20+ hour, 16+ min ago   (488+ words) Jet-skis and other powered vessels will once again be banned from popular Port Stephens beaches during this year's Christmas-new year break after a successful trial. From December 24, 2025, to January 26, 2026, Dutchman's Beach, Nelson Bay beach (Fly Point) and Shoal Bay were…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (854+ words) IT’S only a game. No rational adult could argue otherwise about a “Fun 4s” match, in which kids aged five to seven run around small pitches with mini goals for 10 minutes and no-one bothers about the offside rule. Yet incredibly it…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (802+ words) A mother in northeastern Ethiopia pulled the socks off her 23-day-old son and found one toe swollen, dusky, and grooved. There was no injury, no insect bite, and nothing in his history to explain it. The cause was a single…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (340+ words) SCOTLAND'S first XL Bully sanctuary secures the official go-ahead after councillors approve its latest licensing bid. Angus councillors have twice refused to grant All Bullie Charity Rescue (ABCR) permission to operate the sanctuary. Around 25 dogs, including a number of XL…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (130+ words) inkl Streamer Nitro_Camden’s Twitch stream takes an unexpected turn after StableRonaldo sends 15,000 viewers Nitro_Camden’s Twitch stream took an unexpected turn after popular streamer StableRonaldo raided his channel and sent around 15,000 viewers his way. The 18-year-old streamer was celebrating the huge…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (299+ words) Portugal's President António Jose Seguro has enacted a law banning face coverings in public spaces, a measure widely seen as targeting Muslim women who wear full-face veils. "The face must be considered a central element of human identity and communication,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1404+ words) Established in 1985, Travelodge is the second largest hotel brand in the UK with more than 610 hotels and 47,000 guest bedrooms, across the UK as well as in Ireland and Spain. The company reported a 4.2% rise in first-half revenues to £491.3m this morning,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (866+ words) A 27-year-old woman walked into an emergency department with six hours of abdominal pain and vomiting. She was 12 weeks pregnant. The ultrasound found her fetus alive and developing normally. It also found a second fetus, several inches away, outside her…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (429+ words) The Newman family is facing a wave of backlash after appearing jovial during a livestream featuring a lie-detector test about questions surrounding alleged private videos involving 20-year-old Jaden Newman. Viewers criticised the family for laughing and joking as the discussion…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (545+ words) Incidents of anti-Muslim prejudice and hate in London during the first six months of this year have already exceeded the total figure recorded for the whole of 2023, according to a monitoring group. Describing the collated statistics as "alarming", the monitoring…...