It won’t come as a surprise to Australians but now the world knows it too – we have the world’s best beach. Western Australia’s Lucky Bay rocketed to top spot in Banana Boat’s annual World’s 50 Best Beaches list thanks to its natural beauty levelled up by snow-white sand and its inviting, turquoise water. WATCH … [Read more…]
Mass looting by armed men and civilians is making life an even greater misery for Khartoum residents trapped by fierce fighting between Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), witnesses say. While the RSF dominates the capital on the ground and the army conducts frequent air strikes, the witnesses said police had simply vanished … [Read more…]
May 19, 2023 | 10:15 AM Damon Ryan, Local Sports CC / depositphotos There’s a 3-way tie for the conference lead in the Fox River Classic Conference Baseball race. That’s after Manitowoc Lincoln and De Pere split what essentially was a doubleheader and Bay Port blanked Sheboygan North 4-nothing. The Ships, Redbirds, and … [Read more…]
The official death toll from the powerful cyclone that struck Myanmar has burgeoned to at least 145, including 117 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority, state television is reporting. It said the figure applied to the western state of Rakhine, where Cyclone Mocha did the most damage, but did not say how many storm-related deaths … [Read more…]
Australians are warned that they could catch a brutal strain of the flu as cases of the disease reach 100 times higher than they were last year. There have already been over 40,000 cases of laboratory-proven influenza so far in 2023, with more than 8173 cases diagnosed in the first half of May alone, according … [Read more…]
Yakima Police are investigating a gang related shooting that injured a juvenile in Yakima on Wednesday. Officers say the shooting was reported at about 7:30 pm Wednesday at Custer and Garfield Avenues after people called 911 to report shots fired. Police found a juvenile male who had been shot. POLICE SAY THE TEEN WILL SURVIVE … [Read more…]
Air raid alerts have sounded throughout Ukraine, with some areas later reporting explosions and officials saying anti-aircraft units are in action in several regions. The alerts extended to all regions of the country on Friday for about an hour from 2am (2300 GMT). There were no reports of strikes on infrastructure or civilian targets and … [Read more…]
The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke died after a cancer battle at age 59, guitarist Johnny Marr announced. Rourke joined the English rock band after their first show in 1982 and appeared on all four of their albums released between 1984-87. He continued working with singer Morrissey for several years, and also collaborated with the Pretenders and … [Read more…]
A Queensland teen who took part in a home invasion in which a man had a knife placed to his throat has been denied leave to appeal his sentence. The 17-year-old boy in March last year pleaded guilty to burglary, armed robbery offences, motor vehicle theft and breaching a probation order, and was sentenced in … [Read more…]
The man accused of murdering nine-year-old Charlise Mutten and dumping her body in a barrel has been committed to stand trial. Justin Laurens Stein, 32, pleaded not guilty on Friday to domestic violence-related murder and improperly interfering with a corpse. Charlise, the daughter of Stein’s then fiancee, was allegedly killed on his family’s multimillion-dollar Blue … [Read more…]