Political rivalries have been put aside as Tropical Cyclone Alfred approaches and a wave of volunteers, including federal MPs, pitch in at Brisbane’s sandbag depots. Greens volunteer Harrison Rees has been working shoulder to shoulder with a Liberal for the last three days at the former Toowong Bowls Club site. Despite the imminent federal election,…
LeBron James becomes only member of 50K points club LeBron James became the only person to tally 50,000 points in the regular season and playoffs combines, and Jeff Zillgitt discusses the significance. Sports Pulse It feels like, over the past month or so, the balance of power in the NBA has shifted significantly. Perhaps that…
South Korea’s air force has apologised after one of its fighter jets accidentally dropped eight bombs in the wrong place during a training exercise on Thursday, injuring 15 civilians and damaging several buildings. “Eight MK-82 general purpose bombs were abnormally released from an air force KF-16 aircraft, landing outside the designated firing range,” the air…
This week we hit a milestone, with it being the 200th Thursday quiz. That means since the very first one in April 2021 there have been approximately 3,000 questions, of which only about 2,995 of them have generated somebody in the comments going: “Well, actually, I think you’ll find …” followed by a minor quibble….
A’s are ‘getting excited’ as they prepare to play the 2025 season in Sacramento Bob Nightengale and Gabe Lacques give a temperature check on the Athletics ahead of the MLB season. Sports Seriously TEMPE, Ariz. — He was one of baseball’s greatest young players, a two-time All-Star shortstop for the Chicago White Sox, a batting…
As promised, Volkswagen unveiled its upcoming entry-level electric vehicle at an event on Wednesday in Wolfsburg, Germany. The automaker describes the ID.EVERY1 concept car as a “smart, flexible and affordable” EV for the masses… as long as those masses live in Europe. The production version is expected to start at around €20,000 (US$21,583) when it…