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An upstart mixed-martial arts association headed by a Singaporean rich-lister has lavished incredibly priced alcohol, including an $82,000 bottle of cognac, on Brisbane’s key Olympic decision-making body. The gifts are so exorbitant the Brisbane Organising Committee for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games has not kept them, even handing into Customs another two bottles of…
Astronomers have detected signs of a type of sugar in gas clouds near the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Sugars provide energy and are key building blocks of life on Earth, such as DNA, but how they got here is a mystery. It’s not uncommon to find sugar in the cosmos — simple…
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Video of an explosive fire in Thailand that killed 27 people and injured 64 appears to show a flashover “point of no return” could have made evacuation nearly impossible, a crowd safety expert says. Warning: This article contains images some readers may find distressing. About 63 people were injured, with 22 in critical condition, after…
Warning: This story contains details of alleged murders. When Lavanya Chappa was allegedly murdered by her husband, her two children, aged 13 and seven, were in the house. “The last thing the boy said [to his grandfather] was ‘please come and take me’… in our language,” family friend Sri Lakshmi Thukral said. “[The family] are…
Actor Sam Neill is being remembered by Hollywood greats and prominent figures as a “legend” and a “deeply soulful and beautiful man”, as tributes flow following the news of his sudden death yesterday at the age of 78. Neill, who is best known for his roles in hit blockbusters such as Jurassic Park and The…
It feels like an ordinary, legitimate online shopping experience. A typical e-commerce layout, health warnings and a wide variety of tobacco products are for sale, but the price and the form of payment reveal this website is a black-market business. Australia’s illicit tobacco market is now proliferating online, with dozens of websites promoting cheap tobacco…
JAMMU: A court in Jammu remanded Monday three arrested publishers to 10 days’ police custody in a case linked to two books allegedly carrying separatist and anti-national content that were supplied to govt school libraries in J&K.Inderpaul of Jammu-based Oberoi Book Service and Amardeep Singh and Girish Arora of Noida-based Dominant Publishers were taken into…
Melinda Kee thought her financial ordeal was almost over. But more than 12 months since she lodged a financial complaint to try to recover nearly $400,000 of her retirement savings, she’s still fighting for compensation. In November 2023, Ms Kee was advised by a financial adviser to switch her super from a retail fund into…
File photo: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah SRINAGAR: J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah’s remarks referring to US President Donald Trump in his speech on Sunday while seeking restoration of statehood to J&K and his response on Monday to a tweet falsely attributed to Trump hasn’t gone down well with BJP, which accused him…