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Homeless Man Aided Wounded - Stephen Jones, 35, was sleeping near Manchester Arena when he heard a loud bang, which he initially believed to be fireworks. In an interview with ITV News, he detailed the aftermath of the deadly attack that left at least 22 dead and dozens injured. When Jones and his friend saw everyone screaming and running, they began to run with the crowd. But when they realized what was happening, they ran back and saw women and children leaving the arena with "blood throughout the stairs" and victims lying on the ground. He explained that his instincts led him back inside the building. "There was a lot of homeless people that stayed there and helped and that's what we done. And obviously when we seen children like that with blood... having to pull nails and stuff out of their arms and I pulled one out of this little girl's face," Jones said. Jones felt like he had no choice but to help the children who were covered in blood, "cr...

Credit Card Surcharge Laws Australia - A new ban stops businesses from charging payment surcharges on credit, debit and prepaid card payments that are excessive. The ACCC will investigate consumer complaints and take enforcement action where necessary. When you pay a business using certain payment types, for example a credit card, the business incurs costs for processing the payment. These costs are usually paid by the business to its bank. Some businesses include these costs in the price they charge for their goods or services. Others pass the costs on as a payment surcharge. A payment surcharge is an additional amount charged by a business when you pay for goods or services by one form of payment (e.g. a credit card) rather than another (e.g. cash). On 25 February 2016 the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Payment Surcharges) Act 2016 became law. It inserted a new part into the CCA banning excessive payment surcharges and provided new powers for the ACCC. The ban is found ...

There have been recent rumblings about Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson starting a political career and he has made light of this by posting a picture of himself on Instagram with the numbers "2020". This is all a part of a Saturday Night Live skit where The Rock is running for president, and he's running mate is Tom Hanks. All joking aside with the popularity of both The Rock and Tom Hanks, they may have a chance at the presidency.

Donald Trump has fired FBI boss James Comey in spectacular fashion with Comey himself saying he only heard about the firing when he saw it on t.v. Speculation has been rife about the reason for the firing but it certainly is interesting that it occured almost immediately after Comey asked for funds to investigate the Russian meddling in the election. According to the president, Comey was a showboat and was not fit to lead the FBI.

The budget for the near future has been announced by Liberal party treasurer Scott Morrison with some surprise inclusions. The most shocking being the new levy on the big banks. The new levy is expected to earn the government billions of dollars that will go towards repairing the budget. Understandably, the banks are outraged but it looks like there is little they can do about it. The most likely outcome will be the banks somehow passing on this levy to customers regardless of the amount of warnings the government issues. The second surprise was the increase in the medicare levy resulting in most Australians pays hundreds of dollars more every year. This move will stop the medicare freeze and result in more people paying less out of their pockets for doctors visits.

Stanislas Wawrinka has beaten Rafael Nadal in a thrilling match to become the latest Australian Open champion. While Nadal was the favorite, Wawrinka proved to be the better player on the day. The game finished in four sets. Nadal was plagued by injury not to his knee, but to his back. He had work done to it during the match but the extent of the injury was not clear. He was visibly upset at the loss and was fighting back the tears during his post match speech.

Rafael Nadal has dispatched Roger Federer in straight sets to book himself a place in the Australian Open final to be played on Sunday night. The first set was a tough one going to a tie breaker however, the second and third were taken by Nadal without too much trouble. Nadal has had a tough run being out of the game for 7 months with a knee injury but came back with a bang. Rafael Nadal will now play Stan Wawrinka in the final.