Celebrity couples who are completely obsessed with each other

For celebrities, finding love can be tricky, and keeping that love even trickier. Not only because meeting new people might be tougher for them, but also because there is so much added pressure when it comes to maneuvering a relationship when you're in the spotlight. But plenty of couples have found the right balance with the loves of their lives and have been able to keep the flame alive through it all. And we're such suckers for love, that of course we want to celebrate loves that last.

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Leigh Sales highlights sexualised social media abuse women in public eye face

Television journalist Leigh Sales took to Twitter on Wednesday to highlight the ‘sexualised social media abuse’ women in the public eye constantly face. To make the point she shared a screenshot capturing just a handful of recent repugnant messages, all of which contain criticisms or slurs of a sexual nature.

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Leigh Sales exposes ‘sexualised abuse’ after PM interview

ABC journalist Leigh Sales has exposed the shocking “sexualised abuse” she copped online after grilling Scott Morrison in a TV interview this week.

Sales, the host of the ABC’s flagship 7.30 program, covered a broad range of topics in Tuesday’s interview with the Prime Minister, including JobKeeper, hotel quarantine and the disappointing COVIDSafe app.

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‘Life at home just didn’t make sense’: the mental trauma of foreign correspondent Sally Sara

In 2009, the ABC foreign correspondent Sally Sara walked into the Role 3 hospital at Kandahar Air Base, in Afghanistan. Role 3 was one of the busiest combat hospitals in the world, treating a near constant stream of wounded soldiers, insurgents and women and children. A sign near the entrance read “The best care anywhere”, which was no idle boast: the hospital had a 97 per cent survival rate.

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Roundup: Murdoch tech deals, Leigh Sales on sexism, Natalie Barr’s first day + more

The chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is a man transformed. After cash-for-journalism deals with Google and Facebook, Robert Thomson’s accusations of “smugness” from big tech have made way for compliments, reports London Telegraph’s Ben Woods and Matthew Field.

Thomson lauded Google boss Sundar Pichai for his “thoughtful commitment to journalism” following an agreement with News Corp last month.

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Leigh Sales showed us the abuse women cop online. When are we going to stop tolerating misogyny?

Another day, another woman being called a “whore” — and worse — on Twitter.

In the wake of her recent interview with Prime Minister Scott Morrison, ABC 730 host Leigh Sales posted some of the sexualised abuse she gets on Twitter just for doing her job. 

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Bitcoin passes $60,000 for first time as record-breaking run continues

The cryptocurrency hit an all-time high of $60,012 at 1149 GMT, according to the website CoinMarketCap.

Bitcoin has been on a meteoric rise since March last year, when it stood at $5,000, spurred by online payments giant PayPal saying it would allow account holders to use cryptocurrency.

Last month Elon Musk's electric carmaker Tesla invested $1.5 billion in the virtual unit, while Twitter chief Jack Dorsey and rap mogul Jay-Z said they are creating a fund aimed at making Bitcoin “the internet's currency”.

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KU Jayhawks withdraw from Big 12 basketball tournament after player tests positive for COVID-19

The Kansas Jayhawks have removed themselves from the Big 12 basketball tournament after a player tested positive for COVID-19.

The news means KU will not play the Texas Longhorns Friday night at the T-Mobile Center. 

“Obviously we are disappointed, and our players are disappointed that they can’t continue to compete for the Big 12 championship,” KU coach Bill Self said. “While we have been fortunate to avoid this throughout the season, there are daily risks with this virus that everybody participating is trying to avoid. We have followed the daily testing and additional protocols that have been set up for us, unfortunately, we caught a bad break at the wrong time."

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