First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria

 

Wamba Wamba, Yorta Yorta, Dhudhuroa and Dja Dja Wurrung woman Ngarra Murray and Gunditjmara man Rueben Berg were elected as Co-Chairs for the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria at the first meeting of the Assembly’s second term today.

African migrant mother's heartbreak

 

July 26, 2023: A migrant mother from Africa and her son, stranded on the seashore at the Libyan-Tunisian border in Ras Jedir.  AFP/Getty Images

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stop talking

 

Sen. John Barrasso reaches out to help Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell  after he froze and stopped talking at the microphones during a news conference after a lunch meeting.  He was escorted back to his office and later returned to the news conference and answered questions.  Drew Angerer, Getty Images

Haptic suits for the deaf

 

Concertgoers wear haptic suits created for the deaf by Music: Not Impossible, during an outdoor concert at Lincoln Centre, New York City.  AFP

Iyiv, Ukraine, 26 July 2023

 

People take cover inside a subway station during an air raid alert, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine in Kyiv. Reuters/Alina Smutko

Blockade of Temple Mount, Jerusalem

 

A man holds a copy of Koran as Israeli police blockade the entrance to Al-Aqsa compound also known to Jews as Temple Mount, following a visit to the site by Israel's hard-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, in Jerusalem's Old City July 27. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

 

Kevin Spacey found not guilty

 

Actor Kevin Spacey leaves Southward Crown Court in London.  Found not guilty, a jury cleared him of nine sex offices.  The 64 year old was on trial at Southward Crown Court, accused of sexually assaulting four men between 2001 and 2013.  AP

Shiite Muslim procession in India

 

A Shiite Muslim touches the forehead of a child with the point of his knife during a Muharram procession in Ahmedabad, India.

 

Whales stranded in Western Australia

 

Volunteers try to help pilot whales after more than 50 died in a stranding on Cheynes Beach.  Photograph:  Western Australia Dept of Biodiversity/AFP/Getty Images

Eagle Pass, Texas

 

Asylum-seeking migrants walk in the Rio Grande River as they look for an opening in a concertina wire fence so they can get to US soil, in Eagle Pass, Texas, 24 July 2023.  Reuters.

Twitter sign comes down

 

A worker dismantles a Twitter sign at the company corporate headquarters after Elon Musk renamed Twitter as X and unveiled a new logo in downtown San Francisco, 24 July 2023.  Reuters

Quezon City, Philippines

 

People at the mall watch a Women’s World Cup game. 

New Zealand 0, Philippines 1. 

Photograph:  Jam Sta Rosa/AFP/Getty Images

Fire on Greek island of Rhodes

 

A fireman rescues a cat and two rabbits from a fire between the villages of Kiotari and Gennadi on the Greek island of Rhodes.  Tens of thousands of people have already fled blazes on the island with many frightened tourists scrambling to get home on evacuation flights.  AFP

Bakhmut, Ukraine

 

Wounded soldiers are cared for by 3r4d Assault Brigade medics near the Bakhmut frontline during a counteroffensive in Donbas.  Photograph:  Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

 

Odessa Cathedral reduced to rubble

 

Odesa, Ukraine

A woman prays next to a Kasperovskaya Mother of God icon recovered from inside the Transfiguration Cathedral after a Russian missile strike.  Photograph:  Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Twitter's new logo in San Francisco

 

Twitter’s new logo is seen projected on the corporate headquarters building in downtown San Francisco, California 23 July 2023.  Reuters/Carlos Barria

Drone strike in Russia

 

24 July 2023

Security services investigate the damaged building following a drone attack in Moscow.  Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

Pro Netanyahu demonstration

 

People take part in a demonstration supporting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his nationalist coalition government’s judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv.  Reuters.

Odesa Cathedral bombed

 

Church personnel inspect damages inside the Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine, Sunday, July 23, 2023, following Russian missile attacks. AP

 

Exercise Talisman Sabre

 

Queensland, Australia

Missiles are launched from a US military Himars system during joint drills at a firing range in northern Australia as part of Exercise Talisman Sabre, the largest combined training activity between the Australian Defence Force and the US military.  Photograph:  Andrew Leeson/AFP/Getty Images

 

Greek Island fire evacuation

 

People sit inside a stadium after their evacuation during a forest fire on the island of Rhodes, Greece.  Photograph:  Argyris Mantikos/AP

Dog and cat market in Indonesia

 

North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Members of anti-animal cruelty group Humane Society International retrieve a dog from a slaughter house in Tomohon.  The authorities have announced the end of the brutally cruel dog and cat meat trade at a notorious animal market.  Photograph:  Muhammad Taufan/AP

 

 

Babolsar, Iran

 

Three Iranian women bathe in the Caspian Sea.  Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, women in Iran are required to wear headscarves and loose-fitting garments covering their whole body.  Photograph:  Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

Tony Bennett dies at 96

 

1977

Tony Bennett performing on the ABC Special Frank Sinatra and Friends.  Photograph:  ABC Photo Archives/Walk Disney Television/Getty Images

Matilda's break highest ever attendance

 

Matilda’s made history last night as they recorded the highest ever attendance at a women’s football game at Accor stadium in Sydney.  

Final Score Australia 1, Ireland 0

 

Odesa administrative building destroyed

 

July 20, 2023: People watch as Ukrainian rescuers dismantle the rubble of a destroyed administrative building in the centre of Odesa after a missile strike, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Shading device during heatwave in France

 

A woman walks under a shading device to fight excessive heat on a downtown shopping street in Rennes, France, as Europe is hit by a major heatwave.

Swedish embassy fire

 

Baghdad, Iraq

A supporter of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr holds a copy of the Quran as he and others gather for a protest outside the Swedish embassy which was set alight in response to a copy of the book being burned.  Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images

Matildas play Ireland tonight

 

The Matildas will get their FIFA Women’s World Cup campaign underway Sydney tonight when they play Ireland.

Moscow, Russia

 

Ballet girls pose near St Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin’s Spasskaya Tower in Red Square in central Moscow.  Reuters

Russian ammunition depot explodes

 

This is the moment a major Russian ammunition depot explodes sparking a massive mushroom smoke cloud in the eastern part of annexed Crimea.

 

Daniel Weinman wins World Series Poker

 

Daniel Weinman takes home the cherished bracelet and the largest Main Event prize ever at $12.1 million in Las Vegas.

History was made at the 54th annual World Series of Poker at the Horseshoe Las Vegas on Monday as Daniel Weinman was officially crowned the 2023 WSOP Main Event Champion.

Second Crimea Bridge attack infuriates Putin

 

A view shows the section of a road split and sloping to one side following an alleged attack on the Crimea Bridge, that connects the Russian mainland with the Crimean peninsula across the Kerch Strait, in this still image taken from video released on 17 July. Reuters

Queen Camilla gets royal birthday salute

 

A horse gets skittish and runs off riderless as the British Army marks Queen Camilla’s birthday.  The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery fired a 41 gun celebratory salute at 12 noon.  It was the first formal birthday salute for Camilla since she became queen.  Photograph:  Guy Bell/Shutterstock 

Princess Diana would be turning over in her grave.

Another dingo attack on Fraser Island

A rescue helicopter has been dispatched to Fraser Island after a woman in her 30s was set upon by four dingoes at Orchid Beach.  She was forced to run into the water to escape. 

Murder suicide of champion shooting couple

 

A couple who represented England in shooting competitions have been found dead in an apparent murder-suicide. 

Police have launched an investigation after Rosemary and Robert Jobson were found dead at their shooting club on Friday afternoon.  

Emergency services had been called over reports of a 'concern for safety.'  

Rise of the short kings

Source:  The Times

The Djokovic 23 tennis shoe

 

Djokovic is wearing his personalised ASICS’ Court FF 3 tennis shoes which have been customized with green ‘23’ numbering to celebrate his 23rd Grand Slam win.

Novak says “Every single thing matters and how you move how you feel with your shoes. Racket and shoes are the two most important items that you can have as a tennis player. You need to be perfectly comfortable with what you’re wearing because it’s going to help you perform and move better. I’m really pleased with the final product.

A lot of people and other players that have used my shoe say that it’s the best shoe that they’ve played in. So, I’m really thankful for the ASICS team for allowing me to have my best shoe.”

 

Kyiv, Ukraine

 

A 13^th floor flat lies open to the sky in Darnytskyi district after a residential block was hit by a downed Shahed kamikaze drone in a new Russian attack.  Photograph:  Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images

 

Bangkok, Thailand

 

A snake handler holds up a cobra to an audience during a venom extraction at Queen Saovbha Memorial Institute.  The research establishment raises venomous snakes for extraction and production of antivenom medicines in an area where poisonous snakes are endemic.  Photograph:  Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Fukuoka, Japan

 

Men dressed in traditional happi carry a Yamakasa float through the streets during the nearly 800 year old Hakata Gion Yamakasa, or summer festival.  Photograph:  Michael Heiman/Getty Images

 

Polokwane, South Africa

 

Veterinary students and other helpers surround a black rhino darted from a helicopter at a private game reserve.  As the calf had tendon damage to one leg after a lion attack, the vets took a plaster cast and aim to make him a prosthetic leg.  Photograph:  Kim Ludbrook/EPA

Ukrainian female cadets new military uniforms

 

Ukrainian cadets, wearing new military uniforms designed especially for women, have their hair braided as they take part in training on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. 12 July 2023. Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP

EE's gaming bundles test

 

EE has unveiled a pop-up gaming den, 1,500ft above sea level on the slopes of Ben Nevis, to put its new great value cloud gaming bundles to the ultimate test.

EE (formerly Everything Everywhere) is a British national mobile network operator and internet service provider.

Aretha Franklin's will finally settled

 

 

Aretha Franklin's granddaughter Grace Franklin, 17, smiles while embracing her family members after the jury decided in favour of a 2014 document during a trial over her grandmother's will.

Iran cosies up to Africa

 

Reuters / Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi leaves after laying a wreath at the Mzee Jomo Kenyatta's mausoleum during his three-country African tour as part of efforts to reduce the Islamic Republic's economic isolation, in Nairobi, Kenya, Reuters/Thomas Mukoya

 

State of Origin 3

 

 

Sydney, Australia

Indigenous dancers perform as part of the pre-game entertainment during a match between the NSW Blues and Queensland Maroons.  Photograph:  Dan Himbrechts/AAP

Two year old missing in French alps

 

Volunteers search in and around the French southern Alps village of Le Vernet for two-and-a-half-year-old Emile who is missing for two days. Photograph: Nicolas Tucat/Getty Images

 

Royal couple at the Polo

 

Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales at the Royal Charity Polo Cup event in Windsor.  Reuters

Ukraine's Elina Svitolina at Wimbledon

 

Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina celebrates winning her fourth round match against Belarus’ Victoria Azarenka at Wimbledon, 9 July 2013.  Reuters/Hannah McKay