A hotel worker makes the bed inside the Medieval Room, where chains hang on the wall, reflected in the mirror at left, at the Shalimar Hotel, known as a love hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. With the arrival of next year’s World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympic Games to this seaside city, local officials are scrambling to bridge a chronic hotel bed shortage so severe that during a UN conference here last year, the mayor had to appeal to residents to open their apartments to visitors. The plan? Slash property taxes for love hotels, known as “motels” in Portuguese, that agree to tone down the decor and free up 90 percent of their rooms for the tsunami of visitors expected to flood the city. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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A hotel worker makes the bed inside the Medieval Room, where chains hang on the wall, reflected in the mirror at left, at the Shalimar Hotel, known as a love hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. With the arrival of next year’s World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympic Games to this seaside city, local officials are scrambling to bridge a chronic hotel bed shortage so severe that during a UN conference here last year, the mayor had to appeal to residents to open their apartments to visitors. The plan? Slash property taxes for love hotels, known as “motels” in Portuguese, that agree to tone down the decor and free up 90 percent of their rooms for the tsunami of visitors expected to flood the city. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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A newly remodeled room is seen at the Shalimar Hotel, known as a love hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Like about a third of city’s 180 hotels that rent rooms by the hour, mostly for amorous rendezvous, the Shalimar is trading its oversized beds and bondage-ready chairs for proper couches, functional desks and other business-friendly furnishings. The goal is reinvention as a standard pay-by-the-day tourist hotel, after the government slashed property taxes for love hotels, known as “motels” in Portuguese, that agree to tone down the decor and free up 90 percent of their rooms for the tsunami of visitors expected to flood the city for the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Paintings of knights and noblemen unlocking women's chastity belts decorate the wall of the Medieval Room at the Shalimar Hotel, known as a love hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. With the arrival of next year’s World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympic Games to this seaside city, local officials are scrambling to bridge a chronic hotel bed shortage so severe that during a UN conference here last year, the mayor had to appeal to residents to open their apartments to visitors. The plan? Slash property taxes for love hotels, known as “motels” in Portuguese, that agree to tone down the decor and free up 90 percent of their rooms for the tsunami of visitors expected to flood the city. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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An iron chain-strewn chair decorates the Medieval Room at the Shalimar Hotel, known as a love hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. With the arrival of next year’s World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympic Games to this seaside city, local officials are scrambling to bridge a chronic hotel bed shortage so severe that during a UN conference here last year, the mayor had to appeal to residents to open their apartments to visitors. The plan? Slash property taxes for love hotels, known as “motels” in Portuguese, that agree to tone down the decor and free up 90 percent of their rooms for the tsunami of visitors expected to flood the city. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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People walk along the sidewalk past the Shalimar Hotel, known as a love hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Like about a third of city’s 180 hotels that rent rooms by the hour, mostly for amorous rendezvous, the Shalimar is trading its oversized beds and bondage-ready chairs for proper couches, functional desks and other business-friendly furnishings. The goal is reinvention as a standard pay-by-the-day tourist hotel, after the government slashed property taxes for love hotels, known as “motels” in Portuguese, that agree to tone down the decor and free up 90 percent of their rooms for the tsunami of visitors expected to flood the city for the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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A senior Hamas official and Egypt's president say they believe a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas could happen soon. Israel's prime minister said his country would be a "willing partner" to a deal. (Nov. 20)
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In this Aug. 21, 2012 photo, Beto Silva, who works as a salesman at a luxury clothing store, poses for a photo with his art piece by artist Waltercio Caldas, titled "Fim Fim,"' or "End End," inside his apartment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Like other thriving middle-class Brazilians, Silva has bought his way into the growing ranks of collectors who are helping to put Rio de Janeiro on the international art map. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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In this Aug. 21, 2012 photo, a plate by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz that features his recreation of Caravaggio's Medusa hangs on the kitchen wall at the home of Beto Silva, a luxury clothing store salesman, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Like other thriving middle-class Brazilians, Silva has bought his way into the growing ranks of collectors who are helping to put Rio de Janeiro on the international art map. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
WWII ship bombed by Japanese found
The wreckage of a 70-year-old ship that was struck and sunk by a Japanese torpedo during World War II has been found off the coast of northern NSW.
The cargo ship, named MV Limerick, was part of a coastal wartime convoy travelling from Sydney to Brisbane when it was struck on ANZAC Day, 1943 by Japanese submarines.
The ship sank the following day, spewing its 72 crew members into the ocean.
Two of the ship's crew were killed, and the 70 others rescued.
"Limerick was one of the largest vessels sunk by Japanese submarines off Australia's east coast during their offensive submarine patrols through 1942 and 1943," NSW Heritage Minister Robyn Parker said in a statement.
The vessel has been missing for almost 70 years and was located by local fisherman near the NSW town of Ballina at the end of last year.
Australia's Marine National Facility then conducted a research voyage to locate the shipwreck.
Ms Parker said the loved ones of the men who lost their lives on MV Limerick will be notified.
"This is a reminder of the huge sacrifice paid by merchant seamen during the war on the home front keeping food, materials and supplies going," she said.
The shipwreck will be protected under the provisions of the Historic Shipwrecks Act.
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