A man holding a phone battery in a repair shop gets a shock when it suddenly explodes in his hands in China's Sichuan province.
A stuntman filming an underground poker game scene for a hip-hop song was shot dead with a sawn-off firearm that should never have been on set, a Brisbane coroner has found."An accumulation of errors" resulted in the tragic death of Johann Ofner, coroner Donald MacKenzie said in inquest findings handed down in Brisbane on Tuesday.
South Korea has recorded more than 8000 new coronavirus infections for the first time as health authorities reshape the country's pandemic response to address a surge driven by the highly contagious Omicron variant.The 8571 new cases reported by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on Tuesday followed three straight days exceeding 7000.
The earthquake struck the town of Wagin, 230km southeast of Perth, shortly before 5.30am on Tuesday. Find out how people reacted.
A statue of Captain Cook at a park in Melbourne has been covered in fresh red paint on Australia Day.The memorial at Catani Gardens in St Kilda was vandalised early on Wednesday morning.
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An alleged criminal underworld figure has been extradited to Sydney and faces charges for a public shooting and a separate kidnapping and stabbing in Sydney's west.Ibrahem Hamze, 27, was extradited from Queensland to NSW on Tuesday and charged with shooting with intent to murder and soliciting a murder following the attack outside a Prospect gym in November 2021.
Sometimes, the most terrifying things are discovered when you look in your own backyard. Watch the terrifying video here.
Victoria has recorded one of its highest daily death tolls of the pandemic, after 35 people died with COVID-19.The state posted 13,507 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, including 6533 from PCR tests and 6974 from rapid antigen tests.
Three demonstrators have been killed when Sudanese security forces fired live rounds and tear gas during protests against military rule that attracted tens of thousands of people across the country.Such protests, along with barricades throughout the capital and a general strike last week, have continued since the military took power on October 25, ending a partnership with civilian political parties since the removal of Omar al-Bashir as Sudan's ruler in 2019.
A park in southwest Sydney has become the focus of an ongoing police investigation into the 2020 shooting murder of underworld figure Mejid Hamzy.Police said officers would search Deepwater Park, Panania, as well as a creek adjacent to Kelso Park South and Marco Reserve on Tuesday.
Millions of people in the central Asian countries Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have been left without electricity after a major technical outage.The Kazakh Energy Ministry said an important cable was broken, which has led to outages in the economic hub of Almaty as well as across Kyrgyzstan and several regions of neighbouring Uzbekistan.
Some cities are in for a scorcher while others will see some rainfall. Find out the forecast for your state.
Three Northern Territory mines are set to restart operations after major project status was awarded to the Mt Bundy Gold Project.The NT government says the $412 million project is likely to generate $1.
A memorial has been planned for the "sweet, innocent" girl whose body was found in a barrel northwest of Sydney.
Shares crashed to their second-steepest fall of the year on the ASX as higher than expected Australian inflation figures exacerbated fears of higher interest rates.The market extended early losses on Tuesday after the annual inflation rate rose to 3.
A cross-party parliamentary committee says the government has not allowed enough scrutiny of $1.5 billion in COVID-19 pandemic spending and some health measures.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered an inquiry into claims by an MP who said she was fired from a ministerial job in the government partly because her Muslim faith was making colleagues uncomfortable.Nusrat Ghani, 49, who lost her job as a junior transport minister in February 2020, told the Sunday Times she had been told by a whip - an enforcer of parliamentary discipline - that her "Muslimness" had been raised as an issue in her sacking.
A 17-year-old Australian boy has sent his family voice messages from a Syrian prison, saying he fears for his life after his friends died beside him.The boy says children as young as eight are being killed in the Guweiran prison and that he has been injured by gunfire.
Nominations have opened for a vacant position on Victoria's First Peoples' Assembly representing the state's northeast, after the body's youngest member stepped down last year.The Assembly, which began meeting in December 2019, is an independent and democratically elected body set up to create the framework that will guide Victoria's treaty negotiations.
Woolworths is trialling a new feature on its supermarket shelves, but not all shoppers are impressed. Find out why.
