By Harold Isaac and Brian Ellsworth PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 11 (Reuters) – Gun battles between rival gangs have killed more than 50 people since Friday near Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, a local mayor said on Monday, amid a continuing escalation of violence gripping the Caribbean nation. Shootouts between gangs in the impoverished suburb of Cite Soleil […]
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By Daina Beth Solomon , Dave Graham and Matt Spetalnick MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON July 11 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will meet his Mexican counterpart on Tuesday to discuss ways to stem Mexican migrant crossings as arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border reached their highest levels in over a decade, with both sides hoping to address […]
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(CNN) It should have been a happy occasion as Marcelo Arruda, a member of Brazil’s left-wing Worker’s Party, celebrated his 50th birthday with a politically-themed party over the weekend. Instead, deadly gunfire erupted at the gathering in the southern Brazilian city of Foz de Iguaçu, claiming Arruda’s life in an apparent clash over politics that […]
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By Ted Hesson and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) – The United States will renew but not expand Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans in the country, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Monday, a move that leaves tens of thousands of recently arrived Venezuelans without access to the humanitarian program. […]
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TOKYO, July 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar hit a fresh two-decade peak versus major peers on Tuesday, hoisted by safety bids and expectations of further aggressive rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, while the euro was pinned close to a 20-year low near parity to the greenback. The dollar index , a measure against […]
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A house in Sydney's north-west will remain partially in a sinkhole awaiting an assessment from council engineers before facing demolition.
Neighbours are in shock and feeling guilty they couldn’t save the woman they only knew as “Cecilia” who was assaulted and later died on Cockburn St in Auckland’s Grey Lynn, on Saturday. The Herald understands Cecilia Ozyurteri,…
By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News At least 10 people have been killed in an operation by the Colombian security forces targeting a group of rebels who rejected the 2016 peace deal. The joint police and military operation was targeting a man known as Iván Mordisco, who leads a breakaway faction of the Revolutionary Armed […]
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Perfectly preserved coffee beans dating back more than 167 years have been found by archaeologists working on the Metro Tunnel project, confirming that Melbourne has always been Australia's coffee capital.
The archaeologists were digging up the historic remains of a grocery store near the site of the Young and Jacksons pub on Swanston Street, in Melbourne's CBD, in 2018 when they discovered the artefacts.
The John Connell general store burnt down in the Gold Rush era, which preserved more than 500 coffee beans along with English biscuits, fruit remains and other perishables that would not ordinarily have lasted the test of time.
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Excavation director Meg Goulding said the items had been carbonised and preserved in a similar way to the ancient Roman city of Pompeii when it was buried under volcanic ash.
"This was just a general store that was servicing the gold fields at the time," she said.
"He was there from the early 1850s, we know that the gold rush started in 1851."
Artefact manager Jennifer Porter said the beans were a "rare find".
"It's such a rare sight to find such a rich assemblage of different types of artefacts," she said.
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Acting Premier Jacinta Allan said the discovery of coffee beans demonstrates Melbourne's iconic coffee culture goes way back to the 1850s.
"The discovery proving coffee has long been important to Melburnians," she said.
"Remarkably, the coffee beans have been preserved and they are now part of the rare finds that we are uncovering as we get on and deliver the Metro Tunnel project."
It's now hoped all of these items, including the coffee beans, will be put on display for the public to see.
Treasury warned that interest rates are likely to rise even higher if the Government increases spending beyond what it outlined in the Budget earlier this year. A paper from Treasury to Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee…
