A feared standover man made a fatal mistake when he ‘b***h-slapped’ a powerful property developer while threatening him, according to underworld sources. Hussein ‘Skinny’ Dehaini had reportedly attempted to extort the Middle East-born businessman before his gangland execution at Ascot Vale, north of Melbourne’s CBD, in the early hours of Sunday morning. …
‘Control Resonant’ takes inspiration from ‘Devil May Cry’, ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’, and ‘Inception’ to craft a trippy sci-fi action game
You certainly can’t accuse Remedy Entertainment of playing it safe and sticking to what they know. 2019’s Control was a third-person shooter, last year’s multiplayer spin-off, FBC: Firebreak, was a first-person shooter, and now this year’s direct follow-up, Control Resonant, is a melee-focused action game. Despite the genre flip, though,…
Starmer versus reality: His speech had so many startling boasts you wondered why he was forced out. Here’s our fact check…
In a desperate last–gasp attempt to claim his contemptible premiership was anything but a car crash, Sir Keir Starmer used his resignation speech to reel off a series of dubious boasts and half–truths about his ‘achievements’ in office. From the steps of Downing Street, the most unpopular Prime Minister in…
Austin Metcalf’s father blasts ‘moral decay of society’ and challenges The View as son’s killer Karmelo Anthony prepares to launch new freedom bid
Slain high school football star Austin Metcalf’s father blasted the ‘moral decay of society’ as his son’s killer, Karmelo Anthony, makes new moves to get his conviction overturned. Anthony, 19, was found guilty earlier this month of fatally stabbing Metcalf, 17, at a high school track meet last year and was…
Rising Waters Swamp Lake Naivasha
Kenya’s Lake Naivasha has long been a place of change and reinvention. In precolonial times, the nomadic Maasai people used the lake and surrounding grasslands to water and raise cattle during the dry season. The Maasai were eventually displaced by British colonists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,…
Male nurse at Melbourne hospital accused of sending explicit messages to psych patient and trying to kiss colleague in car park: ‘I’m a hugger’
A Melbourne nurse allegedly sent a psychiatric patient sexualised messages and tried to kiss a female colleague in a car park, a tribunal heard this week. Registered nurse Lachlan Campbell appeared before the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Monday to answer the allegations brought by the Nursing and Midwifery Board…
Ben Roberts-Smith withdraws from Australian War Memorial opening where he was due to rub shoulders with Pauline Hanson and Anthony Albanese
Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith will not attend the official unveiling of a new gallery at the Australian War Memorial on Tuesday because he has fallen ill. The nation’s four surviving VC holders were invited to the Anzac Atrium and Anzac Hall, a gallery focused on Australia’s commitments to the…
Dark energy is still accelerating the expansion of the universe, and astronomers are relieved. ‘Thankfully, we have averted this crisis’
The expansion of the universe is still accelerating under the influence of dark energy, despite recent claims to the contrary, according to new research. This means that dark energy, the mysterious force that dominates the universe, is not weakening but continues to get stronger, considered something of a “cosmological crisis”…
New prostate cancer test detects more dangerous tumours than standard PSA screening, study finds
A new test could be more effective at detecting dangerous prostate cancer than current screening methods, a study suggests. Researchers in Sweden say a tool, known as Stockholm3, finds 90 per cent of ‘clinically significant’ prostate cancers, compared with 74 per cent uncovered by the standard prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. The…
Dan had just $3 in his bank account when he stumbled across an ATM glitch that gave him ‘unlimited’ money… then he spent $1.6million in FOUR months
An Australian man who blew $1.6million after discovering a banking glitch has opened up about the wild lifestyle he enjoyed before his conscience got the better of him. Late one night in early 2011, bartender Dan Saunders, from Wangaratta in country Victoria, stumbled across a technical fault in National Australia…