kittens of Oz? ffs hope that's not where one of the devices is. edit: stand down, i think they mean the fictional Oz.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30475395 McCoist resigns, but stays on for 12 months and gets a pay rise to 750k.
bit sensationalist that. it doesn't sound like a rise, but rather that he will no longer sacrificing 50% of his contracted salary. it was a rolling contract with 12 months notice so he's probably not sacrificing anything that the club would need to pay if they sacked him now. it looks like he's jumping rather than being pushed though, so he's done so under the terms of their contract.
Out of interest, look who serves as Rangers' financial advisors and is credited at the bottom of this market news release.
A twitter campaign has started in Australia for people to reach out to Muslims who are afraid and nervous about a possible backlash. Called 'I'll walk with you.' Heartening to hear. Be nice if a bad thing brought people together, rather than drive them apart. The man has been identified as a Iraqi activists who has been in trouble for threatening letters to dead servicemen, possible planning to murder his wife and sexual offences.
Unconfirmed reports saying 4 hostages and one police man hit by gun fire. One is in critical condition.
They were willing to sit it out, so presumably the police/army went in because the situation deteriorated.
Hope reports of fatalities are wide of the mark, though if one is the gunman then i won't complain. That was quite an amount of gunfire!
They've shown the police throwing in flash bangs, so some noise may be due to that. They failed at one entry point and had to go in another narrower entrance, so must have made it harder.
Yes the planted bombs is a worry too. Apparently texts going around telling people to stay away from sydney at new years. Very worrying.
