Erik Menendez, who along with his brother Lyle has served 35 years of a life prison term for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents in their Beverly Hills, California, home, was denied parole on Thursday.

The decision was announced after a 10-hour hearing in which Erik Menendez, appearing via video from prison in San Diego, argued that he had been rehabilitated in prison and apologized for the pain he caused family members.

"Based on the legal standards, we find that you continue to pose an unreasonable risk to public safety," Parole Commissioner Robert Barton said to Erik Menendez, according to a media pool report.

The board will consider whether to recommend parole for brother Lyle Menendez on Friday.

Public and legal interest in the Menendez case was renewed following the recent Netflix docuseries Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

Queensland Police says a "suspicious device" threatening a Sunshine Coast suburb has now been safely detonated.

Police earlier made an emergency declaration, locking down several streets after the device was found on Peregian Beach.

An exclusion zone extended several streets as specialist police rushed to the scene.

Alex de Minaur is doing what he can to reach that elusive Grand Slam semi-final, but his draw for this year's US Open certainly doesn't help things.

De Minaur has reached the quarter finals of four of his last six slams, and is now desperate to go one further.

But he'll face a tricky encounter with fellow Aussie Chris O'Connell, with Australia's No.1 admitting he doesn't like facing his fellow compatriots.

If de Minaur wins, he faces a potentially tough second round match against Frenchman Hugo Gaston, who beat him in the 2022 French Open and leads 2-0 in their head-to-head. Tsitsipas could await the Aussie in the third round, before another potential banana skin against Russian ninth seed Karen Khachanov in round four.

World No.3 Alexander Zverev is likely to stand in de Minaur's path at the quarter-final stage.

If he was to get through all that, he could face World No.1 Jannik Sinner.

He's certainly got his work cut out for him.

Read more from Yahoo Sport's Andrew Reid here.

Major skincare company Ultra Violette has recalled one of its popular sunscreens after testing revealed it failed to meet the advertised SPF 50+ standard.

The company said it was “deeply sorry” for the failure, which relates only to its Lean Screen product.

Lean Screen was advertised with a sun protection rating of SPF 50+, but independent testing from different labs returned results below 50+, with some as low as 4.

“We had multiple, independent labs conduct new tests of Lean Screen,” Ultra Violette founders Bec Jefferd and Ava Matthews said in an Instagram post on Friday.

“This week, we received results from those tests that demonstrated significant and, candidly, atypical variability.

“Across eight different tests, Lean Screen has now returned SPF data of 4, 10, 21, 26, 33, 60, 61 and 64.

“That wasn’t good enough for us and it isn’t good enough for you.

“Given this pattern of inconsistency in testing, we have decided to withdraw Lean / Velvet Screen from the market, effective immediately.”

Impacted customers will receive a refund and product voucher, regardless of where the sunscreen was purchased, the company said.

The founders said they were “deeply sorry” that one of its products had fallen short of the “standards we pride ourselves on and that you have come to expect of us.”

The recall follows a shock report from consumer advocacy group CHOICE in June, which suggested multiple sunscreen brands did not meet their advertised sun protection levels.

CHOICE tested 20 popular SPF50 and SPF50+ sunscreens and found 16 of them fell short of the protection they advertised.

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Sydney’s most critical dam will likely overflow today after days of relentless rain, tipped to spill around 15 billion litres of water.

Western Sydney residents downstream of Warragamba Dam are being warned to monitor river rises and flood warnings as the excess water gushes into Sydney.

The dam was at 98 percent of its more than 2000 gigalitre capacity at 9.30am on Friday, with more rainfall on the way.

This will be the second time in three months that the dam - which provides 80 per cent of Sydney’s drinking water - has overflown, spilling 20 gigalitres on May 25.

Read more about heavy rain impacting parts of the east coast here.

Education Minister Jason Clare has just announced the use of CCTV in daycare centres, as well as a mobile phone ban, will be rolled out as the government gets to grips with child safety and presses on with reform in the sector.

"Is it everything we need to do? No of course it is not but it is the next thing we must do and we have agreed to do today," he told reporters on Friday.

"The awful truth is this work will never end because there will always be bad people who try to poke holes in the system and find vulnerabilities."

A mobile phone ban for workers in the childcare sector will begin in September, while the CCTV trial will start in October.

A nationwide register of early childhood educators will also be established.

Clare said the government would work carefully to get the CCTV trial right, stressing it was vital to establish where the cameras can go and where vision collected would be stored to safeguard it.

A postal worker has been charged after allegedly stealing bank cards from the mail in well-heeled suburbs before handing them off to criminal syndicates in a scheme worth nearly $1.5 million.

Police raided the homes of the 56-year-old postie and two other men, aged 35 and 27, in southern Sydney where they found a treasure trove of stolen goods.

These included wads of Australian and US cash totalling more than $14,000, a Rolex watch, Louis Vuitton handbags, a taser, electronic items and cartons of cigarettes.

Detectives from Strike Force Rubi with help from Australia Post investigated the postal employee who rifled through the mail in Edgecliff, Woollahra and Double Bay in Sydney's eastern suburbs.

They allege he supplied the stolen bank cards to two separate organised crime syndicates.

It is estimated the cards were used for more than $1.4 million worth of fraud.

The Rockdale man was charged with more than 140 fraud and postal offences.

The 35-year-old man was arrested at another Rockdale home, where he was charged with more than 60 fraud counts and one count of receiving stolen mail.

Both men were refused bail and appeared in a local court later on Thursday.

The youngest man was arrested in Roselands and charged with 80 offences including fraud and attempted fraud.

More arrests and charges are expected under the strike force, police said.

A NSW man discovered he'd won $1 million yesterday morning, but he was forced to wait his entire work shift before he could confirm it with lottery officials.

That's because he checked his emails just before starting his shift, where he discovered the life-changing win on Weekday Windfall.

Unsurprisingly, his thoughts were racing all day, unable to answer the all-important call.

“Any time’s a good time to receive this call!” he laughed after finally connecting with The Lott.

“I couldn’t ring you back until after my shift, so I’m very glad to be finished now. I've been pretty numb all day."

The Wollongong man said he'd been playing the same numbers for 20 years and were made up of birthdays and the day he met his wife.

The driver of a mini-bus that rolled 40 metres down an embankment en route to a wedding in NSW's Hunter region has been fined for negligent driving.

NSW Police confirmed the 73-year-old driver was issued an infringement notice over the single-vehicle crash at Mount View on July 30.

The crash resulted in all five passengers, males in their 50s, and the driver being taken to hospital.

Australia has joined a contingent of more than 20 countries in condemning a major settlement project greenlit by the Israeli government, claiming it would make a two-state solution with Palestine “impossible”.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong, alongside the UK’s David Lammy and a number of other foreign ministers, lashed Israeli plans to expand settlements into contested areas of the West Bank in a joint statement labelling the move “unacceptable” and a “violation of international law”.

The contentious settlement – now known as E1 – was approved by Israel’s Higher Planning Committee and would see some 3400 homes built just east of Jerusalem.

The plan was announced last week by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said the move was a “significant step that practically erases the two-state delusion and consolidates the Jewish people’s hold on the heart of the Land of Israel”.

“The Palestinian state is being erased from the table not by slogans but by deeds. Every settlement, every neighbourhood, every housing unit is another nail in the coffin of this dangerous idea,” he said.

In response, Australia and its counterparts called in “the strongest terms” for the immediate reversal of the approved plans.

Tensions between Australia and Israel are growing, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issuing a series scathing attacks about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese following his declaration Australia will recognise a Palestinian state.

Read more here.

Australia Post is blocking countries shipping goods to the US through Australia as Donald Trump's tariff changes loom.

The national courier confirmed to the ABC it will "temporarily suspend" transit shipping and comes as low-value goods arriving in the US are set to cop additional tariffs from next week as part of the US president's sweeping tariff changes.

Queensland Police has stressed there will be future opportunities for pro-Palestine protesters after a march across Brisbane's Story Bridge was blocked by the courts.

Police successfully argued it was unsafe, despite a similar protest successfully taking place on the Sydney Harbour Bridge a few weeks ago.

Queensland's chief magistrate Janelle Brassington sided with police, saying she was satisfied there was a significant risk posed by the protest.

And while Acting Assistant Commissioner Rhys Wildman said the route and the bridge itself were deemed unsafe, he told ABC News Breakfast on Friday that there's "always opportunities" for organisers to protest.

"The court ruling applies to this particular protest on Sunday. So there's always opportunities to consider other options down the track," he said.

Sam Kerr says she's raring to go after an injury nightmare kept her out of the game for 19 months.

The Matildas captain is eyeing a return at the start of Chelsea's season in two weeks time and she plans on hitting the ground running.

"For the last, however many years, I've been within the top goalscorers, if not the top goalscorer in the team, and that's where I want to come back to, I've got high expectations of myself," she said.

There was no Division one Powerball winner last night, meaning the jackpot has jumped $20 million to $50 million for next week's draw.

There were four ticket holders who did manage to take home $147,381 each via Division two.

The winning numbers for Thursday night’s Powerball draw 1527 were: 12, 18, 16, 1, 14, 4, and 8, with the Powerball number 14.

Lottery operators say they plan on rising the price of a Powerball ticket to $1.40 in November, up from $1.20. They say it will enable them to offer even bigger prizes, after a bumper year of big jackpots.

The introduction of an extra number required in 2018 meant bigger jackpots were more likely, and in turn, increases interest in what lottery officials say is their "premium" offering to Australians.