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The Australian Olympic team has received a warm welcome from Prime minister Anthony Albanese as they arrived at the Sydney airport this morning from Paris.
The team secured Australia's 4th place finish after claiming a record 18 gold medals, 19 silvers and 16 bronze in Paris - the team's most successful Olympics yet.
Mr Albanese commended the team.
"Every single one of these athletes has done us proud, and as the athletes went down the stairs there, not everyone had a medal around their neck, but every single one of them was worth their weight in gold. every single one of them has done, our country proud. "
A 46-year-old woman has been charged with murder after the death after the death of a 10-year-old girl whose throat was slashed at a home on the Gold Coast in Queensland.
Police were called to an address at Emerald Lakes in Carrara just after 6pm on Tuesday, where they found the child unresponsive and could not be revived.
Police say the woman who was known to the girl was arrested nearby about four hours later and is due to face the Southport magistrate's court.
Police Inspector Lou Serafim says first responders who were exposed to the crime scene are now receiving counselling.
"My staff that attended as first responders, and also the emergency services from the Queensland Ambulance Service have entered a scene that is quite traumatic and those officers and the paramedics are receiving internal counseling in relation to the incident that they were exposed to."
If you or someone you know needs support, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or 1800Respect on 1800 737 732.
Africa's top public health body has declared a public health emergency over a growing mpox outbreak on the continent.
Mpox is an infectious disease transmitted through close contact and causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions.
Most cases are mild, but it can kill.
The outbreak has swept through several African countries, particularly the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Salim Abdool Karim is a clinical infectious diseases specialist.
“The evidence we have on the number of cases, the number of deaths, they are just the tip of the iceberg. And the reason is that mpox is largely a mild condition. We have limited surveillance. We have limited capacity to do the testing that's required. We have limited capacity to do the contact tracing and the reporting. So they are at multiple points in this. The information we have reflects only a partial situation of what's actually happening.”
Shared e-scooters will soon disappear from the streets of Melbourne after the city council decided to end contracts with providers Lime and Neuron.
Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece told 3AW he supported the e-scooter scheme initially, but says the plan hasn't worked in the way the government had imagined.
"I was a supporter of the e-scooter scheme when they first started. You know, saw it as a good way of getting around. But I've got to admit, I am fed up with the bad behaviour and the community safety and risk issues. There's just too many people riding on footpaths. People don't park them properly. They're tipped over, they're scattered around the city like confetti, like rubbish, and creating tripping hazards."
Scientists believe an ocean's worth of water could be beneath the surface of Mars.The findings are based on analysis from NASA's Insight Lander, which has recorded seismic vibrations from deep inside the red planet. This is now raising fresh questions about whether life once existed.
Scientists are hoping to use this to learn more about the internal structure of Mars. They plan to move the seismometer further into the ground to gather vibrations coming from deep within the planet.
