Melbourne named 'most liveable' city in world for second year in row

Melbourne and three other capital cities of Australia have been named among the world's most liveable cities in the world.
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Survey, Melbourne is the world's most liveable city with 97.5 liveability score followed by Vienna, Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary.
The survey's editor, Jon Copestake, said that just 1.6 percentage points separated the five Aussie cities surveyed.
Melbourne and Vienna led in infrastructure with '100' rating, while Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary were rated at 92.9, 89.3 and 96.4 respectively.
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Pitt Not Rich Enough To Help Everyone

Brad Pitt's movie star income is "never enough" to solve all of the world's problems.
The actor spoke of his desire to help those less fortunate than him but explained that even as a generous spender, you have to know where to draw the line.
Despite giving millions of dollars to charitable projects and foundations with his fiancee Angelina Jolie, the Hollywood star says he will never earn enough to solve world poverty.
"Listen, it's never enough and it's a whole new set of problems, just with a different scale. I hit the Lottery so I think you need to pass that on," he was quoted as saying by British newspaper The Sun.
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Melbourne Mayors Olympic Dream Could End In Brisbane

Melbourne considers itself the countrys sporting capital, having staged the 1956 Olympic Games as well as being the home to a Formula One race, the Australian Open tennis tournament, an iconic cricket ground and the nations biggest horse race.
Melbourne considers itself the country's sporting capital, having staged the 1956 Olympic Games as well as being the home to a Formula One race, the Australian Open tennis tournament, an iconic cricket ground and the nation's biggest horse race.
On Tuesday, Melbourne topped the Global Liveability Survey title for the second successive year and mayor Robert Doyle weighed in with a proposal that the city had the infrastructure in place to host a second Olympic Games.
"I don't think there'd be another city in the world not hosting the Olympics that is as well prepared as we are right now," Doyle told reporters less than 48 hours after London extinguished the flame of a successful but costly Summer Games.
"Think what we could do if we did dream large for 2024 or 2028."
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Taylor Swift New Single On Track For Record Downloads

Pop singer TaylorSwift has shot to the top of iTunes in 25 countries with her newsingle We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, and is poisedfor a record digital sales debut on next weeks Billboard chart. Billboard said on Wednesday that the infectiously catchysong was already among the 40 most-played tunes on U.S. radiojust two days after being released.
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The Sapphires A Box Office Smash Hit

The Sapphires has enjoyed the best opening for an Australian movie in almost two years, taking $2.32 million at the box office last weekend.The feel-good musical drama about an all-girl Aboriginal singing group sent off to Vietnam to entertain the troops has put a sparkle into an otherwise dull 2012 at the local box office, pulling in the biggest crowds since teen action film Tomorrow When the War Began opened with $3.86 million in September 2010 and beating the $1.78 million debut of last year’s runaway success story Red Dog.The Sapphires’ total gross now sits at $2.59 million, with distributor Hopscotch/eOne expecting it to reach $3.4 million by the end of the week.
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Bindi Irwin hopes to make her dad proud with new film role

There is no khaki in sight but plenty of animal co-stars to make Australia’s own wildlife warrior Bindi Irwin feel comfortable on the movie set of Nim’s Island 2 on the Gold Coast.
Bindi, in an exclusive on-set interview, said she instantly related to the lead role of Nim, who lives on a deserted island with her father Jack (Matthew Lillard) and best friends Selkie, a sea lion, and Fred, a bearded dragon lizard.
The 14-year-old said a highlight had been riding the two Sea World sea lions, who share the acting duties, and joked the sea lions “are better trained than me’’.
“Riding underneath the water has been the most incredible experience of my life,’’ she said.
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NSW Coach Is A Stand Alone Role - Sheens

Australia and former NSW coach Tim Sheens has urged the NSW board to stick to their guns and avoid hiring an NRL coach as Ricky Stuart's successor to the Blues top job.
NSWRL general manager Geoff Carr and chairman John chalk are currently gauging the interest of every candidate who has been touted as a potential replacement for Stuart.

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