deadly shootings in Paris which left 17 people dead. But there has been another shocking death toll in recent days with reports of hundreds, possibly thousands,...