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Viral florist Bryce Heyworth has kicked off this year’s Subi Blooms festival in spectacular style, unveiling a striking sculpture of yellow blooms featuring a mix of iconic West Australian flora.“A festival like this is such a rare thing,” Mr Heyworth said.“It brings together the community, mothers and flowers, and so it feels really special to be a part of.”Mr Heyworth is the founder and creative director of Sydney’s September Studio and his bold, sculptural floral designs and signature dance videos are well known among his more than 1.6 million Instagram followers.This year, the Sydney florist has teamed up Perth floral…

BATAM: Indonesian authorities have detained about 200 foreigners – most of them Chinese nationals – after raiding a Batam apartment complex allegedly used for cross-border online scam operations.Immigration officers carried out the pre-dawn raid at Baloi View Apartment, which also functions as a hotel, on Wednesday (May 6).Most of those rounded up are Chinese nationals, while the rest are from the Philippines and Vietnam, said Guntur Sahat Hamonangan, head of the Riau Islands Immigration Office.“The preliminary figure is around 200 people (detained) but the exact figure is still being verified,” he said on Wednesday, as quoted by local news outlet Kompas. Those nabbed are suspected of…

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell : CoreWeave — The cloud infrastructure company slid about 10% as its second-quarter revenue guidance disappointed Wall Street. CoreWeave sees revenue ranging from $2.45 billion to $2.6 billion. The midpoint of $2.53 billion fell short of the $2.69 billion LSEG consensus call. Gen Digital — The software stock popped 8% after sharing current-quarter and full-year revenue guidance that exceeded analysts’ expectations, per FactSet. Gen Digital also posted a fiscal fourth-quarter adjusted earnings and revenue beat. Airbnb — The vacation rental stock added 1%. First-quarter revenue of $2.68 billion beat the expected…

As governments gather in New York for the second International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) to assess progress on global migration commitments, a central question looms: is the Global Compact for Migration improving conditions for people on the move?The answer is yes.Adopted in 2018, the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is the first international agreement aimed at making migration safer and more humane through cooperation. For the Middle East and North Africa, the International Organization for Migration’s Global Overview of Migration Routes (2025), which tracks migration patterns, risks and deaths along major routes worldwide, offers a mixed picture. Some routes…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The NCAA is reportedly looking to expand the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments to 76 teams, and UConn head coach Dan Hurley harbors some concerns about the expansion.No teams have been added since three more were in 2011, and the format of the tournament would change, but that’s not what Hurley is concerned about. The 53-year-old coach does not want to see the regular season be rendered meaningless.”What I think makes the tournament special is the qualification for it,” Hurley told CBS Sports. “You don’t want the regular season to be rendered…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: More than 100 Republican lawmakers are urging the Supreme Court to reinstate abortion pill restrictions, warning current policy allowing mifepristone to be mailed without in-person oversight has led to cases of women being coerced — and in some instances allegedly forced — to take the drug.The amicus brief, led by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., backs Louisiana’s legal fight to restore an in-person dispensing requirement for the drug.At the center of the filing are…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Kentucky man who spent more than two decades behind bars for a murder he says was built on fabricated evidence has been awarded more than $24 million, after a jury found he was wrongfully convicted in a case once described by prosecutors as a “satanic” killing.Jeffrey Clark was 21 years old when he and his friend Keith Hardin were convicted in the 1992 stabbing death of 19-year-old Rhonda Sue Warford, whose body was found in a field in Meade County days after she disappeared from her Louisville home.At trial, prosecutors argued…

The Sydney Flames have sent a statement of intent to their WNBL rivals, continuing their off-season rebuild by signing Opal star Isabelle Bourne.Coach Renae Garlepp secured the signature of the 25-year-old former Southside Melbourne Flyers star on Friday, continuing the transformation of her team, which finished bottom of the ladder last season.She will join WNBA draftee Charlise Dunn, Geelong Venom’s Jaz Shelley and Opal Ally Wilson in the Flames’ new-look squad after they lost several of their starters, including last campaign’s club MVP, Unique Thompson.Bourne was part of the Opals side that claimed gold at last year’s Asian Cup, and…

JAKARTA: Three hikers, including two foreigners, were killed and 10 were missing after a volcano on Indonesia’s eastern Halmahera island erupted on Friday (May 8), spewing an ash cloud into the air, a local police chief said.”There are three dead, two foreigners and one resident of Ternate” island in east Indonesia, police chief Erlichson Pasaribu of North Halmahera province told Kompas TV.A local rescue official earlier told AFP that 20 hikers were reported missing, nine of them from Singapore.He said all were hikers, even though the area had been closed to visitors since Apr 17 after scientists observed an increase…

The Oklahoma City Thunder pulled away late to beat the Los Angeles Lakers 125-107 in an NBA playoff thriller, taking a commanding 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal series.Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the reigning NBA Most Valuable Player and finalist for the award this season, scored 22 points and the Thunder capitalised on 21 Lakers turnovers on Thursday to hand LeBron James a defeat in his 300th career playoff game.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listElsewhere, Eastern Conference top seeds Detroit are also up 2-0 after a 107-97 home win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.In Oklahoma City, Gilgeous-Alexander was again…