Australian Olympic cyclist Rohan Dennis has pleaded guilty to driving despite a five-year ban imposed after an incident in 2023 in which he hit his wife with a car. Dennis, 36, appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Friday to face a charge of driving while disqualified after police stopped him last month while he
Japan’s parliament has passed a bill to relax imperial succession rules, amid concerns about the shrinking size of the imperial family. The bill, passed by the upper house on Friday, allows the imperial family to adopt distant male relatives over the age of 15 and allows women to maintain their royal status after marrying outside
China has criticized the nationalization of British Steel, saying it “firmly opposes and is strongly dissatisfied with the British government’s decision.” On Thursday, the UK government said taking the loss-making business into public hands would protect jobs and safeguard a “vital national capability”. The UK took control of British Steel’s Scunthorpe operations last year, although
At least 20 schoolchildren and one adult died after a bus carrying students on a school trip crashed in eastern Uganda, local officials say, in one of the deadliest road accidents involving children in recent years. Dozens of people, including school staff, were injured in the accident that occurred on Thursday night in Kapchorwa area.
The Australian government has said it is “deeply frustrated and bitterly disappointed” that Laos is not bringing more serious charges in relation to the deaths of six backpackers who died after drinking alcohol laced with methanol in 2024. Australians Bianca Jones and Holly Morton-Bowles, both 19, were among six people who died in a Vang
Two boats carrying some 530 Rohingya asylum seekers left Myanmar’s Rakhine state on June 29 and have not been heard from since. The equivalent of a jumbo jet full of people has disappeared. It is very likely that both capsized. The monsoon has begun, the sea is rough and the boats, usually old fishing trawlers
