Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies
From science-fiction to the real world, flying cars are here - but could the concept actually take off?
Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies
From science-fiction to the real world, flying cars are here - but could the concept actually take off?
Australia news live: Jim Chalmers meeting with US Treasury to discuss Trump’s steel tariffs; one dead after police standoff in Tamworth
The treasurer will continue to lobby US officials for an Australian exemption to steel and aluminium tariffs
Greens want Labor’s new Medicare plan implemented before election
The federal Greens have welcomed the Albanese government’s plan to significantly boost bulk-billing rates, as part of an $8.5bn policy, but claimed its campaigning influenced the decision.
Greens pressure works. In a wealthy country like ours everyone should be able to see a GP, psychologist, dentist or nurse with their Medicare card.
It’s good Labor has adopted part of our plan to help people see the GP for free. Now let’s make it law before the election.
Trade and tariffs will be part of the conversation, but not the whole conversation. That is an ongoing discussion that we’re having with our American counterparts. I don’t expect he will conclude those discussions on steel and aluminium while I’m in DC.
I am not going to pre-empt the outcome of those conversations, nor do I expect those discussions will necessarily be concluded this week, to be upfront with you.
Continue reading...Isolated in ‘harsh conditions:’ Deportee from US details legal limbo in Panama camp near Darien Gap – The Associated Press
- Isolated in 'harsh conditions:' Deportee from US details legal limbo in Panama camp near Darien Gap The Associated Press
- No Exit The New York Times
- Panama sends 97 U.S. deportees to migrant camp after they refused to be repatriated NPR
- Trump deports hundreds to third countries, leaving them in legal limbo The Washington Post
- Panama says it has recaptured Chinese woman who escaped from a hotel holding deportees ABC News
Has Trump kept his day one promises?
It's been a busy first month, with a blizzard of activity, so we compare his pledges with what he has delivered.
Enrique Tarrio follows and insults officers who defended US Capitol on January 6
Ex-leader of far-right Proud Boys trails group through lobby of Washington hotel, engaging officer Michael Fanone
Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys group who was convicted and then pardoned for his role in the January 6 insurrection, confronted a group of police officers who defended the Capitol during the attack, accusing one of them of being a “coward”.
A video shared by Tarrio on social media on Saturday showed him following the officers, Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell, through the lobby of a Washington hotel that was hosting the Principles First summit, a conference where one of the officers received a “profile in courage” award.
Continue reading...US politics live: Donald Trump addresses Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland
US president’s 75-minute tirade of repeated false claims ranges from voter fraud and stolen-election lies to foreign wars
Donald Trump launched into his speech by assailing “the fraudsters, liars … globalists and deep-state bureaucrats” that he said “are being sent back”.
“We’re draining the swamp and restoring government by the people for the people,” he said before going on to his oft-repeated claims of Washington DC being controlled by a “sinister group of radical-left Marxist warmongers”.
Continue reading...Police shut parts of M4 motorway near Bristol after human remains discovered
Drivers had told Avon and Somerset officers that there was something on the road between junctions 20 and 21
Police have discovered human remains on a motorway carriageway near Bristol and have shut parts of two motorways in both directions.
A number of drivers called the police and reported seeing something on the road between junctions 20 and 21 of the M4 at 6.40pm on Saturday.
Continue reading...One dead in stabbing in French city of Mulhouse
President Emmanuel Macron said there was "no doubt it was an Islamist terrorist attack".
Artists who represented Australia at Venice Biennale call for Khaled Sabsabi to be reinstated
Open letter from some of the country’s most distinguished artists ‘strongly protests’ at the removal of Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino
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Living artists who have represented Australia at the Venice Biennale over the past five decades – and the estates of a number of now deceased artists who have done the same – have signed an open letter to the board and chief executive of Creative Australia to reinstate sacked artist Khaled Sabsabi and his curator Michael Dagostino.
Some of Australia’s most distinguished living artists, including Imants Tillers, Mike Parr, Susan Norrie, Fiona Hall, Judy Watson, Patricia Piccinini and Tracey Moffat have signed the petition, as has the estate of Howard Arkley who represented Australia in Venice more than a quarter of a century ago.
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Continue reading...Landmarks, monuments worldwide light up in orange in memory of Bibas family – The Times of Israel
- Landmarks, monuments worldwide light up in orange in memory of Bibas family The Times of Israel
- Trump’s hostage envoy calls on Hamas to release all hostages or ‘face total annihilation’ CNN International
- Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas to be buried in closed family ceremony on Wednesday The Times of Israel
- Their Time Is Up Tablet Magazine
- Hamas releases Israeli hostages, returns remains of Shiri Bibas NPR
Pope remains in ‘critical’ condition after ‘respiratory crisis’
Pope Francis is "more unwell than yesterday", the Vatican says, adding his prognosis "remains guarded".
Berlin Stabbing Extends Chain of Attacks Ahead of German Election – The Wall Street Journal
- Berlin Stabbing Extends Chain of Attacks Ahead of German Election The Wall Street Journal
- German police suspect antisemitism in Holocaust memorial stabbing The Washington Post
- Police arrest a suspect in a stabbing at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial that injures 1 person The Associated Press
- ‘Religious Motivation’ Possible in Berlin Stabbing, Police Say The New York Times
- Man stabbed at Holocaust memorial in Berlin Euronews
Israeli hostage only discovered fiancee had survived 7 October after his release
Eliya Cohen spent more than 500 days in captivity fearing Ziv Abud had died in Hamas attacks in 2023
An Israeli hostage only discovered his fiancee had survived the 7 October attacks after his release on Saturday, Israeli media has reported.
Eliya Cohen had spent more than 500 days in captivity fearing his bride-to-be, Ziv Abud, was dead. The last time they had seen each other, they were hiding in a shelter with relatives and friends after attending the Nova festival.
Continue reading...Two children killed by decades-old grenade in Cambodia
Accident happened in Siem Reap province that saw heavy fighting in 1980s between government soldiers and Khmer Rouge
A grenade believed to be more than 25 years old killed two toddlers when it blew up near their homes in rural Cambodia, officials said.
The accident happened on Saturday in Siem Reap province’s Svay Leu district, where there had been heavy fighting in the 1980s and 90s between Cambodian government soldiers and rebel guerrillas from the communist Khmer Rouge. The group had been ousted from power in 1979.
Continue reading...German frontrunner pledges to lead in Europe before key election
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and opposition leader Friedrich Merz appeal to voters before Sunday's election.
Israel confirms Shiri Bibas body has been returned
Hamas has previously claimed that the mother and her two sons were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Shopping mall roof collapse in northern Peru leaves 6 dead, 78 injured – The Associated Press
Pope in critical condition after suffering respiratory crisis: Vatican
Francis was admitted to Rome's Gemelli hospital on February 14 after experiencing breathing difficulties.
Man killed intervening in knife attack on French police officers
Macron says knife attack is ‘without any doubt an act of Islamist terrorism’
A 69-year-old man who intervened when a suspected terrorist attacked police officers with a knife shouting “Allahu Akbar” has died in eastern France.
Two police officers were also seriously injured in the suspected Islamist terrorist act, which took place in the city of Mulhouse during a demonstration in support of the Congo on Saturday afternoon. Three other police officers were lightly wounded.
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