SYDNEY — A “completely delusional” Meth user who shot a police officer and security guard at a Sydney hospital’s emergency department wants to resume nursing in the future. Michael De Guzman, a registered nurse, is being detained at a forensic hospital after a New South Wales District Court judge found him not guilty in 2018 of 11 charges because of mental impairment. They included shooting dog squad officer Sergeant Luke Warburton to murder at Nepean Hospital in January 2016. The police officer was shot with his gun as he tried to take scissors from the hand of de Guzman, who had seconds earlier held a…
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CANBERRA, Australia — Computer experts known as “ethical hackers” have been enlisted to help protect the upcoming census in Australia. The last national survey was dogged by an online debacle that saw millions of people locked out of the website. The Australian Bureau of Statistics shut down the site over fears it was being hacked. The failure raised severe concerns about the quality of the information gathered in 2016, sparking questions over data reliability. Australian Statistician David Gruen does not want lightning to strike twice. Ethical hackers have been enlisted to help protect the upcoming census in Australia. (Keepcoding/Unsplash)He has hired a team of…
CANBERRA, Australia — Koalas could soon be listed as endangered in Queensland, New South Wales, and the Australian Capital Territory after bushfires smashed already struggling populations and destroyed precious habitats. A federal panel of threatened species experts has recommended the marsupial’s status be upgraded from vulnerable in each of the three jurisdictions. Josey Sharrad from the International Fund for Animal Welfare described the move as bittersweet. “It confirms our fears koalas are on the road to extinction and need greater protections if they are going to survive into the future,” she said. “Koalas were living on a knife-edge before the fires with numbers in severe…
NEW DELHI — Mythology is the flavor of the season in Bollywood. A slew of filmmakers and producers are bringing characters from legend and lore to the silver screen. Bollywood filmmaker Om Raut (“Tanhaji”, 2020) is gearing up for his upcoming film “Adipurush”, based on the Hindu epic “Ramayana”. It will hit the screens on August 11, 2022, in Telugu and Hindi languages. “Ramayana” narrates the life of Lord Rama, the God-king, and teaches the importance of virtue. In addition, director Nitesh Tiwari, who directed “Dangal” (2016), is working on a live-action trilogy based on the same epic on a budget…
Laura Smalley’s voice crackles and comes to life. It is 1941, and she is talking in her native Hempstead, Texas, to a University of Texas professor, John Henry Faulk, about being enslaved, how she became free on June 19, 1865. That made Smalley, who then estimated she was 85, one of the last living witnesses to the original Juneteenth, although she did not know it was occurring at the time. Her interview is now preserved in the Library of Congress’ collection of recordings, and she was not alone in remembering what happened when Union soldiers made their way through Texas,…
Video of blue sharks off the coast of Plymouth, England, by James Glancy, a former host of the TV show “Shark Week,” shows them cruising past him to feed on small fish and squid. The former British Royal Marines Commando turned television presenter and conservationist uses his videos and social-media posts to raise awareness of the rapid decline of the world’s shark populations. Glancy said sharks have spent decades being demonized because they are a mysterious ocean predators. “But in reality, it’s clear to us now that sharks have more to fear from humans than the other way around,” he…
KOLKATA, India — Indian Coast Guard is on alert as an oil spill from the India-bound Portuguese flag container ship was about 450 kilometers (280 miles) southeast of the southern Indian city, Chennai, the Ministry of Defence said on June 18. The Indian Coast guard was alerted by Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, Colombo, in the late hours of June 16. The investigation revealed that the Portuguese flag container ship MV Devon on its way from Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo to Haldia, a port in eastern India, developed a crack in the fuel tank containing about 120 kiloliters of very low sulfur fuel oil.…
CB Insights has unveiled its fifth annual “AI 100: The Artificial Intelligence Startups Redefining Industries,” and the list includes 10 Israeli companies. The New York-based technology insights platform’s research team picked these 100 private market vendors from a pool of over 6,000 applicants and nominees. Representing 12 countries and 18 industries, they were chosen based on factors including business relations, investor profile, R&D activity, market potential, team strength and tech novelty. Seven of the 10 are headquartered in Israel: • Beewise invented the world’s first autonomous beehive, Beehome, which houses up to 40 bee colonies. Beekeepers can mind them through…
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has indicated the nation cannot come out of the International Monetary Fund program and agreed to review the Federal Board of Revenue’s powers of arresting taxpayers in consultation with senators. “It is not possible to get out of the International Monetary Fund program at this time,” Pakistan Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said. “We were forced to go to the International Monetary Fund. This time, the International Monetary Fund was not friendly with us, and the program was front-loaded and tough.” International Monetary Fund and Pakistani authorities have agreed to continue talks to narrow down differences. Still, the International Monetary Fund-sponsored program has…
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. — It was the Ides of March, 1971, when a senior editor in the New York Times Washington Bureau told me to head for New York for a Vietnam project and to take clothes for a few days. His cryptic instructions were for me to meet Neil Sheehan, our Pentagon correspondent, at the Hilton Hotel in mid-town Manhattan. No details. I sensed something was up but that was not unusual since Neil and I had worked hush-hush projects before. But when I walked into the hotel room, Sheehan exploded like a thunderbolt. ”Rick, we got it!” he…