Protesters storm home of Sri Lankan President after nation 'goes bankrupt'

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video A huge mass of protesters have stormed the home of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa demanding his resignation. Thousands of people have been demonstrating in the capital, Colombo, against the island nation’s worst economic crisis in recent memory. This is […]

Girl, 7, who died falling out of moving car wasn't strapped in

A girl has died after she fell out a moving car and was ‘struck by several vehicles.’ The seven-year-old, who wasn’t strapped into her seat, fell onto a freeway in South California. Her mother Veronda Gladney, 28, and her boyfriend Michael Branch, 39, were arrested Saturday and charged with child endangerment. The girl had been […]

Silent suburbs: where are our state’s 300,000 empty homes?

Key points Student-centric Melbourne suburbs have seen the biggest jump in unoccupied homes As a percentage, there are fewer empty homes in Victoria than in the 2016 census Holiday towns still have the highest number of empty homes, but there are fewer post-pandemic. As the winter sun goes down over the once-bustling university precincts around […]

Seattle could be engulfed by a 42ft tsunami if 7.5 quake hits

Seattle could be engulfed by a tsunami with waves up to 42ft within THREE MINUTES if a 7.5-magnitude earthquake hits the fault line off the coast, simulation shows The last known earthquake on the Seattle Fault occurred about 1,100 years ago, but five 6.5 quakes have happened in the area over the last 3,500 years […]