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READ MORE The man behind the wheel of a hired 4WD that lost control on a bend and rolled in Kakadu National Park, killing himself and two others, was not experienced with NT road conditions, police say. Seven young people – all believed to be members of the Top End’s Bangladeshi student community – were travelling from Jabiru to Cooinda in a Toyota Landcruiser on Saturday afternoon when it crashed on the Kakadu Highway. Four women were injured in the crash and are in a stable condition in a Darwin hospital. The driver has been confirmed by police as a 29-year-old Bangladeshi man, but the nationalities of the other six passengers have not been released. “The driver was pretty inexperienced in Territory conditions. He was in a vehicle he was not familiar with – it was a hire vehicle,” Acting Assistant Commissioner Tony Fuller told reporters in Darwin on Sunday. “He’s lost control in a large bend and ended up rolling the vehicle. “One p...

READ MORE Authorities in the rural Victorian town of Bendigo have declared the area safe after a series of warnings were issued about a hazardous gas leak on Sunday afternoon. Earlier, an emergency warning was issued for an “extremely dangerous” and rapidly dissipating unknown chemical believed to have been leaking from a regional Victorian factory, with some residents near the Parmalat milk factory at Bendigo warned of a biological hazard and told to stay indoors, closing off windows, doors and air conditioners. In an update issued shortly before 4pm, residents were advised they were no longer at risk. “The  hazardous   gas   leak   in   North Bendigo  is now safe.  Fumes are no longer emitting from the leak,” Vic Emergency advised. “ People located within the area are now able to resume normal activities.” CFA vehicles were at the scene after emergency services were alerted about 1.45pm Sunday. For more information...

READ MORE A dilapidated four-storey building has collapsed in a central Indian city killing at least 10 people, police said Sunday, the latest such disaster in a country infamous for poor construction and safety standards. Rescue workers retrieved several people left trapped under tonnes of debris after the building collapsed in a crowded neighbourhood of Indore on Saturday night. “We pulled out 12 people from under the debris. Ten of them have died,” police inspector Sanju Kamle told AFP. Local media reports said the collapse took place after a car drove into the building’s front portion. “We are investigating. At the moment it is difficult to say how it collapsed,” Mr Kamle said. Rescue workers had managed to clear the debris and some of the injured were being treated at a government-run hospital, Mr Kamle added. Building disasters are common in Indian cities where millions are forced to live in cramped, run-down properties due to spiralling rea...

READ MORE 3 / 8 The Curl Curl, an old Sydney Hydrofoil, being restored by Andrew Heighway. Photo: Supplied Article source: http://watoday.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/malcolm-turnbull-blasts-personality-politics-amid-latest-tony-abbott-policy-intervention-20170628-gx02vq.html Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) Best Wordpress Plugin development company in India       Best Web development company in India

READ MORE Australia face a tough act to follow after grabbing their biggest Games pool medal haul at 2014 Glasgow with a total of 57 including 19 gold. And in what Verhaeren will hope is a good omen, Australia also maintained their vice-like grip on the pool medal tally at their last home Games in Melbourne 2006 with 16 gold, double nearest rivals England. However, Verhaeren wasn’t in the mood to follow Campbell’s lead and make some bold claims on Sunday. Verhaeren is at the helm for his second Games, after taking over the reins following the “toxic” London Olympics, and knows all too well how quickly the public can turn if his team doesn’t reach the Australian public’s perceived standards. “It is difficult not to be bothered by it (expectation) too much,” he said. Article source: http://watoday.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/malcolm-turnbull-blasts-personality-politics-amid-latest-tony-abbott-policy-intervention-20170628-gx02vq.ht...

READ MORE It is the group 1 race that started Chris Waller’s rise to the top and the Doncaster remains the race that defines his dominance of Sydney racing. In the 10 years since Triple Honour gave Waller his first group 1 in the 2008 Doncaster, he has prepared the winner six times. This Saturday at Randwick he  will be out to join Gai Waterhouse and Tommy Smith with a seventh victory from a team that includes Comin’ Through, D’Argento, Egg Tart, Endless Drama and Tom Melbourne. Waller wonder: D’Argento will look to join Waller’s winners of the Doncaster on Saturday. Photo: AAP “The first one makes it a special race to me, but it is the horses that I have won it with since, the special horses, that make it special,” Waller said. “Rangirangdoo was at the stage where we thought he wouldn’t win another group 1 race and he put his hand up that day. It was so good. “It has been a great race for us – Winx, Sacred Falls wo...

READ MORE Palo Alto : For more than a decade, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has been trying to convince the car-buying masses that it’s OK to take our shaky hands off the steering wheel and entrust our lives to a hodgepodge of sensors and algorithms. But the carmaker’s safety reassurances faced another challenge last week, as a sobering image made its way around the world: a photo of a Tesla SUV, battered and charred and missing two front wheels after a fiery wreck that left a father of two dead. An investigation into the fatal crash is underway. Photo: AP On Friday the company tried to explain the March 23 crash that killed Walter Huang, an Apple engineer whose electric SUV was on Autopilot mode when it crashed into a median on Highway 101 in Mountain View, California. In 557 words, Tesla sought to counter that alarming photo, using statistics and figures to argue that an artificially intelligent driver is still safer than a human one. Still, Tesla had to acknowledge tw...

READ MORE China had been responsible and transparent, Lu said. “If there is a need, we will promptly be in touch with the relevant country,” he said. “As to what I have heard, at present the chances of large fragments falling to the ground are not very great, the probability is extremely small.” The 10.4-metre-long Tiangong-1, or “Heavenly Palace 1”, was launched in 2011 to carry out docking and orbit experiments as part of China’s ambitious space program, which aims to place a permanent station in orbit by 2023. Article source: http://watoday.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/malcolm-turnbull-blasts-personality-politics-amid-latest-tony-abbott-policy-intervention-20170628-gx02vq.html Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) Best Wordpress Plugin development company in India       Best Web development ...

READ MORE Srinagar :  Officials say at least eight rebels have been killed in fighting with Indian troops in disputed Kashmir, triggering a new round of anti-India protests and clashes. A masked villager holds a wooden stick and stones during a protest south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Photo: AP Police say the gunbattles in southern Kashmir began after government forces raided two villages in Shopian and Anantnag districts following a tip that rebels were hiding there and came under fire. The fighting was still raging in Shopian area on Sunday. The news of the killings led to intense anti-Indian protests and clashes in several parts of the southern Kashmir. India and Pakistan each administer part of Kashmir, but both claim it in its entirety. Rebel groups demand that Kashmir be united either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country. AP Article source: http://watoday.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/malcolm-turnbull-blasts-personality-politics-amid-latest...

READ MORE Reza Momenzada arrived in Australia in 2000 by boat after leaving his home in Afghanistan. “I was caught in a war zone myself,” Mr Momenzada told SBS News, descriningthe moment he fled. “The whole neighbourhood was asleep, it happened past midnight. I remember I was very young. “A bomb was dropped probably less than 100 metres away from our house.” Eighteen years later and now living in Sydney, the 31-year-old actor is playing the character of Hamed Mokri – a character eerily similar to himself- in the Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s ‘ he Sound of Waiting.    “I was in a boat similar to Hamed,” Mr Momenzada said. “The only thing that I didn’t experience that Hamed has is the loss of a child. “A lot of his journey is what I’ve gone through and what a lot of asylum seekers go through.” Mr Momenzada draws upon his own harsh experiences throughout the play. “It’s powerfu...

READ MORE Australian travellers to Russia have been warned to brace for possible anti-western sentiment as the fallout continues from the poisoning of a former spy in the United Kingdom. Last week, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced two Russian spies had been asked to leave Australia, in a show of solidarity with the UK over the nerve agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury. London blames Moscow for the attack but Russia denies involvement. The Kremlin has since retaliated, announcing it will expel two Australian diplomats. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Sunday updated its travel advice for Russia. “Due to heightened political tensions, you should be aware of the possibility of anti-Western sentiment or harassment,” the travel advice said. It said the federal government is not aware of any increased difficulties for Australians travelling in Russia at this time but people should follow the security and pol...

READ MORE In the second Kyrie the Chamber Singers articulated its main theme with carefully separated notes to lighten the texture. The fugue on Gratias agimus tibi, sung by both choirs, started with quiet warmth building like a great cathedral arch to the final entries with trumpets and timpani, the same music returning at more measured pace in the closing Donna Nobis Pacem to create a close of great moment. Weymark’s tempos were often quick, occasionally presenting a challenge for the full choir (as in the breathless In Sancto Sprititu at the close of the Gloria). Rather than allocate arias and duets to members of the choir, as Bach probably would have done had he performed the piece (though there is no record he did), a strong group of vocal soloists partnered with instrumentalists from the orchestra led by Fiona Ziegler to create those moments of chamber-music intimacy that were key to Bach’s universe of musical possibilities. Soprano Janet Todd and mezzo Sally-Anne Russ...

READ MORE The solemn mass began with the procession and a chorus of Hallelujahs from the cathedral choir, the oldest musical institution in Australia formed in 1818. Archbishop Fisher preached that “Resurrection” was not a paleo diet, cryo-technology or new-agery. “Quinoa and kale, aςai powder and green tea, a FitBit and a personal trainer – these are our culture’s secrets to living forever. There are even more ‘out there’ strategies: cosmetic, genetic or cybernetic treatments; getting yourself cloned or frozen till they have a cure; mind-to-computer uploading; and reincarnation into a younger body,” he said. But the crucial link in the Christian Easter rebirth story is the sacraments, he said, not “green tea or cloning”. Easter Sunday mass at St Mary’s Cathedral. Photo: Peter Rae “Baptism is the sacrament of rebirth, purification, justification, eternal life. To miss the sacraments or receive them only half-...

READ MORE Multiple brawls broke out in a Toorak bar early Sunday. One man suffered deep cuts to his head in a suspected glassing at a Toorak bar,  also the scene of a brawl between a large group of men early Sunday. Police were called to reports of an assault shortly after 2am. Victoria Police spokesman Luke Zammit said emergency services assessed a man for lacerations to his head as a result of a possible glassing. “Police spoke to another man on the scene and the investigation is ongoing pending further enquiries,” Mr Zammit said. A short time later, the police were back at the same location after reports of a fight between a large group of men about 2.45pm. Article source: https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/family-famed-for-protest-photo-dies-when-suv-goes-off-cliff-20180329-p4z6y7.html?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on G...

READ MORE The judge, Maria Sizintseva, said they acted as part of an organised crime group and had tried to put pressure on witnesses. She rejected an offer from Magomedov to put up a $US35 million ($45.5 million) bail bond, and ordered he be detained. Citing the arguments against granting bail, the judge said Magomedov had access to his own aircraft and assets abroad. The day before he was detained, he had booked a flight from Moscow to Miami, the judge said. Summa said it planned to appeal the court decision and was ready to co-operate with the investigation. Invited to speak from a cage in the courtroom, Magomedov, dressed in a dark-blue jogging suit, said: “I categorically disagree with the charges presented … The prosecution case does not stand up to scrutiny.” Article source: https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/family-famed-for-protest-photo-dies-when-suv-goes-off-cliff-20180329-p4z6y7.html?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world Share this: Click to share...

READ MORE A former bus driver and union leader who has grown widely unpopular, Maduro is running for re-election in a May election largely boycotted by the opposition. With heavy use of state resources and a compliant electoral council, he is expected to win a six-year term despite salary-destroying hyperinflation, a fifth straight year of recession, and rampant crime. State television focused on showing images of Venezuelans on the beach during the Easter holiday, while Maduro’s ministers also largely remained mum on the Valencia disaster. But Delcy Rodriguez, the president of the pro-government legislative superbody known as the constituent assembly, struck back at criticism of the government’s handling of the jail fire. Article source: https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/family-famed-for-protest-photo-dies-when-suv-goes-off-cliff-20180329-p4z6y7.html?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share o...

READ MORE Gaza:   The morning after burying 19-year-old Abdul Fattah Abdul Nabi, his family gathered in a tent set up to receive mourners, watching and rewatching a video of the moment they say Israeli soldiers shot him in the back of the head. The video appears to show Abdul Fattah, dressed in black, running away from the border fence carrying a tyre. Just before reaching the crowd, he crumples under gunfire. “He had no gun, no Molotov, a tyre. Does that harm the Israelis, a tyre?” asked his brother Mohamed Abdul Nabi, 22. “He wasn’t going toward the Israeli side. He was running away.” Abdul Fattah Abdul Nabi, a 19-year-old Palestinian, was shot dead during Friday’s protests in the Gaza Strip. Photo: Mahmoud Abu Salama The teenager was one of at least 15 people killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Friday, during what Palestinian factions billed as a peaceful “March of Return” to mark Land Day, the anniversary of the expropr...

READ MORE Autopilot is still far from a completely autonomous driving system, which would not require any involvement by a human. Autopilot is considered part of the second of five levels of autonomous driving, with the fifth being fully autonomous – something once featured in futuristic cartoons but which has moved closer to reality. A Tesla Model X – the latest model – collided with a highway barrier near the town of Mountain View in California on March 23, catching fire before two other cars struck it. The driver was identified by The Mercury News as a 38-year-old man, Wei Huang, an engineer for Apple. He later died in hospital. Tesla issued a blog post late Friday saying the driver had activated the Autopilot but ignored several warnings. “In the moments before the collision… Autopilot was engaged with the adaptive cruise control follow-distance set to minimum,” Tesla said.  “The driver had received several visual and one audible hands...

READ MORE A three-year-old boy has been found safe and well 18 hours after he wandered from a campsite near Mudgee in the NSW central west during the Easter long weekend. James Skillen was last seen at about 5pm on Saturday at a campsite with his family on a property on Old Ilford Road, Razorback, about 69km south of Mudgee. He was found “safe and well just before midday on Sunday”, a NSW Police spokeswoman confirmed to AAP. A large-scale search group including police, sniffer dogs, NSW Ambulance, the Rural Fire Service, SES, the NSW Volunteer Rescue Association and locals spent the night and Sunday morning searching the rugged terrain which included several dams. Overnight temperatures dropped to 15C and the mercury had hit 33C by midday Sunday. The track where James was found is approximately five kilometres from where he was last seen. “The boy is being flown back to the command post where he will be reunited with family and assessed by NSW Ambulance paramedics,...

READ MORE Candice Warner has given a frank insight into the how the ball-tampering scandal has affected husband David and their young family. Sacked vice-captain David Warner, who was banned for 12 months by Cricket Australia after being accused of masterminding a ploy to scuff the ball illegally in Cape Town, broke down during Saturday’s press conference. Warner became particularly emotional while apologising to wife Candice and the couple’s two young children for “putting you through this”. Warner was widely criticised for not answering questions directly on Saturday. It’s understood the opener was advised to take that approach because there is a strong chance he will take the code-of-conduct charge to a formal hearing. “I”m sure there were things he wanted to say but he just couldn’t get it out. He is hurting. He is seriously, seriously struggling and he’s not in a great headspace,” Candice Warner told News Corp Australia. ...

READ MORE Australian sevens captain James Stannard will meet with police to detail what he remembers of the terrifying coward punch that left him unconscious and bleeding on a Coogee footpath on Friday morning. Stannard, 35, is understood to be improving every day but is still battling dizziness and has not been able to walk any further than the short distance between his hospital bed and bathroom. Veteran: the Gold Coast would have been Stannard’s third Commonwealth Games campaign. Rugby Australia said the veteran back was discharged from St Vincent’s Hospital on Sunday and would give a statement at Maroubra Police Station later in the day. He is nursing a fractured skull after allegedly being coward punched outside a kebab shop on Coogee Bay Road in the early hours of Friday morning. A 22-year-old British national has been charged over the assault. It has ended Stannard’s dream of a third Commonwealth Games campaign before it started and delivered the Australian me...

READ MORE Those steps involved dispatching Cricket Australia’s high performance regulator Pat Howard, and Iain Roy, the organisation’s senior legal counsel and integrity head, on “the first plane out” to conduct an investigation. “Once they’re gone James sorts out the rest of us, board members, his staff back in Australia, then he’s on the plane as well. “At the end of all that, in the space of about 72-80 hours … by Wednesday night an investigation has been done … James is over there, he’s spoken to all the players, Iain Roy has interviewed all the players and support staff,” he said. “We come up with findings, charges and sanctions. And at the end of it I found it very disappointing that all James Sutherland got out of it was ‘He didn’t call them cheats’.” The tensions over the administration of Australian cricket were on display on the Channel Nine panel show, which featured another ...

READ MORE “The timing of this campaign is all about leveraging the Commonwealth Games,” she said. “The Commonwealth Games will shine a spotlight on our state with 600,000 visitors and 1.5 billion people watching from home. “What this new campaign will do is highlight everything Queensland has to offer – pristine beaches, world heritage listed rainforest, the Great Barrier Reef, the vast Outback, our world-class calendar of events, our unbeatable experiences and our world-famous way of life. Burleigh Hill on the Gold Coast is one of three south-east locations used in the video. Photo: YouTube “Thomas Busby and Jeremy Marou are not only two of Australia’s most popular musicians, they are authentic Queenslanders. Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) Best Wordpress Plugin development company in India      ...

READ MORE Abuja : Four female suicide bombers in their teens have blown themselves up near Maiduguri in Nigeria’s restive Borno state, killing one other person, police say. “Thirteen (other people) were injured and were taken to a hospital, where they are responding to treatment,” Edet Okon, Borno’s police chief, said in a statement on Saturday. The attack late on Friday bears the hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Boko Haram aims to enforce a strict interpretation of Islamic law and regularly launches suicide attacks in northeastern Nigeria. The group has been known to use young women as suicide bombers. Nigerian school girls who were recently freed after being kidnapped by Boko Harem terrorists. Photo: AP Its fighters also often abduct girls and women to keep as sex slaves, recently kidnapping more than 100 schoolgirls from Dapchi town, most of whom have since been freed. Attacks by the terrorist group have left at least 20,000 people dead in nor...

READ MORE Amman : The Syrian army command said on Saturday it had regained most of the towns and villages in eastern Ghouta and was pressing its military operations in the last rebel bastion of Douma. In a televised statement, the Syrian army spokesman said the weeks-long military campaign had now brought security to the Syrian capital, Damascus, and also secured its main links to other parts of the country, stretching north and all the way to the Iraqi border to the east. Douma’s fall would seal the rebels’ worst defeat since 2016, driving them from their last big stronghold near the Syrian capital. Photo: AP A last group of fighters and families had earlier left the main towns of Jobar, Zamalka, Arbeen and Ain Tarma after the fall of other towns, leaving only the city of Douma still in rebel hands. Footage on state television showed top army commanders entering by the same route the rebel convoys had used to leave. Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new wind...

READ MORE This sense of collective pride and identity surrounding coal has its origins in what many see as Poland’s national existential roots, buried literally deep in its mines. Emilia Wesolowska, 36, the daughter of retired miner, who is pregnant with her first child understands the industry’s cultural significance. “It wasn’t just the [mining] company giving work to the people, but it kind of also sponsored the local ‘environment’ like some orchestras, sports events. Sports venues were owned by coal mines. So if a coal mine was shut down, it wasn’t just the sacking of the people,” Wesolowska says. “[Before the pregnancy] I used to try to spend as little time as possible outside. But I wasn’t that obsessed with that. But now … I do stay at home, honestly, because I’m really scared that if I spent too much time outside, it wouldn’t be good for my baby.” In a country often occupied by neighbours th...