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A flight carrying four Australians stranded for weeks on a hantavirus infected cruise ship is expected to land in Perth on Tuesday.The four have been stuck on expedition cruise ship MV Hondius since an outbreak of the rare rat-borne virus which has killed three passengers and infected five others.A New Zealand national and a permanent resident will also be on board the plane which will then head to the east coast where the Australian passengers are based.A Government spokesperson said Communicable Diseases Network Australia had issued guidance on the health protocols to be observed by passengers and crew on the…

When wildlife TV personality Forrest Galante sat down for his monthly call with YouTube consultant Paddy Galloway, he received some bad news.No more turtles.Galante has 2.5 million YouTube subscribers. He’s been producing wildlife programming for more than a decade, including a docuseries on Animal Planet and a show on the History Channel. He owns his own production company. Generally speaking, Galante’s got a good feel for what his audience wants. But it was Galloway, something of a guru in the still-burgeoning YouTube creator economy, who identified that whenever Galante showed turtles in his videos, viewer engagement dropped. It was consistent and…

NewsFeedAs Russia held its most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years with Vladimir Putin suggesting the war on Ukraine is ‘coming to an end’, Theresa Fallon argues Volodymyr Zelenskyy has played a bad hand of cards very well in order to gain momentum against Moscow.Published On 10 May 202610 May 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Nearly 61 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, a defining moment for the civil rights movement – and a turning point for the nation. “Every family across this great, entire, searching land will live stronger in liberty, will live more splendid in expectation, and will be prouder to be American because of the act that you have passed, that I will sign today,” Johnson said.The law sought to end obstacles to Black voters casting their ballots, said Martha Jones, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University. “Slavery is abolished in 1865; in 1870, the 15th Amendment…

Mehidy Hasan claimed five wickets with his crafty off-spin as Bangladesh fought to regain control of the first cricket Test against Pakistan.The 28-year-old Mehidy finished with 5-102 to help Bangladesh dismiss Pakistan for 386 and take a 27-run first-innings lead on a rain-affected third day on Sunday.Bangladesh then moved to 0-7 before bad light stopped play.Opener Azan Awais hit 103 on his debut to lead Pakistan’s batsmen.Three other batters — debutant Abdullah Fazal, Salman Agha and Mohammad Rizwan — hit half-centuries to complement him but Mehidy ensured Bangladesh took the lead.Pakistan appeared set for a big first-innings total after resuming…

Central banks hold rates steady as energy shock tests inflation fight.Caught between rising inflation and slowing growth, the United States Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England are keeping interest rates and borrowing costs steady.That’s despite rising energy bills, fuel and food costs squeezing businesses and households worldwide.The International Monetary Fund is warning of a global slowdown, and no one knows how long the energy shock set off by the US-Israel war on Iran will last.The impact will be felt hardest in emerging markets and developing nations. Central banks face a tough choice: fight rising prices…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stood out from her colleagues this week when she broke with them to rail against the high court’s decision to fast-track its landmark order dismantling a key provision in the Voting Rights Act. But Jackson’s solo dissent was far from the first time the Biden-appointed justice has been on an island, as she has routinely blasted the court for not asserting more judicial authority over President Donald Trump’s executive actions and drawn rebukes from her colleagues for taking what they have viewed as flawed positions.Ideological divides over high-profile cases…

XRP price might be falling under its $1.40 support, but UBS, a Swiss banking giant managing $7 trillion in assets, has disclosed XRP exposure via a 13F filing with the SEC. The full scope of that filing reveals exactly which instruments the bank used, and why that distinction matters for price structure. The @UBS Group, the world’s largest wealth manager with $5.7 TRILLION in assets, has officially disclosed its #XRP holdings in a brand-new SEC 13F filing.This isn't just "retail hype"; this is one of the most powerful financial institutions on the planet loading up on XRP… pic.twitter.com/lfucA23b5P— 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸XRP (@BankXRP)…

Options traders can’t get enough of semiconductor stocks. No matter how high they go or how expensive the options get, bulls just keep flooding the space.After a 700% rally the past year, traders poured into Micron options Tuesday, paying expensive premiums to get access to further upside in the legacy memory-chip maker that became one of the market’s hottest AI trades over the past year. More than $2.8 billion of Micron options premium changed hands Tuesday as of noon Chicago time, eclipsing the dollar-amount traded in index ETFs SPY and QQQ combined. Micron accounted for 12 of the top 20…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Earlier this week, Draymond Green made headlines by criticizing the twilight of Charles Barkley’s Hall of Fame career.Appearing in studio during Wednesday’s edition of “Inside the NBA,” Green pointed to Barkley’s four-year stint with the Houston Rockets.”I think the goal is just to not look like you in the Houston Rockets uniform,” a follow-up to Barkley’s suggestion that the Golden State Warriors — Green’s team — are well past their championship window. Days later, as controversy mounted, Green clarified his remarks about Barkley.”The reason that I would even say that is what…