Hailee was discharged from hospital and took her life hours later… a damning review about her act before release has outraged her mother
An 18-year-old woman from Perth, Australia, took her own life just hours after being discharged from a psychiatric ward, despite having attempted suicide only 25 minutes before staff allowed her to leave. A review into the death of Hailee Hildebrandt, who was being treated at Fiona Stanley Hospital,…
Albanese government slammed over hidden tax on super: what it means
Australia's Labor government faces accusations of quietly imposing a new tax on superannuation savings, despite Treasury having assured voters that retirement funds would be exempt from its planned capital gains tax overhaul. Analysis by the Financial Services Council found that hundreds of billions of dollars in super savings…
The ear witness: Turner-winner Lawrence Abu Hamdan and his ‘sound evidence’ exposés of human rights abuses
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, the Lebanese-British artist who jointly won the Turner prize in 2019, leads a dual career as founder and director of Earshot, a human rights NGO he set up in 2023 that investigates abuses using sound evidence. The organisation examines cases ranging from Israeli soldiers' shootings…
How to watch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s launch
NASA is preparing to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on 30 August, with live coverage of the event set to begin at 6:20am Eastern time ahead of a targeted lift-off no earlier than 7:26am. The mission is significant because Roman is designed to survey a much…
Major Aussie builder collapses with more than $3billion debt: Bathla Group goes into voluntary administration
Sydney-based property developer Bathla Group has collapsed into voluntary administration, owing more than $3 billion, in one of Australia's largest recent builder failures. Administrators from Teneo were appointed on Tuesday to assess the company's finances and try to keep construction and property settlements running, a move that threatens…
India’s Airbound bags $37M to take on trucks with rocket-like drones
Indian startup Airbound has raised $37 million in a Series A round led by Greenoaks, with backing from DoorDash, Lachy Groom, Lightspeed and Humba Ventures, as it seeks to make drone-based delivery as cheap as trucking. The three-year-old company builds vertical-flight, rocket-like drones designed to weigh less than…
School bus bursts into flames with more than a dozen students on board in the Northern Territory
A school bus caught fire in Australia's Northern Territory while carrying more than a dozen students, according to reports. The incident is notable given the number of children on board at the time the fire broke out, raising immediate safety concerns for those travelling on the vehicle. Beyond…
NZ religious sect leader jailed over death of Chinese follower
A New Zealand court has jailed Kaixiao Liu, a musician accused of leading a religious sect, for more than 10 years after he was found guilty of manslaughter and kidnapping over the death of an elderly follower. Shulai Wang, 70, had travelled from China to live with Liu's…
Barnaby Joyce’s wife Vikki Campion reveals she was suicidal after their relationship scandal – and the Malcolm Turnbull speech that made her want to ‘end it all’
Vikki Campion, the wife of former Australian deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce, has revealed she was suicidal and suffered severe postpartum depression during the 2018 scandal surrounding their relationship. Speaking on the ABC's Australian Story, she said she felt "completely and utterly broken" amid intense media scrutiny, with…
Driver seriously injured after bus crashed into a rail bridge, trapping him in the wreckage
A bus driver was left with serious injuries after his vehicle crashed into a rail bridge support in Port Adelaide, trapping him in the wreckage for over an hour. Emergency crews worked to free the 37-year-old, who was subsequently taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition,…
Aussie’s infuriating battle to get his life-savings back after pothole damaged his car and repairs drained his bank account
A 21-year-old university student in Victoria, Australia, has been refused compensation from the state transport authority after a pothole wrecked his car's wheels, despite spending nearly all his savings on repairs. Zane Stanton's claim was rejected because the road had been inspected twice in the 11 days before…
Record one in seven now on antidepressants as pill use rockets
A record one in seven people in England were prescribed antidepressants last year, with 9.1 million patients given the drugs by their GP, according to figures from the NHS Business Services Authority. This marks a rise of more than 15 per cent over five years and comes amid…
Ralph Carr jailed for six years after raping woman at his home multiple times
Ralph Carr, a former celebrity talent agent prosecuted under his full name Ralph Carnovale-Carr, has been jailed for a maximum of six years after a jury found he raped a woman twice at his Melbourne home in March 2023. The 66-year-old appeared via videolink from Melbourne Assessment Prison…
Barnaby Joyce reveals the truth behind infamous video of his late-night planter box fall: ‘One bottle too many’
Barnaby Joyce has admitted he had "one bottle too many" before falling from a planter box onto a Canberra footpath in February 2024, having previously attributed the late-night incident to a mix of alcohol and prescription medication. The now-One Nation MP made the admission during Monday's episode of…
NBC News anchor announces sudden departure on air after covering Washington DC for 10 years
NBC Washington reporter Joseph Olmo announced live on air that he was leaving the station, surprising viewers during Sunday's evening newscast after a career spanning nearly a decade in local broadcasting. The unexpected on-air resignation drew an emotional response from his audience, many of whom had followed his…
Rescue pilot pleads guilty, museum heists turn violent, US clean energy set for record growth
TalkFuse's briefing covers a South Sudanese teenager admitting endangering lives at sea after piloting a Channel super-dinghy, warnings over increasingly violent European museum robberies, Italy's new phone-crossing fines, US clean energy's record growth, OpenAI's push into autonomous agents, and a teenager's decisi…
Senior neo-Nazi takes his own life while facing charges over Indigenous camp ambush
Timothy Lutze, a senior figure in the far-right National Socialist Network, has died by suicide while facing court over an alleged ambush at Melbourne's Indigenous Camp Sovereignty encampment last August. The 36-year-old former gym owner and boxer died during a directions hearing at the Victorian County Court, and…
IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently
IBM has announced it is developing a new mainframe chip whose cores can natively execute Arm instructions alongside its own IBM Z or LinuxONE instructions concurrently, in a bid to broaden the software available to mainframe customers. The move is effectively an acknowledgement that independent software vendors are…
Mysterious 100-year-old time capsule is discovered and reopened at Midwest masonic temple… and its fascinating contents are immaculate
A century-old time capsule was discovered and opened in Aurora, Illinois, after being hidden inside the historic Lincoln Masonic Temple, which was demolished in 2019 following a fire. Locals gathered on Saturday to watch officials unveil its contents, which had survived fire, demolition and the passage of time…
Moment one of Israel’s most dangerous criminals is shot dead at petrol station at point-blank range
CCTV footage has captured the moment a gunman shot dead Yanis Yushvaev, described as one of Israel's most dangerous criminals, at point-blank range outside a petrol station in Caesarea. The 40-year-old, said to head a crime group linked to the Jewish Caucasus community, was killed on Sunday in…