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By Elinya Chenery, ABC Photo: Supplied Authorities have recovered more than 40,000 limited edition Bluey coins that were stolen from a Sydney warehouse earlier this year. A third person has also been arrested over the robbery, with police alleging the 27-year-old Western Sydney woman was the getaway driver during the theft. Christina Vale was arrested at a property in Green Valley about 6.55am on Tuesday (local time) and taken to Liverpool Police Station where she was charged with three counts of aggravated break and enter-commit serious indictable offence, and dispose property-theft, serious indictable offence. Vale appeared before Liverpool Local Court on Tuesday where she was refused bail to return on 28 November. On Monday 12 July, NSW Police received a report that 63,000 Bluey-...

By Stephen Collinson, CNN Analysis - Joe Biden had largely been an afterthought one week before the election in which he'd once hoped to win a second term. Not anymore. With an imprecise attempt to defend Puerto Ricans from attacks at Donald Trump's rally in New York, the president on Wednesday inadvertently injected himself into the home stretch of the campaign and forced Vice President Kamala Harris into clean-up mode. The gaffe offered Trump an opening to turn headlines away from his own antics that add up to the most extreme closing argument of any modern presidential campaign. Biden mentioned Puerto Rico, slandered as a "floating island of garbage" by a comedian at Trump's Madison Square Garden event. But his clumsy defence of the self-governing American territory - and the vital swin...