HOLD onto your hats. The biggest story of the week strikes at border security, US-Australia relations, good taste and pride in the nation.
Never mind Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and Paris Hilton, this time the US had gone too far.
The web lit up with news the Stars and Stripes had . Customs officials were even searching Australians for jars of the national spread when they arrived, it was said. Not since had his confiscated at Heathrow had there been such an outrage.
Well, it was good for a couple of days.
Dismissing media reports and the frenzy it created, the US Food and Drug Administration soon declared there was in fact on the folate-carrying expat's delight. In true US-style perhaps they were instead leaving it to the free market in a country where a tiny jar of the patriotic delicacy leaves the shelves for around $US4.
80 ($6.33).
Back home, the more sinister aspects of the digital age saw a group of that showed them degrading a teenage girl during a rampage akin to some of the less savoury on offer.
what readers had to say as into the alleged offences.
The maternity ward also featured in our top rating tales.
At first glance Queensland babies Alicia and Jasmin Singerl look nothing like sisters, let alone twins.
Click for their million to one story.
In other maternal news, a woman was handed the after a hospital mix-up in Melbourne and realised it wasn't her child when she started breastfeeding.
Meanwhile, Community Services Minister John Cobb said today he was stunned and damned upset after being accused of saying he would get rid of any of his children if they were .
His reported remarks created the expected controversy but in denying the slur Mr Cobb, a father of seven, said his words had been misconstrued.
In the world of entertainment, the fairytale that was Nic and Keith came unstuck this week with news the country music superstar had just four months after the Sydney wedding.
A devastated Nicole was standing by her man.
Keith's uncle, however, threatened to for getting back on the booze.
It was also a week of controversial books. While had the op-ed pages of the newspapers on fire it was extracts from forthcoming My Story that grabbed you on the web.
In it, Corby has lashed out at the Bali Nine, blaming them for the severity of her prison sentence and revealing she once believed fellow Indonesian inmate Renae Lawrence was a psychopathic lesbian .
It seemed this week one of Australia's greatest sporting mystery - the has finally been solved. Scientific tests using breakthrough technology uncovered evidence the legendary racehorse was poisoned with arsenic just hours before his 1932 death in the US.
The plight of , the teenager at the wheel of the car that careered down a 7m ditch, killing four of his mates at the weekend also captured your attention.
The Year 11 student is apparently consumed with grief and fearing the confrontation with his friends' families.
But as the week draws to a close it's onto brighter news.
It's been and heralded in literature down the ages. But you better watch how you do it for now has been used as a personality test with scientists observing how your technique identifies how emotional you are.
And perhaps it is just a surfeit of romance responsible for this final story.
But apparently about a dozen Japanese tourists every year need for Paris syndrome . Nothing to do with the famous heiress, this is, rather a problem one encounters when the jarring reality of the City of Lights clashes with some great expectations.
Sacre bleu!
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