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Albany tennis players enjoyed a stand-out week of competition representing WA at the Queensland junior country championships, with the top side finishing third overall after a string of tough matches.The December competition was split into two divisions, based on the players’ universal tennis rankings, with matches involving singles, doubles and mixed outings.Five of the players in the eight-strong WA contingent are coached in Albany by Vincent Brochard.The top Sam Stosur division included the Albany quartet of Tea Zizek, Denby Sharpe, Zuri Ochieng and Fernando Gatti, who combined to finish third overall, with Zizek unbeaten in her singles and mixed doubles…

The World Health Organization said on Friday (Feb 6) that a woman had died in northern Bangladesh in January after contracting the deadly Nipah virus infection.The case in Bangladesh, where Nipah cases are reported almost every year, follows two Nipah virus cases identified in neighbouring India, which has already prompted stepped-up airport screenings across Asia.The patient in Bangladesh, aged between 40 and 50 years, developed symptoms consistent with Nipah virus on January 21, including fever and headache followed by hypersalivation, disorientation and convulsion, the WHO added.She died a week later and was confirmed to be infected with the virus a…

NewsFeedIran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi slammed the double standard allowing Israel to expand its military while other countries in the region are demanded to reduce their defensive capabilities. Araghchi spoke at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, a three-day event focusing on geopolitical shifts in the Middle East.Published On 7 Feb 20267 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Share

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Friday that two West Virginia National Guard members — Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe — who were shot in an ambush-style attack near the White House late last year, will receive the Purple Heart.Calling the Nov. 26 incident “a terrible thing” and saying the troops were “attacked by a radical,” Hegseth made the announcement while speaking at a National Guard reenlistment ceremony at the Washington Monument, where he administered the oath of enlistment to more than 100 Guardsmen from nine…

The Albany Grasmere wind farm, standing tall on the Torndirrup Peninsula, has become practical renewable energy infrastructure as well as a popular tourist attraction in its two decades of operation.The long line of 18 turbines stands guard over the rugged Great Southern coastline, about 80m above Sandpatch Beach on the outskirts of Albany, about 10km outside of the town centre.The wind farm was commissioned in 2001, and at the time was the largest in the country, leading Australia’s future in wind energy.It was built in two stages: the first 12 turbines in 2001, and another six added in 2011.When the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “The Crown” star Claire Foy revealed she had a “disgusting” five-year battle with stomach parasites.During a recent episode of the “Table Manners with Jesse and Lennie Ware” podcast, Foy said she might have picked up the infection while visiting Morocco.Speaking of the parasite, Foy said, “I kept losing weight and I didn’t know what was going on. I was just like, ‘I’m eating everything.’ I was so hungry.” “The Crown” star Claire Foy contracted a parasite that lived in her body for five years. (Getty Images)Jesse Ware asked Foy if she was…

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok faces intense criticism – accused of allowing users on the Musk-owned social media platform X to generate fake, sexually explicit images of real women and children.Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Musk’s children, is one of the alleged victims. She said in an interview with “CBS Mornings” that aired on Tuesday that Grok allowed users to generate and publish sexual deepfake images of her to X without permission, including manipulating photos of her as a minor.”The worst for me was seeing myself undressed, bent over and then my toddler’s backpack in the background,”…

BEIJING: Hong Kong’s commerce chief on Friday (Feb 6) summoned the Panamanian Consul General in the city to condemn a court ruling that annulled Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison’s contract to operate two ports at the Panama Canal.The move came after China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office warned Panama of “heavy prices” to pay over the decision earlier this week.Hong Kong’s Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Algernon Yau Ying-wah, expressed “strong dissatisfaction and opposition” to the Panama Supreme Court’s decision during a meeting with the Panamanian Consul General, Jose Ramon de Jesus Varela Fabrega, according to a post by…

The Sudan Doctors Network calls the attack in North Kordofan a ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’.Listen to this article | 4 minsinfoPublished On 7 Feb 20267 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareSudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have launched a series of drone attacks targeting humanitarian aid convoys and fuel trucks across North Kordofan, killing at least one person and wounding several others, officials and medical organisations said.The North Kordofan state government condemned Friday’s strikes on a convoy linked to the World Food Programme (WFP), urging the international community and United Nations bodies to impose sanctions on the RSF paramilitary…

A federal appeals court on Friday endorsed the Trump administration’s policy of holding broad groups of immigration detainees without access to bond hearings, a major legal victory for President Trump and his deportation crackdown.In a 2-1 decision, a panel of federal judges at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said the Trump administration had properly reinterpreted an immigration law last year to disqualify many unauthorized immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement from being able to ask an immigration judge to be released on bond.Previously, immigrants who had lived in the U.S. unlawfully for years were generally eligible for bond…