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An issue affecting Bigpond/Telstra emails has left many unable to log in since Monday afternoon. Telstra informed customers of the outage on X about 3pm on Monday. “We’ve picked up an issue affecting some customers trying to access their BigPond/Telstra Mail via the web,” the post said. “Our team’s on it, and we hope to have you back in your inbox soon. Using an app to access your mailbox (Outlook) may help in the meantime.” At 10.15pm, the telco said the problem had still not been fully resolved, and advised customers to reset their password as a first step towards ... Read more

SK Telecom shares fell as much as 8.5 percent to hit their lowest level since August last year, after South Korea’s biggest mobile carrier disclosed it suffered a leak of customer data earlier this month caused by a cyberattack. The company said in a statement it would take full responsibility for any harm caused as a result of the breach that was detected on April 18. It described the incident as a large-scale leak of data due to malware, without providing more details. SK Telecom also said it would start offering free universal subscriber identity module (USIM) replacements to all ... Read more

Watching politicians flail on live TV is a live sport everyone enjoys … until you remember one of these blokes will soon be running the country. In a stunt as old as time, the pair were asked to guess the price of a supermarket staple in their final debate and it went down like an airplane omelette. You always knew it was going to make you cringe. To be fair, I don’t think anything can match NSW housing minister Rose Jackson’s wild assumption that Sydney rentals go for “ a couple hundred dollars per week”, but Mr Dutton’s Hail Mary ... Read more

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size Alex de Minaur has been one of the millions hit by the power outage that left Spain without electricity for hours. The Australian tennis No.1 was preparing to play his third round match in the Madrid Open when the lights went out across the Iberian peninsula.  After a delay of more than four hours all play was cancelled for the day. De Minaur was due to play Canada’s Denis Shapovalov in the final match of the night session on Arantxa Sanchez Vicario court, which ... Read more

The hero cop who fatally shot killer Joel Cauchi during the Bondi Junction attack moved two women pushing prams and another young child out of the way moments before a stray bullet landed in their area, a court has been told. Joel Cauchi, 40, killed six people and injured 10 during a stabbing rampage at the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney’s east on April 13, 2024. Dawn Singleton, Yixuan Cheng, Faraz Ahmed Tahir, Ashlee Good, Jade Young and Pikria Darchia were all killed in the attack. Inspector Amy Scott shot Cauchi shot dead during the incident. A five-week ... Read more

Recently, we have heard a number of NRL coaches talking about the need for a “trade window”. However, a trade window in itself is an irrelevancy. What needs to be defined is what transfer mechanism will be available, not when the mechanism will be operated. The mechanism needs to cover:– how a player can leave club before the end of their contract– how a club can move on a player before the end of their contract– how a club is compensated when a player leaves early– how a player is compensated if he is moved on. Only when those four ... Read more

Cafes in Paris, France have been found to serve cheap wine posed as expensive alternatives, an investigation has revealed. Cafes and bistros in the French capital have been cheating customers, including visitors to the city, by replacing high-end wines with cheap alternatives but charging quality rates. The investigation found that wines such as premium chablis, which sell for around €9 (over £10) per glass, have been swapped with wines like sauvignon which cost around €5 (under £6) per glass.  The investigation was carried out by French newspaper Le Parisien and involved two wine sommeliers detecting when wines have been switched. ... Read more

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size From an individual player’s point of view, no doubt the highlight of the Anzac Round (Round 7) was the 300th game played by Luke Parker. Parker – like the other 300-game player this year, Jack Darling – moved to North Melbourne to achieve the total. A premiership player, All-Australian and three-time Best & Fairest winner at the Swans, Parker has been a valuable player for the Kangaroos, adding experience to a team that could boast only three players who had qualified as Top 100 ... Read more

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size There are a few certainties in Australian life: the magpies will swoop you, the sun will burn you, and every footy fan will complain that the AFL just isn’t what it used to be. And somewhere in that nostalgic whirlpool of arguments about the “good old days,” one truth keeps bobbing back to the surface: the AFL needs to bring back State of Origin. State of Origin once meant something. It was pride. It was passion. It was Wayne Carey trying to flatten anything ... Read more

Australians are cancelling trips to the US as a border crackdown frightens international visitors. Combined with a weak Australian Dollar, some travellers have stated online they are rescheduling or cancelling. The concern comes after two Germans – who hadn’t booked any accommodation – were strip searched and detained at Honolulu Airport, held in custody overnight and then sent packing back to Europe. “Are there any other Aussies that are thinking about cancelling their trip to the US?” TikTok user Remi Meli posted online this week. Ms Meli says she plans to see New York in December, but reports of travellers ... Read more