It’s like something out of a Hollywood movie. A man, armed with a rifle and wearing a black balaclava, hits 11 banks in a 10-year robbery spree from 2004 to 2014. Justice finally caught up with him when he accidentally left some blood at a crime scene. He storms in,Continue Reading
A Perth family reliant on a single income is battling mounting bills and financial distress after falling prey to a sophisticated phone scam that fleeced them of $32,000. The ordeal unfolded through a series of fake bank calls and messages, culminating in a ruthless raid on their bank account withinContinue Reading
Most car manufacturers measure power in kilowatts. But Koenigsegg is different. Sweden’s boutique supercar brand measures power in megawatts, where life starts at 1000kW – more than four times the output of conventionally powerful cars such as the Volkswagen Golf R. Koenigsegg describes the new Gemera as “the world’s firstContinue Reading
How much attention did you pay to the pixeled-image of Moscow’s St Basil’s Cathedral on the opening screen of Tetris? Was it – and the strains of its earworm electronic theme song – enough for you to form the connection between the obsessively addictive game and the USSR? Since itsContinue Reading
Thank god, praise whatever deity you are into, clutch whichever icon/crystal/talismanic rock you keep close and say a silent prayer of gratitude because it turns out that the world has been spared Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex hosting Saturday Night Live. Page Six has now reported that the semi-professional malcontentContinue Reading
Residents of a booming outback Queensland mining town are furious at the “disgraceful” decision by Westpac to close its branch there, amid warnings regional bank closures are reaching “crisis” levels. Cloncurry in northwestern Queensland, located 120km east of Mount Isa and 780km west of Townsville — the birthplace of theContinue Reading
A Queensland dad is outraged after a bank blunder left him $375,000 in debt and unable to access his funds during the festive period. Aaron* was forced to liquidate his cryptocurrency portfolio, take out business loans and even use his daughter’s money to pay his staff wages. His NAB account,Continue Reading