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BTN Newsbreak 18/08/2025
NEW DICTIONARY WORDSMore than 6000 new words have just been added to The Cambridge Dictionary, including some social media slang like skibidi. Other internet slang like dululu, broligarchy, and lewk have also made the cut and been officially added to the Cambridge Dictionary. It's not the first dictionary to add words like this though. In fact in 2023, "Rizz" won Oxford Dictionary's word of the year. The Cambridge experts reckon these words are "changing the English language" and will stick around for the long & PUTIN MEETINGUS president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin caught up over the weekend in Alaska for their first meeting since 2019. While both leaders said the meeting was a success, no ceasefire agreement or peace deal was made for the war in Ukraine. Now, President Trump is set to meet with Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who'll be accompanied by European and NATO leaders at a big meeting in Boomers have lifted the Asia Cup for the 3rd time in a row after a nail-biting 90-89 victory over China. China took off to a flying start. But Xavier Cooks led the fight back, putting up 30 points, earning himself the title of MVP. And there couldn't have been a tighter finish, with China missing a shot on the buzzer that would have won the game!RUGBYTo continue the theme in winning, the Wallabies have come out on top after smashing the Springboks 38-22 at the Rugby Championship opener. The Springboks raced to a 22- nil lead, but the wallabies soon made a comeback to secure their 1st win at Ellis park in 62 years!ASH CENTRA Now check this out. Number 1 pick Ash Centra from Collingwood pulled out this brand new move during her warm-up at the opening round of the AFLW season. It sent the footy world into a frenzy, and a lot of players have been trying it out for themselves, with mixed MOWER RACEFirst up, to the 12-hour lawn mower race in England. The event saw 40 teams whizz round a 1.4 kilometer track 420 times. Unfortunately for any purists out there, the lawn mowers have all had their blades removed for safety OVERDUE BOOKFirst up, to a library in Texas, which has just had an overdue book returned after 82 years. Yes, this book was checked out by a woman by the name of Maria back in July of 1943, and was just recently dropped off by her grandson accompanied by a letter. Luckily, the library scrapped late fees back in 2021, otherwise phew, that would've been a big OMELETTE And finally, to thousands of eggs being cracked to make one enormous omelette in Belgium. It's a tradition which dates back about 50 years, organised by the World Fraternity of the Knights of the Giant Omelette. Now, look, we might have to check their definition of what an omelette is because that's starting to look a bit more like scrambled eggs to me.
News.com.au
8 hours ago
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Sophie Turner recalls accidentally breaking up a celebrity couple: ‘They ended their engagement that night'
Watch out for Sansa Stark. Sophie Turner has revealed that she accidentally caused a celebrity couple to split following a Comic-Con afterparty more than 10 years ago. The Game of Thrones alum, 29, shared the surprising story Thursday night during a guest appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. 'That night was actually quite crazy for me,' Turner told Meyers, who was also at the afterparty at the time. 'It went really south really quick.' 'I brought my best friend from my school days with me, and she saw this actor that she loved,' the X-Men actress continued, noting that she and her friend waved at the star. 'Later on, I see this girl looking at me, and she's a famous actress.' Although Turner would not reveal who the mystery couple was to avoid getting 'in trouble', she said that the pair broke up shortly after the dramatic incident. 'I dance on over and she goes, 'Can you stop f**king flirting with my fiance?',' she recalled. 'I was like, 'Who's your fiance?' She points to the guy that I'd waved at. I have no idea who this man is. 'Turns out, I think they broke their engagement off that night because of my [wave],' Turner concluded. 'I didn't realise I held this power.' Meanwhile, the star also opened up about reuniting with Game of Thrones co-star Kit Harington for their upcoming flick The Dreadful. Turner and Harington, 38, had to get intimate for the new gothic horror movie, and she said that it was 'vile' having to kiss her former on-screen sibling. 'We get on set and we are both retching,' Turner revealed before calling the scene a 'really bad moment in (her) career.' As for her love life off the big screen, Turner was married to pop star Joe Jonas, 36, for four years before he filed for divorce in September 2023. The former couple shares daughters Willa and Delphine. More recently, Turner has been linked to aristocrat Peregrine 'Perry' Pearson, 30, following her surprising split from the Jonas Brothers star.
ABC News
a day ago
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Gary Shteyngart, Jennifer Mills and Rhett Davis ask what's next
Russian born US writer Gary Shteyngart imagines a future America with strong parallels to Russia in Vera, or Faith, Adelaide based author Jennifer Mills' latest novel Salvage rockets into space after ecological collapse, and Geelong author Rhett Davis on Aborescence about people who want to become trees. Gary Shteyngart is the Russian-born, American-based author of novels including Absurdistan, Super Sad True Love Story and Our Country Friends. His latest book Vera, or Faith, is about a precocious child living in near future America, where cars have attitude and equality is under threat. Gary talks about the worrying parallels between the USA and Russia and the precarious state of immigrants in the country. Jennifer Mills (Dyschronia and The Airways) is one of the most exciting experimental writers in Australia. Her latest novel, Salvage, is a propulsive novel about sisterhood, space and what happens after ecological collapse. She also talks about wanting her books to be of use to readers. And staying with the environmental theme, Geelong based author Rhett Davis's second book Arborescence continues his fascination with trees that featured in his debut, Hovering. Arborescence is about a movement of people who want to grow roots and become trees (and they do, in their billions)! It's also about the absurdity of modern-day life.
