This baby penguin has been reunited with his family after they abandoned him after birth

1. Get your kids off Facebook.

A NSW high school principal has used his entire column in the school newsletter – normally 800 words – to send one simple message. In large font he simply wrote: Get your kids off Facebook. This verbal sewer is harming your children. Nothing else. Just that over half a page. He said he was spurred into doing it after helping a 16-year-old deal with terrible abuse and said the feedback from the community was ‘overwhelmingly positive’. Do you reckon he was on the money?

2. Hey Gen Y? You’ll never own a home

Just one in 40 of today’s Gen Y will own properties when they retire. That’s the latest grim forecast, according the an Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute survey. The survey’s co-author said the results were “more alarming than we expected”. Only five years ago, 40 per cent of over-65s owned their homes outright. Overpriced property markets, high rates of divorce and rising personal debts and cost of living were said to be the reasons behind the results.

3. Bald penguin rejected by its mother.

How can Miley Cyrus help you?

Yes it’s another abandoned baby animal story. But this one story has a happy ending. And look how cute the little guy is! This baby penguin’s chances of survival looked grim after it was abandoned by its parents just days after it’s birth. But keepers from an aquarium in China’s Liaoning Province set up a group to care for the feather-less youngster and eventually – and successfully – reintroduced it to its family. And the story gets even better – the penguin has since grown ‘fur’. [Which is, of course, technically known as down. Before the proper feathers come in].

4. Online shoppers – beware.

The ease of thinking dollar for dollar might be over for Australians shopping online. The Aussie dollar took a turn for the worst yesterday when it briefly dipped below parity. It sunk to 97 US cents on the back of concerns about the future of the US economy. The dollar has traded above $1.07 as recently as the start of September.

5. Miley Cyrus, actress, singer, political activist

Want a government to change its mind about something? Just have a celebrity tweet about it. That’s the message we can all learn from this story.  US teen star Miley Cyrus tweeted her concern about a planned housing development near her boyfriend’s Victorian hometown of Phillip Island. Days later (and coincidentally?) the Victorian government scrapped its plans to extend the towns boundary.

Miley tweets and the people listen

People took to Twitter yesterday asking if Miley had any opinions on the Middle East or public servants’ pay packets. It begs the question – how can Miley help you?

6. Check your emotional baggage, get a song

There’s a nifty little website that’s popped up called Emotional Bag Check which lets users anonymously submit something that’s wearing them down. Other online users can respond by recommending songs to listen to or helping bear some of the burden. Some of the top songs recommended? Keep your Head Up by Andy Grammar and The Middle, by Jimmy Eat World. What songs do you listen do when you’re feeling off-kilter?

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A model walks down the runway during London Fashion Week

A model prepares backstage at London Fashion Week

Beyonce and her mum Tina Knowles launched their "House of Dereon" fashion line during London Fashion Week

Beyonce said the collection was inspired by her travels

Indian women perform the Garba dance before the Navratri festival, which celebrates the Hindu goddess Durga

A new UK magazine, Naked But Safe, claims to be 100 per cent air brush free

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UK surgeons successfully separated Sudanese twins, Rital and Ritag Gaboura. The 11-month old twins are known as craniopagus twins, and they occur in about one in 2.5 million births.

Red was a popular choice as celebrities took to the red carpet for the 2011 Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. Pictured from left are Kate Winslet, Nina Dobrev, Kerry Washington, Lea Michele

Sequins were also a popular choice for the awards. Sparking from left are Anna Faris, Gwyneth Paltrow, Claire Danes, Julie Bowen and Christina Hendricks

Modern Family walked away from the Emmy Awards with five of the seven comedy awards

The opening of the world's biggest beer fest, the Munich Oktoberfest

Girls in a traditional Bavarian Dirndl dresses perform during Oktoberfest.

After 31 years and 15 albums, R.E.M announed they would split

A Nepalese woman collects bricks outside her house after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck

Lilac magazine, an Arab magazine based in Israel, published its first bikini cover. Editor Yara Mashour said "Since I established [Lilac] in Nazareth, Israel 10 years ago, I set out to break taboos regarding women in society... I worked on empowering and liberating."

Dita Von Teese released her first fragrance. The scent is packaged in a 1930's style bottle, designed to fit in an evening bag

That water looks cold! Willing participants take part in the swimming leg during the Challenge Henley on Thames triathlon

25-year-old Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal shows off his physique in a new underwear campaign for Armani.

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Five years after the coup that ousted former PM Thaksin Shinawatra, Red Shirt protesters gather in Bangkok

Teen blogger Tavi Gevinson on the cover of French fashion magazine L’Officiel. The 15-year-old has recently started a new website, Rookie.

Independent MP Rob Oakshott sat on a giant toilet in front of Parliament House as part of a campaign to help people around the world who don't have access to sanitation