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Dog rescued by helicopter from raging flood waters in Northern Territory – video

Video released by the NT Emergency Service shows the moment a dog is rescued from a car stranded in raging flood waters on a creek crossing west of Katherine. A helicopter pilot dropped a police officer on top of the vehicle to help the stranded driver and passenger and then went back to retrieve their dog from the …

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Second person charged after alleged kidnapping in south-west Sydney

A second person has been charged over the alleged kidnappingof a Sydney tobacco store owner, leading to a covert police operation to save him.The 53-year-old man was snatched by four people from outside his shop on Meadows Road in Mount Pritchard just after 6am on February 24, with CCTV footage showing him being bun…

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Committee to manage fuel supply chain challenges - President - DailyNews

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Tuesday said that the Government has established an Economic Monitoring Committee to manage the challenges arising from the disruption of supply chains due to the conflicts in the Middle East and this Committee has begun discussion with friendly countries to ensure the continuit…

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Fuel fund to minimize adverse effect on local consumers - DailyNews

Prof. Priyanga Dunusinghe of the Department of Economics at the University of Colombo said that it is time to resort to methods such as establishing a fuel fund with the aim of minimising the adverse effects on local consumers and producers due to the sharp increase and decrease in fuel prices in the world market.

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The Golden Hour - DailyNews

The accident and emergency healthcare system in Sri Lanka is among the best in South Asia, but it needs further improvement and investment. A crucial Cabinet decision was made on this subject last week. Since emergency hospitalisations due to home/work accidents and trauma, road accidents, and severe cardiac and par…

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Looking beyond the present

AS my good friend and colleague Stephen CuUnjieng explained in a television interview earlier this week, the government’s move to drop the excise tax on fuel — and possibly remove or modify the value-added tax as well, although that seems unlikely — in order to provide some cushion against skyrocketing oil prices is…

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Dracula’ (2026) on VOD, Luc Besson’s Amusingly Batshit, Romantic Take on a Horror Classic

One hint that we shouldn’t take Luc Besson’s new Dracula (now streaming on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) too seriously? The shot of a road sign that seems to suggest that France and Romania share a border. Of course, by that point, we’ve already heard all the ridiculous accents and seen Count Dracula’s CGI …

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UN aid chief urges ‘humanitarian exemptions’ to get aid through Strait of Hormuz

The United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher warned on Wednesday that the US-Israeli war on Iran was impacting aid supply routes and urged all parties to ensure “exemptions for our humanitarian supplies”. “I’m worried that actually further escalation will damage other supply routes,” Fletcher told reporters in Geneva, …

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