Near Melbourne’s lush Treasury Gardens, four bronze statues of the state’s longest-serving premiers wait expectantly for their new addition. There’s Sir Rupert Hamer, with suit and tie, positioned as if about to walk into question time. Sir Albert Dunstan and Sir Henry Bolte stand side-by-side as if locked in humorous conversation. Then finally, John Cain jr, one hand casually in […]

Bodies of Putin’s fallen troops are ‘piling up’ in trenches as Wagner chief slams Moscow’s ‘monstrous bureaucracy’ for slowing military gains in embattled Ukrainian city The head of the mercenary Wagner group has criticised Russia’s army Yevgeny Prigozhin blamed its ‘monstrous bureaucracy for slowing progress READ MORE: Moment Russian missile launcher is destroyed in huge fireball  The head of Russia’s mercenary […]

Virginia man dragged to his death after dog leash gets caught in doors of subway – dog was left on the train as owner attached to leash was pulled by departing train The fatal incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon at the Dunn Loring Metro station about 13 miles outside of Washington, DC The victim was identified by his daughter as […]

COPS have seized £400,000 in Bitcoin from Andrew and Tristan Tate as part of the sex trafficking probe. It comes as Romanian authorities have already seized £3.3 million worth of assets including supercars designer watches and gold coins. The 36-year-old misogynist influencer and his brother remain behind bars in Romania after they both recently lost a bid to be freed on bail amid accusations of […]

Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo has dismissed testimony of experts at a disciplinary hearing over claims of unsatisfactory conduct, saying he knows more about complex brain tumours than almost anyone in the world. Taking to the witness stand after days of damaging evidence about his catastrophic surgical outcomes on two patients, Teo bristled when the Health Care Complaint Commission’s barrister Kate Richardson, […]

It is puzzling that the Andrews Labor government, an administration that apparently prides itself on its social reform agenda, has so little appetite to tackle the scourge that is pokies addiction. The harms have been laboriously chronicled. Problem gambling destroys lives and spills grief onto families and communities. It is a contributing factor in incidents of theft, robbery and fraud. […]

FORBES releases a list every year, detailing the wealthiest people in the world. Here, we see who was named the world's richest person by Forbes in 2022, and who else is on the list. Who is the richest man in the world? Tesla founder Elon Musk has overtakenAmazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos as the richest man in the world. Third […]

Boy, 17, who was rescued from Thai cave dies in UK: Captain of football team which was trapped in cave for two weeks dies after ‘sustaining a head injury’ Duangpetch Promthep, 17, was among the 12 boys who became trapped in 2018 His cause of death is currently unclear but reports say he sustained a head injury A boy who […]

Ford to cut 1,300 jobs in the UK in bid to slash costs and accelerate its switch to electric vehicle production The American carmaker is cutting 3,800 jobs across the continent It is part of a shift to a ‘smaller, more focused’ range of electric cars in Europe Ford is axing more than 1,000 jobs in the UK in a bid […]

A SEARCH expert who was drafted in to help find missing mum Nicola Bulley is hunting for sites where someone could bury a body without being seen. Peter Faulding has compiled a list of ditches, woodlands and hedgerows close to where the 45-year-old vanished after her partner pleaded for nearby land to be "scrutinised". Faulding, who has worked on a […]