A rescuer grabbed a surfboard and paddled onto a Melbourne, Australia, lake in an attempt to save two men who drowned during a drunken evening swim. The men – one aged 19 and the other in his 30s – quickly got into trouble in the lake on Redleap Reserve at Mill Park last night.
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‘Signal 8’ Recounts Author Erik Schanssema’s Experiences as a Paramedic
The narrative in ” Signal 8: An Australian Paramedic’s Story ” offers Erik Schanssema ‘s true account of his paramedic experiences. Schanssema describes the tragedies he saw, as well as his struggles with grief and post-traumatic stress disorder and his attempts to overcome them.
Pilot yelled ‘Mayday’ before shopping centre plane crash
A pilot repeatedly yelled “Mayday” but did not say what the emergency was before his plane crashed into the roof of an Australian shopping centre, killing himself and four American tourists, an accident investigator has said. Police blamed “catastrophic engine failure” when the twin-engine Beechcraft B200 Super King Air crashed into the Direct Factory Outlet mall in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon on Tuesday, moments after take-off from a nearby runway.
Plane carrying 5 passengers crashes into mall in Australia
A light plane crashed into a shopping mall outside Melbourne, Australia. There was no immediate word about casualties.
NZ Artist Exhibition: Out on the Lonely Prairie
New Zealand artist Lorene Taurerewa opens her solo exhibition Out on the Lonely Prairie, 28 January – 3 February 2017 at ROOM Artspace New York. Lorene Taurerewa exhibits in private, public and museum galleries, recently with The Kentler International Drawing Center, New York, Schick Art Gallery, New York, McLean Projects for the Arts, Washington DC, Fountain/Armory Art Fair, New York, Miami Art Fair, Miami, USA, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, Waikato Museum, New Zealand, Pataka Museum, New Zealand, the Royal Albert Hall, London and Paul Nache Gallery, New Zealand.
Trafficking triumph for police
A FISHING boat that became logged on a reef at Shipwreck Coast in Port Fairy on December 6 has been linked to one of the biggest drug busts in Victoria’s history. A Melbourne organised crime syndicate had planned for a former Japanese whaling boat, Kaiyo Maru, to sail to a rendezvous point hundreds of kilometres from Port Fairy’s coast and exchange 180 kilograms of South American Cocaine.
4 killed, 15 hurt after car strikes pedestrians in Melbourne
Police listen to witnesses at the scene of an incident in the central business district in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. A man deliberately drove into a street crowded with pedestrians on Friday, killing people, police said.
BHP and Vale Agree New Framework For Samarco Disaster Settlement
The preliminary agreement could ease the passage of a compensation deal and avoid the neccesity of fighting a $47.5 billion claim in court. BHP Billiton and Vale could avoid lengthy and risky court hearings relating to a fatal 2015 dam burst in Brazil after cutting a preliminary deal that will group various claims, including a $47.5 billion compensation demand, into a single negotiated settlement.
Wwe NXT Results: Highlights, Analysis, and Grades for January 11
WWE NXT returns to Full Sail University this week. Find out what happened as the new era kicked off with an NXT Tag Team Championship match.
Abbey Lee – The Cool Girl
Abbey Lee was born June 12, 1987 in Melbourne, Australia. She started modeling around 2005 when she moved to Sydney and was discovered at the beach by Chic Management.