Two truck drivers from NSW tested positive for COVID-19 in Western Australia this morning.

WA Premier Mark McGowan said he has been briefed on the emerging situation while he was in today's National Cabinet meeting.

The 29-year-old and 23-year-old were tested in NSW on August 25 as a part of regular testing for interstate drivers.

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Both had received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine and wore masks.

They travelled by truck via Victoria and South Australia and arrived in WA yesterday.

Mr McGowan said the pair slept in their own trucks, wore masks and had minimal contact with others.

He said there are some exposure sites.

A 12-year-old boy has suffered serious head injuries after falling from a car allegedly being driven by an unlicensed teen in Perth's north.

Police say a 16-year-old boy was behind the wheel of a red Volkswagon Golf hatchback, driving down Cobbler Road, Mirrabooka with two passengers in the car just after 10pm.

As the car approached Northwood Drive, police say one of the passengers, a 12-year-old boy, was thrown from the vehicle.

The boy received serious head injuries and was taken to Perth Children's Hospital by ambulance officers who attended the scene.

Police are now investigating the incident to determine how the boy came to exit the moving vehicle and get injured.

Investigators are urging anyone with dashcam or CCTV footage which may have captured the incident to contact CrimeStoppers on 1800 333 444.

Although it's four months away, it may be time to start thinking about doing your Christmas shopping.

The retail supply chain has been significantly impacted by the pandemic, due to ports being closed, fewer freight flights, and delays caused by extended lockdowns.

Last week one of China's busiest ports was forced to shut down, which will undoubtedly have flow-on effects.

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"There is no doubt the global pandemic has had a massive disruption on supply," CEO of the Australian Retailers Association Paul Zahra told 9News.

"The capping of incoming flights has meant that a lot of products coming into the country have had to be shipped in which is causing all sorts of delays."

Woolworths boss Brad Banducci is also concerned about shortages come Christmas time.

"All of us need to make sure we get our products for Christmas into Australia as soon as possible," he said.

It is a worrying sign in the lead up to Christmas, but for retail giant Wesfarmers, profits have so far been strong.

Its stores Bunnings, Kmart and Officeworks recorded bumper sales to June 30 despite navigating lockdowns around the country.

Wesfarmers' full-year results show profits are up by 16 per cent and online sales increased by 57 percent to 2.4 billion dollars.

But the overall impact of COVID-19 on the NSW retail sector hard, and saw a 8.9 per cent drop in sales during July.

"We are concerned about those small businesses being able to come out of the lockdowns and be able to operate," Mr Zahra said.

Evacuation flights from Afghanistan have resumed with new urgency after two suicide bombings targeted the thousands of desperate people fleeing the Taliban takeover.

The US says further attempted attacks are expected ahead of the Tuesday deadline for foreign troops to leave, ending America's longest war.

Kabul residents said several flights took off Friday morning, while footage shared by a local Tolo TV correspondent showed the anxious crowd outside the airport as large as ever.

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Bombings overnight near Kabul's international airport killed at least 60 Afghans and 13 US troops, Afghan and US officials said, in the deadliest day for US forces in Afghanistan since August 2011.

In an emotional speech, President Joe Biden blamed the Islamic State group's Afghanistan affiliate, far more radical than the Taliban militants who seized power less than two weeks ago.

"We will rescue the Americans; we will get our Afghan allies out, and our mission will go on," Mr Biden said.

But despite intense pressure to extend Tuesday's deadline, he has cited the threat of terrorist attacks as a reason to keep to his plan.

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The Taliban, back in control of Afghanistan two decades after they were ousted in a US-led invasion following the 9/11 attacks, insist on the deadline.

The Trump administration in February 2020 struck an agreement with the Taliban that called for it to halt attacks on Americans in exchange for the removal of all US troops and contractors by May; Mr Biden announced in April he would have them out by September.

While the US on Thursday said more than 100,000 people have been safely evacuated from Kabul, as many as 1000 Americans and tens of thousands more Afghans are struggling to leave in one of history's largest airlifts.

General Frank McKenzie, the US Central Command chief overseeing the evacuation, today said about 5000 people were awaiting flights on the airfield.

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The scenes at the airport, with people standing knee-deep in sewage and families thrusting documents and even young children toward US troops behind razor wire, have horrified many around the world as far-flung efforts continue to help people escape.

But those chances are fading fast for many. Some US allies, including Australia, have said they are ending evacuation efforts, in part to give the US time to wrap up its evacuation work before getting 5000 of its troops out by Tuesday.

Britain has said its evacuations from Afghanistan will end within hours, and the main British processing center for eligible Afghans has been closed. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told Sky News there would be "eight or nine" more evacuation flights, and they will be the last. British troops will leave over the next few days.

The Spanish government said it has ended its evacuation operation.

Untold thousands of Afghans, especially ones who had worked with the US and other Western countries, are now in hiding from the Taliban, fearing retaliation despite the group's offer of full amnesty.

The militant group has claimed it has become more moderate since its harsh rule from 1996 to 2001, when it largely confined women to their homes, banned television and music and held public executions.

But Afghans in Kabul and elsewhere have reported that some Taliban members are barring girls from attending school and going door to door in search of people who had worked with Western forces.

No one knows how effective the Taliban will be at combating the Sunni extremists of IS, who have links to the group's more well-known affiliate in Syria and Iraq and have carried out a series of brutal attacks in Afghanistan, mainly targeting its Shiite Muslim minority.

You may want to skip the toppings on your next hot dog, or skip it altogether: Health researchers at the University of Michigan in the US have found that eating a single hot dog could take 36 minutes off your life.

In their study, published this month in the journal Nature Food, researchers looked at 5853 foods in the US diet and measured their effects in minutes of healthy life gained or lost.

"We wanted to make a health-based evaluation of the beneficial and detrimental impacts of the food in the entire diet," Olivier Jolliet, professor of environmental health sciences at the university and senior author of the paper, told CNN.

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The team came up with an index that calculates the net beneficial or detrimental health burden in minutes of healthy life associated with a serving of food.

It's based on a study called the Global Burden of Disease, which measures morbidity associated with a person's food choices.

"For example, 0.45 minutes are lost per gram of processed meat, or 0.1 minutes are gained per gram of fruit. We then look at the composition of each food and then multiplied this number by the corresponding food profiles that we previously developed," Mr Jolliet said.

One of the foods researchers measured was a standard beef hot dog on a bun.

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Its 61 grams of processed meat resulted in the loss of 27 minutes of healthy life, Mr Jolliet said — but when ingredients like sodium and trans fatty acids were factored in, the final value was 36 minutes lost.

Consumption of foods such as nuts, legumes, seafood, fruits and non-starchy vegetables, on the other hand, have positive effects on health, the study found.

The index looks at foods that increase or decrease life expectancy, but it's not as easy as trying to cancel out detrimental food choices with more beneficial ones, Mr Jolliet said.

"The index is primarily there to help aid in selecting and using calories consumed on a daily basis to tweak a minimum of habits and make the minimum of change to obtain a maximum benefit for health and the environment from our food experience," Mr Jolliet said.

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The point is to choose better foods, not to spend time doing the math, he said.

"Is it the ultimate metric that will tell you exactly what to eat tomorrow and entirely determine your life expectancy? No," he said.

"It is a useful metric that can help you make more informed choices and makes it simpler to identify and make adequate small changes in our diet."

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It's also not as easy as calculating what food to eat in order to live to be 100, said Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition and public health at New York University.

She told CNN the numbers may not be entirely reliable.

"Changing a diet to include or exclude any one food is unlikely to make much difference — it's dietary (and lifestyle) patterns that count," she said.

"I suppose you could argue that the minutes add up, but that gets into further untested and untestable assumptions."

A Melbourne woman who has become a mum after fighting cancer twice wants others to know there is still hope for having a family after cancer treatment.

Melissa Seach, a 43-year-old Acting Sergeant with Victoria Police, was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma in 2005.

She undertook a six month stint of fortnightly chemotherapy to beat it.

But Ms Seach was then two weeks away from marking five years in remission when the cancer returned.

Before having more intense chemotherapy, doctors suggested she try having her ovarian tissue removed for fertility preservation.

The harsh cancer treatment she then underwent fought off the cancer, but sent her body into menopause.

Doctors then attempted a rare procedure on Ms Seach, grafting the ovary they had earlier removed back into her body, and were able to help her conceive a baby with her own eggs and a sperm donor.

Ms Seach is now the proud mum of Millie, whose first birthday falls today – on Daffodil Day.

Daffodil Day Day is the Cancer Council's annual campaign that raises life-saving funds for cancer research.

Millie is one of only around 180 babies born in the world using the procedure.

Ms Seach is sharing her story to give other cancer battlers hope of creating their own family and to highlight the importance of exploring options around fertility before cancer treatment.

"My body has been smashed with cancer treatment," she said.

"It's just amazing how now I've been able to have a baby."

"There's hope that after going through such harsh cancer treatment that one day you'll be able to create your own family and have your own baby."

"We really didn't know what the future would hold and I had no idea that this would ever come true," she said.

Around 145,000 Victorians are diagnosed with cancer every year.

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