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1. Tourist accidentally captures the moments before a woman is mauled to death by a lion.  

Ben Govender, 38, was visiting a safari in South Africa when he accidentally captured the moment a lioness attacked and killed a tourist.

The victim has been confirmed as New Yorker, Katherine Chappell. The 29-year-old worked as a video editor for a Canadian company, which handles the HBO television show, ‘Game of Thrones’.

29-year-old Katherine Chappell.

Mr Govender, who was travelling in a car behind Ms Chappel said, “It was terrifying. After the first bite, the lioness retreated from the car with blood dripping from her mouth and paw,” the Telegraph reports.

“We all thought she was done and didn’t like what she’d just bitten. But like someone in a temper that wasn’t ­satisfied in a fight, she leaped back into the car and mauled the passenger.”

“The rangers came running in and the two lions ran off. And it was too late to do anything to save her.”

Ms Chappell’s death marks the third attack in four months at the Gauteng Lion Park.

2. Greens senator Sarah Hanson Young wins defamation case against men’s magazine Zoo Weekly.

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Greens senator, Sarah Hanson Young has won a defamation case against the men’s magazine Zoo Weekly, after the publication photoshopped her head onto the body of a lingerie model.

According to the ABC, the image appeared in a July 2012 article, by the name of ‘Zoo’s Asylum Seeker Bikini Plan’.

The article surmised that Zoo Magazine would house a boatload of asylum seekers if Ms Hanson Young agreed to a bikini photo shoot.

Greens senator Sarah Hanson Young.

Speaking with the ABC, Ms Hanson said, “I’m very, very relieved this has been resolved but what I’m more thankful of is I have been able to show young women across this country that sexism does not have a place in our society.”

In a statement published on the Zoo Magazine website, the publication said, “We accept that the article was in poor taste.”

3. Long weekend horror: Four children have died over Queen’s Birthday long weekend.

On the last day of the Queen’s Birthday long weekend, the nations roads have already seen four children die in separate car crashes.

The ABC reports that a 4-year-old boy has died while another woman is in a serious condition after their car collided with a tree in southern New South Wales.

Victoria’s east has seen a car crash kill a 9-year-old boy while injuring two other children.

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Long weekend horror: Four children have died over Queen’s Birthday long weekend.

In Queensland’s south-east, a 12-year-old girl and a 50-year-old man have both died after their car hit a tree, earlier on Friday.

According to the ABC, a 17-year-old male has died in Brisbane’s north-west after crashing down an embankment into thick bushland.

Most recently, a 54-year-old driver has died after his truck toppled over and caught fire just north of Brisbane on Sunday afternoon.

4. New counter terror laws could see Australian jihadists banned from using the Internet.

Under proposed new terror laws, suspected jihadists could be banned from using the Internet and pushed into deradicalisation programs.

According to The Herald Sun, the Victoria Police plan would require officers to apply to a magistrate for a Community Intervention Protection Order to prevent the internet access of at-risk individuals.

Australian teenager Jake Bilardi, known as ‘Jihadi’ Jake.

The proposed laws will target anyone who is believed to hold extremists views, even if they are not suspected to be linked in any manner to a terror attack.

Former counterterrorism officer and Victorian federal MP Jason Wood said, “I think Australians would be horrified to know that there are hundreds of people sitting home every night on social media being radicalised from terrorists on the other side of the world and police are powerless to stop them.”

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The federal government is reportedly supportive of implementing such measures nation wide.

5. Milo has changes its recipe, thousands of people just can’t even deal.

The classic Milo taste has been altered in New Zealand by removing the vanilla flavouring. The move has prompted many Milo drinkers to express their distaste on the chocolate drink’s Facebook page.

Nestle spokeswoman Margaret Stuart has reassured Australian’s revealing that the Australian recipe does not include vanilla flavouring.

According to The Age, Ms Stuart said, “We understand that many people don’t like changes being made to favourite products, so this change was not made lightly, but these changes make a more nourishing drink.”

Ms Stuart also revealed that Vitamin D “to build strong bones” and added B vitamins were now included “to support energy release in the body.”

The controversial move has led to an online market of “old recipe” Milo, with one indivudal selling a $9 tin of the orginal Milo for a whopping $20.

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