Anne Lu

There’s no such thing as sixth sense, Australian researchers have learned. Their study paper shows that even though some people can reliably sense changes that they could not visually identify, it doesn’t mean that they have ESP or extrasensory perception.

The real “Wolf of Wall Street” Jordan Belfort is not hiding in Australia, he has denied. The U.S. attorney’s office apologised for saying that the former stockbroker, who was portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Martin Scorsese film, has moved Down Under.

Kiwi gamers still have half of the month to register for the second annual Call of Duty Championship. The New Zealand Online Qualifier will be awarding one team spot to the Call of Duty ANZ Finals in Sydney on March 1st.

Snoop Dogg’s shows in Australia may possibly be cancelled after thousands of Australians signed a petition for his visa to be revoked. He is set to fly Down Under for a series of shows, including headline slots at the Big Day Out festival in major cities.

Central African Republic cannibal Ouandja Magloire recounted the gruesome incident in which he ate the flesh of a Muslim an angry crowd had dragged from a bus. He calls himself “Mad Dog,” and he proudly detailed what how he burned the man and ate him.

Woody Allen was honoured at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night, but his ex-partner and his alleged biological son weren’t too happy about it. In fact, Mia and Ronan Farrow did not waste time letting people know that their level of contempt at the acclaimed filmmaker hasn’t gone down a notch even decades later.

Portia De Rossi has one very generous wife. Ellen DeGeneres surprised her Australian wife with her dream car, and she caught Portia’s priceless reaction on tape!

Lara Bingle is fed up with Australia. The model and reality show star has had it with her home country’s paparazzi, and now she wants to move overseas.

#Neknominate is dominating the Australian online social scene, and it’s either considered just a silly game or a dangerous one for the young adults. The new social media trend is apparently clogging up Facebook pages with videos of participants chugging a beer in creative and extreme ways.

Darwin resident Hendrik Helmer knew that an insect had crawled inside his ear when woke up in great pain in the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday. He just never thought that he would find a 2cm cockroach.

Wellington DJ Neill Andrews is under fire for posting a racial slur against Indians on Facebook. The Famous nightclub co-owner sparked outrage for saying that Indian customers on his club were predatory rapists.

Fitness guru Ashy Bines has slammed the Dieticians Association of Australia for saying that her eponymous Ashy Bines Bikini Body Challenge is the third worst dietary plan in Australia. The former Miss Hawaiian Tropic Australia finalist was confused why the DAA even included her fitness challenge in their survey of diets.

Australian actress Margot Robbie flat-out lied to her family about her nude scene in the film “The Wolf of Wall Street.” The 23-year-old Gold Coast native told her family that she did not strip down naked for the Martin Scorsese film when in fact she did.

Australia’s science agency has lived up to its promise. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation apologised to the nation for failing to create a dragon after a seven-year-old girl asked for it. But now, CSIRO has indeed created a dragon, albeit a toy variety.

Melbourne schoolboy Joshua Rogers claimed he has chanced upon a security flaw in the Web site of Public Transport Victoria (PTV), and now the government authority has reported him to the police.

An unnamed Australian paid USD42,000 for a private one-hour webcam session with a dominatrix. Kinky.com has auctioned an exclusive hour with porn director Maitresse Madeline, and the unidentified buyer from Down Under won the bidding war.

Justin Bieber has his “Beliebers,” Lady Gaga has her “Little Monsters,” and the boys of One Direction have their “Directioners,” but Lorde don’t have her “Disciples.” The young Kiwi songstress refuses to label her followers, saying it’s the worst thing.

Big Day Out festival-goers have been given a difficult decision which act to watch at the festival. The travelling annual music festival has released its timetables, and fans aren’t happy that they would have to choose between watching Pearl Jam and Snoop Lion (a.k.a. Snoop Dogg).

“True Blood” fans are probably already used to Alexander Skarsgard being naked. After all, he is naked a lot of times in the U.S. TV series that viewers aren’t shocked even with his full nudity anymore. But he still managed to surprise everyone with his latest display: his nude self sitting on a toilet at the South Pole.

Sharon Stone slapped the director of “Basic Instinct” when she saw her infamous legs-crossing scene in the 1992 film for the first time. The 55-year-old Golden Globe Award-winning actress was so stunned to learn that her nude crotch was visible in the infamous shot that she couldn’t contain her anger at director Paul Verhoeven.

Australia’s science agency is apologising to the nation for failing to invent dragons. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has promised to accelerate their dragon R&D program after a seven-year-old girl asked the scientists if they could make a dragon for her.

Kiwi entrepreneur Sam Lee has developed a camera that has a “gift of hindsight.” Armed with a unique feature called Recall technology, the small, wearable camera can record without saving footages until a button is pushed.

Australians really love Pink. The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has released the most popular albums for Aussie music buyers for 2013, and the American songstress has topped the chart for a second year in a row.

Kim Kardashian cheated her fans by posting Photoshop versions of her body on Instagram. Kanye West’s soon-to-be wife has been showing off her rather impressive post-partum body a few weeks since giving birth to daughter North in June, but it appears that she’s just fooling everybody with help from the graphics editing program.

Kim Jong Un probably didn’t have his uncle fed to dogs. The story that claims Jang Song Thaek had been executed by the North Korean leader by stripping him naked and feeding him to over a hundred of dogs was started by a satirical news site, and which was picked up by international media as a legitimate news.

Lorde is going to perform at the Grammy Awards. The 17-year-old Kiwi phenomenon has been announced to take the stage at the prestigious music awards show on January 26.

British fashion designer Stella MCCartney has won a legal battle against a cosmetics company in Australia with the help of a “lazy accent” argument. Chatswood makeup and skincare business owner Wong Kwai Hua tried to register “St Ella New York,” but the famous designer successfully opposed its trademark, claiming that Australians would pronounce their brand names so closely as they tend to be “lazy in their pronunciation.”

Are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie going to grace the Australian Open with their presence? The Hollywood power couple have reportedly been invited to watch the international tennis competition in Melbourne, which would surely amp up the already star-studded event.

St Jerome’s Laneway Festival suffered another loss. After Kiwi superstar Lorde backed out of the Auckland show, British electronic musician James Blake also had to cancel his performance at the New Zealand leg of the festival to make it to the Grammy Awards in the U.S.