LOS ANGELES – A judge has approved a US$230 million lawsuit settlement by the owners of a pipeline that spilled more than 140,000 gallons of crude oil into the ocean off California in 2015, lawyers announced Thursday. A federal judge in Los Angeles gave final approval on Tuesday to a settlement of a class-action suit … Read more
By Muvija M and William James LONDON – Prime Minister Liz Truss and her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng will meet the head of Britain’s independent fiscal watchdog on Friday as the government looks to reassure financial markets after days of chaos triggered by planned tax cuts. Kwarteng unveiled a string of lower taxes last week … Read more
As the end of the nears, a poll finds outgoing Prime Minister would win the race hands down if given the chance to run to get re-elected Prime Minister. The Conservative membership – the 180,000 voters who will elect the next Tory leader and Prime Minister – would favour Boris Johnson over candidates and . … Read more
A Victorian grandfather is tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket after an email with an invoice from his builder was intercepted. Bill Hall thought he was paying a tradie $26,000, but instead the email had been grabbed by hackers and resent to him with different bank details. The 76-year-old retiree was in the … Read more
TOKYO – The Unification Church, whose close ties with Japan’s governing party have emerged after the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, acknowledged Thursday that it had accepted “excessive” donations from the suspect’s mother, and that it would need to consider it seriously if that led to the killing. Abe was shot to death … Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — An Ohio woman who was finance director for a West Virginia airport has been sentenced to five months in prison for stealing nearly $49,500 in federal funds from the facility. Melissa Sue Hall, 46, of South Point, Ohio, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Huntington for her April guilty plea … Read more
A joyride across Brisbane in an allegedly stolen ute has ended in a citizen’s arrest. A group of tradies chased down two teenagers in the suburb of Manly West this morning after their Toyota Hilux went missing. The chase stopped in a suburban street, where one of the teens ran down a footpath, while the … Read more
BOSTON – The reigning Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics suspended coach Ime Udoka after a months-long investigation by an outside law firm that found multiple violations of team policies but did not point to a larger cultural problem of sexual misconduct, owner Wyc Grousbeck said Friday. “We go to great lengths … to run the … Read more
The mass die-off of thousands of fish, which sparked a political row between Poland and Germany, has been blamed on toxic algae. Nearly 250 tonnes of dead fish were recovered in August from the Oder river, which runs through the two countries. There had been accusations that a chemical spill had caused the die-off, with … Read more
Cindy Gilroy is calling for the city to mandate a minimum number of garbage bins on the properties of multi-family residences after a garbage pile-up in her ward. The Daniel McIntyre councillor introduced the motion at Thursday’s city council meeting. Gilroy said a building in her ward didn’t have a garbage bin at all, leading … Read more