Blog

A teenager who broke into the home of a British mother in Australia - where another teen stabbed her to death - has been cleared of murder.Emma Lovell, 41, was killed in North Lakes, Queensland, on Boxing Day in 2022 while fending off two intruders. In May this year, the teenage attacker who pleaded guilty to her murder, was jailed for 14 years.The second teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, did not stab anyone but was also charged. Following a three-day judge-only trial at Brisbane's Supreme Court, Justice Copley found the second teen not guilty of murder and the lesser offence of manslaughter of Ms Lovell and not guilty of malicious acts with intent in relation to her husband Lee, who survived the attack.He was found guilty of burglary and assault.Ms Lovell, a mother-of-two w...

In the town of Algemesi, they say the floods hit without warning.Water barrels down the street, bringing with it thick, stinking mud that coats every surface in sight. As we slosh through the slippery mud-slick, we meet Bernardo who is trying to sweep it out of his home. Image: Bernardo who was trying to clean grime from his home However much he scrubs and cleans, the floors remain coated in grime."The disaster is enormous, I've never seen anything like it in my whole life," he says. He estimates some of the houses were filled with almost two metres of water.Read latest: At least 95 people killed in Spain's floods including British man Please use Chrome browser for a mor...

Google has reportedly racked up a fine of more than two undecillion rubles - two followed by 36 zeros - after it removed state-run and pro-government accounts from YouTube.Put another way, an undecillion is a trillion times a trillion times a trillion. The fine is far greater than the world's total GDP, estimated at $110 trillion by the International Monetary Fund.Google - which owns YouTube - has a current stock market value of $2.16 trillion, so probably won't be stumping up the cash any time soon.The fine is also still growing due to non-payment and, if not paid within nine months, will start to double every day, reported state news agency Tass. The mind-boggling amount has grown because Google hasn't restored YouTube accounts belonging to 17 Russian TV channels, according to Russia's R...