Meet Australia's real-life Spider-Man: Medical student visits sick children and gifts Nintendo Switches while dressed as the superhero | World News

Meet Australia’s real-life Spider-Man: Medical student visits sick children and gifts Nintendo Switches while dressed as the superhero | World News

Most superheroes exist only on cinema screens, but in north Queensland, one young medical student is making a real difference for children battling illness. George D. Mann, a 20-year-old third-year medical student from Townsville, Australia, spends his free time as “Dr. Spider-Man”, visiting young patients while dressed in a Spider-Man suit and white doctor’s coat….

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Bernadin Dedic: ‘They pushed me out’: Rapist who fled UK to Bosnia after accidental prison release, convicted of 9 counts | World News

Bernadin Dedic: ‘They pushed me out’: Rapist who fled UK to Bosnia after accidental prison release, convicted of 9 counts | World News

A rapist who fled the UK after being mistakenly released from prison has claimed he warned prison staff that he was not supposed to be freed before leaving the country.Bernadin Dedic, 48, was being held on remand while awaiting trial on allegations that he repeatedly raped a woman at knifepoint when an administrative error led…

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Meet Gina Rinehart: Australia’s richest woman who just invested $1.4 billion in Elon Musk’s SpaceX | World News

Meet Gina Rinehart: Australia’s richest woman who just invested $1.4 billion in Elon Musk’s SpaceX | World News

For decades, the fortune of Australia’s wealthiest citizen has been tied to iron ore buried deep beneath the country’s red earth. Yet in recent years, Gina Rinehart has gradually expanded her interests far beyond mining, backing sectors she believes will shape the decades ahead. Space exploration now appears to sit firmly within that vision. As…

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‘Bad Omen’: Ancient Mexican pyramid collapses after 1,100 years shocking archaeologists | World News

‘Bad Omen’: Ancient Mexican pyramid collapses after 1,100 years shocking archaeologists | World News

For more than a millennium, a stone pyramid stood watch over the ancient settlement of Ihuatzio in western Mexico. Built by the Purépecha civilisation, one of the few Mesoamerican powers that successfully resisted Aztec expansion, the monument survived centuries of conflict, weather and human change. Yet in a matter of hours, part of this remarkable…

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'Restoring legacy': Pentagon renames Indo-Pacific Command back to Pacific Command

US drops ‘Indo’ from Indo-Pacific Command name, cites ‘restoring legacy’

The department of war announced Tuesday that the US Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) will officially restore its name to the US Pacific Command (USPACOM), reversing the 2018 decision to rename it.Originally established on January 1, 1947, by then-President Harry S Truman, the command operated under the USPACOM banner for over 70 years, standing as the oldest…

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The world has 193 countries, but only one is named after a real woman; story begins nearly 1,700 years ago | World News

The world has 193 countries, but only one is named after a real woman; story begins nearly 1,700 years ago | World News

Country names often arrive carrying layers of history that are easy to overlook. Some preserve the memory of dynasties, some echo ancient tribes, and others trace their roots to geography that predates written records. Hidden among them is a small Caribbean nation whose name stands apart for an unusual reason. Saint Lucia is widely regarded…

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