A man seeking voluntary assisted dying under the ACT’s new laws remains ineligible for the scheme, despite a tribunal finding he had the mental capacity to make the decision. The case is one of the first to test how unsuccessful applicants can challenge a rejection under the new scheme. The man, who cannot be named…
CHENNAI: Now you can report a TN govt employee demanding bribe by sending a WhatsApp message to 9498180936.This is among the latest measures put forward by the govt to fight corruption. Chief secretary M Sai Kumar on Tuesday sent a circular instructing all govt department heads and collectors to ensure anti-bribery notice boards are displayed…
A five-year-old boy has died after being hit by a four-wheel drive outside a park in suburban Perth. Police say a Toyota LandCruiser hit two pedestrians near Miles Park on Belgravia Street in Cloverdale in Perth’s south-east about 4.25pm yesterday. The boy was taken to Perth Children’s Hospital but died from his injuries. A 48-year-old…
From Shubman Gill and Priyanka Chopra to tennis lifers such as Lara Dutta and Ravi Shastri, Wimbledon now offers sport, style, status, and sentiment Wimbledon is a great place to stargaze — from Hollywood and Bollywood to musicians, royalty, sporting icons and the fashion elite. For an Indian walking the grounds in southwest London this…
Although most people tend to throw used aluminium foil in the trash can right after cooking, there are several ways in which gardeners can find practical uses for clean, reusable foil pieces in their gardening projects. Although aluminium foil will never be able to serve as a fertiliser to make plants grow faster, there are…
Police in Timor-Leste say they have uncovered a major international scam operation, arresting hundreds of mainly Chinese and Indonesian nationals in raids across the capital, Dili. Timor-Leste police raided three heavily secured call centre compounds over the past five days, arresting 253 workers in a highly visible crackdown against what experts say is a growing…
There are many truths to Christopher Nolan’s persona and cinema that coexist simultaneously, and he is as layered a mind as the stories he tells Christopher Nolan is an avid consumer of fine Earl Grey tea. Christopher Nolan was relishing a very clearly non-Earl Grey chai with bun maska in Mumbai. Christopher Nolan’s films are…
Australian swimming superstar Mollie O’Callaghan has revealed she fought through stress fractures and bone bruising in her back to compete at the Commonwealth Games. Just over a week before the start of the program in Glasgow the five-time Commonwealth and five-time Olympic Games gold medallist dropped the bombshell on social media. “Last month I was…
Shares of software and IT services companies plunged Tuesday after International Business Machines (IBM) reported preliminary results that missed analyst expectations, reigniting questions about the sector.IBM shares plummeted as much as 26%, on track for their biggest one-day drop since at least 1968. The company reported that it missed expectations because customers shifted capital spending…
Brigitte Szabo was watering her garden at her Townsville home when some movement caught her eye. “A pair of sunbirds were flying around and chirping and carrying on as they do and then all of a sudden this great big green frog launched itself,” Ms Szabo said. It was an unexpectedly brutal display of a…