Yahoo's live news blog for Thursday, July 4 has concluded.
We started with the news US President Joe Biden is reportedly considering pulling out of the upcoming election after a disastrous first presidential debate. Read more here.
Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis has caused an upset in the first round of Wimbledon, defeating 17th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in five sets.
A woman in Queensland has also been charged with five counts of attempted murder.
Police in the NT have found human remains in their search for a 12-year-old girl feared to have been snatched by a crocodile.
And former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann has been committed to stand trial on two rape charges.
Police in the NT have now confirmed human remains have been found in the search for a missing 12-year-old girl.
The child is believed to have been taken by a crocodile 360km southwest of Darwin while swimming with family.
Here's a moment this paddle boarder won't forget in a while.
Bystander Chris Willis was able to capture video of the encounter as a shark approached at Torquay Beach on the Fraser Coast.
“I’ve been here 32 years and I’ve never seen one that big so close before,” Chris told the Fraser Coast Chronicle.
It's believed the shark was a mako and was hunting stingrays.
Prominent Chinese commentator Hu Xijin says it's "a disgrace" passengers on a busy bus failed to intervene when a 16-year-old Chinese student was attacked with a metal rod in Auckland.
Jason Luo lost three teeth in the unprovoked attack with only an elderly Chinese man trying to intervene before the female attacker was able to exit the bus and flee.
Luo said the bus driver failed to help or stop the bus when asked. Police are trying to determine if the attack was racially motivated and have yet to identify the woman involved.
According to one Yahoo employee, "everyone does it".
Urinating in the ocean has became an unlikely talking point this morning in our office following the news authorities will be issuing fines to beachgoers in the Spanish city of Marbella if they're caught relieving themselves in the sea.
But is it as common as my colleague suggests? Let us know below.
Pro-Palestinian protesters have climbed onto the roof of Parliament House in Canberra to unfurl banners accusing Australia of complicity in "war crimes" and "genocide".
At least four people from the group Renegade Activists ascended the building on Thursday, as police, media and supporters watched from below.
"We declare to the Australian government, we will continue to unmask and resist the US imperial, hegemonic and capitalist interests you devote yourself to," one protester yelled from the rooftop.
"Australia continues to enable and commit war crimes as lackeys to our powerful friends."
One of the banners stated "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"
The phrase has been condemned by the prime minister and coalition who claim it supports a one-state solution where Israel wouldn't exist.
Read more here.
- AAP
Popular host Marty Sheargold is quitting breakfast radio, stepping down from his morning Melbourne shift at Triple M.
He previously took a break from the role and says the move made him realise how he needs to spend more time with his family.
He will continue his afternoon show and his podcast.
Former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann has been committed to stand trial on two rape charges following two days of hearings into the reliability of the alleged victim's evidence.
The second day of a committal hearing for Lehrmann's charges, that he allegedly raped a woman twice on the early hours of October 10, 2021, was held at Toowoomba Magistrates Court on Thursday.
Defence barrister Andrew Hoare had argued Lehrmann should not face trial on the charges because the alleged victim was too intoxicated to remember giving consent.
"The test that needs to be satisfied is a low one in this case. It is said the threshold is not met in both of these (charges)," Mr Hoare said.
Crown prosecutor Nicole Friedewald said there was a prima facie case to answer and any questions over the reliability of the alleged victim's evidence should be considered by a jury.
After adjourning for a few minutes, Magistrate Mark Howden returned with a decision that a reasonable jury, properly instructed, could potentially find the allegations proven beyond reasonable doubt.
Mr Howden told Lehrmann, who attended remotely via phone, that he would stand trial on two counts of rape before the Toowoomba District Court at a date to be set by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
"Not as this time, thank you, Your Honour," Lehrmann said when asked if he wanted to say anything or enter a plea.
Lehrmann's bail was continued.
- AAP
A man who invited Jay Slater back to his Airbnb before he vanished has stressed the British teenager "left the house alive".
Ayub Qassim and a friend took Slater back to their remote rental 40km from a music festival they attended two weeks ago on the Spanish island of Tenerife. The following day he disappeared when it's believed he was trying to return to his accomodation.
Unfounded conspiracies online have speculated about Qassim and his unnamed friend however Spanish police ruled out their involvement, saying they are "irrelevant" to investigations.
"I let the geezer stay at mine because he had nowhere else to go, his friends had all left him," Qassim told MailOnline.
"I'm doing the geezer a favour and now my face is all over the news. It's a bit mental. I haven't even done anything."
Qassim was previously jailed for nine years over a drug operation in the UK, MailOnline reported.
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A minibus is taking ferry passengers between Ryde Pier Head and Ryde Esplanade.
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Missy Elliott delayed her plans to tour to care for her dying dog Hoodie, who passed away last November.
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The Aussie said he never typically watches lottery draws on TV, but for 'some odd reason', he decided to tune in last night.
‘If they let him out, he was going to kill her,’ Lauren Johansen’s father said he warned a judge just days before his daughter’s death
From the outside the home looked ordinary, but in the backyard investigators made a worrying discovery. Find out what it was.
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‘PD Zyla died in the line of duty and will always be remembered for her bravery,’ police said in a statement
The moment a man was struck down by his own vehicle in a horror CBD hit and run has been captured on video.
Paedophile teacher seen smiling at 15-year-old boy in shop CCTV hours before abusing him
Judge tells Letby: ‘You acted in a way that was completely contrary to the normal human instincts of nurturing and caring for babies’
An AFP officer whose charge of grooming has been dismissed is now facing five new offences linked to child sex abuse.
A police officer has been rushed to hospital after he was allegedly slashed with a “ring knife” during an arrest.
An Oregon tribal nation has been rocked by the fatal shootings of a pair of girls, who were tribal descendants.
Detectives are looking at whether the body of a woman found by workers at a waste management facility was originally dumped in a bin at a nearby property.
An X Factor contestant who has been charged with the murder of a young child has been battling cancer, a court has been told.
Stephen Greenfield, whose ex-girlfriend said he came home one night saying "I killed someone", has been acquitted of murdering homeless man Reginald Mullaly.
A day of mourning has been interrupted by a Commodore driver ripping burnouts, damaging a parked car and fleeing the scene, police allege.
Police are pleading for any information about a fatal fire that was deliberately lit and killed two men sleeping inside a factory.
