Households that bear the brunt of rising urban heat are rationing the energy to cool their homes, as they simultaneously face bill shock at the petrol bowser amid the war in the Middle East.
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 …
Asia-Pacific markets were set to fall Thursday as investors grappled with volatile oil prices and escalating tensions in the Middle East, even after the U.S. and its allies announced an unprecedented emergency release of crude reserves to calm energy markets.
A Georgia man was found shot dead behind the wheel of an SUV in Brooklyn this week, and his alleged killer – a local to the area – was arrested several hours later, cops said Wednesday.
Jim Chalmers says the government will crack down on fuel sector misconduct as petrol prices spike following the outbreak of war in the Middle East and Labor comes under attack for failing to shore up fuel supplies in regional Australia.
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…
A Mexican citizen accused of trying to smuggle a half ton of liquid methamphetamine hidden in a truck’s fuel tank at the California border is facing life in prison.
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…
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.
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…
All-Ceylon Bakery Owners Association President N.K.Jayawardena yesterday said their Association does not expect to increase the prices of bakery products despite the fuel price increase in the country
A crew of immigrants from El Salvador were caught driving with Molotov cocktails after an early-morning traffic stop on Long Island this week, Suffolk County police said.
Russia’s state-controlled energy giant Gazprom said Wednesday that Ukrainian forces had repeatedly attacked infrastructure linked to two Black Sea gas pipelines supplying Turkey and southeastern Europe, in what Moscow described as an attempt to disrupt exports.
The day after the missiles struck the Gulf, a Bangladeshi delivery rider in Dubai was back on his bike. The roads were quieter than usual, but the tips were better.
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…
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 …
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday urged Group of Seven leaders to take swift action to restore navigation through the Strait of Hormuz after the US-Israeli-Iran war brought traffic in the crucial shipping route to a halt.
The war triggered by the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran is driving sharp swings in global oil markets, potentially handing Russia an unexpected revenue boost despite Western sanctions over its war in Ukraine.
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, …
Australia Institute data finds state and federal subsidies for coal, gas and oil products increased 10% in past year, growing at a faster pace than funding to NDIS