Escaped buffalo bursts into restaurant and tosses man in the air

Bull-dozed! Moment escaped buffalo bursts into restaurant and tosses man in the air in Chinese city The video was filmed in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China, on December 31 The buffalo is seen approaching the restaurant before charging at a man inside The man is thrown into the air by the buffalo’s horns and dumped on […]

Hong Kong bans some flights, including from Australia, tightens COVID-19 curbs

For our free coronavirus pandemic coverage, learn more here. Hong Kong: Flights from eight countries, including Australia, the US and Britain, have been banned from entering Hong Kong for two weeks from this Friday. Hong Kong also tightened restrictions on Wednesday as authorities feared a fifth wave of COVID-19 infections. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie […]

Shocking moment NYE revellers engage in a mass brawl at 4-star hotel

Few BEERS resolution! Moment NYE revellers clash with security as mass brawl breaks out in 16th floor of four-star Birmingham hotel… before thugs take battle down escalator into street Shocking video shows the mass brawl at the Park Regis Hotel in Birmingham The fight broke out during a New Year’s Eve event at the 4-star […]

The government has been found wanting once again

VINTAGE WILCOX Illustration: Cathy WilcoxCredit: To submit a letter to The Age, email [email protected]. Please include your home address and telephone number. COVID-19 The government has been found wanting once again Rapid antigen tests in the UK have individual bar codes which people photograph after taking their free test and upload the result to the […]

Posting positive: The viral craze splitting TikTok

For our free coronavirus pandemic coverage, learn more here. Rewind six months and being infected with COVID-19 in Australia was taboo, an event shrouded in uncertainty and shame. You almost certainly wouldn’t post a video on social media making light of contracting the virus as the country pursued a zero transmission strategy. Young people aged […]

Richard Leakey was a real-life hero, writes GRAHAM BOYNTON

The fearless fossil hunter who saved Africa’s living treasures: TV star, ladies’ man… and a swashbuckling adventurer who lost his legs in a plane crash. Richard Leakey – who has died at 77 – was like a real-life Wilbur Smith hero, writes GRAHAM BOYNTON World-renowned palaeoanthropologist Richard Leakey has died at the age of 77 […]