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- Bruce Lehrmann proceeding with his defamation appeal after a court ruling on costs
- Israel confirms the killing of a senior Hezbollah leader
- Alex de Minaur bounces back from disappointment with a gritty victory in Vienna.
A judge has ruled that Bruce Lehrmann can appeal his defamation lawsuit loss without having to pay $200,000 to cover costs.
Federal Court Justice Wendy Abraham has also allowed Lehrmann's bid to stay previous court orders that he pay $2 million in legal fees to Channel Ten for their costs of defending the proceeding.
Network Ten presenter Lisa Wilkinson had sought to have the $200,000 paid into court as security in the event the 29-year-old loses his appeal.
The 29-year-old is challenging the loss of his lawsuit against Channel Ten over a February 2021 report on The Project that interviewed Brittany Higgins about her allegations of sexual assault in Parliament House.
A group of Rohingya Muslims are reportedly stranded on a boat off the coast of Indonesia.
The 140 mostly women and children are said to be weak and hungry on the wooden boat, which is anchored about a mile offshore from Indonesia's northernmost province of Aceh after a nearly two week trip from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.
Indonesian police say three Rohingya died on the journey and another 11 have been transferred to a government hospital since Sunday after their health worsened.
Local Herma Razak says they have dropped off food and other aid to the boat - but the rest cannot disembark.
"Why they are not allowed to land?"
Razak: "It's not that we don't allow it, but because until now there has been no agreement from other parties. So, if they are allowed to disembark, no-one is responsible for guaranteeing them."
Israel says it has killed a top Hezbollah official who had been widely expected to become the group's next leader.
There has been no confirmation from Hezbollah about the official - identified as Hashem Safieddine - but Israel says he was killed by an airstrike in early October in a southern suburb of Beirut, along with around 25 other Hezbollah leaders.
The announcement follows Hezbollah's claiming of responsibility for a weekend drone attack that targeted Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house.
Chief spokesman Mohammed Afif says the group will not be deterred from attacking Israel.
"The eyes of the fighters of the Islamic Resistance are watching and their ears are listening. If our hands could not reach you the previous time then it's just a matter of days, nights and a field between us and you."
Charles and Camilla will leave Australia this afternoon for Samoa after a whirlwind tour featuring both big crowds and controversy.
The King is due to make an appearance in Samoa at the biannual Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
The UK's Honorary Consul for Samoa, Freddie Tuilagi, says Charles can be assured of a friendly welcome.
"It's a great opportunity for us to to showcase, you know, our culture and and show the king a bit of a taste of what's expecting when he comes to Samoa."
The King is also likely to face Australian influences still at CHOGM, with the Minderoo Foundation - started by the Australian mining billionaire Forrest family - looking to use the meeting to champion its campaign against plastic chemicals.
It has posted confronting advertisements at the airport that show a child vomiting plastic.
New analysis has suggested reducing childhood and teenage obesity could save billions of dollars a year in healthcare costs.
The University of Sydney study has concluded that each overweight child or teen incurs an excess lifetime cost of about $19,700, while those with obesity spend up to $46,700 compared with their healthy-weight peers.
The federal government has implemented a 10-year national obesity strategy, with one of the goals to reduce childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity from 25 per cent to 20 per cent by 2030.
The study's lead author Joseph Carrello says as much as $7.44 billion could be saved over their lifetimes if overweight and obesity was reduced by five percent.
A robot has played the cello for the first time alongside a symphony orchestra in Sweden.
The work was created for the robot to perform with the Malmo orchestra by Swedish composer Jacob Mühlrad.
He says the result was a happy surprise, despite concern from other musicians about the use of the technology.
The composer maintains the experiment is not about replacing human musicians with a robot but gaining new insights into the creative process.
"I received some feedback from some musicians that were a little bit frightened, also from social media - people who are questioning it. But I think it's reasonable to question things. I think that everyone is open to question it, of course. I also question it."
To sport,
Alex de Minaur has bounced back from disappointment in Antwerp to claim a gritty victory against Jay-Lennard Struff in Vienna.
The 25-year-old started slowly against the German, looking out of sorts and dropping the first set, before gradually putting his game back together and winning 2-6 6-2 6-2 at the indoor hardcourt ATP 500.
He will next face Italy's Flavio Cobolli, who beat Spain's Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in straight sets.
