Damon Thomas

Federal Labor says draft legislation to abolish AWAs will be ready when Parliament resumes in February. The Chamber's Chief Executive, Damon Thomas, says red tape has delayed the approval process for AWAs. He says if the law passes, AWAs lodged but not approved at that stage should still proceed. "So if there's applications lodged right up until the time when the legislation is enacted into law, those applications should be able to be processed," Mr Thomas said.

Kim Kardashian s ex husband

KIM KARDASHIAN began the first season of the E! reality series "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" wanting to set the record straight. Her sex tape with her former boyfriend, the R&B singer Ray J, had leaked, and Kim and her momager, Kris, felt the logical way to address it was to appear on Tyra Banks' talk show.kim kardashian s ex husband

Stockdale family

Ty Pennington and designers Paul DiMeo, Paige Hemmis, Eduardo Xol and John Littlefield, continue their trek across America to assist a family in each of the fifty states as they head into the town of Middleton, ID and the Stockdale family. Of the many Extremes I have seen, this family has got to be one of the most affected in terms of threatening situations.

One Laptop Per Child

You got to love a project that aims to get laptops into the hands of school children around the world, the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is that program and they are successfully doing just that.

Don Rickles

Eighty-one-year-old Don Rickles is the subject of "Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project," an HBO documentary premiering Sunday directed by John Landis. Read about it in the Times arts coverage here and watch this clip (left) with Ed McMahon looking back at the comedian's relationship with Johnny Carson and "The Tonight Show."