Ieri il climber francese Seb Bouin ha effettuato la prima ripetizione di Move nella grotta di Hanshelleren a Flatanger, in Norvegia, la via di arrampicata sportiva gradata 9b/+ e liberata nel 2013 da Adam Ondra. Due mesi dopo essersi aggiudicato la prima ripetizione del 9b Mamichula ad Oliana, in Spagna, il climber francese Sébastien Bouin…
Earlier this year, the 'Momo Challenge' was front of mind for the team at Greg Margossian's tech startup. The phenomenon, which involved reports that cyber predators were taking on a persona called Momo and contacting children via social media asking them to hurt themselves, had sent ripples of concern through schools across the country. It…
Commuters have been left stranded on their way to work this morning as urgent signal repairs stopped trams from running from Central Station to the Convention Centre at the height of the morning peak. A spokeswoman for the Transport Management Centre said signals went down at the intersection of George and Hay streets at 8.25am,…
It's close to 5pm on a Saturday along Paddington's Glenmore Road, and the restaurants of the Five Ways village are starting to sparkle. But the night is unlikely to take off for one 29-year-old woman, who sits on the kerb of the inner city suburb in handcuffs, while plain-clothed police officers search her black BMW….
Prince Harry could not resist stoking the rivalry between England and Australia ahead of the Cricket World Cup when the team captains met at Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Sussex jokingly needled Australian captain Aaron Finch. "You're getting on a bit now, aren't you? How long have you been playing?" he said, making the batsman…
Ralph Kelly, whose son Thomas died after a drunken one-punch attack in Kings Cross, has said he would not be opposed to Sydney's lockout laws being relaxed or even repealed if the city remained safe. The controversial laws are set to be wound back after Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced a cross-party committee would investigate the…
GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS ★★½ (M) General release (132 minutes) This is the first Godzilla film Hollywood has given us in five years, and I confess to having little memory of what happened in the last one – especially where the human cast is concerned. Did Bryan Cranston live or die? Who did Elizabeth…
Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt has warned of a setback to reconciliation that could last decades if the nation rushes towards a referendum without a consensus on constitutional reform. Mr Wyatt urged a cautious approach to constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people out of concern at the risk of a devastating defeat…
Tim Clipsham wasn't prepared for a phone call from Atlassian inquiring about buying his start-up. "I was really surprised, it wasn't something I had considered," the founder of analytics company Good Software says. "I had a 10-year vision ahead of what I wanted to achieve." The 31-year-old software developer launched Good Software just over two…
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has told an Australian audience it was “speculation” and “absolutely untrue” that Hong Kong would lose its distinct identity as the Chinese Communist Party pushes ahead with an economic plan to link the former British colony with nearby mainland cities. Lam will travel to Australia to promote…