“Enough is enough,” Anthony Albanese has declared, following indications the US is considering dropping charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The prime minister said it was time to end the long-running saga after US president Joe Biden responded with “we are considering it” when asked for his response to Australian requests to end the pursuit … Read more
A person with a ticket matching all six US Powerball numbers in the $US1.3 billion ($A2 billion) jackpot has come forward to claim the prize, Oregon officials say. The lottery ticket was bought at a Plaid Pantry convenience store in the northeast part of Portland, Oregon Lottery said on Monday. Oregon Lottery is working with … Read more
Two crew members died on board a Holland America Line (HAL) cruise ship in the Bahamas over the weekend. The men were in the engine room of the Florida-based ship Nieuw Amsterdam, anchored at private resort island Half Moon Cay, when there was an “accidental steam release”. While officials provided limited details, one maritime lawyer … Read more
A mountain lion attack left one person dead and another injured in a remote area of Northern California on Saturday, officials said. The 18-year-old and 21-year-old brothers were antler shed hunting in Georgetown, California, when the mountain lion attacked the pair, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office. The younger brother called 911 to … Read more
A 19-year-old student from Sri Lanka who lived with a family of six in Ottawa has been accused of stabbing and killing them — including a baby girl and three other children. Febrio De-Zoysa has been charged with six counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. Mass killings are rare in Canada, … Read more
A truck’s fuel tank has exploded in a neighbourhood south of downtown Los Angeles, in the US, sending a fireball into the air and injuring nine of the 10 firefighters responding to the blaze. All nine LA firefighters were rushed on Thursday to Harbor-UCLA Medical Centre and stabilised, and one of the critical patients was … Read more
The craze for Stanley stainless steel drinking cups reached new levels last week when a US woman was arrested and accused of stealing 65 of them, worth almost $US2500 ($A3801), from a store in California. Police in Roseville, in Placer County, northeast of Sacramento, said Sunday that they were called Wednesday to a report of … Read more
The body of a man missing in the US state of Michigan since October has been found — in the ventilation system at a community college. Jason Anthony Thompson, 36, had disappeared last month, and his family reported him missing on November 1. His body was found at a campus building at the Macomb Community … Read more
A 14-year-old Florida teen fatally shot his sister in an argument over Christmas gifts, only to be shot moments later by his own teenage brother, authorities said. The argument started when the brothers, ages 14 and 15, were out shopping on Christmas Eve on Sunday with their mother and sister, and got into a spat … Read more
Jessica Vincent fondly remembers frequent childhood thrifting trips with her mother to secondhand stores, yard sales and flea markets. It’s a habit she retained into adulthood, and one that has now turned into a six-figure windfall for the Richmond, Virginia native, when a glass vase she purchased for $US3.99 ($A5.91) sold for more than $US107,000 ($A158,580). Vincent … Read more
