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From a young age, Luke Harris felt a magnetic pull to letting his creativity run wild in the kitchen. “[At the shops] Luke would pick all of these things from the shelves. I had no idea what these ingredients were, but we’d bring them home and he’d cook us up a beautiful feast,” his mother…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has told US President Donald Trump to focus on his own popularity in a recent social media post. Mr Trump had earlier taken to social media himself to say Ms Meloni was “doing poorly in Italy with her level of popularity”. In response, Ms Meloni told Mr Trump that “being…
A West Australian vet who chanced upon a sick bird since confirmed to have Australia’s first known case of the deadly H5 variant of bird flu says she had no idea of the significance of her find. Vet Toni Howlett was walking along a beach near Esperance with a friend last Sunday, when she saw…
A community reeling from a shark attack at a Sydney beach which left a woman in critical condition is returning to the water for a swim-out to support the victim’s family. One week ago, Sydney mother Leah Stewart was swimming between the flags at Coogee Beach when she was mauled by a suspected white shark….
US President Donald Trump says federal authorities have made “multiple arrests” of people he said were vandalising the Reflecting Pool, as he struggles to explain why the multi-million-dollar renovation has seemingly backfired. Mr Trump, who claims his predecessors had let the pool turn an algae-stained green, launched a $US14.2 million ($20.1m) project to turn the…
A man in his 30s has been fatally shot in Melbourne’s inner-north-west overnight. About 12:15am, officers were called to North Street in Ascot Vale, where they found the man with suspected gunshot wounds. “He was taken to hospital in a critical condition but later died,” a Victoria Police spokesperson said. Homicide Squad detectives are…
Melbourne commuters will be able to use their credit card, phone or smartwatch across the tram network from today after ticketless travel launched on trains this month following repeated delays. Buses will get the capability next month, but the Victorian government is yet to nominate a date. Concession passengers will also need to wait until…
You walk into the kitchen and forget why you’re there. You put the milk in the pantry and the keys in the fridge. You lose your train of thought halfway through a sentence. If you’ve recently had a baby, you might blame all this on “baby brain” — that foggy, forgetful feeling so many new…
It does not look like a big-ticket public project, but in the past two decades, repeated attempts to shift this bus stop have cost ratepayers almost $9 million. Despite these efforts, Launceston’s St John Street bus interchange — the main hub for people going in or out of the CBD — remains exactly where it…
Gaza health officials say Israeli strikes have killed at least 11 people, including two children and an Al Jazeera cameraman, in the latest violence to rock the Palestinian territory despite a ceasefire. The Qatar-based news network said its cameraman Ahmed Wishah was killed on Saturday, local time, in an “Israeli bombardment” that targeted a house…