‘Stupid’: Tourist charged over bear video
A tourist is facing criminal charges after footage of her close call with a bear was posted on social media.The woman, from Illinois, US, was with a small group of tourists who spotted a...
Shocking number of Aussie kids stranded
Four hundred and thirty-eight unaccompanied Australian children are still stranded overseas due to Covid-19, a parliamentary committee heard on Friday. Labor senator Kristina Keneally lamented a case where three-year-old triplets were stranded in India,...
‘Give a goddamn answer’: Lambie erupts
Senator Jacqui Lambie has erupted during a parliamentary committee after a top bureaucrat declined to answer when the federal government would reopen Australia’s border.Home Affairs Department secretary Michael Pezzullo dodged multiple questions about the...
Anger over ‘worst-ever’ tourist attraction
Despite opening just days ago, the Marble Arch Mound on the edge of Oxford Street has already earned itself the title of London’s worst-ever tourist attraction. The $A3.1 million initiative promised so much when...
‘Horrified’: Mass backlash to ‘shock’ video
An airline executive has been forced to apologise after a leaked video went viral online showing the CEO reportedly insulting a female employee. Asia Aviation Public Company Limited (AAV) executive chairman Tassapon Bijleveld, who...
‘Too much skin’: Woman’s flight humiliation
Air New Zealand has apologised to a customer who was told that her outfit was too inappropriate to wear onboard an aircraft.Courtney Newbold was returning to Auckland on Friday on a flight from the...
Chilling footage inside abandoned resort
More images have emerged inside the resort once considered at the top of Australia’s best holiday destinations.Glitzy and aspirational resorts that drew holiday-makers near and far were last week shown to be in a...
Dumb questions people ask about Australia
As Australia is so remote, plenty of people from overseas have never visited our great big island in the south. And as such the continent is a bit of a mystery to them —...
Travellers missing in remote outback
Two interstate travellers have gone missing in remote Central Australia where they have not been seen since Monday, Northern Territory police say.Yasemin Aslaner, 49, and Elias Awad, 22, were last spoken to by police...
Man with covid poses as wife to fly
An Indonesian man with Covid-19 disguised himself as his virus-free wife to board a commercial flight in the country, according to officials who arrested him.The traveller, identified only as “DW”, allegedly wore a niqab...
