Man charged over alleged hit and run in Sydney
A 46-year-old man has been charged after allegedly driving his car onto a footpath and seriously injuring a woman in Busby, south-west Sydney.The man has been charged with grievous bodily harm with...
View ArticleSuspicious blaze tears through warehouse and home in Coburg
Police are investigating after two properties were destroyed by fire in Melbourne’s north overnight.Emergency services arrived at an abandoned warehouse on Sydney Road, Coburg, shortly after midnight...
View ArticleCow's face blurred for privacy by Google Maps
Google Maps has gone to overzealous lengths to protect the identity of a bovine at a farm in Cambridge, United Kingdom.An eagle-eyed editor for The Guardian discovered the mystery cow on Google's...
View ArticleTrump makes fresh Clinton gun comments
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has sparked fresh controversy after he appeared to refer to the potential assassination of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for a second time."I...
View ArticleGold Coast Commonwealth Games on high alert for terror threat, says Games...
The chairman of the Commonwealth Games has warned it will be a bigger terrorism target than the Rio Olympics.Peter Beattie said security will be tightened and extra measures put in place at the 2018...
View ArticleFive hospitalised after gas bottle explodes inside van in Brisbane
Five people have been taken to hospital with burns after a gas bottle exploded inside a van in Sunnybank Hills, in Brisbane’s south. Emergency services were called to the corner of Symons and Borella...
View ArticleMan seriously injured after crashing car into shop on the Gold Coast
A man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after he crashed his car into a shop in Labrador, on the Gold Coast. Emergency services were called to a business on Babbidge Street just after...
View ArticleActor Mel Gibson expecting his ninth child
Australian actor and director Mel Gibson, 60, is preparing to become a dad for the ninth time.The actor’s publicist confirmed Gibson’s 26-year-old girlfriend Rosalind Ross was pregnant, following...
View ArticleMan charged after deliberately attacking fisherman's boat with garden hoe in...
A man has been charged after he damaged and sunk another man’s boat with a garden hoe at a boat ramp in Port Adelaide.The 61-year-old Ottoway man allegedly slashed Ahn Quoc Le's tyres at his Mansfield...
View ArticleThousands rally for Brisbane gay pride
Thousands of people have marched through Brisbane's Fortitude Valley demanding Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ditch the same-sex marriage plebiscite.Numbers at the annual Brisbane Pride march were...
View ArticleGreen slip changes in NSW could neglect injured motorists
Changes to the Compulsory Third Party (CTP) green slip insurance scheme could see NSW motorists fending for themselves.The Daily Telegraph reports that under state government plans to overhaul the...
View ArticleCharlton homes under threat as river levels peak
Low-lying homes in the flood-affected Victorian town of Charlton are being evacuated as river levels peak.The Avoca River in the northwestern town reached 7.5 metres at 6.30am this morning and it's...
View ArticleRussian police arrest robot at political rally
A robot has reportedly been detained by Russian police at a political rally in Moscow.A video showing authorities surrounding the machine, known as Promobot, was posted to YouTube and Facebook by the...
View ArticleTwo young boys missing from Toowoomba since yesterday
Police are appealing for help to find two young boys missing from Toowoomba, whose disappearances are not believed to be linked.An 11-year-old boy was last seen with another boy and girl near a chicken...
View ArticleMan's body found in Upper Ferntree Gully carpark
Police are on the hunt for a killer after a man’s body was found in a car park in Upper Ferntree Gully this afternoon.A passer-by found the body in a carpark off Rollings Road just after 3pm.The exact...
View ArticleHuman remains found in Queensland forest
Police are investigating after human skeletal remains were found in Nerang State Forest, on the Gold Coast.A member of the public located the skeletal remains in Nerang State Forest around 3pm...
View ArticleKayaker filmed swimming with killer whale in New Zealand ‘blown away’ by...
A New Zealand man who was filming swimming alongside a playful killer whale says he didn’t feel threatened once during his interaction with the orca.Local photographer, Sam Kynman-Cole, recorded...
View ArticleTwo people and dogs rescued from floodwaters in Toolamba, near Shepparton
A man, woman and three dogs who were trapped with their car in Victorian floodwaters have been rescued.Emergency services were called near the intersection of McNamara Road and Daunts Track in Toolamba...
View ArticleTransgender Briton the UK's first female combat soldier
A transgender soldier is set to become Britain's first woman to serve on the frontline.Chloe Allen, who joined the army four years ago as Ben, told The Sun it was "a great honour to make history".The...
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