| Granny denies she is public enemy No 1
PICTURE the sitting room of a modest two-bedroom flat at Lakemba in southwest Sydney. Neatly covered floor cushions lean up against the wall beside a shelf full of brass ornaments from the Middle East, while a tank of goldfish bubbles in the corner. It doesn't look like a terrorist's lair. The occupant is a 54-year-old mother of six and grandmother of two, retired and living on a disability pension. She doesn't look like a terrorist. But this is the most-watched woman in Australia, monitored for the past 20 years by ASIO and described by intelligence analysts as the "matriarch" of radical Islam in Australia. Rabiah Hutchinson snorts with laughter at the description. "They've got it wrong. I am not important. I'm just a 54-year-old granny with diabetes and arthritis.
Ash borer pest prompts Fayette wood quarantine
The speed of global travel and commerce has potential drawbacks. We had been dealing with gypsy moths, but we now need to deal with emerald ash borers and we need to continue to prepare for the next threat, even though we don't yet know what it is." The emerald ash borer is native to Asia, and is believed to have entered the United States in packing crates carried by ships or aircraft. In its larval stage, the pest feeds on the inner bark of ash trees, cutting off the trees' ability to absorb water and nutrients. While the ash accounts for only 2 percent to 4 percent of the tree mix in West Virginia's forests, it is a valuable species, used in the production of flooring, cabinets and paneling. It is also the primary wood type used in manufacturing baseball bats.
Celebs Evacuated From Malibu Fires; Plus Fall Out Boy, Beyonce, Tool ...
The raging Southern California wildfires that intensified over the weekend are threatening the homes of a number of stars who reside in Malibu. Mel Gibson, Jennifer Aniston, Tom Hanks, Courteney Cox and David Arquette, James Cameron, Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn, Rob Reiner, David Geffen, David Duchovny, Mark Hamill, Olivia Newton-John and Bill Murray are among the stars who have been evacuated or whose homes are potentially in jeopardy. ... Fall Out Boy have "an album's worth of material" good to go but aren't ready to put out their fifth LP just quite yet, frontman Patrick Stump told Billboard.com. "There's always something that hits me, like a sense of urgency — now is the time for an album — and we're not there yet," he said. "I just get this kind of wanderlust of some kind to go back into a studio.
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