Elle Edwards was meant to be wrapping Christmas presents with her dad. But her phone pinged with a text. The 26-year-old’s mates wanted her to come out for a drink. It was Christmas Eve. They were at the Lighthouse Pub in Wallasey Village, on the Wirral peninsula, just across theContinue Reading
Mining giant BHP has proposed a transformative $60bn takeover bid for coal and copper rival Anglo American in a deal that would reshape Australian and world mining. The $230bn behemoth confirmed the mega mining deal on Friday morning, offering Anglo shareholders $48 a share for a near $60bn all-share offer.Continue Reading
A naked woman apparently on psychedelic drugs was caught on camera running through a Chilean airport and violently attacking other passengers before getting arrested by police. Footage taken by bewildered travellers shows the bare-naked woman calmly stroking her hair before suddenly racing toward people milling about at the Nuevo PudahuelContinue Reading
Poor weather is being blamed for an expected big drop in global wine production. Australia has experienced severe weather conditions over the years with a higher risk of heatwaves and bushfires forecast for the next seven months. As such, bad weather including heavy rainfall and drought is the reason theContinue Reading
SANTIAGO: A fire in an informal immigrant neighborhood in the southern Chilean city of Coronel left 14 dead, most of them children, on Monday night, according to local authorities. Hugo Cuevas, the city’s chief prosecutor, said the victims appear to be undocumented Venezuelan immigrants. “They just arrived, they’ve been hereContinue Reading
Victoria has made it on to National Geographic’s “cool list” – naming the most exciting destinations in the world to visit in 2024. The southern state was the only destination in Australasia to make the list. The 30 destinations on National Geographic Traveller (UK)’s ‘Cool List’ are places that areContinue Reading
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus’s wife Deborah Chemke has died after a battle with cancer. Anthony Albanese said Mr Dreyfus had informed him of his beloved wife’s death overnight. “People would be aware that Deborah has suffered for a long period of time from illness and that has meant that Mark wasContinue Reading
As the world moves away from fossil fuels, mining giant BHP is betting on artificial intelligence to help solve a dramatic imbalance between copper supply and an expected surge in demand. BHP chief development officer Johan van Jaarsveld told the Melbourne Mining Club this week the global shift to electricContinue Reading
Investment in a key commodity that will underpin a global transition to a renewables base and limit climate change is short by more than $300bn, mining giant BHP has warned. CEO Mike Henry, speaking in Paris at the IEA Critical Minerals and Clean Energy Summit, said about $386bn of “growthContinue Reading
Passengers of a British Airways flight made a grim discovery while aboard their flight to France this week, realising a woman they thought was sleeping was actually dead. The 73-year-old woman died mid-air on the flight from London to Nice on Thursday night – but passengers only realised and calledContinue Reading