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ANGELINA Jolie had both breasts removed to avoid the fate that lies in wait for Gold Coast woman Elisha Neave.

THE blood bank has been forced to draw upon stocks from outside North Queensland while it waits for the region's dengue fever outbreaks to subside.

He's travelled across the globe since the age of 19, first hanging around Byron Bay before heading to the Whitsundays, New Zealand, the United States, Canada and Europe.

Strong economic growth fuels ready-to-wear designer apparel in 2012. While many premium apparel brands were marked with price pressures from internet retailers and depressed consumer confidence, luxury brands and retailers reported strong results from a shifting consumer profile.

Merryn Thomae and Bernard Wright inspect a house at Yeronga where the 2012 median sale price of $570,000 has risen to $621,250 this year.

The family of a Queensland teenager whose hands have almost been completely destroyed in a backyard explosion are struggling to cope, their local mayor says.

There'll be a shower or two about tonight, with a low of 15. Showers continuing tomorrow, with a top of 24.

Richard Branson says he wants to make Makepeace Island more accessible and hopes to be taking bookings before Christmas.

It doesn't seem right that four months have passed since the final notes of the 2013 Adam Chamber Music Festival faded away into a warm summer's night outside the Cathedral in Nelson.

DATA: Less than half of Royal Children's Hospital outpatients urgently requiring an assessment by a brain surgeon are being seen within the recommended 30 days.

ELECTRICAL safety was not identified as an issue until the first fatal electrocution after the government's Home Insulation Program began in 2009.

QUEENSLAND'S Hamilton Island has announced a valuable tie-up with Asian social media giant QQ.com as part of a plan to dramatically increase the number of Chinese visiting Australia.

A REVIEW ahead of a legal bid by Queensland police to have the Gold Coast Finks motorcycle gang declared a criminal organisation will take place behind closed doors.

Christopher Beavon thinks it'd be pretty tops to score the best job in the world, or at least one of them.

The tests will be available from June 3 and stock will be rolled out across Queensland communities by World AIDS Day on December 1. MAC chair Dr Darren Russell said the introduction of rapid HIV testing will advance Queensland's response to HIV prevention by allowing health professionals to test and treat HIV earlier.

Ninety-four per cent of irrigated land in the Central Highlands district is covered by mining exploration or other licenses and concerns about coexistence have long been debated.

POLICE on the scene at Hinde Street, in the Gold Coast suburb of Ashmore, where a man has died at an industrial business.PIC: Richar Gosling POLICE are awaiting a medical report for clues about the mysterious death of a man at a cement factory on the Gold Coast this afternoon.

AN Irish tourist who "belly-flopped" into a Fraser Island waterhole and was rendered a partial quadriplegic will receive substantial damages from the State Government because it failed to adequately warn of the dangers.

TWO of North Queensland's biggest music festivals will reassess their dates next year after fearing a decline in crowd numbers without the long weekend.

The North-West Hospital and Health Service Board has praised staff at the Mount Isa Hospital for topping the state and recording the best emergency department and elective surgery wait times.