“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 man wearing a Diego Maradona t-shirt walks by the Argentine Central Bank on November 30, 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Tomas Cuesta | Getty Images News | Getty Images Argentina is in the grip of a profound economic crisis, and one veteran economist believes part of the solution is for President Javier Milei to … Read more
Peter Lancaster in Argentina. Courtesy of Peter Lancaster Forget the “quarter-life crisis.” These days, millennials are turning to the “quarter-life sabbatical.” Amid the waves of mass layoffs, people are choosing to repurpose their unemployment into soul-searching, and many are extending their time away from the cubicle to travel the world. Peter Lancaster, 31, was laid … 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
Javier Milei, Argentina’s president, during a special address on day two of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Argentina’s largest labor union grouping on Wednesday is expected to hold a nationwide general strike to protest President Javier Milei’s shock economic agenda. The … 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
