HOME video has caught a Canadian coach deliberately tripping up a 13-year-old opponent at an amateur hockey game.
The teenager was left with a broken wrist and coach Martin Tremblay could face charges of assault.
The coach was also seen heckling the boy throughout the game and has since been suspended from his post.
Job vacancies have dropped by by 4.5 per cent. Picture: File image
THE number of job vacancies in Australia fell 4.5 per cent in the three months to May, official statistics show.
The total number of vacancies in May 2011 was 181,500, in seasonally adjusted terms, compared with 190,000 in the previously quarterly survey in February, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today.
The number of job vacancies in the private sector was 163,300 in May, a fall of 5.1 per cent from 172,000 in November.
There were 18,200 vacancies in the public sector in May, up 1.3 per cent from vacancies recorded three months earlier.
TRADITIONAL owners in the Kimberley have signed off on a major consent agreement with Woodside Petroleum and the West Australian government for a $30 billion gas hub north of Broome.
Premier Colin Barnett said at the signing at Parliament House in Perth today that it was an "absolute milestone" in the history of Aboriginal and wider relations in Australia.
He said it was "an historic roll of the dice" for Kimberley Aboriginal communities following exhaustive and often emotional negotiations and it had to succeed.
The liquified natural gas project, to process gas from the Browse Basin off the Kimberley coast, is to be built at James Price Point about 60km north of Broome.
Kimberley Land Council chief negotiator Wayne Bergmann said the deal was about creating life-changing economic opportunities for future indigenous generations in the Kimberley.
Under the agreement, $1.5 billion in benefits are expected to flow to indigenous communities in the Kimberley over 30 years.
Mr Barnett told reporters after signing that protesters who continue to blockade access to the James Price Point site were "standing in the way of Aboriginal people" and would not be allowed to continue their blockage tactics.
Samoa Air will begin to charge passengers by the kilo. Picture: Samoa Air / Facebook
SAMOA Airlines has started to charge passengers by the kilo, rather than per seat.
No, this is not an overdue April Fool's Day joke. It is real.
Samoa Air started operating in the Pacific last year. Chief Executive Chris Langton said paying per kilo is the fairest way.
What do you think? Is pay per kilo the fairest way to fly? Tell us below.
"People have always travelled on the basis of their seat but as many airline operators know airlines don't run on seats they run on weight and particularly the smaller the aircraft you are in the less variance you can accept in terms of the difference in weight between passengers," Mr Langton told ABC radio.
"There is no doubt in my mind that this is the concept of the future. We always weigh the mass that is on an aircraft. And that always has to pay for the transportation, it doesn't matter whether you are carrying freight or people. Anyone who travels at times has felt they have been paying for half of the passenger next to them. The standard width and pitch of the seat are changing as people are getting a bit bigger wider and taller than they were 40-50 years ago."
Under the pay by weight system passengers input their weight into the online booking section of the Samoa Air website and pay the "pay-per-kilo" rate for that sector.
The rates range from $1 a kilogram – for the weight of the traveller and their baggage – on the airline's shortest domestic route to about $4.16 per kilogram for travel from Samoa to American Samoa.
Mr Langton told the ABC he believed many passengers would be pleasantly surprised by the cost of pay by weight.
"We have worked out a figure per kilo. This is the fairest way of you travelling with your family or yourself. You can put your baggage on, there is no separate fees because of excess baggage - it's just a kilo is a kilo is a kilo.
"The people that have been most pleasantly surprised are families because we don't charge on the seat requirement, even though a child is required to have a seat - we just weigh them. So a family of maybe two adults and a couple of mid-sized kids and younger children can travel at considerable less than what they were being charged before."
Last week Norwegain academic Dr Bharat P Bhatta called for 'pay as you weigh' flights so airlines can recoup the cost of the extra fuel required to carry larger people.
"I think the simplest way to implement this would be for passengers to declare their weight when buying a plane ticket," Dr Bhatta Sogn og Fjordane University College told London’s Daily Telegraph. "This would save time and eliminate expense.
"At the airport airlines could randomly select passengers and if they lied about their weight they would have to pay the fat fare and a penalty."
Dr Bhatta said charging according to weight and space was a universally accepted principle, not only in transportation, but also in other services
James Holmes, accused of mass killings at a theatre in Colorado, has tired to change his plea to guilty to avoid the death penalty. Picture: RJ Sangosti Source: AP
PROSECUTORS overnight said they will seek the death penalty against the man accused in last year's movie theatre attack that killed 12 and wounded 70 in Colorado.
The much-anticipated disclosure came in a court hearing held four days after prosecutors publicly rejected an offer by James Holmes' lawyers that the former neuroscience graduate student would plead guilty to avoid execution.
Unidentified women embrace outside of the courtroom in the case of Aurora theatre shooting, after hearing that the prosecution will seek the death penalty in the case against James Holmes. Picture: Brennan Linsley Source: AP
Elsewhere, six more people have died at a Chinese mine just days after a deadly explosion there, an Afghan teenager has stabbed dead a US soldier, Australian kidnap victim Warren Rodwell is preparing to charge his abductors, an American man screaming about Allah has shot dead his father after an Easter church service and the girlfriend of a Russian tycoon found dead in the UK says she doubts he would have killed himself.
Rescuers with excavators search for buried mine workers at the site of a landslide in Lhasa, China, one of a number of deadly mining accidents in the country in recent days. Picture: Getty Images Source: Getty Images
Shain Gandee, a star of the MTV reality show BUCKWILD, has been found dead in a car along with two other people, the doctor on the French version of Survivor has committed suicide after the death of a contestant, female tourists are avoiding India after horrific crimes against women there, two tourists have also been abducted and assaulted in Rio and a brave housewife has become the first woman to run for parliament in Pakistan's volatile tribal region.
Mugshots showing Jonathan Froudakis de Souza (left), 20, and Wallace Aparecido Silva, 22, who allegedly raped a foreign tourist in a minibus in Rio de Janeiro. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
North Korea's new premier will likely focus more on the economy than nukes, Coney Island is in need of a bumper summer after the devastation of Superstorm Sandy and Nelson Mandela enjoyed a visit from his family in hospital.
Also, Indonesian police found hundreds of turtles at Jakarta's airport, Iran is out for world supremacy in the race for the largest tub of ice cream, the Philippines will not set the bar lower than 5'4" for the height of its police, the Obamas enjoyed some Easter festivities at the White House, Saudi women are now allowed to ride bikes (provided they do so in approved areas), while elderly men everywhere are being advised to ride women's bikes as they're less likely to fall off them.
US President Barack Obama attends the White House Easter Egg Roll alongside the Easter Bunny on the South Lawn of the White House. Picture: Saul Loeb Source: AFP
In entertainment, Chris Brown agrees that it is hard to make people like him, Orlando Bloom will profess his love to someone other than Miranda Kerr when he plays Romeo on Broadway, a Breakfast at Tiffany's manuscript is up for sale with a price to match its jeweller namesake, John Farnham has been voted the nation's best-ever voice, Brad and Angelina may travel many leagues to film in Australia, Ryan Gosling doesn't like it when people call Eva Mendes "Baby", and Julio Iglesias says he is cool with being uncool (he's sold 300 million records so that probably helps).
Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom arrive for the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
In sport, Australian cyclist Simon Gerrans has won the first stage of the Tour of the Basque country, a stunning strike from Chelsea's Demba Ba has knocked Manchester United out of the FA Cup, new Sunderland boss Paolo Di Canio has denied being a racist and fascist, Paris doesn't want to say au revoir to David Beckham, Bayern Munich and Juventus are primed for the Champions League encounter and India wants an Olympic boxer tested for heroin use.
Chelsea's Demba Ba scores a goal past Manchester United's goalkeeper David De Gea during their FA Cup quarter-final. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
THE Australian dollar surged to a 26-year high against the pound, as fears of a Greek default subsided following a successful vote on a key austerity package.
The local currency rallied to 66.68 pence today, the highest level since 1985, before falling back slightly to 66.65 pence.
Against the US dollar the Australian dollar rose to a three-week high 107.46 cents and at 12pm (AEST), the Australian dollar was trading at 107.03 US cents, up from 105.85 cents yesterday.
The Australian dollar also rose against the euro and yen.
Greek politicians voted overnight for a package to slash 28.4 billion euros ($A38.9 billion) from government spending by 2015, in the first stage of a two-part vote aimed at unlocking emergency finance from the EU and the IMF. The second vote is on Thursday.
CMC foreign exchange dealer Tim Waterer said the Australian dollar was one of the strongest performing currencies, after risk sentiment recovered following the encouraging news from Greece.
"(It was) a pretty remarkable rebound, really, when you look at the course of events this week," Mr Waterer said.
"It's pushed two US cents higher in the last 36 hours and it's three cents higher than its 104 (US cents) low earlier in the week."
Mr Waterer said the Australian dollar did not react to the two pieces of data that were released on Thursday.
Total credit provided to the private sector by banks and other lenders rose 0.3 per cent in May, according to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).
The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that the number of job vacancies in Australia had fallen 4.5 per cent in the three months to May.
Mr Waterer said the focus may shift to local economic data next week, when the central bank meets on Tuesday for its monthly monetary policy meeting.
The Reserve Bank has kept the cash rate at 4.75 per cent since November last year and is widely expected to keep interest rates unchanged in July.
"That will be very closely monitored," Mr Waterer said.
"Not so much the move on the rate but what the rhetoric is in the statement."
He said the domestic currency may trade between 106.45 US cents and 107.20 US cents for the remainder of the local session today.
Since 7am the local unit traded between 106.68 US cents and 107.17 cents.
KIM Kardashian says she has to "train'' herself to eat better in order to shape up for bikini season.
The reality TV star says she doesn't keep her body in perfect condition all year round.
Kardashian says her penchant for bad food is her downfall and she has to rewire her mind every now and again so she follows a healthier diet.
"I think it's a combination. I don't eat as good, (but) I work out all the time, so when I train myself to eat healthier then I obviously look better,'' she tells UK TV show Lorraine on how to get ready for bikini season.
"And then I like to do a little QuickTrim cleanse, especially right before bikini season or shoots, to get me to stop eating so bad and motivate me.''
The 31-year-old reveals she suffers from occasional self doubts, and says her nature makes her pick out her flaws.
"I'm such a perfectionist I don't think I'm ever really comfortable (in my body). My thighs get cellulite (People love them but) with Spanx on! They are the greatest invention,'' she says.
