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Rashell is news.com.au’s social media editor. She was a news journalist at News Local for seven years and opinion writer for the Daily Telegraph before she began her life in the world of social media. She worked as a social media manager for News Corp before joining news.com.au. She is an avid fan of all things quirky and outside the norm.

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SANLIURFA, TURKEY - OCTOBER 20: (TURKEY OUT) An explosion rocks Syrian city of Kobani during a reported suicide car bomb attack by the militants of Islamic State (ISIS) group on a People's Protection Unit (YPG) position in the city center of Kobani, as seen from the outskirts of Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, October 20, 2014 in Sanliurfa province, Turkey. According to Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey will reportedly allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross the Syrian border to fight Islamic State (IS) militants in the Syrian city of Kobani while the United States has sent planes to drop weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Syrian Kurdish fighters around Kobani. (Photo by Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images)

This picture changed the world

IT WAS the split-second moment that marked a point of no return. This picture and 16 others are the defining images that changed Australia and the world this year.

NSW

Man hit and trapped under train

A MAN was hit and trapped under a train in central Sydney this afternoon.

Christmas

The presents of Christmas past we miss

REMEMBER when Christmas presents required batteries and not wi-fi? We do. Here are the Christmas presents we received as kids that we still love.

NSW

Iranian born self styled Muslim cleric Sheik Haron ( also known as Man Monis ) arrives at Downing Centre Court in Sydney. He his facing seven counts of sending letters to families of Australian soldiers. Picture: Cameron Richardson

The day I met siege gunman Man Haron Monis

JOURNALIST Rashell Habib recalls the day she met Man Haron Monis, and how she, like the rest the country, underestimated what he was capable of.

Mobile Phones

Incredible storm time-lapse video

THE recent spate of storms may not have been great for your shoes, but incredible pictures and time lapse videos have emerged. Check out some of the best.

Relationships

mX Only Newtown Festival. - DARE TO DECLARE YOUR LOVE AT NEWTOWN FESTIVAL.The Newtown Festival are giving someone the chance to propose to their love on the main stage. To make this a reality all you need to do is apply via this link and leave the rest to history. The newly engaged couple will win 20 x VIP passes to Heaps Gays 1st Birthday Bash worth $500 PLUS a weekend stay and free mini bar at The Urban Hotel Newtown. The website link is here (APPLICATIONS CLOSE THIS MONDAY 27th) www.newtowncentre.org/festival/. What: Newtown Festival 2014 When: Sunday, 9th November 2013 from 9.30am - 5.30pm. Where: Camperdown Memorial Rest Park, Newtown YOU need to pre register now if you wish to declare your love (or propose) on stage. Picture CHRIS PAVLICH Please contact Melissa Matheson for photo permissions.

Billboards: The new way to propose

MEN and women around the world are popping the question in some pretty creative ways, think billboards, beaches and playing cards.

Parenting

Why everyone’s obsessed with Elf On A Shelf

WHO is this strange little man watching our children? The Elf On A Shelf is taking over living rooms all over Australia but is he good or evil?

Television

Jon Stewart absolutely unleashes

JON Stewart has reacted angrily to a grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer for killing unarmed man Eric Garner.

NSW & ACT

Hotel takes thieves to Facebook

ANNANDALE Hotel owners Matt and Dan Rule have turned to social media to track down thieves who broke into the premises yesterday.

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