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Man charged after allegedly stabbing woman with scissorsA man has been charged after allegedly punching a young boy and stabbing his mother with a pair of scissors in a random attack outside a police station in Melbourne’s CBD, AAP reports.The man from Sunshine West, in the city’s inner west, was overnight charged with a series of assault-related offences including affray, intentionally causing injury, two counts of unlawful assault, conduct endangering life and conduct endangering serious injury.He was remanded to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.The boy and his mother, who were visiting from the Phillip Island township of Cowes,…

L-R Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu The APC and President Tinubu know that the Atiku solution to subsidise production as a way of lowering the pump price and bringing down the cost of living is a bold idea and they know it resonates with the people. This is why they have been quite busy of late. They have dismissed the idea as populist or election-pandering. But as long as they are not able to offer an alternative on how to make life better for the people, it remains the only idea on the table, and Nigerians will take it. This…

A U.S. Army drone operator trains with a loitering munition “one-way attack” unmanned aircraft system in Germany in 2025. U.S. soldiers are now proficient enough in drone warfare to wield 21 aerial drones per operator. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)Getty ImagesThe U.S. Army disclosed after a landmark drone swarm exercise held at Fort Bragg, North Carolina that individual soldiers are now proficient enough at flying drones that each operator can control up to 21 small unmanned aircraft systems and four large autonomous vehicles at once. The exercise, the latest iteration of the Army’s Sandhills Project, tested soldiers’ abilities to control…

The organisers of “Farage Fest” – a victory party and rally for the Reform UK leader after the Clacton by-election – are being investigated for failing to get permission to hold it.

“My feeling today is that I’m going to the university of football.” Those were Xavi Hernández’s opening words at his presentation as the Netherlands coach on Tuesday. “I learned a lot from this university of football during my career as a player and as a coach. I have many connections with this country.”Those connections date back to when Xavi was drafted as a youngster into La Masia, the famed Barcelona academy whose fundamentals are rooted in Dutch total football, inspired by Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff. Xavi’s first-team debut came under Louis van Gaal, and he spent many years under…

For the second consecutive week, Broadway‘s Paranormal Activity sold out the August Wilson Theatre, and even with five heavily comped press previews the Levi Holloway play grossed $729,250. Paranormal, directed by Felix Barrett and inspired by the popular film franchise, began previews August 14 and opens tonight. The other big box office news for the Broadway week ending August 23 was the revitalization of Moulin Rouge! The Musical, which surged by more than $1 million at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre with the return of original cast member Aaron Tveit. The week’s gross of $2,196,205 topped the chart and is a…

The United States announced new sanctions on Iran and a slew of global entities doing business with the country on Monday, in what officials have called an “economic D-Day” and officially dubbed “Operation Economic Outcast”, in an effort to force Tehran to negotiate an end to the war.The announcement followed repeated demands by US President Donald Trump that Iranian leaders take actions like dropping their claims over the Strait of Hormuz and return to talks to end its nuclear programme.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listNearly six months into its war on Iran, the US is seeing little impact…

Dolly Parton has died aged 80, her family announcesCountry ⁠music ​legend ⁠Dolly Parton ⁠has ​died at the age of 80, ‌her ‌family has announced.In a video posted to Parton’s X account 15 minutes ago, her nephew Bryan Seaver announced the death of his aunt, for whom he acted as head of security. double quotation markThis video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago, before I fully absorbed it as a future reality. As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father, Larry, held before me. I have imagined the heaviness of this moment…

Nigerian stocks reported a further slide last week, strained by profit-taking in energy and bank stocks. Equities are generally seeing a retreat as some investors exit their positions to take advantage of accumulated gains in a market that has delivered a 53.8 per cent yield so far this year. “We expect the equities market to remain volatile this week, with the overall performance tilted towards the negative,” Meristem Securities said in a note ahead of the week. “The mixed reaction to recent H1:2026 earnings could also keep investors cautious, with further profit-taking likely in stocks where valuations have moved ahead…

Amid a 35-year high in US measles cases, two people in Pennsylvania have died after contracting the virus, the state’s health department confirmed on Tuesday. They are the first measles-related deaths in the country this year.Both individuals were unvaccinated residents of Lancaster County in south-central Pennsylvania, which has a large Amish population. The health department said in a statement that it would not be releasing additional information about the individuals to protect their privacy. Pennsylvania has recorded 393 measles cases in 2026 so far, with roughly half of those in Lancaster County. Only Utah and South Carolina have logged more…