Thursday, November 21, 2024

Gautam Adani charged with fraud in US

 



Indian billionaire Gautam Adani has been charged with fraud in the US, which has accused him of orchestrating a $250m  bribery scheme and concealing it to raise money in the US.

Man survives rare stonefish sting

 



Kacper Krupa survived a sting from a stonefish at Hearson's Cove near Karratha in WA. 

He was lucky.   Symptoms include cardiac arrest, respiratory issues, muscle breakdown, and eventually death.







Bill Shorten's daughter not "thrilled" with social media ban

 




Bill Shorten's daughter Clementine is not 'thrilled' by the social media ban but says something had to be done.

"What we're doing is saying, 'Well, we're going to lock everyone under 16 out, and then everyone else can do whatever they want in there,'" Daniel tells RN Breakfast. 

 


Sydney suburb of Woollahara targeted for anti-Israel messages

 



A car has been set on fire and up to a dozen others vandalised with anti-Israel graffiti overnight, in the Sydney suburb of Woollahara last night.

While Fire and Rescue NSW were able to extinguish the fire, police found up to a dozen cars graffitied with anti-Israel messages.

Multiple cars were covered in white spray paint that read “f**k Israel”.

After 30 years, Susan Smith denied bail

 



Susan Smith, now 53, the mother who shocked the nation 30 years ago when she rolled her car into a lake with her two young sons inside and watched them drown, was denied parole yesterday.  The panel voted no unanimously.

The wealthy man she was having an affair with did not want children.


First digital Saint

 



Francis on Wednesday announced April plans to canonize a teenage web designer who documented miracles online and used his tech skills to maintain web sites for local Catholic organizations.

Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia in Italy in 2006 at the age of 15, will be canonized during the Jubilee for Adolescents on April 25 through April 27, according to Vatican News........................

https://tinyurl.com/4c8ejsbr

 

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Perth parents found guilty of starving daughter

 


The parents of a malnourished Perth teenager who doctors warned would die without urgent medical intervention have been found guilty of starving her.

They were accused of failing to provide adequate nutrition to their 16-year-old daughter who only weighed 27 kilograms in 2021.............

https://tinyurl.com/35j947by