A giant inland sea of floodwater will spread across the Australian state of Victoria over the next 10 days, officials say.

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Residents in the flood-hit city of Brisbane brace for a king tide, as more towns in Victoria are evacuated in the ongoing crisis.

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Thousands of people in Victoria, Australia leave their homes ahead of major flooding, as the clean-up gets underway in Queensland where 18 people have died.

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Australia southern state of Victoria is bracing for more floods as river levels reach unprecedented levels.

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Olympic champions Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton will miss the 2011 Track Cycling World Cup in Beijing after British Cycling name an inexperienced squad.

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Baby, it’s time. The Beckhams are expecting another child due this summer, according to Victoria’s spokesperson. L.A. Galaxy Midfielder David Beckham and fashion designer wife Victoria are already the proud parents of three boys: Brooklyn, 11, Romeo,…

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5 live: Rape victim tells Victoria Derbyshire that she withdrew her allegation and was imprisoned herself.

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Matt Prior hits an unbeaten century as England hit back to grind out a draw in the tour fixture with Victoria after a rain-affected final day in Melbourne.

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England end day two of the tour fixture against Victoria with their seamers having taken only one wicket between them in the match.

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England drop a string of catches as Victoria hit 216-2 in the tour match before declaring, and Alastair Cook then falls cheaply.

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Chris Hoy win the men’s Keirin to clinch another gold at the track World Cup event in Melbourne while Victoria Pendleton has to settle for silver in the sprint final.

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Rampant Hoy grabs another GB gold

The qualities needed to be awarded the George or Victoria Cross

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David Beckham made an appearance on US chat show “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”, in which he and wife Victoria argued about his bad habits.

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New Yorkers who aren’t into the Victoria’s Secret version of Halloween can take a more theatrical approach.

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City Critic: A Night for Pagans Brings Out the Sexy

LEDs and dandelions star in a stunning chandelier vision of our environmental fate Among stunning 20th-century artworks from European galleries, there’s always a contemporary design gem or two to be found at London’s Art + Design Pavilion . In 2008 we came across rAndom International’s Temporary Printing Machine at The Carpenters Workshop , which this year features a giant landscape version of the machine producing temporary scanned images of the whole room. Trumping that spectacle 2010′s show-stopping LED chandelier by Dutch designers Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn , also showing at The Carpenters Workshop. Awarded the Moet Hennessy Prize 2010 for best in show at the fair, the designers describe their work as “the story about the amalgamation of nature and technology. In the distant future these two extremes have made a pact to survive. Fragile Future III combines an electrical system with real dandelions in a light sculpture that is predestined to overgrow a surface.” The contrast between the heavy concrete block among the incredibly fragile dandelion heads creates a particularly visually striking ambiance. The discordant image suggests the imminent damage and destruction of these delicate forms, as well as a rather beautiful visual analogy of environmental destruction. The tiny LED lights placed at the center of the delicate dandelion heads look nothing short of magical. Seemingly a sort of visual trick, the mind boggles imagining the intricacies involved in making the genuine structure. Now in its third iteration (I saw an earlier edition at the excellent “In Praise of Shadows” exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum during the London Design Festival last year), it’s exciting to see these innovative designers developing the Fragile Futures design, with the latest version introducing newly-developed modules for 3D constructions.

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