He pioneered the new 'world's best' Angara rocket
and was the former general director of the Khrunichev Centre, which Putin hoped
would facilitate Russia's first manned mission to the moon. Since 2014 he has faced persistent
allegations of fraud and embezzlement and was under house arrest pending
further investigation.
New York, US
Members of the media attend a preview as Housing Works opens New York’s first legal cannabis dispensary. Photograph: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock
His father (left) known as Dondinho, was a
gifted footballer who took his family out of poverty.
His mother Celeste, serving food here was
adamant her son would not follow in his father’s footsteps but by the time he
was a teenager, scouts from the big clubs from Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo
were knocking on his door. Photograph:
Getty Images
Prime Minister Albanese urged men wanting to fight in Ukraine to stay away. Some volunteers who have already gone to join the foreign lesion didn’t notify the government first which means that the number of Australians fighting there is unknown. Even their families don’t know.
Australia has approved a request to
extradite a former US Marine Corps fighter pilot,
Daniel Duggan 54, to the US where he faces charges of engaging in the training
of Chinese pilots on how to land on aircraft carriers.
Arrested in Australia in October, the extradition
matter is due before a NSW State Magistrate on January 10.
For 38 years
Sue Bailey has lived by an avenue of European trees just off the New England
Highway at Tenterfield.
A
camp of grey-headed flying foxes has settled in the trees of Millbrook Park
each spring since 2019, denuding trees and defecating on infrastructure, until
cooler weather sees them leave in autumn.
Source: https://tinyurl.com/y74c57bs
A volunteer
from Australia, Sage O’Donnell died in Bakhmut, Ukraine. He was 24 years old. In the past, he was a member of the Special
Air Service Regiment (SASR) of the Australian Defense Forces Special Operations
Command.
The dress – which had a picture
of St Basil’s Cathedral, in Moscow, on the back – was a present from the Ambassador of Bahrain.
It was presented to President Putin at a forum
called "Geopolitical Challenges of Our Time and the Spiritual Mission of
Vladimir Putin” in Moscow, to mark his 64th birthday.
Israeli leaders have declined to provide weapons or defence
systems to Ukraine and refused to join Western economic sanctions for fear of
jeopardizing its security relationship with Russia, Michael Brodsky, the
Israeli ambassador to Kyiv, said in an interview with U.S. newspaper The
Washington Post on Dec. 18.
He acknowledged he had heard the
frustration of some Ukrainian Jews but stressed Israel’s security ties to
Russia create limits that cannot be overcome.
According to Brodsky, most Ukrainian Jews
understand Israel is in a “tough position.”
“No government in Israel is going to
jeopardize this interest for anybody else, including the Ukrainians,” he said.
The ambassador added that unlike the
United States and Europe, Israel is not part of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization.
“Our situation is much more fragile,” he
said.
The Israeli Times of Israel online
newspaper reported on Dec. 4 that Russia had reportedly requested that Israel
not intervene or impede its efforts to transfer military equipment from Syria
to Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials collected massive evidence
found on Russian soldiers' phones (photos & videos). Including systematic
rape of women, children (& also men). Evidence that will be important in
the future to prosecute Putin's regime individuals as war criminals.
The trains have
stopped running so people can shelter in the subway in downtown Kyiv. Photograph: Roman Pilipey/EPA
David
Hernandez, a 62 year old homeless man, shuts the flap after crawling into his
makeshift bed. Mayor Karen Bass
declared a state of emergency this week to grapple with the city’s out-of-control
homelessness crisis, aiming to move swiftly to get thousands of unhoused people
off the city’s streets. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP
Trump’s digital trading cards have sold out,
all 45,000 of them at $99 each. That means he raised $4.45 million in just 12
hours
At 5am in the morning, Cheryl Rowe’s alarm wakes her up in the camping
trailer where she has been living for three months. It signals time for the
63-year-old to start her work day as a cleaner.
“I work full-time. I should be able to get a home.”
“It’s hard
every night after work coming home to a tent rather than a home,” says Rowe,
who has been living at the campsite since her rental of five years was sold.
“You’re
living out of your car. You’re living out of supermarket bags.
“I work full-time. I should be able to get a home.”.....
...The body of a seven year old
girl was exhumed with seven different traces of sperm inside her corpse....
The UK is providing vital training to a group of 90 Ukrainian judges to help carry out war crimes trials for Russian soldiers.
With each town liberated by the Ukrainian forces, the scale of the atrocities committed by Putin's forces becomes more evident and as part of a $2.5 million pound investment scheme, UK judges will offer their services to make sure those acts do not go unpunished....
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1709399/UK-judges-Ukrainian-judges-russian-war-crimes-Ukraine
A Turkish court has sentenced Istanbul’s mayor
to more than two years in prison and banned him from politics in a move that
his supporters described as a politically motivated effort to sideline a
high-profile rival of the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Ekrem İmamoğlu was sentenced to two years, seven months and 15 days in prison for calling members of Turkey’s supreme election council “fools” in a press release three years ago.
People who knew Ronald Train during his days living in Toowoomba joked that “no church would accept him, so he had to make his own”.
Train believed – and would later write in a book – that Freemasons “give their allegiance to Lucifer” and were “a cancer”.
The constitution of his Christian Independent Fellowship (started after his physical church in Toowoomba closed and he moved interstate) says appointing women to leadership positions “will never be entertained”.
Marriage, Train has said, is “crucial to God and is crucial to society”……………..
Soiurce: Guardian Australia
Kyrgios, who enjoyed his best season and reached the final at Wimbledon, shared a graphic comparing his 2022 achievements with Barty’s on Instagram with the caption: “LOL. No respect at all. I don’t give a ...”
Nathaniel Train was employed as a Principal at the Walgett Community College Primary School. He left in August 2021 after suffering a major heart attack.
People close to him said his mental health had deteriorated since leaving the school.
Nathaniel Train was reportedly married to his sister-in-law
Stacey before she became his brother's partner.
Ronald Train, the father of Gareth and Nathaniel Train, was stern with waiting journalists as he returned to his South Toowoomba home yesterday.
“I am not going to share anything with you, you can speculate and
make up as much as you want. I have lost two children,” he said.
Ronald Train is a retired pastor with 27 years experience in
Christian ministry. He is also the author of four books on Christian theology.
Carlson's wife wrote to Biden in 2014: "I realize you don't
really know Buckley. Maybe you could meet or speak to him and he could send you
a very brief resume with his interests and grades attached."
"Tucker and I would be so grateful if you could write a
letter or speak to someone in the Georgetown Admission's Office about
Buckley."
The Indonesian parliament last week passed legislation approving
jail terms of up to a year for anybody in Indonesia caught having sex outside
of wedlock.
Cohabitation by unmarried couples can also be punished with six
months in prison.
However, Indonesian officials yesterday played down concerns about
the new law, saying foreign holiday-makers will not be charged.
Constable Matthew Arnold, 26, and Constable Rachel McCrow, 29 – both from Tara police station. Composite:
On Monday afternoon, two young police officers were gunned down at a
remote property in Wieambilla in Queensland’s western Darling Downs region,
with a further two officers narrowly escaping with their lives.
A neighbour - since identified as Alan Dare - was also killed in
the attack, while Special Operations police later shot dead three more people
in a gunfight following a manhunt for multiple suspects.
QLD Police
Bruce Lehrmann’s team has held talks with Seven over a potential sit down interview which sources claim could be worth up to $250,000
The Nine Network has indicated to Mr
Lehrmann that while they are interested in an interview with the former Liberal
staffer they are not prepared to pay.
Well-known football journalist Grant Wahl died suddenly after collapsing while covering a match at the World Cup in Qatar.
In one of his last reports, Grant Wahl wrote about the death of a migrant worker, saying the response from Qatar's World Cup organisers shows they "just don't care."
This variety of Orchid's
flowers (Dracula Simia) strongly resemble monkey's faces
Rabat, Morocco
Morocco
supporters celebrate after their team’s quarter-final win against Portugal at
the World Cup. Photograph: Fadel
Senna/AFP/Getty Images
Waiters serve
the dessert during the royal banquet in honour of the laureates of the Nobel
Price 2022 following the Award Ceremony on 10 December 2022 in Stockholm
Sweden. AFP
The Australian Capital
Territory’s top prosecutor privately complained of the “disturbing” conduct
of former cabinet
minister Linda Reynolds during
the trial of Bruce Lehrmann, including her alleged coaching of his defence
team, her attempt to solicit transcripts and the presence of her partner in
court.
News host Chris Smith will not appear on air on Sunday evening
and has been suspended from the broadcaster and his radio network 2GB
indefinitely, pending an investigation into allegations of misconduct after a
Christmas party over the weekend.
Smith was stood down
immediately on Saturday over allegedly making lewd comments and other
inappropriate behaviour at an after-party event at The Establishment in Sydney,
according to multiple media sources who requested anonymity to speak freely.
Smith, who is also a radio host on 2GB, will not fill in for breakfast host Ben
Fordham (who is on leave) from Monday.
Marzieh Ebrahimi, an Iranian survivor of an
unprovoked acid attack in 2014 for wearing a "bad hijab"
Victor Bout aka “The Most Dangerous Man In the
World” exchanged for Brittney Griner
London, England
A woman watches
Harry and Meghan’s documentary film being aired on Netflix. Photograph:
Yui Mok/PA
She writes:
Lady Aurora waits
for no photographer or schedule.
However, when I returned from Canada to Chicago, I was greeted by an
aurora forecast that was slated to be quite good. I decided to choose Point Betsie as my main
location for this aurora chase. I was
greeted with quite heavy winds but a beautiful sunset and warm weather. It was super busy since it was a Friday and
there were good conditions for auroras.
Around 11.30 pm she made herself known.
We cheered. We clapped. This is what makes it all worth it.
A sheepdog is recovering at home after killing a pack of coyotes that
attacked his owner’s flock in the US state of Georgia. The Great Pyrenees dog Casper killed eight of
the coyotes while protecting his sheep, which left him with serious wounds to
his back and neck.
The sheepdog, who was only 20 months old when the attack happened, lost
his tail and wasn’t found for two days. When returning, he had big flesh wounds
that looked as if the coyotes had peeled the skin off while fighting, according
to his owner John Wierwille.
The organisation Lifeline Animal Project has
raised more than $20,000 to pay for Casper’s hospital bill.
