The 82-feet wide sinkhole formed near a copper mine in Chile. Officials closed down operations nearby as geologists investigate what caused its formation.
- A perfectly circular hole has opened up in Chile. It's over 600 feet deep. Officials still are not sure what caused it.
A union is taking fast food giant McDonald's to court again arguing that its young workforce have been denied paid breaks.The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association has lodged a Federal Court Claim in South Australia against 323 McDonald's operators and the multinational firm itself over the alleged denial of paid rest breaks at nearly 1000 current and former McDonald's sites.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has pardoned Samsung Electronics vice-chairman Jay Y Lee, with the justice ministry saying the business leader was needed to help overcome a "national economic crisis".The pardon is largely symbolic, with Lee having being on parole since August 2021 after serving 18 months in jail for bribery in a scandal that led to massive protests and brought down then-president Park Geun-hye in 2017.
Courtney Clenney was recently charged with second degree murder, following her boyfriend's death. Video of the two in an elevator months before the murder allegedly shows Clenney attacking him. Source: Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office via Miami Herald
The recall includes a range of models. Find out if you've been affected.
A mother shares life saving lessons as her son returns to school. Source: TikTok/thewaltonfamily1
An Aldi shopper was stunned to discover something quite unexpected in an item she bought at the supermarket.
Discount supermarket Aldi has sparked excitement and relief among customers with its latest addition.
A village in Ukraine has been obliterated by deadly Russian bombs that are banned under the United Nations. Find out what's happened.
Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of shelling Europe's biggest nuclear power plant as the United Nations chief proposed a demilitarised zone at the site amid fears of a catastrophe.Ukraine's Energoatom agency said the Zaporizhzhia complex was struck five times on Thursday, including near where radioactive materials are stored.
Matt Brown/Flikr, CC BY-SAWhen Allen Lane set out to make cheap paperbacks for commuters in the 1930s, no one imagined he was building what would become the biggest publishing house we’ve ever seen. The company he founded became Penguin Books, which in turn became Penguin Random House, following a merger in 2013. Now, in a deal first announced in November 2020, Bertelsmann, the parent company of Penguin Random House, wants to buy another publishing behemoth, Simon & Schuster. The proposed merger
Shawn Thew/EPA/APOn June 24, the US Supreme Court denied a constitutional right to an abortion, overturning its Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. I covered this and two other late June right-wing decisions by the court in an early July article. Read more: How the US Supreme Court has become right-wing, and do recent decisions give Democrats hope at the midterms? When this article was written, the court was historically unpopular, but so was US President Joe Biden. I thought it unlikely abortion woul
Google has agreed to pay $60 million in penalties flowing from a long-running court fight with the Australian competition watchdog over the tech giant misleading users on the collection of personal location data.In April last year, the Federal Court of Australia found Google breached consumer law by misleading some local users into thinking the company was not collecting personal data about their location via mobile devices with Android operating systems.
Police are still searching for a 28-year-old male.
Political leaders have vowed to work together to fix a disturbing culture at NSW parliament which Premier Dominic Perrottet says has become "toxic".A long-awaited independent report has found sexual harassment and bullying is rife in the NSW parliament, while several people have reported incidents of sexual assault in the workplace.
Parking inspectors on the Gold Coast are now able to issue tickets without even stepping out of their vehicle – and the technology has left residents unimpressed. Read more.
An Australian high court judge in Kiribati has been released from immigration detention after an order from a local appeals court.Kiribati's attorney-general attempted to deport David Lambourne, with the government claiming he breached his visa conditions and posed a security threat.
Johnson & Johnson will stop selling talc-based baby powder globally in 2023, the drug maker says, more than two years after it ended US sales of a product that drew thousands of consumer safety lawsuits."As part of a worldwide portfolio assessment, we have made the commercial decision to transition to an all cornstarch-based baby powder portfolio," it said, adding that cornstarch-based baby powder was already sold in countries around the world.
An unidentified highly toxic substance in the Oder River, which runs through Poland and Germany, appears to be the cause of a mass die-off of fish in the waterway, officials from both counties say.An analysis of river water taken this week showed evidence of "synthetic chemical substances, very probably also with toxic effects for vertebrates", the German state of Brandenburg's environment ministry said on Thursday, adding that it remained unclear how the substance entered the water.
South Australia's voluntary euthanasia laws will take full effect from early next year.The legislation, which passed state parliament more than a year ago, was officially gazetted this week.
Australian parents are being targeted by cash-seeking fraudsters impersonating their children as part of an emerging text messaging scam.At least 25 people in Australia have been swindled by the scam since January, Victoria Police's Cybercrime Squad revealed on Friday.
