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Unions, BHP urged to ‘nut out the detail’ as strike action enters second day
August 9, 2026 — 4:48pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Union representatives have called strikes at WA’s largest bulk export port as “significant” and urged a fast resolution as…
Florida business owners allegedly scattered 1,500 mothballs on beach to scare off endangered birds
Two Florida business owners have been charged with third-degree felonies after allegedly spreading about 1,500 “toxic” mothballs across a beach in hopes of keeping an “imperiled” bird species from nesting there. If convicted, they could each face up to five…
How the ‘manosphere’ is fuelling a classroom crisis among young students
August 9, 2026 — 1:30pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA It’s 11am, bleak and eight degrees outside. A classroom packed with year 9 boys is asked what their biggest fear is. “Women,”…
Woman, 66, allegedly stabs another woman at exclusive Upper East Side apartment building
A 56-year-old woman was stabbed and left hospitalized in an attack by a 66-year-old woman at a ritzy co-op apartment building on the Upper East Side on Saturday, according to sources. The brazen attack reportedly happened at 210 E. 73rd St., which sits…
Fremantle bridge return on budget and ahead of schedule
August 9, 2026 — 1:32pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA The long-awaited return of the Fremantle traffic bridge is set to be complete before the end of the year, with the state…
Boat overturns off Liberty Island coast; woman and child in critical condition
A boat overturned off the coast of Liberty Island Saturday night, prompting a rescue effort by officials including the Coast Guard, according to sources. Two people, a woman and a child, were pulled from the water after the 10:25 p.m. incident and had to be…
Alleged Sydney gun-runner sexually tortured an unconscious teen for more than 10 hours, police say
August 9, 2026 — 1:52pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Warning: Graphic content An alleged Sydney gun-runner has been charged with filming the prolonged drugging and sexual torture…
Chaos as California city declares state of emergency after hackers cripple 911 system
A California city pulled the plug on its entire computer network after a cyberattack knocked out key systems, including 911 routing and police and fire dispatch. Suisun City declared a state of emergency Saturday after malicious software breached its IT…
NSW Labor’s Sydney nightlife plan hamstrung by technological, political upheaval. Where do young people party?
Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA On a cool Saturday afternoon, young Sydneysiders gently groove to an electronic jazz band performing on a makeshift stage of red Persian rugs in the…
Young punks busted in insane serial armed robbery spree targeting 77 Bay Area homes and cars
A pack of young punks allegedly turned the Bay Area into their personal smash-and-grab playground, hitting 77 homes and vehicles, ripping off power tools and guns, while using stolen rides to fuel the crime spree. The four juveniles were blamed for 37…