Australians in Victoria have been warned they should prepare for “property loss or worse” as much of the country faces extreme heatwave conditions. Temperatures on Friday and Saturday are forecast to hit record highs for most states and territories, with Victoria and South Australia in particular bracing for dangerous fire conditions due to strong winds…
Watch: 15-year-old Lulu tracks her social media use following the Australian ban For the first time in years, Amy feels free. One month since Australia’s teen social media ban kicked in, she says she is “disconnected from my phone” and her daily routine has changed. The 14-year-old first felt the pangs of online addiction in…
A short video of a UK man screaming his heart out on a simple swing ride in India, has taken over social media. The clip shows him hopping onto a local fairground swing ship for just about ₹80 (around 1 dollar), only to be left terrified by how fast and “unsafe” it feels. He holds…
Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground observatories. Source link
The annual awards show will anoint a best podcast for the first time this year, a sign of the industry’s increasing status in Hollywood. Source link
The interim government released some prisoners under pressure from the Trump administration, even as it continued arrests and crackdowns elsewhere. Source link
AFP via Getty Images More than 30 people are thought to be missing following the landslide in Cebu Rescue workers are racing to find dozens of people still missing following a landslide at a landfill site in the central Philippines that occurred earlier this week, an official has said. Mayor Nestor Archival said on Saturday…
The president spoke to The New York Times about Venezuela and his power on the world stage. Source link
Getty Images China’s surging demand for durians is shaping South East Asia’s farming towns Driving around Raub, a small town in Malaysia, it’s impossible to miss the prickly fruit that powers its economy. You can smell it from the steady stream of trucks winding through mountain roads, leaving a faint fragrance on their trails. You…
If anyone needed convincing that the FA Cup still matters, this season’s record-breaking third round provided all the necessary evidence. Source link