Prime Minister Scott Morrison says international tourists won’t be welcomed back to Australia until next year, with the return of skilled migrants and students given higher priority By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press October 5, 2021, 3:29 AM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article CANBERRA, Australia […]
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Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp. Sarah Tew/CNET Facebook said late Monday the company believes a “faulty configuration” change was the cause of a widespread outage that lasted roughly six hours. “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers […]
The Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show took place earlier this month, having been pushed back by a few months due to the pandemic. David Domoney headed one of the stands at the show, which focused on houseplants and their benefits to people’s mental health and wellbeing. “It’s weeds […]
An actor behind a Ponzi scheme that cost investors more than $230 million with fake promises of film rights pleaded guilty Monday and faces up to 20 years in prison, prosecutors said. The man, Zachary Joseph Horwitz, 34, of Los Angeles, used money from the yearslong scheme to buy a […]
A fish swims amidst oil as a major oil spill washes ashore on the border of Huntington Beach and Newport Beach at the Santa Ana River Jetties Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021. Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Dead fish and birds are washing ashore along the […]
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held his first talks as Japanese leader with President Joe Biden and confirmed they will work to strengthen their alliance and cooperate in regional security in the face of growing challenges from China and North Korea. Kishida, who was elected by […]
The ATP has announced it will launch an internal investigation into allegations of domestic abuse against the Olympic champion, Alexander Zverev, by his ex-girlfriend Olga Sharypova. The men’s tennis governing body said on Monday that they have completed their independent safeguarding report, which was announced in August to provide recommendations […]
WASHINGTON — World View, a company founded to carry people into the stratosphere to give them space-like views of the Earth, is reviving those plans, putting it into competition with two of its co-founders. World View, based in Tucson, Ariz., announced Oct. 4 it is developing a passenger capsule that […]