By BURNEY WONG Published: 01:20 GMT, 17 March 2026 | Updated: 01:23 GMT, 17 March 2026 A young driver whose car was stolen in the middle of the night was stunned to discover it had been filled with a full tank of petrol before it was abandoned. Matilda McKay was woken…
We saved $80,000 for the trip of a lifetime around Australia – but our dream was destroyed in just 20 seconds
By ALLANAH SCIBERRAS FOR AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: 00:54 GMT, 17 March 2026 | Updated: 00:55 GMT, 17 March 2026 When Mick and Haley Kent bought their Toyota LandCruiser before their trip of a lifetime around Australia, they had no idea what was to come. The family of six had…
Timboy Chaco in the Mars borderlands photo of the day for March 16, 2026
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image of a pitted vertical rock face dubbed “Timboy Chaco” on March 5, 2026. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has spied a pitted rock face as it explores a region of the Red Planet known as Mount Sharp, a mountain 3 miles…
Scientists inject one tumor and watch cancer vanish across the body
For more than two decades, scientists have explored a group of cancer drugs known as CD40 agonist antibodies. Early experiments suggested these treatments could strongly activate the immune system and help it destroy cancer cells. However, results in people were disappointing. Clinical trials showed only modest benefits, and the drugs…
A Yugoslav princess, her Welsh business partner and a £50,000 ‘scam’ hatched in council house
When wealthy retired doctor Dr Robin Russell-Jones met Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia at the Royal Society of Arts in London, he felt good reason to trust her and her business partner. After all, the 66-year-old is not only a cousin of King Charles but also a descendant of Queen Victoria…
Jackie O’s talent agent Gemma O’Neill’s firm collapses ‘owing $788k’
The talent agency owned by Jackie ‘O’ Henderson’s manager and longtime friend, Gemma O’Neill, has collapsed reportedly owing more than half a million dollars. Administrators are currently pursuing O’Neill after her talent management business, Gemmie Agency, went into voluntary liquidation in November. The bulk of the debts, $543,548 is owed to…
100 years after Robert Goddard’s 1st liquid-fueled rocket launch, NASA is using the technology to send astronauts back to the moon
100 years ago, a liquid-fueled rocket flew into the sky for the very first time. The unlikely contraption was designed by Clark University physics professor Robbert Goddard, and launched from a cabbage field in Auburn, Massachusetts on March 16, 1926. Goddard’s design climbed a short 40 feet into the air…
Albo’s government refuses to rule out drastic measure that would affect all Aussies amid fuel crisis
Defence Minister Richard Marles has refused to rule out fuel rationing in Australia as the conflict in Iran enters its third week and global oil markets come under mounting pressure. When asked whether the government was considering rationing if the crisis continued, Marles said it was not something he could…
Horrified former Biden adviser concedes blue cities have become dystopian hellholes after feral ‘teen takeover’ of upscale DC neighborhood
A former Biden White House staffer has called out Democrat-run cities following a chaotic ‘juvenile takeover’ in Washington DC’s upscale Navy Yard neighborhood. Yemisi Egbewole, who served as the chief of staff to Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, shared her condemnation as scores of teenagers were seen running through the streets,…
How fast is the universe expanding? Astronomers may be one step closer to resolving ‘Hubble trouble’
The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, scientists have found. The discovery, made in two separate pieces of research, could relieve one of the most troubling headaches in cosmology, the Hubble tension. The Hubble constant — named after Edwin Hubble, the astronomer who found in the…