A minibus has plunged into a ravine in Pakistan’s mountainous northwest, killing 11 people.
Police official Ismail Khan says another nine people were injured in Sunday’s road accident in Upper Dir district, on the way to Chitral Valley.
He says the road was slippery after rain.
Road accidents are common in Pakistan due to a lack of infrastructure, poorly maintained vehicles and reckless driving.
Source: 11 dead in Pakistan bus plunge into ravine | Perth Now
US President Donald Trump has listed at a raucous rally to mark his 100 days in the White House the countries he has built great relationships with – and Australia didn’t receive a mention.
Trump was back in his comfort zone on Saturday, surrounded by placard waving faithful at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center for the rally.
“We have built such strong foundations with the leaders of foreign countries and we are set to rock,” Mr Trump told the packed crowd that chanted “USA, USA, USA”, “lock her up” and “drain the swamp” during his speech.
“But we have great relationships with Germany and Japan and China and so many others, the UK.
“Such great relationships.”
Mr Turnbull will spend less than two days in New York, with a 75th anniversary Battle of the Coral Sea commemorative dinner and a bilateral meeting with Mr Trump on the agenda.
The meeting follows the leaders’ acrimonious January 28 phone call where Mr Trump was upset about the asylum-seeker deal Mr Turnbull struck last year with then President Barack Obama.
Mr Trump has said he will honour the deal.
In his Pennsylvania speech he returned to many of his popular pre-election talking points.
That included his decision, just three days into his presidency, to withdraw the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership with Australia, New Zealand, Japan and eight other Pacific nations.
“To protect our jobs and economic freedom I immediately withdrew the United States from the horrible, disastrous, would have been another NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) but worse Trans-Pacific Partnership,” Mr Trump said.
“That would have taken your jobs in Pennsylvania.
“That I can tell you.
“That was a total hoax.”
In other comments that would have been closely watched in Canberra, Mr Trump said he would make a decision in the next two weeks on America’s support for the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Mr Trump appears to be leaning toward walking away from the agreement, describing it as “the one-sided Paris climate accord” and telling the rally the US has paid billions of dollars while China, Russia and India “have contributed, and will contribute, nothing”.
Mr Trump said full compliance with the agreement could shrink America’s Gross Domestic Product by $US2.5 trillion over a 10-year period and “that means factories and plants closing all over our country”.
“I’ll be making a big decision on the Paris accord over the next two weeks and we will see what happens,” Mr Trump said.
He chose to address the rally instead of attend Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ dinner, becoming the first president since Ronald Reagan in 1981 not to attend.
Mr Reagan was recovering from being shot in an assassination attempt.
Mr Trump described cable TV news channels CNN and MSNBC as “fake news” and said reporters from the outlets “would love to be with us right here tonight”.
“But they are trapped at the dinner which will be very, very boring,” he said.
Source: Aust not on Trump’s top relationships list | Perth Now
The rampage began when a man and woman – at least one of whom was armed – forced a woman from her green SUV in Pico Rivera, a community southeast of downtown Los Angeles, around 2pm, CBS News reports.
The two suspects then fired at three or more people in neighboring communities around Whittier, Pico Rivera and La Mirada.
A witness described cars with shot-out windows and hearing multiple gunshots to CBS.
‘It doesn’t appear they were target-specific or gang related,’ said Deputy Ryan Rouzan of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
He added that the investigation is ongoing.
Rouzan said one man shot in the rampage was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Officials said the other victims were taken to hospitals. Their condition was not immediately available.
It’s unclear what the shooting victims were doing when they were shot, something Rouzan said would be revealed in the ongoing investigation.
Investigators later recovered the unoccupied SUV at a park in Santa Fe Springs.
The woman’s condition was unknown, but Rouzan said she had not been shot.
The gunman and a female companion have not yet been found.
Source: Los Angeles police search for shooting rampage pair | Daily Mail Online
Labor Senator Murray Watt says he has ‘referred new allegations about One Nation’s secretive internal operations to the Queensland Electoral Commission for investigation’.
A report in the Saturday Paper claimed the party changed from an unincorporated association to an incorporated association in November, and claims this was done to protect members from legal liability.
The report claims Pauline Hanson neglected to inform the Electoral Commission of Queensland or her members of the change, which is in breach of electoral laws.
The issue with the now-incorporated party is that there is a very minimal constitution, which is missing mandatory clauses, required under both Queensland and Commonwealth electoral laws.
MORE: One Nation could face deregistration in Queensland | Daily Mail Online
A source briefed on the situation says the plane belongs to Aerogaviota, an airline run by the Cuban military that serves Cuban government agencies. Those include state-run tourism companies and the Cuban oil company.
Aerogaviota was confirming the crash to Cuban officials without releasing details. The person briefed on the situation spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to release the information.
Aerogaviota’s fleet includes the 39-person Soviet-made An-26 and the French-made ATR-42, which carries up to 50 people.
Source: Cuban military says plane crashes, 8 dead | Perth Now
A Bunnings employee has been run over attempting to stop a thief who fled the store while a second employee was assaulted by the man, police say.
It began when a 24-year-old man and 35-year-old woman were approached by store employees as they were exiting the store.
A 57-year-old male store employee was then allegedly assaulted by the man before the pair fled.
The man ran to his car, where three young children were waiting inside while the woman ran to the nearby McDonald’s restaurant car park.
The man then drove his car at a 41-year-old staff member, knocking him to the ground, police say.
He then proceeded to the restaurant car park where he picked up the woman but was followed by the staff member who he had just allegedly ran over, who recorded the car and number plate on his phone.
The couple then got out of the car and struck the man up to 10 times, broke a bottle over his head and stole his phone, before getting back into the car and driving away.
The woman was arrested a short time later when police spotted the car at a shopping centre in Chipping Norton while the man was arrested at a home unit in Mead Street, Chipping Norton.
The three children are now in the care of a family member while a notification has been made to the Department of Family and Community Services.
The Bunnings employees are said to have only suffered minor injuries.
The 24-year-old man and 35-year-old woman are due to appear in court on Sunday.
Source: Bunnings employee run over as he tried to stop thieves | Daily Mail Online
The practice of food and energy double-generation, known as “solar sharing” in Japan, was originally developed by Akira Nagashima in 2004. Nagashima, a retired agricultural machinery engineer, studied biology and learned of the light saturation point at which increase in the level of sunlight does not cause any further increase in the rate of photosynthesis. (Actually, only a small fraction of the incident sunlight is needed for plants to reach maximum rate of photosynthesis; too much light can be damaging, and plants have evolved mechanisms to protect themselves from being ‘sunburnt’; see [2] Harvesting Energy from Sunlight with Artificial Photosynthesis, SiS 43).
Nagashima came up with the idea of combining PV with farming. He devised and originally patented a special structure like a garden pergola, which was tested in fields with different crops and shading rates. The structures are made of pipes and rows of PV panels mounted above ground, and arranged at certain intervals to allow enough sunlight for photosynthesis. There is no concrete footing so the structures can be easily dismantled; the system is designed to allow adequate sunlight for crops and space for agricultural machinery to be used, as stipulated by MAFF guidelines.
According to Nagashima, the MAFF guidelines are to ensure that farmers remain farmers, and not to fully convert productive farmland into solar facilities. Based on his tests in the Chiba Prefecture, he recommends about 32 % shading rate. Farmers are required to report their annual crop cultivation, and if the amount cultivated on the solar-shared farmland falls below 80 %, they will be required to dismantle the PV system.
Solar-sharing pays
Japan requires about 2.5 million acres of land to supply the entire country’s electricity with PV [1]. Under the solar-share scheme, it will take about 7 million acres of farmland to supply the same amount of electricity. Japan currently has more than 11.3 million acres of available farmland.
Solar sharing could well be a readily available alternative to artificial photosynthesis [2] in harvesting sunlight, as batteries for energy storage improve and come down in price [4] (Renewable Ousting Fossil Energy, SiS 60).
Before the industrial revolution, farmers provided both crops and energy in the form of firewood and charcoal to society, Nagashima said [1], solar-share farming will do the same again and revitalize the farming sector.
Sources: CECHR@CECHR_UoD
MORE: Japanese Farmers Producing Crops and Solar Energy Simultaneously
This is the dramatic moment a pilot managed to land his stricken plane safely, shooting sparks all over the runway.
The twin-engined JET plane, which had four people on board, was flying from Belize in Central America to Tampa, Florida.
Shortly after take-off the pilot was told that one of wheels on the plane’s landing gear had fallen off.
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However, the fault didn’t affect the plane’s ability to fly, so the it continued on from Belize to Sarasota-Bradenton airport in Florida, WFLA reported.
Before landing the pilot did a flyby over the airfield so that controllers could visually confirm the plane had lost a wheel.
He then proceeded to circle, dumping fuel – which would have dangerously increased the chance of a fire or explosion.
The landing went as smoothly as possible, but eventually the plane spun out and violently lurched to the left, coming to a stop on the grass next to the tarmac.
Source: Plane missing a wheel makes emergency landing in Florida | Daily Mail Online
The 28-year-old model, who is based in Florida, was photographed partying at Café Iguana Pines in little more than a neck scarf and a bit of body paint.
Jenny appeared to be celebrating the 100th episode of the programme shes fronts on Miami TV.
The bold TV presenter posed for pictures with fans while complete starkers.
Jenny, who regularly turns heads in a variety of outrageously daring ensembles, hit the headlines earlier this week after unveiling a new cooking show – which she hosts naked.
Yet while the cuisine is laid bare for all to see, the viewer may be forgiven to look at the more raw, earthy offerings on show.
In the latest episode she is ably assisted by glamorous guest Eila Adams.
Both women chat about the cooking as if they are totally oblivious about being in the buff in front of a camera.
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Variety has confirmed that the hacker, known as The Dark Overlord, uploaded the episodes to illegal file-sharing website Pirate Bay after the streaming service failed to pay an undisclosed amount of money.
Netflix released a statement earlier saying: “We are aware of the situation. A production vendor used by several major TV studios had its security compromised and the appropriate law enforcement authorities are involved.
Orange Is the New Black season five WAS scheduled to be released on 9 June, but it now looks as if that could be moved up.
The FBI is currently investigating the matter. We have reached out to Netflix for comment.
THIS is the shocking moment a Delta pilot was caught on camera smacking a female passenger in a bid to break up a violent brawl in front of stunned travellers.
Footage posted on YouTube appears to show the pilot trying to separate two women who got into a physical altercation on an airport jet bridge shortly after the plane landed.
He then grabs one of brawling women by the arm and hits her before walking away as the pair continue to wrestle on the ground.
The fight reportedly happened Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta.
A clip of the incident was uploaded online on April 21 with the caption: “First thing I see when I arrive in Atlanta!”
The celebrity and entertainment news website reported a Delta employee gave a supervisor the video almost immediately after the incident.
Delta employees were upset because security wasn’t called, it added.
The airline said it is investigating the incident and taking the video “very seriously”.
The Sun Online has contacted Delta Airline for comment.
The latest plane drama comes after a Delta Airline passenger last week was kicked off a flight because he was desperate for the loo after waiting half an hour for take-off.
Video shows Kima Hamilton’s “outrageous” clash with cabin crew, which ended with everyone on board being forced to leave the plane and a further two-hour delay.
Earlier this month, 69-year-old Dr David Dao was left battered and bloodied after he was dragged from a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky after the airline overbooked seats.
Video of the incident provoked rage across the world and at one point $1billion was wiped off the company’s value.
The doctor received a financial settlement from United Airlines.
The troubled airline hit another blow after The Sun last week reported how three-foot Simon the rabbit appeared happy and healthy when he touched down at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport but was found dead a short time later.
It emerged the giant pet “froze to death” after he was accidentally left in a freezer for around 16 hours.
Source: Delta pilot SMACKS woman while trying to break up fight between two female passengers after landing
The week after Donald Trump won the US presidential election last November, Marine Le Pen was inaugurating the headquarters of her own election campaign in Paris, less than a mile from the Elysée Palace she hopes to move into soon.
The far-right, anti-immigration Front National leader had been the only French political leader to back Trump in his bid for the White House. She has also made no secret of her admiration for Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin.
Unveiling her campaign symbol, a blue rose, she said that her election as France’s president would form a trio of world leaders that “will be good for world peace”, leading “a worldwide movement that rejects unchecked globalisation, destructive ultra-liberalism, the elimination of nation states, the disappearance of borders”.
Last month, Le Pen was in Moscow for a personal audience with Putin. “A new world has emerged in these past years,” she said. “It’s the world of Vladimir Putin, it’s the world of Donald Trump in the US. I share with these great nations a vision of cooperation, not of submission.”
Clearly, there is ideological common ground between the three leaders: variations on a theme of nation-first politics, support for economic protectionism and immigration controls, mistrust of international alliances and institutions such as Nato or the EU, and a rejection of globalism and the liberal consensus.
But Le Pen’s actual ties with the two leaders differ significantly. With Russia, at least, they go beyond the ideological to the personal and the practical. Her meeting with Putin in March was reported to be their first; but according to French investigative journalists, it is possibly their third.
After Donald Trump confessed to Reuters that he thought being president would be “easier” than it is, Twitter blew up with aghast responses from voters, people in politics and at least one former head of state, who pleaded with the president to please quit the White House and just stick to the golf links.
Trump’s remarks in an interview published Friday (”This is more work than in my previous life; I thought it would be easier”) drew a storm of comments expressing astonishment and derision, mostly delivered in the snarkiest way possible.
The comments were similar to Trump’s astonishing remark in February, when he observed: “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) laughed at first when asked about that comment but then got serious: ”Yeah, we got a clue. When you provide health care in a nation of 320 million people, yeah, it is very, very complicated.”
If anything, Trump’s latest comments were even more rattling, drawing a stunned response from former Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada and a zinger from commentator Keith Olbermann.
Oxford political researcher Brian Klaas weighed in with shock, and Democratic political operative David Axelrod wondered at the reality of it.
MORE: Twitter Explodes Over Trump’s Surprise At The Demands Of Being President
The model takes money from rich States such as WA, which create wealth, and gives it to poorer States, such as SA, Queensland and Tasmania, to balance out “inequality”. The WA Government argues the model penalises the west for its strong resources industry while rewarding States which knock back mining projects.
Bureaucrats at the Commonwealth Grants Commission recently determined that next financial year WA will receive a pitiful return of just 34¢ in the dollar, ripping $4.5 billion out of the State at a time when it has the worst-performing economy in the country.
After questions from The Sunday Times, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann confirmed the inquiry, which will hold hearings and report back to the Federal Government by January 31, 2018. The timing of the review ensures the GST will be a key battleground in the 2019 Federal election.
“We want the Productivity Commission to have a thorough look at the impact current GST-sharing arrangements have on the national productivity and economic growth. We need to ensure that all States have the right incentives to grow and develop their economies so that we can optimise national productivity and economic growth in the process,” the senator said.
Source: Turnbull Government has ordered an inquiry into GST distribution | Perth Now
And now, it’s been revealed Grant Denyer was ‘highly medicated’ at the awards, freely opening up about his current physical condition.
The father-of-two young girls told the Sydney Morning Herald this week that his March 26 collision with a tree during the Lake Mountain Sprint in Marysville, Victoria ‘nearly killed’ him, but rejected the idea of retiring from the sport.
‘I have left that decision up to him. He loves racing more than he loves TV,’ his supportive wife Cheryl added.
‘I have been racing all my life. I’ve only been in hospital twice in 300 races, so it’s not a bad average, even though the last one did nearly kill me,’ he rationalised.
‘It was a close call. I was really lucky to walk away from that one, in all seriousness they are the accidents that kill people.’
Known for his boundless positivity, and despite his ‘medicated’ state the Family Feud host’s assertions aren’t to be taken lightly.
After all, his ‘hero’ and Australian race legend Peter Brock met his tragic demise in shockingly similar circumstances, colliding with a tree at the Targa West 06′ Rally in Gidgegannup, Western Australia, leaving behind three children.
In Grant’s first interview following his terrifying crash, he cited the death of Brock 10 years ago himself, saying it ‘was all he was thinking about’ as his errant race car barreled towards ‘the biggest tree he’d ever seen.’
That’s according to The Daily Telegraph, who added his hero’s heartbreaking end ‘played on his mind’ in the fateful seconds that must have felt like minutes.
All I could do was wrestle the car away from a head on impact with the tree,’ he said.
The pint-sized star’s tiny correction appeared to be enough to save his life, with his 1,000 kilogram steel cage striking the root of the tree before ricocheting into it at a slightly reduced speed.
Despite all that, at the Logies, he vowed to ‘re-assess’ and not quit the sport.
A sport that caused his wife Cheryl to admit left her frightened and tasked with putting on a ‘happy face’ for their daughters.
Source: Grant Denyer admits car crash was a ‘close call’ | Daily Mail Online
