Tag Archives: Sydney

The deceased 57-year-old woman and 65-year-old man from Britain, a married couple, had been on holiday in Queensland; the pilot, 40, had recently become a dad. Source link

Some 110kg of crystal meth, also known as Ice, were concealed in a machine shipped from Mexico. Source link

Alarms blared throughout Sydney’s harbourside Taronga Zoo on Wednesday morning as it declared a ‘code one’ alert. An investigation has been launched into how the lions were able to escape. Source link

Glenn Phillips slammed his second T20I hundred when he reached the three-figure mark against Sri Lanka in a Super 12 2022 T20 World Cup match in Sydney on Saturday. Phillips, who should have been out for 12 off 15 in the sixth over, brought up the landmark with a four …

Rilee Rossouw hit the first hundred of the 2022 T20 World Cup on Thursday when he reached the three-figure mark, off 52 balls, against Bangladesh in Sydney. He is the first South African to score a T20 World Cup hundred. Rossouw now has the fourth-fastest hundred in a T20 World …

Australia’s east coast has been gripped by a multi-year rain event due to La Nina. The weather phenomenon typically associated with increased rainfall caused Sydney’s suburbs to flood three times in two years. Source link

International tourists and business travellers on Monday began arriving in Australia with few restrictions for the first time in almost two years, after the government lifted some of the strictest pandemic measures of any democracy in the world.Vaccinated travellers were greeted at Sydney’s airport by jubilant well-wishers waving toy koalas …

Sydney’s hopes of reviving its downtown business activity amid a Covid-19 reopening may have hit a snag as the local Chinese diaspora shuns its “death-themed” Chinatown.The local city council has decorated its Chinatown with white and blue lanterns and wrapped trees with white cloth for its Lunar New Year celebrations, …

Australia reported record high new Covid-19 cases on Saturday for a third day, with outbreaks growing in the two most populous states.New South Wales state reported 2,482 new cases, Victoria state reported 1,504 new cases and Queensland state reported 31 new cases on Saturday, together topping Australia’s previous high of …