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A US Navy service member is missing and three others have been injured after their twin-engine helicopter went down in the Arabian Sea, according to military central command authorities. The MH-60S Sea Hawk chopper, which was assigned to the USS George H W Bush Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, made an “emergency landing” on Wednesday, local time,…

There are five precious hours in Australia when it is legal to set off fireworks without a permit, and last night thousands of people across the Northern Territory did just that. Part of annual Territory Day celebrations which commemorate the day the NT gained independence, fireworks can be purchased by the public and are allowed…

A major provider of drug and alcohol rehabilitation in central Australia has reduced the number of clients participating in programs at one of its sites to a third after it flooded earlier this year. Drug and Alcohol Services Australia (DASA) was providing services to 28 clients at Aranda House earlier this year. But when floodwaters…

“I just snuck a look at the event.” “Reads well in your favour mate, albeit they kept it respectful towards her.” These are some of the first text messages Sergeant Shannon Daniel Cooper sent to his long-term friend, minutes after illegally accessing the police’s internal database for confidential information about the friend’s domestic violence matter….

There are no World Cup games shown at Wimbledon — even when England is playing — but the Centre Court crowd was clearly finding ways of following some of the action anyway. Loud cheers that had nothing to do with tennis broke out three times during the third set of Barbora Krejcikova’s win over Mirra…

England needed a hero. Trailing DR Congo by a goal and facing World Cup elimination, England needed a moment. Harry Kane gave them two. As England fans in Atlanta, back home in England and in bars across the world celebrated a come-from-behind victory with equal parts delight and relief, they were largely raising their glasses…

Aged Care Minister Sam Rae has announced decisions from the government’s algorithm-assisted tool, used to determine how much funding older Australians get to support living at home, can be changed in “extenuating circumstances”. The Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT) was introduced by the federal government last year, arguing it would allow for faster and fairer assessments….

It has all the elements of a superhero movie: an invasion of killer mites, scientists tinkering with genetics, and spiders coming to the rescue. But that is also a simplified version of research taking place on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in the race to save Australia’s bees. Varroa destructor is a parasitic mite that was first…

It took seven match points, but eventually Barbora Krejčíková has knocked French Open champion Mirra Andreeva out of Wimbledon in the biggest upset of the women’s tournament so far, winning 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. Andreeva faced six match points when 2024 Wimbledon winner Krejčíková served for the match at 5-3 and saved them all before finally…