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Racing formula cars has been the dream of 22-year-old Sydneysider Paige Raddatz since she was a small girl. Raised in a family of racers, Raddatz is currently living out her dream in Japan as one of two Australians competing in this year’s Kyojo Cup. But the road to racing at the famed Fuji Speedway against…
NEW DELHI: In the pending pleas challenging the constitutional validity of penal law provisions shielding husbands from marital rape charges, the Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to examine another question — despite the exemption, can husbands still be prosecuted for causing physical hurt and mental trauma to their wives through violent, unnatural or other sexual…
Over the last decade, Sandy Brondello has enjoyed one of the most unique coaching set-ups in sport as she balances her dual roles leading Australia’s women’s basketball team, the Opals, and coaching at three different WNBA teams. Brondello, a two-time WNBA champion coach and Coach of the Year winner, is one of the most respected…
Three times as many households were kicked out of public housing in the first year of Queensland’s new behaviour policy. Under the change, tenants who receive three warnings for serious behaviour, including aggressive language, harassment and deliberate damage, in a year are evicted. Tenants are immediately evicted and banned from social housing for two years…
South-east Queensland residents are in for a wet and windy few days as a “very strong” high-pressure system moves in. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has forecast winds of up to 80 kilometres an hour. A walker experiencing windy conditions at Mooloolaba. (ABC Sunshine Coast: Isaiah Ferguson) Senior forecaster Felim Hanniffy said the winds would…
NEW DELHI: Holding that a person cannot be denied the right to life and dignity upon conviction and that constitutional values are not suspended in prisons, SC Thursday directed states and UTs to formulate a policy within three months for release of prisoners who are of advanced age and/or are terminally ill.Justifying its intervention to…
A man who allegedly set his father on fire and left him to die outside a home in Sydney’s west has been charged with murder. Emergency services extinguished a small fire at a property on Wargon Crescent in Glenmore Park just before 1am on Thursday, with the body of a man discovered at the scene….
‘As long as there are people who approach the gods with greedy hearts, there will be priests with greedy hearts to receive them’ At a crowded shrine, a line of devotees stretches for blocks. Each person carries an expensive offering. Some have come to pray for a family member’s health, but many arrive with other…
A Victorian judge who admonished a barrister in front of her client and behind her back will receive counselling after the watchdog found his comments were “unfair and inappropriate”. The Judicial Commission of Victoria said Judge Michael Tinney of the County Court should also undergo training after it substantiated part of a complaint against him….
South Korea is cashing in on AI’s appetite for memory, and its chip makers plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to maintain their advantage. The Asian industrial powerhouse supplies most of the advanced memory chips helping power AI. They are small, expensive items that require specialised, extremely precise manufacturing that two South Korean…