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By Adriane Reardon for ABC Clare Nowland, who had symptoms of dementia, was tasered by Senior Constable Kristian White. Photo: A police officer who tasered a 95-year-old woman in her New South Wales aged care home has been found guilty of manslaughter. Kristian White, 34, discharged his taser at Clare Nowland in a nurses' room at Yallambee Lodge, Cooma on May 17, 2023. White and another officer responded to a triple-0 call made by staff as the great-grandmother roamed the facility in her walker while holding a steak knife. Nowland, who suffered symptoms of dementia, fell and hit her head after she was tasered and died a week later in Cooma Hospital from an inoperable brain bleed. A 12-person jury delivered its judgement on the fifth day of deliberation in the NSW Supreme Court in Sy...

By Jack Guy, CNN Tinniswood described how he managed to live for so long as pure luck. Photo: Guinness World Records John Tinniswood, the world's oldest man, dies at the age of 112. Tinniswood died on Monday at a care home in Southport, England, according to a news release from Guinness World Records (GWR) on Tuesday. "His last day was surrounded by music and love," his family told GWR in a statement, according to the release. Born 26 August 1912, Tinniswood had held the record for the world's oldest living man since April 2024, following the death of 114-year-old Juan Vicente Pérez of Venezuela. Tinniswood didn't have any particular explanation for how he managed to live for so long, describing it as "pure luck," according to GWR. "You either live long or you live short, and you can...

Eugene Robbemond. Photo: Facebook The Whanganui motor sport community is paying tribute to Eugene Robbemond who, according to media reports, has been killed during a robbery in South Africa. Local media outlet The Daily Voice reported a man was trying to stop a robbery in Monte Vista and shot dead. Police spokesman Malcolm Pojie confirmed to The Daily Voice the man was 49-years-old and died around 1.30pm on Friday on Mostert Street in Monte Vista. "We have reason to believe that it was a bank-following-robbery as the motive, even though the suspects fled the scene without any loot," the outlet reported Pojie as saying. "The vehicles of the suspects were traced and recovered in a parking lot in Parow." The Daily Voice reported the dead man's parents were the intended victims of the robbe...

Timothee Chalamet, Paul Mescal, Dev Patel and Jason Momoa - do you look like someone famous? Photo: Liam Swiggs In late October, amidst the tensions of a looming election, the world witnessed the birth of a new kind of democratic event - the celebrity lookalike contest. It all began with the Timothee Chalamet event in New York, when a bunch of mop-haired, square-jawed lookalikes descended upon Washington Square Park, all for a small trophy, a $50 cash prize, and the knowledge they (vaguely) resemble a Hollywood star. The contest was a raging success; hundreds of onlookers stopped by, there were four arrests, and Chalamet himself even turned up to meet his doppelgangers. And since then, dozens of copycat lookalike contests have popped up around the world. In Dublin, mulleted men in short...