Week's most clicked
Cartoonist Harry Bruce looks back on the week that was.
ODD equations topped the tallies this week, when 31 hours divided one into two, and $600,000 paid for $300,000 value.
In Cairns, it was revealed that taxpayers were forking out $600,000 a pop for small brick houses - since valued at less than $300,000 - with no airconditioning, no fans and no landscaping.
And the top national story at news.com.au this week was the marathon 31-hour operation that separated Bangladeshi conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna.
Cairns top 5
1. Small brick houses with no airconditioning, no fans and no landscaping are costing taxpayers $600,000 a pop to build in remote communities. Read more.
2. A wild wallaby savagely mauls a two-year-old girl at White Rock, amid calls for culls of the marsupials around Cairns’ southside residential areas. Read more.
3. The latest Twilight movie, New Moon, based on Stephenie Meyer’s book, opens to cinemas packed with excited fans at Cairns Central. Read more.
4. A man has a chunk bitten out of his ear during a late-night fight as he argued with another man outside McDonald’s over whose motorbike was the fastest. Read more.
5. An 18-year-old is sentenced to three months’ jail after pointing a laser beam at an emergency helicopter as it tried to land at Mareeba Hospital. Read more.
National top 5
1. A team of Australian surgeons perform groundbreaking surgery to separate twins Trishna and Krishna, who were joined at the head. Read more.
2. Incensed internet users unite to catch a man who threw a helpless dog off a busy bridge in Lithuania. Read more.
3. Senator Nick Xenophon accuses the Church of Scientology of being a criminal organisation. Read more.
4. Four people are arrested on suspicion of killing up to 60 people to sell their fat and other human tissue for cosmetic use. Read more.
5. A female music teacher is jailed after having sex with two male students. Read more.
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