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A man from Perth’s western suburbs is charged with manslaughter following the death of a man near Fremantle’s entertainment strip in the early hours of yesterday.

A young regional footballer injured during a match in western Victoria on Saturday is “alert” and recovering in a Melbourne hospital, according to his club. The player was injured during an under-17s match between Southern Mallee Thunder and the Horsham Saints in the town of Jeparit, with emergency services called just after midday. The teenager…

Born in Colombia without a left leg, Oliberth Reyes never thought he would be able to ski, let alone train for the Winter Paralympics. The 33-year-old was only introduced to adaptive skiing at an event for para athletes last year. He became fascinated by the one-legged alpine skiing, a sport he had never heard of…

Australia this week inked a deal allowing it to export unenriched uranium to India for the first time, an agreement that could potentially be worth billions of dollars. But there’s a big catch. Despite Australia having the largest uranium deposits in the world, only South Australia is actively producing it. The mining powerhouse of Western…

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) says the US has begun launching a third round of strikes on Iran in response to an attack on a civilian ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz. A crew member on the M/V GFS Galaxy, a Cyprus-flagged container ship, is missing, according to CENTCOM, and the ship is stuck…

For years, West Australian Kurt McIntosh spent more time in airport terminals than he cared to remember. The Wajarri man worked fly-in, fly-out mining shifts, which provided well but came at the cost of missing out on special family events. “I was making lots of money, but it didn’t feel right,” Mr McIntosh said. Kurt…

Police have arrested and charged six teenagers as part of an investigation into a spate of armed robberies across Melbourne. It has been alleged the six males were involved in stealing a car in Hawthorn in Melbourne’s east on Saturday, July 11 before then committing multiple armed robberies. Calls were made to police about a…

NSW Police are investigating the stabbing of two men in Liverpool, while two teens were injured in a separate incident involving a large brawl in Gladesville following a night of violence in Sydney. Emergency services were called to a home on Zephyr Street, Austral about 12:50am on Sunday following reports two men had suffered stab…

If you have a penpal, have you ever met them? Long before the advent of web-based services and social media, Saskia Martin and Heidi Thibeault-Grainger became penpals when an international teacher exchange program encouraged primary school students to write letters to each other. After three decades of letters, emails and social media exchanges, a chance…

UK police say they have arrested a 28-year-old man in South Yorkshire in relation to the alleged murder of Ann Widdecombe. The suspect is a white British national and is now in police custody, the police statement said. It comes less than 24 hours after police released a 26-year-old man they had previously arrested in…