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Google Australia managing director Karim Temsamani has been appointed as the new head of the internet company’s global mobile ads strategy.

Temsamani joined Google in 2007 from Fairfax Media where he had been the company’s commercial and group magazine director.

Over the past three years, Temsamani has overseen the growth of Google’s search and display advertising business in Australia, built relationships with agency partners, grown the company’s YouTube operations and established major partnerships to provide great content and services for local users.

Temsamani takes up his new position at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California on October 1. Google said it will announce a replacement soon.

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A family of four spent three nights stranded in their ute after ignoring warning signs and following their GPS navigation system on to a closed dirt road in the NSW far north-west.

Police said the family of four, including two teenage boys, were travelling with their dog across Australia, between Brisbane and Perth.

They followed their GPS navigation system on to the popular and picturesque Darling River Road but ignored numerous signs indicating the road was closed due to heavy rainfall.

The ute and trailer eventually became bogged down about 40 kilometres north-east of the town of Wilcannia.

The family called police but were forced to wait for three nights before emergency services could reach them.

Police said rescuers braved “extremely difficult and treacherous” road conditions to rescue the family and their dog, finally reaching them about 8pm yesterday.

The Darling River Road is a 700-kilometre route along mostly dirt roads that traces the Darling River through the NSW outback between the towns of Bourke and Wentworth.

It is a popular trail among travellers but is known to become dangerous in wet conditions.

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A German bank robber led his pursuers straight to him after taunting police in an email over their efforts to catch him.

Authorities in the southern city of Wuerzburg said the 19-year-old sent emails to police and two newspapers to point out factual errors in the report of his bank raid in the town of Roettingen a week ago.

According to Daily Bild, he mocked the police for getting his age, height and accent wrong then pointed out that he had escaped in a car, not on foot.

“His game of cat and mouse went all wrong,” a Wuerzburg police spokesman said.

Police traced his email and arrested him in a gambling hall in Hamburg just a few hours later.

“He was completely shocked,” the spokesman said.

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