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The crew onboard a Qantas flight that landed safely after issuing a mayday alert are being praised for the way they handled a “rare” but critical situation. Flight QF144 from Auckland touched down at Sydney Airport just before 3.30pm AEDT on Wednesday after suffering a reported engine failure. The Boeing 737 twin-engine jet, which was carrying 144 passengers, issued the mayday call while flying over the Tasman Sea.Fire and Rescue, Police and Ambulance crews were on standby at the tarmac, but the alert was later downgraded to a PAN (possible assistance needed).Stream the news you want, when you want with Flash. 25+…

Liberal Senator Alex Antic says “dividing Australians by race” through the Voice to Parliament does not “make any sense”.“What is this actually supposed to do for Indigenous Australians that are actually genuinely suffering in remote communities?” Mr Antic told Sky News Australia host Gary Hardgrave.“I don’t support a referendum, I wouldn’t support legislation to push this through, and I don’t think any Australian should.” Source: Sky News

London CNN  —  South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa was forced this week to cancel a trip to Davos by an escalating energy crisis that is inflicting rolling blackouts on the continent’s most developed economy. Ramaphosa swapped his trip to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland for emergency meetings on the “ongoing energy crisis,” his spokesperson Vincent Magwenya posted on Twitter on Monday. South Africans have endured power cuts for years but 2022 was the worst on record with 205 days of rolling blackouts, as aging coal-fired power plants broke down and state-owned power utility Eskom struggled to find the money…

Chris Evert has emerged victorious — and this time, it was off the tennis court. The tennis legend has revealed she is “cancer-free” in an op-ed published on ESPN.com Tuesday. The 18-time Grand Slam winner was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in Nov. 2021 — a diagnosis that echoed the death of her sister Jeanne, who died in Feb. 2020 at age 62. But thanks to the “genetic road map my sister left behind,” Evert says doctors were able to detect the disease early — meaning that there’s now a 90% chance the cancer “will never come back.” “Jeanne wasn’t BRCA…

Tennis superstar Rafael Nadal was booted from the Australian Open in the second round, ending his chances for a record-extending 23rd Grand Slam trophy.He suffered the defeat in straight sets to Mackenzie McDonald 6-4, 6-4, 7-5.Nadal noted, “It’s a tough moment. It’s a tough day. I can’t say that I am not destroyed mentally at this moment, because I would be lying.”He pulled up awkwardly at the end of a point late in the second set against the 65th-ranked McDonald.RAFAEL NADAL ON BIZARRE MOMENT DURING AUSTRALIAN OPEN: ‘THE BALL BOY TOOK MY RACKET’ Nadal was visited by a trainer on…

The unnamed young man was seen staggering into a cards shop after being stabbed with what onlookers described as a large knife or machete, before tragically dying at the scenePolice have launched a murder probe after a teenager was stabbed to death in front of horrified shoppers. The 18-year-old man staggered into a Cards Direct shop in Ipswich town centre, Suffolk, on Tuesday afternoon after being stabbed with a large knife or machete. Shoppers saw the young man and rushed to help, with emergency services called to the scene. It’s thought the man, who has not yet been formally named,…

Alaska State Troopers say a polar bear attacked and killed a woman and a boy in a remote western Alaska village.KTUU reported the attack happened around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Wales, on the western tip of the Seward Peninsula.Troopers said the bear entered the village and chased several residents before fatally attacking the woman and boy.As the attack unfolded, troopers said a resident shot and killed the bear.WYOMING COLLEGE WRESTLERS INJURED DURING BEAR ATTACK, LEFT ‘BLOOD-SOAKED,’ COACH SAYS The victims have not yet been identified as authorities work to notify family members.Wales is a small, predominantly Inupiaq town of about…

Luxury groups Burberry and Richemont reported weaker than expected quarterly sales over the crucial Christmas shopping season following Covid disruption in China that slashed customer demand. Both the British and Swiss luxury groups saw sales in China fall by a quarter in the last three months of 2022 after the country abruptly ended its contentious ‘zero-Covid’ policy, which led to soaring infection rates and widespread disruption.Strong demand from Japan and the return of tourists to Europe was not enough to offset the hit from mainland China, although analysts are anticipating a “big bang” in China later this year when normal…

Part of northern Queensland have experienced intense and heavy rainfall over the past few days.Finch Hatton and Mount Jukes in the Whitsundays saw more than 1000mm of rain, with Hamilton Island seeing falls of 804mm and Proserpine recording 806mm.Further rainfall is expected in the northern tropics of Queensland over the next week. Source: Sky News

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