Getty Images Lhakpa Sherpa says: “I want to show my two girls how to be brave, how not to give up” This article contains descriptions of domestic violence which some readers may find distressing. Lhakpa Sherpa has a startling life story – to the outside world she holds the record for climbing Mount Everest a … Read more
orAustralia’s best athletes will make their mark in Paris over the coming weeks, their best efforts leaving a powerful, if perhaps brief, impact in the French capital. But many of the several thousand Australians living in the country have already made a lasting impression on French life. Fox McInerney, owner of Good News cafe and … Read more
Getty Images Sabrina Carpenter is one of the new wave of pop girlies taking the internet by storm “It’s so confusing sometimes to be a girl,” sings Charli XCX on her latest album, Brat. The vulnerable lyrics, existential questions and honest exploration of the complexity and contradictions of womanhood has turned Brat into much more … Read more
On Thursday, Australian and New Zealand food ministers at state, federal and national levels met to discuss what’s next for health star ratings for packaged foods. Now, after the food industry made slow progress in meeting the target to voluntarily put health stars on more products, ministers are tightening the screws. In an important step, … Read more
Family handout Emirlendris Benítez (centre) was sentenced to a 30-year jail term in 2018 “She’s going to rot in jail. No one is going to get her out.” That was what prison guards told the family of Emirlendris Benítez. She disappeared in Venezuela in August 2018 after she and her partner – a taxi driver … Read more
Briefly: A judge has fined a drilling company $385,000 after a worker was seriously injured at a remote WA research camp. Boart Longyear is one of the largest drilling companies in the world with approximately 650 rigs operating worldwide. What is expected next? The company says it has implemented new safety procedures and training to … Read more
ATN Belarus Rico Krieger appeared in a heavily choreographed interview on Belarusian state television A German man who has been sentenced to death in Belarus for terrorism has been shown in a heavily choreographed interview on state-controlled television, apparently confessing to planting explosives near a railway line. There is no direct evidence of that in … Read more
A major Federal Court class action was thrown out this week after Judge Michael Lee ruled there was not enough evidence to prove the weed killer Roundup causes cancer. Plaintiff Kelvin McNickle, now 41, developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after using glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) in his family’s vegetation management business for more than 20 … Read more
Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada is one of most notorious names in drug war history, synonymous with the fearsome power and corrosive influence of the most important drug cartel in the world. The last of an original generation of drug cartel leaders, he created the Sinaloa Cartel alongside Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman from the remnants of … Read more
Desperate to escape financial turmoil in the wake of the pandemic and rising interest rates, Gilbert Grace and Michelle Millard knew they had to make a seismic shift in their lives. So the couple – who were struggling to pay the mortgage on their home in Baxter, 60 kilometers south-east of Melbourne – began looking … Read more