Picture: www.rugby.com.au Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt’s fast-track selection of former NRL Rooster Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii is asking questions of England. Australia takes on England at Twickenham early Sunday morning (Australian time). Rugby Australia’s website (www.rugby.com.au) reports that England captain Jamie George is uncertain about Suaalii but is prepared to meet his threat. Suaalii will play outside…
Rescuers inside the parking lot at the Bonaire shopping centre in Aldaia. Picture: Spanish Police Spain is not only reeling from its worst flooding in decades but also from lies about its cause that have gone viral on social media. Bots are now amplifying social media posts about DANA, an intensified version of a weather…
The United Nations building in New York. Picture: UN Cost-cutting measures will limit the ability of the United Nations to do its job next year, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says. He made the comment recently while asking the UN General Assembly in New York to fund a US$3.6 billion budget for next year. “In a…
Picture: stock Australia is experiencing the largest whooping cough epidemic on record with NSW and Queensland hit especially hard. The Immunisation Foundation of Australia says 41,013 cases of the highly infectious, and potentially deadly, lung disease were recorded so far this year compared to the previous record set in 2011 with 38,748 cases for the…
Picture: stock US officials are busy trying to recapture 43 rhesus monkeys who escaped from a primate research facility South Carolina on Thursday (local time). They escaped from an Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee, a small town about 26 miles from Beaufort, Yemassee Police Department said in a post on Facebook. The company’s website says it conducts research projects…
Photo: NRL.com.au Kangaroos coach Mal Meninga has named Panthers prop Lindsay Smith in his squad to take on Tonga in the Pacific Cup RL final in Sydney this Sunday (November 10). Smith, a prop, will come off the bench as Raiders backrower Hudson Young moves into the starting team for the injured Cameron Murray. Tonga…