Valentino Guseli takes bronze and NZ’s Campbell Melville Ives silver
More medals in bobsleigh and snowboard cross ahead of Milan-Cortina Games
Snowboard king Scotty James has dazzled to reign supreme in the last World Cup halfpipe event before the Olympics, where he’ll be seeking an elusive gold medal.
On a big day for Australia’s Olympic hopes, James sent a clear message to rivals as he won the prestigious Laax Open in Switzerland for a third consecutive time and fifth time in total, while young countryman Valentino Guseli was third.
Summer storms on Australia’s east coast have claimed one life and threatened dozens more as flood waters rise.
Residents and holidaymakers have been told they can return back after being evacuated Narrabeen Lagoon in Sydney’s northern beaches overnight on Saturday, while a landslide damaged three homes and injured at least one woman 20km north, at Great Mackerel beach.
A passenger aircraft carrying 11 people lost contact with ground control Saturday while approaching a mountainous region between Indonesia’s main island of Java and Sulawesi island, officials said.
Former Australia batter given a ‘50/50 chance of surviving’
Spent eight days in induced coma
Damien Martyn has said he is back after overcoming a meningitis scare, which he said took his life out of his hands.
In a heartfelt post on his social media accounts, the former Australia batter said he was given a 50% chance to live after battling the disease, which causes an infection and swelling of fluid and membranes around the brain and spinal cord. The 54-year-old was put into an induced coma on 27 December and was fighting for his life in a Gold Coast intensive care unit until he woke eight days later.
Busfield was ordered held without bond at his first court appearance Wednesday, a day after he turned himself in to face charges stemming from allegations that he inappropriately touched a minor on the set of a TV series he was directing in New Mexico.
Rocco Commisso, the outspoken owner of Italian soccer club Fiorentina and chairman of New York-based Mediacom Communications, has died. He was 76. Both Fiorentina and Mediacom announced Commisso’s death early Saturday without providing a cause. “After a prolonged period of medical treatment, our beloved president has left us, and today we all mourn his passing,” Fiorentina said....
US District Judge Kate Menendez's ruling addresses a case filed in December on behalf of six Minnesota activists who have been observing the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers.
A jury convicted an 83-year-old Ohio man of murder in the shooting of an Uber driver who he wrongly thought was trying to rob him after scam phone calls deceived them both.
Grand jury in Ohio charged Michael David McKee, 39, with aggravated murder and burglary for fatal shootings
An Ohio grand jury has indicted an Illinois surgeon in the double homicide of his ex-wife and her dentist husband, who were killed in their Columbus home in December in a case that initially generated nationwide mystery.
Court records show a Franklin county grand jury charged Michael David McKee on 16 January with aggravated murder and aggravated burglary while using a firearm suppressor.
Heather Ammel says ex-Arizona senator pursued romantic relationship with her husband that led to couple’s breakup
Kyrsten Sinema, a former US senator from Arizona, had a romantic relationship with a member of her security detail that led to the breakup of the man’s marriage, his ex-wife alleges in a lawsuit seeking at least $75,000 from Sinema.
Matthew and Heather Ammel had “a good and loving marriage” with “genuine love and affection” before Sinema interfered, pursuing Matthew Ammel despite knowing he was married, Heather Ammel alleges in her lawsuit.
Setback for president, who has called windfarms ‘losers’, as Empire Wind project allowed to move forward
A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for a New York offshore wind project to resume construction, a victory for the developer who said a Trump administration order to pause it would probably kill the project in a matter of days.
District judge Carl J Nichols, an appointee of Donald Trump, ruled construction on the Empire Wind project could go forward while he considers the merits of the government’s order to suspend the project. He faulted the government for not responding to key points in Empire Wind’s court filings, including the contention that the administration violated proper procedure.
Nearly a dozen pipe bombs, some of them already detonated, have been found on footpaths and in parks in the nation’s capital, sparking a major police investigation and warnings not to touch the potentially explosive items.
ACT police Det Acting Insp Anna Wronski could not say where the pipe bombs came from or who was behind them, but said the matter was being taken extremely seriously.
Emergency repair crews are working flat out to restore power in the Kyiv region of Ukraine, after relentless Russian barrages on energy infrastructure left Ukrainians at the mercy of the coldest winter in years.
Defending motorbike champion breaks collarbone and sternum
Australian drops from first to fourth overall after crash on dunes
Australian world champion Daniel Sanders has vowed to battle on with a broken collarbone and sternum, despite the crash ending his dream of becoming back-to-back Dakar Rally motorbike champion.
Regardless of the pain that awaits him over the final three days in the Saudi Arabian desert, the reigning Dakar and world rally-raid motorcycle champ is adamant he will fight on to the end of the sport’s most celebrated and gruelling race on Saturday.
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