Sunday, January 10, 2021
Bushfire north of Perth downgraded but expected to burn for days
A bushfire burning at Gingin, north of Perth, has been downgraded to a watch and act message.
Despite the downgrading, the hot, dry conditions forecast for the next 24 hours are threatening to test the fire's containment lines.
Crews are still working to extinguish embers left in its wake.
Health Minister defends release of coronavirus-infected woman from hotel quarantine
Victoria's Health Minister has defended the release of a woman from hotel quarantine after 10 days when she had tested positive to the very contagious new strain of coronavirus.
It's been confirmed today a UK arrival travelled from Melbourne to Brisbane
Pakistan: Power partially restored after nationwide outage
Pakistan's electricity supply was being gradually restored Sunday after the country's national power grid experienced a major breakdown, leaving millions of people in darkness.
All major cities, including the capital Islamabad, were hit.
Saturday, January 9, 2021
US Registering Highest Deaths Yet From the Coronavirus
The U.S. registered more COVID-19 deaths in a single day than ever before — nearly 3,900 — on the very day the mob attack on the Capitol laid bare some of the same, deep political divisions that have hampered the battle against the pandemic.
Friday, January 8, 2021
Western Australia reinstates hard border with Queensland
Western Australia reinstated its hard border controls with Queensland at 12.01am (2am AEST) today.
Queensland is now categorised as a medium-risk state, after the recent case of the mutant COVID-19 strain found in
TODAY IN HISTORY: Gallipoli disaster ends with an improbably successful evacuation
January 9
The final troops are evacuated from Gallipoli on January 9, 1916.
Winston Churchill's bold campaign to capture the capital of the Ottoman Empire had ended in a bloody fiasco, but the evacuation was a stunning success.
The British military feared as many as 30,000 casualties out of the 35,000 soldiers on the peninsula.
'We will not be SILENCED!' Trump lashes out after permanent Twitter ban
Twitter has announced the permanent suspension of Donald Trump's account following a number of temporary locks on his account this week.
"After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump
Australian woman killed in New Zealand shark attack
The 19-year-old woman killed in New Zealand's first fatal shark attack in eight years has been identified as an Australian.
Kaelah Marlow is believed to have been mauled by a great white shark after being
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