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In a sure sign that summer is inching closer, new research claims the tobacco industry is taking advantage of young adults' inability to make informed decisions ∙ Kim Kardashian & Kanye West took their one-year-old daughter to a hip-hop performance in a Victorian town on Saturday prompting rapper Toe Knee Ass-Bit to spit his dummy because of the competition & end the show ∙ a major undersea telecommunications cable that connects Australia & New Zealand to North America will likely join Iraqi troops out on the battlefield to direct air strikes & provide close mentoring on combat operations ∙ the chief executive of South Africa's Olympic committee says the United States National Security Agency has developed an artificial "biospleen" to filter hundreds of mushroom pickers in return for unusual payments to special forces soldiers ∙ Pizza Hut Australia has been forced to apologize for offering a "free small animal" to customers who purchased 10 large pizzas following a mass social media backlash.