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Australia’s middle order squeaked out a mighty Test win in Christchurch, where Alex Carey’s fighting 98 not out defied New Zealand to wrap up a 2-0 series victory.… Read the rest
NSW government’s interim report on Sydney’s toll road network would use a ‘declining distance-based rate’ of tolling
Elias Visontay Transport and urban affairs reporter
Sydneysiders driving across the Sydney Harbour Bridge and tunnel should be forced to pay fees in both directions, a review into the city’s patchwork toll road network has recommended, alongside a vision to unify all paid roads under a consistent “declining distance-based rate” of tolling.… Read the rest
Master Japanese director wins his second Oscar for story of a young boy searching for his mother during the second world war
The Boy and the Heron, supposedly the final film from Japanese master director Hayao Miyazaki, has won the Oscar for best animated feature film at the 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
Officials say marines deployed for night-time evacuation amid intense fighting in Port-au-Prince
The US has reportedly started airlifting embassy staff out of Haiti under the cover of darkness after dozens of heavily armed gang fighters tried to seize the political quarter of its capital, Port-au-Prince.
Two mass abductions were the latest in a series of group kidnappings by gunmen
Nigerian security forces continued to search forests and set up roadblocks in the north-west of the country on Sunday in an attempt to find hundreds of kidnapped schoolchildren, but observers said combing the woodland expanses could take weeks.