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Philip MarceloJune 3, 2026 — 3:58pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAANew York: Mole people? Crocodile catchers? Mario brothers? Ninja turtles? A series of bizarre sightings of people popping in and out of New York City’s vast subterranean sewer system has the city wondering what exactly is going on, with police now probing the underground mystery.Security cameras have recorded at least three night-time incidents in which groups of people entered or exited sewer tunnels via maintenance holes on streets in Brooklyn and Queens.In one video, taken early on Friday morning…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAUp to four in five cigarettes smoked in Australia are illegal, as new evidence dragged from the nation’s sewers reveals that decades of campaigning to reduce smoking rates has failed.The Australian Bureau of Statistics has for the first time quantified how the illicit tobacco trade now dominates the nation’s cigarette market by using experimental testing of nicotine concentration in wastewater.New data suggests 80 per cent of nicotine products are illegal.Marija ErcegovacAccording to the data released on Wednesday, illicit nicotine products – including cigarettes, e-cigarettes,…
Updated June 3, 2026 — 6:05pm,first published 12:09pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAANeale Daniher’s daughter has revealed her final conversation with her late father was about the speech he would deliver Melbourne and Collingwood players before this year’s Big Freeze game.On the day it was announced NRL star Jai Arrow, who was recently retired after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease, will toss the coin in Monday’s special King’s Birthday clash, the Magpies and Demons united to remember Daniher’s extraordinary contribution as the figurehead of the battle against MND.Jan…
The wife and daughter of late AFL legend Neale Daniher have spoken for the first time since his death.
Updated June 3, 2026 — 5:59pm,first published 1:26pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAPolice have raided the homes of Mick Gatto and his close associate, Big Build subcontractor Nic Maric, as part of ongoing investigations into suspected crime and corruption in the construction sector.The dramatic arrest of Gatto at his Mount Martha property on Wednesday morning by detectives from Taskforce Hawk came five days after officers from the same taskforce raided Maric’s Point Cook property.Last March, this masthead first revealed Maric was one of several building company owners paying gangland-linked…
Updated June 3, 2026 — 6:02pm,first published June 3, 2026 — 9:21amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAANew South Wales, South Australia and Queensland Cricket have requested an urgent meeting with Cricket Australia about Victoria’s shock decision to merge the Melbourne Stars and the Melbourne Renegades, as it prepares to sell a second “clean” Big Bash League licence to private owners.The merger caused major reverberations on Wednesday, leaving players such as Glenn Maxwell in limbo, as former Stars impresarios Eddie McGuire and John Wylie questioned the wisdom of retiring the…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAAustralian organisations will get access to the artificial intelligence model that Anthropic has deemed “too dangerous” for public release, as part of a staggered global rollout aimed at hardening critical systems against hackers.On Wednesday morning, the San Francisco company said it had extended access to its Claude Mythos Preview model to about 150 new organisations across more than 15 countries, expanding a program known as Project Glasswing. The Financial Times reported access had been granted across the Five Eyes alliance – which includes Australia…
Bodycam footage released by UK police shows 18-year-old Henry Nowak telling police “I can’t breathe” as they arrested him, with the university student later dying after being stabbed.
Updated June 3, 2026 — 5:37pm,first published 12:07pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe Reserve Bank may hold interest rates steady for the rest of the year as consumers struggle to deal with cost-of-living pressures just as businesses ramp up spending on data centres to levels on track to dwarf the early 2010s mining boom.Economic growth through the first three months of the year slowed to 0.3 per cent, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported on Wednesday, as shoppers started to feel the financial hit from high oil prices and…
National weather forecast for Wednesday June 3.