Cate Blanchett has been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, but the news was not so good for Hugh Jackman, Geoffrey Rush, Chris Hemsworth and former Neighbours starlet Margot Robbie.
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NEW YORK - Time magazine has named Pope Francis its person of the year, saying that in nine months in office the head of the Catholic Church had become a new voice of conscience.
PRETORIA - Nelson Mandela's tearful widow was among scores of mourners who paid their last respects before his open casket, as the much-loved leader lies in state.
LONDON - A witness has told Britain's phone hacking trial that she overheard tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks and her rival, Piers Morgan, joking at a party about illegal eavesdropping.
LONDON - G8 health ministers have met in London to tackle what experts warn is a dementia time-bomb, with cases set to soar as the world's population ages.
DAMASCUS - Britain and the US have suspended non-lethal aid, including armoured vehicles and medicines, to rebel-held parts of northern Syria.
CAPE TOWN - About 13 million HIV-positive Africans still don't have access to the life-saving medication they require, the non-profit World Aids Campaign says.
BANGUI - The father of a slain French soldier has described how disarmed Muslim fighters in the Central African Republic were lynched by a Christian mob in a harrowing testimony that has raised the spectre of a new wave of sectarian killing.
