A tech boss has snapped up the Vaucluse home of Westpac exec Michael Correa, on the market since April. The four-bedroom home at 39 Palmerston St, described as having a “Mediterranean vibe” with its sparse designer look, wouldn’t be for everyone — and evidently a difficult sell as winter approached.
But the warmer days are here, the right buyer has been found and the price looks to be on the money — or at least the sort of money that was being talked about when it first went up for sale. Read More...
After spending several months renting Derek Jeter's Tampa-area pad, Tom Brady, newly of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is said to be nearing a deal on another mansion nearby that he'll be able to call his own. That's according to a recent TMZ report, that says Brady is supposed to be close to signing a deal for a home at some $7.5 million.
The house is a custom-built, five-bedroom spread in a gated community in Clearwater, Florida. Read More...
SITTING down may not sound like torture, but for prisoners strapped in metal “tiger chairs” for days, it is sheer agony.
“I sat until my buttocks bled,” said one inmate who was restrained in the iron contraption, one of China’s many horrifying instruments of punishment.
Other detainees reported being beaten while suspended in the air by their handcuffs or made to squat for hours. These are among the disturbing revelations published in a Human Rights Watch report into police torture and ill-treatment of suspects. Read More...
