A flight instructor and trainee have narrowly avoided disaster after their light plane crash-landed in Bossley Park, steering clear of a nearby school and homes on Thursday. The faulty Piper PA-28 took off from Bankstown Airport, in Sydney’s southwest, about 2.20pm before crashing into trees lining the Terone Park – a playground for Mary Immaculate … Read more
The body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch has been retrieved from the wreck of his family yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm, a source close to the rescue operation says. Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah is still unaccounted for, the source said. The bodies of the other four people … Read more
A lawyer who is among six people feared dead after a superyacht sank in a storm off Italy wrote about his family’s “happily ever after” in one of his final social media posts just weeks before tragedy struck. Christopher Morvillo, 59, was on board the luxury sailboat Bayesian, a 56m British-flagged yacht, when it was … Read more
One man has died and six people – including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch – are missing after a luxury yacht carrying foreign tourists was struck by an unexpectedly violent storm and sank off the Sicilian capital Palermo. The 56-metre sailboat was identified as the British-registered Bayesian and sank with 22 people on board shortly … Read more
Turkish firefighters have brought under control a wildfire on the Gallipoli Peninsula that raised fears the blaze could reach Australian war graves at Anzac Cove. Crews have been battling four summer wildfires that broke out this week in western parts of the country, including in Canakkale province, which is the site of memorials where thousands … Read more
If an off-duty doctor didn’t know a nearby NSW school had a defibrillator, Steven Simpson may not have survived a recent heart attack. Simpson had just made his son Liam a coffee on June 28 when he went into cardiac arrest, prompting his son to call triple-0 and start delivering CPR. But while Simpson waited … Read more
A burst water main on has flooded multiple homes in Western Sydney on Sunday. Four Penrith residents have been evacuated from waist-high floodwaters by specialist rescue teams at the affected houses on Allard St in Penrith, near where the pipe burst on The Northern Rd. Fire Rescue New South Wales were called just before 10.20am, … Read more
Fears crocodiles are habituated to humans at a Queensland river where a man was taken by a “large” croc have been increased by the discovery of footage of people apparently deliberately feeding them. The social media footage shows people throwing fish scraps or meat into the water, which are then abruptly eaten by crocodiles. WATCH … Read more
The death of a 13-year-old Lithgow boy, killed while crossing the road with his brother and father, has left his NSW family distraught and in shock. Korbin Reid was riding his electric scooter as he usually did with her father and brother on the weekends when he was hit on the Great Western Hwy at … Read more
A 59-year-old man has allegedly been assaulted as his home in Sydney’s southwest was set on fire while two others were still inside. Emergency services were called to reports of a fire at the home on Perisher Circuit in Minto just after 11 pm on Friday. A 59-year-old man was found inside with head injuries, … Read more
