HUGE change to qualifying for the FIFA World Cup is great news for Graham Arnold’s Socceroos: Here’s how they can make it to the 2026 tournament 2026 World Cup will feature 48 teams Increase from 32 nations in Qatar last year Means Socceroos should qualify comfortably Asian Football Confederation’s quota also increased To be hosted…
Billionaire mining couple Twiggy and Nicola Forrest set their sights on Sydney as they spend $575million on Australia’s first Waldorf Astoria: Here’s what they’re planning Andrew, Nicola Forrest buy planned Waldorf Astoria Hotel The luxury hotel cost the billionaire couple around $575million It is a part of a $3.1billion upgrade to Circular Quay By Jade…
Tennis star Jelena Dokic showcases her ‘amazingly chic’ new look – after she was attacked by trolls over her appearance at the Australian Open Jelena Dokic impressed fans with a new chic look She wore a sleek midi dress and blazer by Witchery It comes after she was attacked by online trolls for her appearance …
Formal bids for Manchester United are due to be submitted in the next week amid interest from the US, Middle East and Asia… but the Glazers are UNLIKELY to receive their desired £6bn-£8bn price tag for the club Manchester United was put up for sale by the unpopular Glazer owners last year Formal bids are set…
Manchester City have pencilled in visits to both Japan and Thailand on a pre-season tour this summer, with Pep Guardiola’s side set to travel to the Far East for the first time since 2019 Pep Guardiola’s Man City are set to visit Japan and Thailand on a pre-season tour It will be the club’s first…
I’ve always loathed the phrase “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” as I find it patently false. Any tough times in my life have only weakened me. Besides, I would rather be happy than “strong”. It’s been a tough couple of years, lowlights of which included a series of bereavements, the most shocking the…
There was a time when Charles Sobhraj was happy to brag about the way he preyed on unwary young backpackers from Europe and the U.S. who followed the ‘hippy trail’ through south-east Asia during the 1970s. Drugging, poisoning and even burning his victims, he once callously referred to the murders he carried out as ‘cleanings’….
Charles Sobhraj, a French serial killer responsible for a string of murders across Asia in the 1970s, has been released after spending almost 20 years in a Nepalese jail. Sobhraj, 78, whose murders inspired hit BBC show The Serpent, was driven out of Central Jail in Kathmandu on Friday in a heavily guarded police convoy. The…
One of the world’s most wanted accused drug lords – a billionaire labelled the ‘Asian El Chapo’ who is ‘number one’ on Australia’s target list – lands in Melbourne to face drug trafficking charges Tse Chi Lop was extradited to Melbourne on Thursday from The Netherlands The 59-year-old will front court on drug trafficking conspiracy…
A virologist who funded the Wuhan lab at the center of COVID leak claims – and then allegedly tried to ‘bully’ that theory away – has proudly filmed himself inside a bat-filled cave and handling the creatures for his research. Last week, Dr. Peter Daszak posted a video on his Twitter filmed from the depths of…
Whilst this is a top option for a luxury Maldives holiday, there’s not an ounce of stuffiness. One island is the springboard to the overwater WIND villas, snaking across the turquoise water, as well as the main restaurant and the spa. Grab a bike from under a palm tree, or hail a golf buggy, and…
The United States will take part in the creation of and contribute to a fund that will pay developing nations to tackle climate change. The fund, negotiated at the United Nations’ COP27 Summit, was originally known as a ‘loss and damage’ fund and had been blocked by previous American administrations. The nations involved are largely…
President Joe Biden kept up his whirlwind diplomacy Saturday evening in Phnom Penh by putting on a traditional Cambodian shirt for a gala event that was attended by Russia’s notorious foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen hosted the event, held at a sprawling convention center in Phnom Penh for guests at the ASEAN…
President Joe Biden committed the first gaffe of his trip to Asia Saturday within the first seconds of his opening remarks, when he mistakenly referred to his Cambodian host as the head of Colombia. Biden spoke seconds after Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has ruled the country for 37 years and is using the ASEAN…
Suspect charged with savage murder of Brooklyn girlfriend six weeks after he dismembered and stuffed her in two different suitcases along with a meat cleaver Justin Williams, 24, was charged for murder and concealment of a human corpse on Monday in the savage slaying of 22-year-old D’Asia Johnson, the NYPD said D’Asia’s dismembered remains were…
Four friends who drugged their wives, watched as they raped each others’ partners and congratulated each other for ‘putting on a good show’ face jail in Singapore. One woman was raped several times over a period of at least seven years by different men while unconscious, having been drugged and blindfolded by her husband, Channel…
A man has sparked furious debate after he revealed he refused a mother’s request to give up his extra-legroom seat and move to the second row on a 10-hour flight so that her husband could sit with her and their baby. The etiquette of switching seats on a plane has long been debated – with…
Anthony Bourdain never stopped drinking despite overcoming a drug addiction and ‘hated’ who he’d become by the time he took his own life in 2018, the author of a controversial new biography about the late TV chef has claimed. Bourdain killed himself in France in June 2018 while filming for his CNN show Parts Unknown. …
Breakthrough in the mystery of two little children who lay dead in suitcases for FOUR YEARS before being found in an abandoned storage unit. Arrest in South Korea over discovery of bodies of two children in suitcases in NZ Woman, 42, to remain in custody as police will apply for her extradition to NZ Bodies of…
‘When the family call you home, you show up!’: Carlos Queiroz speaks out after Iran rehired the ex-Manchester United No 2 to coach the team at the World Cup in Qatar Carlos Queiroz has returned to coach Iran for the World Cup later this year Iran will play England, United States and Wales in a…