Thirty-two migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean have been rescued by an NGO ship after spending several days stranded on an oil platform off the coast of Tunisia. “Women, men and children” were shipwrecked with no food or water, according to Mediterranea, a migrant rescue charity. One person on the platform had died, the charity…
Authorities in Brisbane say 20,000 properties in the city are at risk of inundation by storm surge or flooding as Tropical Cyclone Alfred continues its ominous track towards the populated south-east Queensland coast. Updated tracking maps on Wednesday morning show Alfred maintaining its intensity, speed and likely path to landfall. It is still on track…
Fox Sports’ debut IndyCar race drew 1.417 million viewers and was the most watched series event aside from the Indianapolis 500 on any network since 2011. The mark for Sunday’s opener on the downtown streets of St. Petersburg was a 45% increase over last year’s event, which drew 974,700 combined viewers on NBC. The Fox…
Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Getty Images MPs are able to use English, Māori or New Zealand sign language, when speaking in Parliament The speaker of the house in New Zealand’s parliament says he will not consider any further complaints from lawmakers over the use of the country’s Māori name in proceedings. “Aotearoa is regularly used…
Kyrie Irving’s season is over. The Dallas Mavericks star point guard tore his ACL in their 122-98 loss against the Sacramento Kings on Monday, ESPN reported. The team confirmed Irving’s diagnosis Tuesday. The injury occurred when Irving attempted a Euro step. The 32-year-old was fouled by DeMar DeRozan on a drive to the basket and…
A Waymo car drives along a street in San Francisco on March 1, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Waymo on Tuesday began offering robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas, through the Uber app. The launch sets up Waymo to showcase its driverless technology during Austin’s annual South by Southwest festival that kicks off Friday. Approximately…
Nadine Yousif and James FitzGerald BBC News, Toronto and London Watch: ‘A dumb thing to do’ – Moments from Trudeau’s speech slamming US tariffs Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has slammed Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Canada, calling it a “very dumb thing to do” and vowed to conduct a “relentless fight” to protect its economy….
Over the last several years, Indianapolis’s food scene has exploded, coming to rival nearby Midwest neighbors Louisville, Cincinnati, and Chicago. Many of the heartland city’s celebrated restaurants, such as Tinker Street (New American cuisine), the 70-year-old Bar-B-Q Heaven (a place of pilgrimage for pork ribs), and Kountry Kitchen (a soul food classic resurrected from a…
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in Western Australia after an alleged threat, which alluded to a terrorist massacre, was made online against a recently opened Sydney mosque. The comment on the place of worship’s Instagram page threatened to “Christchurch 2.0” the mosque at Edmondson Park in the city’s west, an apparent reference to the…
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in Western Australia after an alleged threat, which alluded to a terrorist massacre, was made online against a recently opened Sydney mosque. The comment on the place of worship’s Instagram page threatened to “Christchurch 2.0” the mosque at Edmondson Park in the city’s west, an apparent reference to the…
