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Showing posts with label 2017 at 07:41AM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2017 at 07:41AM. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
NEW YORK CITY. At least eight dead, more than a dozen injured. Attacker mowed down cyclists and pedestrians on bike path then smashed into school bus Man was armed with pellet and paint ball gun, yelled “Allahu Akbar” Attacker, 29, shot and arrested at the scene Mayor Bill de Blasio declares incident a ‘lone wolf’ terror attack
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Donald Trump slammed by Republicans Bob Corker and Jeff Flake for his ‘disregard of truth’
Thursday, October 12, 2017
World Solar Challenge 2017: Dutch team Nuon wins third consecutive solar car race
The team, which also won in 2013 and 2015, seized the lead early on in the 3,000 kilometre race from Darwin and never looked back, after the fleet of almost 40 teams set off on Sunday for the journey through Australia’s red centre.
Starting the day about 500 kilometres north of Adelaide, Nuon cruised south at speeds around 110…
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Aussie Survivor 2017: Jericho Malabonga is winner, Tara Pitt runner-up
Fan favourite Jericho Malabonga took out the title of Australian Sole Survivor for 2017, beating Sunshine Coast mum-of-three and barrel racer, Tara Pitt, five votes to three, at the final Jury.
After 55 days in the Samoan jungle, the 25 year-old flight attendant from Victoria, a fan of the reality TV series since childhood, “outwitted, outplayed and outlasted” Pitt at the final hurdle, to take home the $500,000 prize.
MORE: Aussie Survivor 2017: Jericho Malabonga is winner, Tara Pitt runner-up | Perth Now
Friday, October 6, 2017
Anti-nuke group founded in Australia wins 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Beijing orders North Korean-owned businesses to close by January under latest UN sanctions
Key points:
- The businesses must close within 120 days of the September 11 sanctions
- China says that despite sanctions the US and the North must maintain dialogue
- US State Department praises “shifting” in China’s stances towards Pyongyang
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
MMA fighter accused of killing champion weightlifter in horrifying street brawl
A cagefighter is accused of killing a champion weightlifter after they got into a street fight over whose sport is better.
A sickening video shows world and European championship Andrey Drachev, 32, brawling shirtless in the road with a shorter man, The Sun reports.
They were reportedly fighting after a heated argument over whether Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighting is better than gymnastics.
But he was killed after trading kicks and punches with a man who is believed to be 25-year-old Anar Allakhveranov.
The savage fight took place a around 7am outside a cafe in the city of Khabarovsk in southeastern Russia’s Khabarovsk Krai region.
Allakhveranov is seen punching Drachev in the face and knocking him to the ground.
He then lands a few more punches on his head.
Two men tried to step in to stop the altercation but Drachev died from his injuries.
Allakhveranov was arrested by police following his opponent’s death.
According to local reports, Drachev had been involved in another fight prior to his street brawl.
Allakhveranov is believed to be trained in MMA fighting after online videos show him honing various fighting techniques.
It is not known whether anyone else was arrested over the incident.
Drachev is a champion fighter in his native Russia, and in 2011 won silver at the world power-lifting championships.
Source: MMA fighter accused of killing champion weightlifter in horrifying street brawl
Monday, August 21, 2017
Total solar eclipse: The best photos as Moon casts swathe of US into darkness
The best photos as Moon casts swathe of US into darkness HERE: Total solar eclipse: The best photos as Moon casts swathe of US into darkness – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Sunday, August 20, 2017
Barcelona: Australian boy Julian Cadman killed in Las Ramblas attack, family confirms
Seven-year-old Sydney boy Julian Cadman died in last week’s terror attack at Las Ramblas in central Barcelona, his family have confirmed, ending days of uncertainty over his fate.
Key points:
- The family confirmed the news in a statement overnight
- Julian’s mother continues to be treated at a hospital in Barcelona
- Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she was “deeply saddened” to confirm the boy’s death
“Julian was a much loved and adored member of our family,” the family said in a statement overnight.
“As he was enjoying the sights of Barcelona with his mother, Julian was sadly taken from us.”
Julian’s mother Jumarie, known as Jom, was also seriously hurt in the assault after being struck by a terrorist driving a van down the world famous Spanish boulevard at high speed.
She is still being treated in a Barcelona hospital.
The family said they would remember Julian as an “energetic, funny and cheeky” child who could always bring a smile to their faces.
“We are so blessed to have had him in our lives and will remember his smiles and hold his memory dear to our hearts,” the statement said.
Thursday, August 17, 2017
The constitution is broken and out of date — we should abolish it and start again
The debacle over Section 44 of the constitution, which has already seen two MPs leave the Parliament and threatens to bring down the Government, shows the document has outlived its use-by date.
Even the Prime Minister said this week the constitution was not meant to be read literally.
Like some latter day Christian reformer, Malcolm Turnbull is trying to squeeze living relevance out of a document that has had its day.
It’s a sad reflection on Australian society that it wasn’t until the constitution threatened the very comfortable livelihoods and privileges of MPs that the chattering classes started to say the constitution — well, that bit at least — was a bit of a joke. Really?
Sections 25 and 51 allow for government to make laws explicitly on the basis of race — and no one in power seems to have given that much more than a shrug.
The original inhabitants of the continent, who have never ceded sovereignty, don’t even rate a mention.
And the country is carved up by (mostly) straight lines dreamed up by 19th century British imperialists.
Backlog of constitutional problems
On Wednesday night, former prime minister Bob Hawke weighed in with the old festival favourite he brings out every year at Woodford in Queensland.
“I’m going to be true to myself and mention what I have on many occasions — that if we’re going to optimise the chance for democracy to be effective in this country, we’ve got to get rid of the constitution we’ve got,” he said in conversation with Annabel Crabb.
There is now a huge backlog of serious constitutional issues that need dealing with — Section 44 is the least important.
The general public will see it as nothing but venal self-interest if the only tinkering done with an outdated document is to sandbag the careers of well-paid MPs.
Of qualitatively higher order priority is a treaty with Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders; a voice in parliament for Indigenous Australians; the establishment of a democratic republic; abolition of the states; recognition of local and regional government; and a bill of rights to secure citizens’ freedoms against bureaucracy, big business, and fickle government administration.
We need a commission
Constitutional scholar Professor G…
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Fifty-five African migrants feared dead in SECOND drowning incident off Yemen
Thursday’s tragedy was the second such incident in as many days off Shabwa province in southern Yemen, where 50 teenage African migrants were “deliberately drowned” on Wednesday by a smuggler who forced 120 passengers off his boat, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said.
The IOM said it feared the incidents might mark the start of a new trend in people-smuggling that could lead to more deaths.
Smugglers were reportedly pushing migrants into the sea away from the mainland so as to avoid encountering possibly armed groups on shore in the war-torn country — they were then going back to pick up more migrants.
“We have seen five bodies and can confirm five dead … fifty are still missing from this incident, so 55 are presumed dead,” IOM spokeswoman Olivia Headon said.
Sunday, July 30, 2017
#F1 Hungarian GP: Daniel Ricciardo lashes ‘amateur’ team-mate Max Verstappen after crash
Australian Daniel Ricciardo has blasted Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen for “amateur” driving after the Dutch teenager shunted him out of the Hungarian Grand Prix on the opening lap.
Sebastian Vettel won a tense finish in a Ferrari one-two that stretched his championship lead to 14 points after Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton sportingly surrendered third place to his team-mate.
Ricciardo and Verstappen made good starts from sixth and fifth respectively, both jumping Hamilton on the first turn.
Ricciardo then passed his Dutch team-mate into turn two to move into fourth before Verstappen hit him as they came through the next corner.
The incident did irreparable damage to Ricciardo’s Red Bull, which went off the circuit and was spilling a lot of oil…
Saturday, July 29, 2017
The Observer view on Donald Trump’s unfitness for office | Observer editorial
The sense of things falling apart in Washington is palpable – and a matter of growing, serious international concern. Donald Trump’s latest asinine act of gesture politics, the forced resignation of his chief of staff, Reince Priebus, has shone a spotlight on the extraordinary chaos inside the White House. Even normally sober, experienced Washington observers now refer to the West Wing as a viper’s nest of seething rivalry, bitter feuds, gross incompetence and an unparalleled leadership vacuum.
Like some kind of Shakespearean villain-clown, Trump plays not to the gallery but to the pit. He is a Falstaff without the humour or the self-awareness, a cowardly, bullying Richard III without a clue. Late-night US satirists find in this an unending source of high comedy. If they did not laugh, they would cry. The world is witnessing the dramatic unfolding of a tragedy whose main victims are a seemingly helpless American audience, America’s system of balanced governance and its global reputation as a leading democratic light…
Monday, July 24, 2017
Sunday, July 23, 2017
Cars swept away in rushing water as flash floods play havoc in Kentucky; CLIP
Severe summer storms strike
Cars and a home were swept away in floodwaters after a bout of heavy rains pummeled parts of Northern Kentucky early Sunday.
The flood waters were so powerful that they sent cars smashing into one another in a cluster against a tree, according to one photo posted on Instagram by user Sara Celi.
The image shows the cars lying abandoned in a pool of tan, muddy water.
The Ledger Independent, a local paper, reported that a man from Bracken County, Kentucky, Delmar Nickoson, went missing after flooding may have caused the mobile home he was living in to wash away.
Source: Cars swept away in rushing water as flash floods play havoc in Kentucky – ABC News
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