Fifty-six people have been killed and several injured in a stampede at a football stadium in southern Guinea, following clashes between fans, the government says.

Authorities in the West African country are conducting an investigation to establish those responsible for the stampede on Sunday, Communications Minister Fana Soumah said in a statement read on national television on Monday.

Children were among those who died as security forces tried to quell clashes during a football match at a crowded stadium in southern Guinea's largest city, according to local media and a coalition of political parties.

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The stampede broke out on Sunday afternoon at the Nzerekore city during the final of a local tournament between the Labe and Nzerekore teams in honour of Guinea's military leader, Mamadi Doumbouya, Guinea's Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah said on the X platform.

The regional authorities are working to restore calm in the area, he added.

Local media reported security forces tried to use teargas to restore calm after the chaos that followed a disputed penalty.

"This (the disputed penalty) angered supporters who threw stones. This is how the security services used tear gas," the local Media Guinee reported.

It said several of those killed were children while some of the injured being treated at a regional hospital were in a critical condition.

Videos that appeared to be from the scene showed a section of the stadium shouting and protesting the refereeing before the clashes broke out as fans poured onto the field.

People were running as they tried to escape from the stadium, many of them jumping the high fence.

Videos also showed many people lying on the floor in what looked like a hospital as a crowd gathered nearby, some assisting the wounded.

The National Alliance for Alternation and Democracy coalition called for an investigation. It said the tournament was organised to drum up support for the "illegal and inappropriate" political ambition of the military leader.

Guinea has been led by the military since soldiers ousted President Alpha Conde in 2021. It is one of a growing number of West African countries, including Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, where the military has taken power and delayed a return to civilian rule.

Doumbouya overran the president three years ago, saying he was preventing the country from slipping into chaos and chastised the previous government for broken promises. He has, however, been criticised for not meeting the expectations that he raised.

Insurers are counting the cost after heavy thunderstorms smashed parts of Queensland yesterday, leaving streets and cars inundated with water.

The impact on low-lying areas caught many off-guard, including a wedding on the Gold Coast that came to an abrupt halt as a metre of water flooded through the venue.

The RACQ received 89 home insurance claims and more than 40 motor vehicle claims in the past 24 hours.

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The deluge drowned cars in Coorparoo, Woolloongabba and Stones Corner as Rosalie copped 70 millimetres in just an hour, and Holland Park recorded 33 millimetres in the same period.

Chris Chambers had just sat down for his birthday at the Norman Hotel in Woollongabba when the severe weather alert was issued.

He and others inside looked on in shock when staff attempted to save cars and bins from floating away in the car park.

"The water was just torrentially coming into the carpark from the side street and it all happened very quickly," he said.

"(Staff) were trying to push cars away from the other vehicles so they weren't bumping into each other."

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Some parts of the south-east had their wettest December day for 20 years and the Lockyer Valley further west was also drenched.

"To have that amount of rainfall falling in just that short amount of time – half an hour to an hour – definitely caused a lot of flash flooding in the area," Meteorologist Shane Kennedy said.

Security footage at an East Brisbane garage captured how quickly the water rose from trickle to torrent in less than 20 minutes.

"All of the driveways have been built up but still it affects us on the streets, the roads, the clean-up," Absolute Car Care's Steve Georgas said.

At Mudgeeraba on the Gold Coast, wedding celebrations came to a grinding halt when water came flooding through the luxury venue at The Acre Boomerang Farms.

"We've lost most of our wedding venue," venue owner Stevie Filipovic said.

"If you see inside, most of the kitchen at the wedding venue is completely upside down, all of the furniture was completely swept away."

Neighbours star Ian Smith has revealed he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. 

"I found out a few months back that I have cancer," he told 10 News First.

"That I have a very aggressive non-fixable cancer and they expect me to, they expect me to die."

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The 86-year-old played the beloved Harold Bishop on the decades-long running soap.

He first appeared as an old partner of Neighbours character Madge Mitchell, played by Anne Charleston, in 1987.

He then left the show in 1991 before returning five years later to become one of the steadfast characters on Ramsay Street.

Smith appeared on the show recently, after it was confirmed he would return to the screen in May. 

"After 15 years of living away, the legendary Harold Bishop is returning to Erinsborough," Neighbours announced.

Just a little over a week ago, he had an emotional farewell as he departed from the show.

He was surrounded by his co-stars. 

Smith was on his last day filming on the set of Prisoner when he was offered the role of Harold on Neighbours, according to IMDB.

He was nominated for a silver and gold Logie for his work on Neighbours in 2009.

He has also appeared on Underbelly, Bellbird, Prisoner and Matlock Police. 

Researchers say violent dreams could indicate signalling issues in the brain and be a warning sign of Parkinson's disease.

John Clowes experiences random bursts of dream-enacting behaviour while he is asleep and when his muscles should be relaxing.

"I was starting to thrash around with my arms and legs in bed," he told 9News.

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"I'd wake up and could almost relive the dream. It was like a cheap Hollywood movie."

Another test uncovered that Clowes has an impaired sense of smell which can be an early predictor of Parkinson's disease.

But the biggest red flag is REM sleep behaviour disorder, which does not include sleepwalking.

"If we can't explain why somebody starts acting out their dreams after the age of 50, their chances of going on and get Parkinson's disease, or disease like Parkinson's is 140 times greater than the average person in the population," Macquarie University Professor of Cognitive Neurology Simon Lewis said.

In a world-first trial, researchers are looking at whether a pill can combat inflammation in the brain, which is a key driver of early disease.

"We want to identify a pathway to a cure so we're using a short exposure to a drug that we think will reduce the neuroinflammation," Lewis said.

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The aim of targeting this pathway is to save the cells in the brain years before motor symptoms, such as tremors and walking issues, develop.

By that stage, half of the brain's dopamine-producing cells have already been lost.

Clowes, who has a family history of Parkinson's, qualified for the trial.

"If I've got it, or if I'm going to develop it over time, better they know more about it," he said.

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A four-wheel drive has gone off the road and smashed into a bakery, narrowly missing a barista north of Sydney.

A man had bought a coffee from the Sunrise Cafe in Warriewood today and hopped back into his car.

But moments later, he suddenly went about 15 metres off the road.

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"Obviously sent everybody running," a witness told 9News.

"We've come from out here, we've seen that the car has threaded through a parked car and mounted the kerb."

The car then flew backwards through the glass window of the bakery on Narrabeen Park Parade just before 10am.

It narrowly missed a barista, who jumped out of the way. 

No one was injured. The driver, cafe staff and locals were all left surprised but safe. 

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The business and car bore the brunt of the damage. 

"There's been a lot of damage to the furniture and windows, it was with some force that he actually hit it," the witness said.

Police said the driver was comforted by witnesses and paramedics and won't be charged.

"He was quite shaken," the witness said.

"It's really with the insurance company now to hopefully have us up and running again soon."

Police said the three climbers had been due to complete their climb at 8.30am today.

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised the following article contains images and names of a person who has died.

Four people accused of murdering an Indigenous teenager have formally pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Cassius Turvey, a 15-year-old Noongar Yamatji boy, died in a Perth hospital 10 days after an incident as he walked home from school with friends on October 13, 2022.

Brodie Lee Palmer, 29, Mitchell Colin Forth, 26, Jack Steven James Brearley, 23, and Aleesha Louise Gilmore, 22, pleaded not guilty in the WA Supreme Court on Monday.

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Chief Justice Peter Quinlan will preside over the high-profile trial that is scheduled to start on February 10, with the matter returning to court for pre-trial hearings on January 30 and 31.

The group was also arraigned over several other charges they are facing at the trial.

Brearley, Forth and another man named Ethan Robert MacKenzie, 20, pleaded not guilty to unlawfully detaining and assaulting another boy on October 9, 2022. MacKenzie will stand trial at the same time as the other accused. Gilmore denied unlawfully detaining the same teen on that day.

Brearley, Forth, Gilmore and MacKenzie denied unlawfully detaining a third person on that day.

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Forth pleaded guilty to stealing a hat and crutches on October 13, 2022. Brearley and Palmer denied the stealing charge. Brearly, Palmer, Forth and Gilmore also denied assaulting another person on that day.

Cassius has been remembered as a loving son and a role model to his friends. He had started his own lawn-mowing business and was invited at the age of 11 to deliver an acknowledgement of country at WA's parliament.

Palmer, Forth, Brearley and Gilmore previously pleaded not guilty to murdering Cassius in a lesser court in 2023.

All remain in custody.

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A man will not spend more time in jail after his "bizarre" act of publicly urinating on packaged meat in a city-centre Woolworths.

Lachlan Ebejer, also known as Lochlan James Ebejer, stood next to customers at the supermarket's Sydney Town Hall branch on July 1 when he contaminated the raw meat for 28 seconds.

The 22-year-old was already known to Woolworths staff after he copped a six-month ban from stores nationwide for shoplifting at Toongabbie, in Sydney's west, about two weeks earlier.

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Ebejer had a long history of symptoms of schizophrenia which had been wrongly thought to have come from his substance-abuse disorder, according to a report by a forensic psychiatrist filed with Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court.

Judge Michael Allen today imposed a conviction and a 12-month community corrections order for the public urination.

While normally such an act should warrant stern condemnation, that was not appropriate in this case because of Ebejer's long history of mental illness, he said.

"It is my view that his chronic schizophrenic illness, his bizarre behaviour at that time … cannot be divorced from consideration of the seriousness of the offending," the judge said.

A second charge of trespassing was dealt with without further conviction or penalty.

Ebejer is currently serving a sentence over unrelated charges and will be released on parole from jail for those offences on December 17, the court heard.

The 22-year-old wore prison greens as he watched by audio-visual link from Shortland Correctional Centre but spoke little during the hearing.

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Legal Aid lawyer Liam McKibbin said Ebejer had been given a high dosage of anti-psychotics to treat his schizophrenia and would soon start medication to deal with his cannabis abuse.

He also had support from two NDIS carers in the community, the solicitor said.

McKibbin successfully argued that no jail time should be imposed, saying the charge of contaminating goods to cause public alarm encompassed a wide range of conduct up to putting needles in strawberries.

While the police prosecutor tried to argue that full-time custody was the only type of sentence available, this was promptly shut down by Allen.

"What benefit would that bring to the community? How would that address community safety?" the judge asked.

Ebejer entered the city-centre store just before midnight on July 1 and threw a packet of chewy caramel Tim Tam biscuits from one aisle to another before proceeding downstairs for the urination, according to court documents.

After security were alerted, Woolworths staff were forced to cordon off the area, removing the meat and spending eight hours cleaning and disinfecting.

Ebejer immediately left the store but was located by police after images and CCTV footage were publicly released.

The Sadleir man pleaded guilty to one count of contaminating goods with intent to cause public alarm and also to unlawful entry on inclosed lands.

A third count of offensive conduct while on inclosed land was withdrawn.

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A bay of water that runs into Sydney Harbour mysteriously turned red this morning. 

Locals discovered Careening Cove, beside Milson Park at Kirribilli, had changed colour.

North Sydney Council said it reported the claret-coloured water to authorities.

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"Council is aware of the red water flowing into the harbour from Milson Park, and officers have investigated but have not been able to find the source," a spokesperson said.

"We have reported it to the EPA.

"The cause of the colour is likely to be plumbers' dye which, while alarming in appearance, is safe and non-toxic."

The NSW Environment Protection Authority is currently investigating.

"North Sydney Council alerted us to red plumbers' dye in a drain at Kirribilli this afternoon and we are currently investigating the potential source," a spokesperson said.

Careening Cove recently caused commotion after turning bright green in September.

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Andrew Ives and Gemma Dallarmi have faced several tough decisions while planning their wedding.

From trimming the guest list to relying on family members for support, they are doing their best to reduce costs.

They are among many couples concerned about the rising expense of weddings, as the average cost to tie the knot surpasses $35,000.

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According to the latest industry report by Easy Weddings, weddings can cost up to 28 per cent more than couples originally budgeted for.

The data reveals that while the average starting budget is $27,455, couples often end up spending an average of $35,315.

"It was surprising, I knew weddings were expensive but there are certain parts you don't expect. Everything starts adding up," Ives said.

"You get the spreadsheet out and something sounds like a reasonable amount but when you add it all up it can be frightening."

The couple are trying to bring the cost down, budgeting nearly $60,000 for their special day.

"It was obviously higher than we thought," Dallarmi said.

"We (have tried) limiting guest numbers… we started with an initial list and just had to reassess and reassess again.

"Things like leaning on family friends to help us out, we have a cousin as a celebrant, but also helpful with cost-saving."

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Wedding planner Darcy Allen said two-thirds of couples have help from their families with bills stacking up quickly.

She said many couples are having to have realistic budget discussions.

"I think they're a bit deflated, definitely a little bit stressed and anxious and then the conversations with family start to happen about financial assistance," Allen said.

"The biggest pain point currently is sticking to a budget and the second is family.

"At the moment we are seeing couples waiting longer to get married so they can save more."

The most expensive costs include venue, food and beverage, followed by photography.

"The cost is rising," Allen said.

"The number of guests attending a wedding has dropped, it's down to 88 and typically we would have seen a decade ago was 100-plus."

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More couples are also choosing to skip the traditional big church and reception weddings in favour of smaller, more intimate micro weddings.

"For couples who are worried about spending that money and want to make sure they have that wow factor, I would consider a mid-week wedding or off-peak date,"

"You will have the wedding and dream day you want for a lesser price and all your suppliers will be more inclined to give you a better rate."