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CCTV footage shows four people accused of killing Perth schoolboy Cassius Turvey and the “13 minutes of mayhem” that followed his alleged attack.

The NFL never sleeps, especially when it comes to the swirling tornado of activity otherwise known as free agency.Whom would the Las Vegas Raiders target as their next signal caller? Where would Sam Darnold land? And don’t forget the surprise contract extensions that pop up out of nowhere.But the past week also featured plenty of news beyond football, with the NBA and college basketball gearing up for their postseasons, the NHL digging into its trade deadline and so much more.Hopefully, you’ve been paying attention, because there was a lot to track, and much of it is featured in this week’s…

BANGKOK: A group of Myanmar soldiers fled across the Thai border on Friday (Mar 14) after an assault by an ethnic armed group ousted them from their base, Thailand’s military said. Myanmar has been riven by civil war after the military seized power in a 2021 coup, with the junta fighting an array of armed ethnic organisations and pro-democracy partisans. Fighters from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) attacked the Pulu Tu frontier military base in the early hours of Friday, the Thai military said. “The Myanmar military defended the base but ultimately the KNLA successfully seized control,” it said in…

NewsFeedWatch as Chicago Cubs outfielder Seiya Suzuki slices baseballs in half as he practices his swing with a samurai sword ahead of matches against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the MLB’s season opening Tokyo Series.Published On 14 Mar 202514 Mar 2025

Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member convicted of leaking highly classified documents about the war in Ukraine, used his court-martial Thursday to describe himself as a “proud patriot” who was trying to expose the supposed “lies” of the Biden administration.After pleading guilty to military charges of obstructing justice, the 23-year-old acknowledged he knew his actions were illegal but felt he needed to share the truth about how the Biden administration was, in his view, misleading the American public about the war in Ukraine.”If I saved even one American, Russian or Ukrainian life against this senseless money-grab war, my…

An accused child rapist illegally in the U.S. was recently arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Boston, the agency announced on Thursday.ICE Boston said Stivenson Omar Perez-Ajtzalan, 19, was arrested on Jan. 30 for aggravated rape of a child in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The victim is said to be more than 10 years younger than Perez, who is a Guatemalan national.He was arraigned on the felony charges in Lawrence District Court on Dec. 20, 2024.BRAZILIAN ILLEGAL ALIEN CHARGED WITH RAPE CAUGHT IN MASSACHUSETTS, HANDED OVER TO ICE IN RARE CASE  Guatemalan national Stivenson Omar Perez-Ajtzalan, 19, was arrested on Jan. 30…

Police have made a huge breakthrough in a cold case murder after a bombshell DNA link was discovered more than 40 years later.

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.Sobering ThoughtsOn Thursday, President Trump threatened to impose a 200 percent tariff on wine, champagne and spirits imported from Europe.Jimmy Kimmel pointed to the irony of Trump “making it very expensive to get drunk. He’s the reason we need to get drunk!”“Only 35 percent of Americans have a positive view of Elon Musk. Fifty-three percent view him negatively, and 12 percent felt it would be…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Chinese equities hit their highest level this year, defying a decline in the US stock market that pushed it into correction territory overnight amid hopes of further policy support for consumption in Asia’s largest economy. Chinese authorities announced late on Thursday that they would hold a press conference on “boosting consumption” on Monday. This helped push the country’s CSI 300 benchmark up 2.4 per cent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index climbed 2.5 per cent.Gains were concentrated in stocks with exposure to China’s…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.A French high-speed trading firm has urged Europe’s top markets regulator to close what it says is a loophole at futures exchange Eurex that gives some traders an “unfair” advantage.Paris-based Mosaic Finance, which specialises in trading derivatives, has called on the European Securities and Markets Authority to end a “significant” flaw in the German exchange’s systems that it claims has existed for three years and allows some traders to break the exchange’s rules.It said some traders were able to bypass Eurex’s monitoring…