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Nigerian girls who escaped from Boko Haram tell their story.

Exclusive footage from SKY UK has revealed how some of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram escaped from the terrorist group.

One 16-year-old revealed how she was “chosen to cook,” while a Boko Haram gunman watched close by.

She and two of her friends told the gunmen they needed to relieve themselves, then walked to the bush and “ran for about two hours”.

Another said she was asked to fetch water, then ran for her life.

“Even when they were shooting at us, we took the chance and God helped us arrive in Chibok two days later”.

Authorities say so far 53 girls have escaped, while 276 remain missing.

Revelations a man arrested earlier this week, bought the twins’ apartment on The Block.

It has been confirmed today that a man arrested over his alleged involvement in a $7 million insider trading scam, was also the successful bidder of Alyssa and Lysandra’s apartment on the last season of The Block.

Lukas Kamay, 26, paid $2.375 million for the Albert Park loft apartment. The $500,000 deposit he made is now among the assets frozen by the Australian Federal Police and ASIC in a joint sting earlier this week.

Kamay was accused of paying ABS employee, Christopher Hill, 24, up to $60,000 to obtain unreleased ABS data, which then allowed him to make millions of dollars of profit on the foreign exchange markets.

The two men were arrested on Friday.

Joe Hockey confirms politicians will have pay frozen.

Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has today confirmed that politicians and senior public servants pay will be ‘frozen’ until the Federal Budget is improved.

The pay freeze would impact Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who currently earns $500,000 per annum, by an estimated $10,000 a year.

The average backbencher is set to lose an estimated $3900 per annum, as their 2.4 per cent pay increase will be forgone.

Australia Post continues to struggle, seeks government assistance.

Chief Executive of Australia Post, Ahmed Fahour, has estimated that mail delivery losses will reach $350 million this financial year.

”Up until this year we’ve been able to offset these ballooning losses in letters with profit growth from parcels and retail … services. But we have now reached a point where that’s no longer possible,” he said.

Mr Fahour additionally emphasised the need for the Federal Government to support Australia Post further if it is to be maintained.

Further cost cutting for Fairfax Media revealed.

The Weekend Australian has exclusively revealed some of the cost cutting strategies recommended to Fairfax Media by consulting firm Bain & Company.

The measures include hiring contributors to produce up to 50 per cent of editorial content, and replacing 75 per cent of senior journalists who leave the company through attrition with third-year trainees.

Hockey and Cormann condemned for smoking cigarette.

The president of the Australian Council on Smoking and Health, Mike Daube, has criticised Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann for smoking. The criticism comes after images of the pair smoking were aired on Channel 9 earlier this week.

‘‘Mr Hockey has done absolutely the right thing in raising the tobacco tax so it’s a shame he is spoiling that by inappropriate role modelling.”

‘‘What Mr Hockey does in his private is his own business, but he is a public figure and we don’t need treasurers promoting smoking,’’ Professor Daube said.

13-year-old girl given right to decide whether or not to have an abortion.

A case regarding a pregnant teenager, more than 20 weeks pregnant when her case was first presented to the High Court of London in mid-March, has now come to a close.

Mr Justice Mostyn, tasked with deciding if the teenager had the mental capacity to understand her options, yesterday declared the girl competent to make her own decision regarding the pregnancy.

The teenager’s psychiatrist believed the girl felt her pregnancy would “stress her to a considerable degree,” and believed she wished to terminate.

The Judge agreed the girl should “decide what she wishes to do”.

Police fear for missing two-year-old girl in Queensland.

Queensland police fear for the safety of a toddler potentially abducted by 4 adults from her Ipswich home on Saturday.

The child’s name has been released as Bella Rose Goulding.

The ABC has reported her father was in the house when four intruders “busted in, took the little child…(then) smashed me across the face”.

For further details surrounding the case, read this post.

Those with information should call CrimeStoppers on 1800 333 000.