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BOB SKINNER never expected to be kept waiting for four days in excruciating pain by a major Brisbane hospital after his hand was badly mangled in a motorcycle accident.

SYDNEY universities are handing out free food to starving students who can barely afford to eat and are living off one meal a day.

AUSTRALIA’S Next Top Model winner Demelza Reveley was rushed to hospital by her mum after a nasty virus made her faint.

THE Indian birth parents of a girl allegedly stolen by child-traffickers before being adopted in Australia have asked to see her.

THE AFL is under pressure to ban its traditional end-of-season celebration after a player paraded outside a bar with a fake penis.

A FAST-food chain’s sale of a 4520-kilojoule hamburger is irresponsible and a sign the industry is ignoring health warnings about obesity, experts say.

WIZARD Home Loans has defended a controversial decision to raise interest rates on its flagship credit card by a huge 2.75 per cent.

A RED Cross hospital in Athens has named one of its intensive care units after Doujon Zammit, the young Australian tourist who died there after a fatal beating on the island of Mykonos.

LETTING girls play the didgeridoo is like letting people play with razor blades, say indigenous commentators.

NEW Orleans evacuees’ tempers boil over at crowded shelters, as Hurricane Gustav follows them.