Arsenal skipper Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored twice to help his side secure a 2-1 win over 10-man Chelsea in the FA Cup final on Saturday for a record-extending 14th crown in the competition – and a spot in next season’s Europa League. Victory at an empty Wembley Stadium earned Mikel Arteta …
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‘Trying time’: Australia races to help PNG fight virus resurgence
Australia is now sending a medical assistance team (AUSMAT) of specialists and crisis response staff to Port Moresby. In a statement, Alex Hawke, minister for international development and the Pacific, said this team would help improve lab testing, case management, infection control, triage and emergency management, but would first have …
Read More »Three children among five killed in Nepal monsoon landslides
Kathmandu: Five people including three children were killed in two landslides in Nepal, raising to 175 the toll of dead since the monsoon season began in May, a home ministry official said on Saturday. A 30-year-old woman and her three children, aged between 10 months and nine years, were killed …
Read More »Thousands march in Berlin against coronavirus restrictions
The protests followed a rallying call from Michael Ballweg, an entrepreneur and political outsider who has organised similar rallies in Stuttgart and is running to become mayor of the southwestern city. Police filed a complaint against the organiser for failing to ensure marchers wore masks and kept their distance. Mainstream …
Read More »Michael Coutts-Trotter’s journey from drug smuggler to head of the justice system
Loading “I really feel deep regret that my life and my history and is too often hung around my wife’s neck by people who use it as some kind of criticism of her – that there’s something morally broken about her for her to choose to be with me,” he …
Read More »Those who came, who lived and loved and are gone
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size They built modern Australia, often coming from other countries to win a different future for themselves and their families. They risked much and achieved more than they could have imagined. Here we pay tribute to four of them. Maria Vasilakis Maria Vasilakis …
Read More »Fashion, features and function. Why you won’t find these masks at 7-Eleven
In response, companies and designers have flooded the market with alternatives to the common throwaway surgical masks that spurred Kawanishi to action. Inventors have dreamed up masks with motorised air purifiers, Bluetooth speakers and even sanitisers that kill germs by heating the face covering (but hopefully not the face) to …
Read More »‘Sordid details’: Judge rips into Maxwell as sealed documents emerge
The judge ruled last week that the documents should be unsealed. “The Court is troubled – but not surprised – that Ms Maxwell has yet again sought to muddy the water as the clock clicks closer to midnight,” Preska wrote in a filing denying a request from Maxwell’s lawyers for …
Read More »MP says women in politics want ‘bad behaviour to stop’
“It’s been just amazing,” says the government whip and MP for Boothby in South Australia. “My experience this week has been beyond anything that I imagined; the incredible bipartisan support I’ve received has been so encouraging.” Labor women including Kate Ellis, Senator Nita Green, Anika Wells, Kate Thwaites, Peta Murphy, …
Read More »‘We had planned to get together’: Addo-Carr looking forward to coffee with Winmar
“I never heard from Nicky after what I did, but I did speak to a close friend of his and we had actually planned to get together,” Addo-Carr said. “We were going to have coffee and a yarn, but then COVID hit. “I still want to hear what his life …
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