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The crackly distress call from a clearly panicked captain was picked up across the Gulf in the early hours of Tuesday morning. “Mayday, mayday, mayday. This is vessel Al Rekayyat, LNG vessel Al Rekayyat. “We are being hit by drone on port side, top of engine room. “Status: engine room fire and full of smoke….
Forget Euro summer, for the holders of high public office even an Australian winter holiday can become perilous terrain in the court of community expectation. For Australian politicians, Scott Morrison’s ill-fated Hawaii vacation in December 2019 remains a potent reminder of what not to do in a national crisis. Holidays can come with high stakes…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump flew partway home from a NATO summit in Turkey on an old baby blue Air Force One plane instead of the new Qatari-gifted and retrofitted red, white and navy blue jet he arrived in, a surprise swap that came as the U.S. and Iran once again began trading strikes. Trump…
After they made the atomic bomb, scientists came up with the Doomsday Clock. The symbolic clock, launched by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, warned how close humanity might be to destroying itself in the form of “minutes to midnight”. Since 1947, its hands have been moved closer and further away from midnight in response to…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit alleging U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville does not meet the residency requirement to run for governor of Alabama. Montgomery County Circuit Judge Brooke Reid dismissed the case on jurisdiction grounds after finding that she did not have the authority to decide the eligibility of a party’s…
The first seven years of Free Sobolewski’s life were contained within the walls of a one-room besser-block home in rural New South Wales. A makeshift curtain, strung across part of the room, was all that separated the bunk bed she shared with her sister from the rest of the home. The bathroom, set in a…
Federal prosecutors say a man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House, killing one of them, has been taken to a hospital for treatment of a potentially life-threatening medical condition after he refused to eat food in jail WASHINGTON — A man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the…
Hidden for more than a century, a remarkable collection of Australian and Antarctic history has been revealed to the public for the first time. The Royal Society in London has launched a digital archive of more than 50,000 meteorological images spanning three centuries. It includes weather observations by Louis “Bunny” Bernacchi, the only Australian on…
A Mexican man living in the U.S. who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was not the person federal authorities had been targeting in a Houston operation, U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia said Thursday. The Democratic congresswoman, whose district includes the Houston neighborhood where the shooting occurred, said acting ICE Director David…
When she was 17, Grace Woodroofe uploaded her first three songs to triple j Unearthed. They made their way to Heath Ledger via the late cinema legend’s sister, Woodroofe’s high school friend. Woodroofe was plucked from Perth, signed to Ledger’s label, The Masses, and thrust into the Los Angeles music scene. “Heath really nurtured the…