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Kids News: The legacy of Pope Francis and how the next pope will be chosen | KidsNews

1 week ago | kidsnews.com.au | Sophie Elsworth |Patrick Carlyon |Thomas Sargeant |Tiffany Bakker

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News Corp Australia’s Peter Blunden honoured by King’s Birthday Honours list

Jun 9, 2024 | news.com.au | Patrick Carlyon

Peter Blunden was in bed when the call came. It was about 11pm. He had just finished another marathon day as editor of the Herald Sun. “Have you got the TV on?” the caller asked. Blunden didn’t stop to think. He threw on clothes – over his pyjamas – and rushed back to the office to head an all-night team effort to report on dreadful scenes as they happened. By daybreak, the Herald Sun had forged 40 pages in rolling updates for its coverage of 9/11.
Erin Patterson: How fatal mushroom meal transfixed the world

Nov 2, 2023 | thechronicle.com.au | Patrick Carlyon |Mark Buttler

NSWDon't miss out on the headlines from NSW. Followed categories will be added to My News. It was the little lunch that captured the world, yet also a private meal of which we still know so little. A Saturday catch-up with friends and family. A coming together after an apparently amicable separation between a husband and a wife. Then, the guests dropped dead in the days afterwards – in allegedly dreadful ways which trumped the herculean efforts of teams of surgeons.
Erin Patterson: How fatal mushroom meal transfixed the world

Nov 2, 2023 | news.com.au | Patrick Carlyon |Mark Buttler

It was the little lunch that captured the world, yet also a private meal of which we still know so little. A Saturday catch-up with friends and family. A coming together after an apparently amicable separation between a husband and a wife. Then, the guests dropped dead in the days afterwards – in allegedly dreadful ways which trumped the herculean efforts of teams of surgeons. Their purported symptoms – vomiting, stomach cramps, liver failure – matched the markers for death cap mushroom ingestion.
Erin Patterson: How fatal mushroom meal transfixed the world

Nov 2, 2023 | ntnews.com.au | Patrick Carlyon |Mark Buttler

NSWDon't miss out on the headlines from NSW. Followed categories will be added to My News. It was the little lunch that captured the world, yet also a private meal of which we still know so little. A Saturday catch-up with friends and family. A coming together after an apparently amicable separation between a husband and a wife. Then, the guests dropped dead in the days afterwards – in allegedly dreadful ways which trumped the herculean efforts of teams of surgeons.
Humble Barassi unlike any other football giant

Sep 17, 2023 | codesports.com.au | Patrick Carlyon

Long ago we were told that Ron Barassi had already arranged his funeral. He wanted to reach 100, of course, an endeavour furnished with regular bouts of gym or golf or sudoku. But Barassi was Barassi. He was prepared. There was even talk at the time of scattering his ashes on the MCG, a notion that disturbed wife Cherryl, who openly wondered if footballers cared to be “sliding around” in her husband’s remains. We will find out in coming days whether the ashes idea was part of the Barassi plan.
WWII veteran turns 100 but trauma of past remains

Mar 23, 2023 | kidsnews.com.au | Patrick Carlyon

Allan Godfrey’s memory is patchy* but he still breaks down at reminders of Japanese soldiers and their samurai swords. Mr Godfrey didn’t expect to reach 100, celebrating his milestone* birthday on March 23. As one of the last surviving World War II veterans, he once appeared unlikely to live to 20. “I didn’t think I’d make it,” he said on Wednesday after 12 months of merrily talking down his century prospects*.