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- Cyclone Fina approaches communities in northern Western Australia
- Pioneering Australian chef Skye Gyngell dies aged 62...
- India makes history, winning the inaugural Blind Women's T20 Cricket World Cup.
In the Northern Territory, thousands remain without power and a stack of schools are closed, but residents have been spared serious injuries and significant damage from tropical cyclone Fina.
Fina passed between the Tiwi Islands and Darwin at the weekend as a category three system, packing destructive winds and heavy rain.
Power has been restored to 5,000 homes and businesses, but around 14,000 are still without power.
Meanwhile, residents in parts of northern Western Australia are being warned to expect damaging winds and heavy rain today.
Jonathan How, from the Bureau of Meteorology, says Fina is expected to cross the northeast Kimberley coast in the late afternoon or evening.
"We are expecting to see gales to damaging wind gusts of 120 kilometres per hour. And very exposed coastal locations could see very destructive wind gusts up to 185 kilometres an hour. In addition to winds, we can expect to see locally heavy to intense rainfall. And we may also see flash flooding develop across the Kimberley coast. And for those residents across the NT's Daly coast, with that severe weather warning we could see those heavy falls also producing flash flooding."
Independent Senator David Pocock says he is introducing a private member's bill to parliament today to strengthen protections for Australians against AI deepfakes.
The bill bans the use of digitally altered or artificially generated audio or visual content that depicts a person's face or voice without their consent.
It proposes creating a complaints system for the non-consensual sharing of deepfake material; strengthening the powers of the eSafety Commissioner to issue removal notices; and establishing a provision for compensation for those individuals wrongfully depicted or exploited via deepfake material.
Mr Pockock urged MPs to engage in the debate to ensure safeguards are in place to keep pace with evolving technology.
"It seems like a very sensible thing for Australians to be able to say I own my face. This belongs to me. This is part of who I am. And it should not just be whoever has the best software - or the worst ethics to be able to deepfake someone and to use it on the internet."
Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state have escaped captivity and are now with their families.
The owner of the school, Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, says the schoolchildren, aged between 10 and 18, escaped individually between Friday and Saturday.
A total of 253 schoolchildren and 12 teachers are still being held by the kidnappers.
The incident happens more than 10 years after the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls with the UN saying 91 are still held captive or are missing today.
Co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, Aisha Yesufu, says for 11 years, the mass abduction of children has continued - and it must stop.
"This is something that we should all have rallied together as a nation and say "never will anyone touch our children, and we will not go after them." But unfortunately, both the government and the Nigerian people failed. People decided to make the abduction of Chibok girls a political issue. In the sense that they refused to make demands. Unfortunately, we failed at that, and over the years what it now did was that it emboldened the terrorists to continue to pick up our children."
There have been tributes for famed Australian restaurateur and chef Skye Gyngell, who has died aged 62 in London.
Her family shared the news of her death to various media outlets in a statement overnight.
Ms Gyngell was a proponent of seasonal and locally sourced produce - and she was also the only female Australian chef ever awarded a Michelin star.
She also pioneered the "slow food movement" to preserve traditional cooking and a more ethical approach to eating.
Gyngell was also a teacher and private caterer to the clients that included Madonna and Nigella Lawson.
India's women's blind cricket team have made history by winning the first-ever Women's T20 World Cup for the Blind.
The team defeated Nepal by seven wickets in the final played in Colombo, after they earlier defeated Australia in the first semifinal on Saturday.
The team's players come from villages and farming families, with many picking up the sport in the last few years after being recruited by schoolteachers, disability organisations, and through community camps.
Team captain Deepika TC told Asian News International it is amazing to see the team's dreams come true.
“The team did not sleep the whole night. After winning, they feel so proud. We dreamed about this."
