SYDNEY — An Aboriginal man who says he was seriously injured when an Australian police officer threw him to the ground will have his lawsuit expedited after fears his condition is deteriorating. “The plaintiff is suffering significant hardship, not of his own making, and his psychological state is precarious,” said Justice Michael Walton in the New South Wales Supreme Court. Brett Armstrong is suing the State of New South Wales for damages for personal injury as a result of “assault and/or battery and/or negligent battery by the State” in Sydney in March 2016. The State disputes liability and has also raised…
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NEW DELHI — Bollywood actor Swara Bhasker shared a social media post yesterday expressing gratitude after her short film “Sheer Qorma,” which won the Best Short Film Audience Award at the Frameline Fest and qualified for the EE British Academy Film Awards or BAFTA Film Awards this year. “WE WON THE BIGGEST QUEER FILM FESTIVAL IN THE WORLD! HUGE!!! #SheerQorma becomes the 1st Indian film to win @framelinefest in the festival’s 37 years!!! #SheerQorma wins @framelinefest — the #BAFTA qualifying, longest-running, largest queer film exhibition in the world (sic),” said Bhaskar in a tweet. Ansari directed the film, which stars Shabana Azmi and Divya Dutta and was screened for Frameline…
SYDNEY — The operators of two South Australian wind farms have been ordered to pay close to AU$1.6 million ($1.2 million) in penalties for breaching national electricity rules in action taken after a 2016 statewide blackout in South Australia. Global clean energy provider Pacific Hydro Clements Gap Ltd (based North of Adelaide) was hit with an AU$1.1 million ($820,000) fine for failing to obtain written approval for critical system settings designed to allow its wind farm to ride through network disruptions. The Federal Court has also hit the Hornsdale wind farm in the mid-north of the state with an AU$550,000 ($410,000)…
WASHINGTON — American singer-songwriter Marilyn Manson has been sued by a woman who made disturbing allegations against the star, all of which Manson and his team strongly deny. As per the reports, model Ashley Morgan Smithline claimed the singer began contacting her in 2010 via social media and told her he wanted to cast her in an upcoming film project and developed an obsession, calling her “the perfect girl for him.” She claimed that Manson flew her to Los Angeles in November 2010 and asked her to move into his apartment, which led to the beginning of their consensual sexual relationship. Smithline alleged…
PERTH, Australia — About 300 West Australian police will become the first in the country to be deployed with Naloxone, a drug used to provide emergency first aid to people suffering from an opioid overdose. It can either be injected straight into the muscle or delivered by intranasal administration into a nostril. The 12-month trial program will start on July 1, and comes after a recent surge in drug overdoses and deaths in Western Australia. Naloxone is usually carried only by those involved in emergency health and crisis care or by drug treatment services. Police Minister Paul Papalia said there was…
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s economic edge could be lost if international borders are not reopened in the next few years, a banking boss says. But HSBC Australia chief executive Kaber Mclean has stressed it’s not a “doom and gloom scenario”, rather the difference between a “positive” and “very positive” economic outlook. He described Australia’s border and containment approach as “something of an experiment” to a federal parliamentary economics committee on July 1. While the country had successfully moderated its net migration over a long period, a total halt over three or more years would have consequences. “The benefits of being an island with well-controlled…
MUMBAI, India — Bollywood star Ayushmann Khurrana saluted doctors and the entire medical fraternity on July 1, India’s National Doctor’s Day that is organized by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) annually. The “Vicky Donor” actor thanked all the medical professionals for putting themselves at risk to save their countrymen amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. “Doctors and the entire medical fraternity have been the real superheroes in today’s times,” Khurrana said. “I salute them for constantly putting themselves at risk to save the nation, but we too have the power to save them. They also have families, they also have near and dear…
WASHINGTON — Ray McFarland and his wife, Leslie, have mastered the art of pivoting. They have “remixed” the business model of their 21st Century Expo Group three times since 2001. When 9/11, the 2008 stock market crash and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic struck, the McFarlands altered their company to change with the times. That’s just one of many lessons they’ve passed on to their daughter, Iman. Though she is a talented basketball player who could have played in the WNBA, she wanted to be a doctor. But her father saw a corporate superstar within. She is now chief operating officer and general manager…
The 74 protected species of chameleons that were stuffed into socks and ice cream boxes and smuggled in a suitcase from Tanzania to Austria have now delivered offspring after adapting to life at the Vienna Zoo. The Tiergarten Schonbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, welcomed offspring of the rare chameleons that were brought to the zoo after customs officials discovered them during an X-ray scan of a man’s luggage in January 2021. According to police, the man was initially traveling from Tanzania via the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, and intended to sell the lizards on the black market for a value…
An inventor’s flying car takes off next to a plane and carries out its 142nd successful landing in a different city — before converting into a sports car on the ground in under three minutes. The AirCar carried out its first flight between two international airports at 6 p.m. on June 28. AirCar turns into an aircraft from a road vehicle in a short amount of time with just the click of a button, its designer, Stefan Klein, founder-CEO of KleinVision, said in a statement. Klein flew from the Slovakian city of Nitra to the country’s capital, Bratislava, before transforming…