Terror probe after man with knife ‘targets soldier’ at Eiffel Tower

A terror investigation has been launched in Paris after a man with a blade tried to force his way in to the Eiffel Tower.

A judicial official said a man holding a knife shouted “Allahu akbar” – the Arabic phrase for “God is great” – and tried to access a secure zone.

The suspect told police he wanted to attack a solider and had been in contact with an Islamic State jihadist, AFP reported.

He quickly surrendered when he was surrounded by security forces. The tower was briefly evacuated during Saturday night’s incident but there were no injuries.

The knifeman was wearing a Paris Saint-Germain shirt and at the time of the alert the tower was lit up with the team’s colours.

A security source told Reuters the suspect had been in a psychiatric hospital for several months and was granted temporary permission to leave care from 4-6 August.

Eiffel Tower reopened to tourists as usual on Sunday morning.

Paris remains on alert following a series of attacks since 2015.

Source: Terror probe after man with knife ‘targets soldier’ at Eiffel Tower

Internet marketing company in Panama owns a dump of 9 million tyres in Victoria

An offshore company based in the tax haven of Panama now has control of a toxic dump of 9 million used tyres considered a huge fire risk in the state’s west.

The notorious Stawell tyre stockpile, one of the world’s biggest, has largely sat dormant for nearly a decade, despite major environmental concerns and repeated orders for it to be cleaned up.

Anger in the community has reached boiling point, as repeated inaction finally led the Environment Protection Authority last week to declare it would take charge of the dump unless the fire danger was reduced. If fully ignited, it could burn for months.

The previous owner had promised residents that it would rid the country town of the dangerous mass of rubber using a controversial recycling process known as pyrolysis, which involves breaking down the tyres at high temperatures.

Source: Internet marketing company in Panama owns a dump of 9 million tyres in Victoria

Avon Descent 2017 WA UPDATE

JASON Graham has kept up the love affair South Africans have with the Avon Descent by taking out the blue ribbon solo kayak title at this year’s 45th staging of the iconic river race in 9 hours 51 seconds.

The 38 year-old from Pietermaritzburg said the punishing 124 kilometres white-water event was the most exhausting paddling he has ever done.

“The size of the rapids today took me by surprise,” he said.

“I didn’t have a clue where I was going through them.

“I have to thank Matt (Dean) for showing me the way.”

South African born Dean and partner James Morfitt crossed the Riverside Gardens finish line in Bayswater in their double kayak just ahead of Graham but the South African was given line honours on adjusted time.

Graham who will return to South Africa to compete in next month’s world championships in the sub-veterans class is unsure about returning to defend his Avon title in 2018.

“It was just such a tough tough race today,” he said.

Meanwhile a boy was taken to hospital after falling from a bridge while watching the event. The boy was among spectators on the Bells Rapids walk bridge when he fell on to rocks below.

Emergency services and Avon Descent event organisers helped to lift him on a stretcher.

The nine-year-old boy will have his injuries assessed in hospital.

There were 370 competitors in this year’s event, 25 per cent down on 2016 entrants due to low water levels only boostedin the last two weeks due to good rains.

Source: Avon Descent 2017: Live Updates | Perth Now

Death toll from Vietnam flooding rises

Rescuers in Vietnam have recovered 16 more bodies, bringing the death toll from floods to 23.

Flash floods triggered by heavy rains earlier this week also left 16 people missing and injured 21 others.

According to the Central Natural Disasters Committee on Sunday, floods have destroyed 228 houses, damaged roads, crops and irrigation system.

Nearly 5000 soldiers, police and residents have been mobilised to search for the missing.

Vietnam is prone to floods and storms, which kill hundreds of people each year.

Source: Death toll from Vietnam flooding rises

The Grand Tour presenter Jeremy Clarkson in hospital with pneumonia

The Grand Tour presenter Jeremy Clarkson is admitted to a hospital in Majorca on a family holiday.

The 57-year-old was on a family holiday on the Spanish island with his family when he was taken ill.

He tweeted to friend Jemima Goldsmith he was “in a wheelchair, connected up to tubes, in a hospital.”

The former Top Gear host is on a break from filming his new Amazon Prime show and plans to return to work next week.

Source: Jeremy Clarkson in hospital with pneumonia – BBC News

AFL: Playing finals unlikely for fading West Coast Eagles

WEST Coast’s second final-quarter fade-out in three weeks has made a finals berth this season very difficult.

The Eagles lost their spot in the top eight after Sunday’s eight-point loss to St Kilda at Etihad Stadium – a game they led by 22 points in the last term.

With three rounds remaining, Adam Simpson’s men are in ninth spot and one of four teams with a 10-9 record.

Their run home – especially the last fortnight – is arguably the toughest of the four finals hopefuls log-jammed from eighth to 11th on the ladder.

It starts with a winnable home game against Carlton at Domain Stadium on Saturday night.

Then comes games against the two premiership favourites – GWS and Adelaide – in consecutive weeks.

West Coast snatched a win in their last visit to Spotless Stadium late last season, but that was thanks to injured ruckman Nic Naitanui’s last-gap goal.

Source: Playing finals unlikely for fading West Coast Eagles | Perth Now

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Man missing in Pilbara, Anthony Collis, found ‘alive and well’

A 32-year-old man missing since Thursday in a remote and rugged stretch of Western Australia’s Pilbara has been found alive after he became separated from his travelling companion and vehicle.

Anthony Collis was travelling with a woman to Darwin on Thursday when they became separated, roughly 570 kilometres inland south-east of Broome, near the Karlamilyi National Park, on the Canning Stock Route.

The woman, disoriented and dehydrated, later walked into the Georgia Bore Camp on the Canning Stock Route, 8.2 kilometres north of Well 22, and reported him missing.

The pair’s vehicle was found abandoned on Friday, one kilometre north of the well and yesterday and clothes and equipment were found yesterday.

This morning, Mr Collis was found by police about 8am about 1 kilometre north of the well.

“He is dehydrated and suffering from exposure, but otherwise fine,” the statement said.

“He is currently being flown by helicopter to Newman Hospital for treatment.”

The search involved local officers, tactical response group trackers, the police airwing and State Emergency Services volunteers.

Source: Man missing in Pilbara, Anthony Collis, found ‘alive and well’ – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Boy injured after falling onto rocks at Avon Descent white water race WA

A teenage boy has been injured after falling from a bridge onto rocks at Bells Rapids while watching the Avon Descent, a white water race held annually east of Perth.

The accident happened about 11:15am as competitors continued to race through the rapids.

It took emergency services about 20 minutes to stretcher the boy off the rocks, with fast moving water making the rescue difficult.

With a large crowd looking on, rescuers stretchered the boy onto a waiting dingy before moving him to shore.

Police officers, paramedics and rescuers helped lift the boy, who was wrapped in foil for warmth, up a steep slope into a waiting ambulance.

Bells Rapid is about 40 kilometres from the start of day two of racing for the 2017 Avon Descent, and attracted a large crowd of onlookers.

The notorious rapids are the final hurdle for competitors, and represent the end of the difficult section of the race.

Several kayakers came unstuck attempting to navigate the fast moving water.

The Avon Descent covers 124 kilometres of the river.

Source: Boy injured after falling onto rocks at Avon Descent white water race – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

ROLLING Stone Ronnie Wood diagnosed with lung cancer

Ronnie Wood has been fighting a secret battle with lung cancer. Ron, 70, had an op but refused chemo. He said: “Everything  was in the balance.” Ronnie has revealed how he prepared to say goodbye

Ronnie has revealed how he prepared to say goodbye to his family after he was diagnosed with cancer.

The Rolling Stone said the diagnosis led to the darkest period of his life.

The guitarist also recalled how he took the agonising decision to have an operation rather than chemotherapy because he did not want to lose his hair.

The father of six said: “I’ve had a fight with a touch of lung cancer.

“There was a week when everything hung in the balance and it could have been curtains, time to say goodbye.”

Ronnie, who quit smoking a week before his one-year-old twins Gracie and Alice were born, was diagnosed…

Source: Ronnie Wood says he was ready to say goodbye to his family after being diagnosed with lung cancer

Student pilot dies, instructor clings to life after plane crash in Melbourne – CLIP

 A Hong Kong teenager and a pilot remain clinging to life after their plane plunged into a paddock in Melbourne.
Student pilot Nicholas Cheung, 19, and his instructor John Dwyer, in his 30s, were trapped in the wreckage for hours after the crash at Clyde North on Thursday.
A spokesperson from Royal Melbourne Hospital confirmed to Daily Mail Australia the pilot remained in a critical condition.

 

White House crime scene: how Robert Mueller is closing in on Trump

There is a grand jury in Washington DC. The special counsel’s team is full of experts in financial crime. On Russia, the president can feel the net closing

The legal net around Donald Trump’s beleaguered presidency tightened dramatically this week with news that a grand jury has been established a few hundred yards from the White House, to pursue evidence of collusion with the Kremlin.

It is a troubling development for the president, for several reasons. In the US legal system, a grand jury has broad powers to issue subpoenas, and ultimately indictments, at the request of prosecutors…

Source: White House as crime scene: how Robert Mueller is closing in on Trump | US news | The Guardian

Dean Smith releases marriage equality bill as Liberals prepare for showdown

Liberal senator, who wants to see a free vote, warns colleagues a future Labor bill will not protect religious freedoms

As the Liberal party prepares for a showdown on the issue, Smith called for the party to allow a free vote, just as John Howard did when dealing with contentious issues including abortion drug RU486 and euthanasia.

Though a senator, Smith said it was important to the moral authority of the marriage bill that it was introduced into the lower house first…

Source: Dean Smith releases marriage equality bill as Liberals prepare for showdown | Australia news | The Guardian

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Newsweek Mocks ‘Lazy Boy’ Donald Trump On New Cover

“I would have added past due bills on floor…”

President Donald Trump won’t want to hang this uncomplimentary magazine cover at any of his golf clubs.

Newsweek depicted the president as a junk food-eating television addict on the front of its next issue, dated Aug. 11.

Under the headline “LAZY BOY,” the edited photo shows Trump slumped in a recliner with a remote control in one hand and a Diet Coke in the other.  An open bag of Cheetos is perched on his lap while an empty McDonald’s hamburger carton is discarded on the floor. . .

Source: Newsweek Mocks ‘Lazy Boy’ Donald Trump On New Cover

White House Tries To Shut Down Speculation That Mike Pence Is Preparing For 2020 Run

You know, just in case Donald Trump isn’t.

A spokesman for Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday downplayed speculation that the veep is preparing for a 2020 presidential campaign in case President Donald Trump doesn’t seek re-election.

The speculation began in earnest after The New York Times published a story detailing how Pence has engaged in more political activity than vice presidents typically do: He has has created his own political fundraising committee and has hosted Republican donors and activists at his residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington.

Pence advisers have also indicated to party donors that the vice president has plans to run if Trump does not, the Times reported.

Marc Lotter, a Pence spokesman, said the Times’ report was “wishful thinking.”

Source: White House Tries To Shut Down Speculation That Mike Pence Is Preparing For 2020 Run

$6000 a day to keep lights on at empty #Perth Children’s Hospital

WA taxpayers are forking out thousands of dollars a day to keep lights on at the empty Perth Children’s Hospital.

The McGowan Government has spent $371,000 on power bills for the controversy-plagued hospital over nine weeks in May and June, The Sunday Times can reveal.

The hospital’s daily electricity cost averages almost $6000 — the equivalent of the yearly power bill of four Perth homes.

The Child and Adolescent Health Service only began paying the electricity charges after the McGowan Government decided to accept “practical completion” of PCH from builder John Holland in April.

A PCH project spokeswoman said hospital staff occupied most of the building during the day and night. They required lighting to “complete important commissioning activities to prepare the space for operations”.

“Lighting is also required after-hours to assist the security team who walk the building regularly throughout the night to monitor the large site,” she said.

“Since ownership of the building, attempts are continuing to reduce lighting use wherever possible.”

It is now 115 days since Government took ownership of the site and there is still no opening date.

Yesterday, Opposition health spokesman Bill Marmion said the power bill revelation raised questions about why practical completion was granted, despite lead contamination problems being unresolved.

A parliamentary inquiry into the fiasco is looking into quality of building products, governance and risks associated with granting practical completion.

The Government previously admitted the drawn-out completion of the project was costing WA taxpayers $5.8 million a month since April. This includes paying $500,000 a month for an empty car park.

The Government hopes a phosphate treatment which started in May will stop lead leaching from brass fittings in the hospital’s water pipes.

Health Minister Roger Cook said the Government would receive the latest water test results from WA’s chief health officer this Friday.

Mr Cook said WA Health had sought legal and technical advice on the implications of accepting practical completion.

“Granting practical completion, with water as a defect, enabled the State to take responsibility for PCH without delay,” he said.

“It enabled the State to immediately proceed with essential chemical treatment using polyphosphate as well as removing access constraints on clinical commissioning activities.”

Source: $6000 a day to keep lights on at empty Perth Children’s Hospital | Perth Now