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Mark Zuckerberg's wallet keeps getting fatter.

The Meta CEO is now the second-richest person in the world, overtaking Jeff Bezos and Bernard Arnault.

With a personal fortune of $US206 billion ($303 billion), according to recent figures from Bloomberg's Billionaire Index, he now only trails Elon Musk.

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Recent figures from Bloomberg's Billionaire Index show Zuckerberg has grown his personal fortune by a whopping $US78.1 billion ($114.9 billion) in 2024.

He joins an elusive US$200 billion ($294 billion) club that only counts two other members.

That includes Musk ($376 billion), the CEO of Tesla and X, and Bezos ($301 billion), the founder of Amazon. Arnault, the CEO of luxury brand LVMH, recently dropped out of the club, with a fortune of $US193 billion ($283 billion).

Zuckerberg, 40, who launched Facebook in 2004, has much of his wealth tied to Meta Platforms stock.

Shares of Meta (META) have surged by more than 72 per cent in 2024.

On Friday, Meta shares gained 2.26 per cent to close at a record high of $US595.94 ($875).

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Meta operates popular social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and Threads, as well as instant messaging app WhatsApp.

Speaking on September 25 at the Meta Connect 2024 event, Zuckerberg said Meta AI is on track to become the most used assistant in the world.

"We're almost at 500 million monthly (active users), and we haven't even launched in some of the bigger countries yet," Zuckerberg said, referring to countries in the European Union.

Zuckerberg isn't the only tech mogul to see a big jump in their fortune this year. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, and Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, have seen their net worths surge in 2024 by $US63.5 billion ($93 billion) and $US55.9 billion ($82.2 billion), respectively.

Although it may go by different names around the country, millions of Australians will celebrate a well-earned public holiday next week.

If you're in NSW, the ACT, Queensland, South Australia, yours is coming up on Monday, October 7.

We've checked what the trading hours are for all the major retailers, and whether they'll be open on the October Long weekend.

Here's the full state-by-state breakdown:

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Coles

NSW and ACT: Coles stores in NSW and the ACT will have their standard trading hours on Labour Day.

Queensland: The majority of stores will be open from 9am-6pm, but some stores will be open until 9pm.

SA: The majority of stores will be closed, except for Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Berri, Port Augusta, Mount Barker, Whyalla, Murray Bridge Green, Mount Gamier, Victor Harbor, and Rundle Place.

Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia: Stores' opening hours will be unchanged.

Shoppers can check their local store's opening hours here. 

Aldi

Aldi's opening hours will be different from store to store, so shoppers were advised to check here for their local store's opening hours.

Woolworths

NSW: Most Woolworths stores will be open.

Queensland: Most stores will be open except Ipswich, Mt Isa Plaza, Toowong and Cloncurry.

South Australia: Most stores will be closed.

Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia: Stores' opening hours will be unchanged.

Shoppers were advised to check online here for their local store's hours.

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Liquorland, Vintage Cellars, and First Choice Liquor Market

Stores in states celebrating the public holiday will trade with reduced trading hours

Most Liquorland stores in South Australia will be closed on October 7.

Westfield

NSW: Westfield shopping centres will open at 10am, but close at different times.

• Westfield Kotara will close at 4pm.
• Westfield Tuggerah, Eastgardens, Hornsby, Liverpool, Mt Druitt, Penrith and Warringah Mall will close at 5pm.
• Westfield Bondi Junction, Burwood, Chatswood, Hurstville, Miranda and Parramatta will close at 6pm.
• Westfield Sydney and Sydney Central Plaza will close at 7pm.

ACT: Westfield Belconnen and Woden will trade from 10am – 4pm.

Queensland: Westfield North Lakes, Mt Gravatt, Carindale and Chermside will trade from 10am – 5pm, while the centres at Coomera and Helensvale will trade from 10am – 4pm.

Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia: Stores' opening hours will be unchanged.

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Kmart

NSW: All stores will be open, with the majority having reduced hours.

QLD: All stores will operate under reduced trading hours, with most closing between 4pm and 6pm.

SA: Kmart shops in South Australia will either be closed or operating under shortened holiday trading hours.

Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia – stores' opening hours will be unchanged.

Dan Murphy's and BWS

Dan Murphy's stores nationwide will mostly open from 10am to 7pm.

BWS stores will mostly open from 9am and close between 7pm and 9pm.

Target

NSW: All stores will be open, with the majority having reduced hours.

QLD: All stores will operate under reduced trading hours, opening at 9am and closing at 5pm.

SA: Kmart shops in South Australia will either be closed or operating under shortened holiday trading hours.

Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia – stores' opening hours will be unchanged.

Bunnings

All Bunnings stores will be open on the October Long Weekend.

Trade Centres and Distribution centres will be closed.

Shoppers were advised to use the Bunnings website or app to check their local store's trading hours as opening times will vary.

Israel carried out a series of massive airstrikes overnight, hitting suburbs of Beirut and cutting off the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria for tens of thousands of people fleeing Israeli bombardment.

The blasts in Beirut's southern suburbs sent huge plumes of smoke and flames into the night sky and shook buildings kilometres away in the Lebanese capital.

The Israeli military did not comment on what the intended target was, and there was no information yet available on casualties. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported there were more than 10 consecutive airstrikes in the area.

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Meanwhile, Israel's military said that Hezbollah had launched about 100 rockets into Israel on Friday, as fighting continued between Israel and the militant group.

The Israeli military also said on Friday that a strike in Beirut the day before killed Mohammed Rashid Skafi, the head of Hezbollah's communications division.

The military said in a statement that Skafi was "a senior Hezbollah terrorist who was responsible for the communications unit since 2000" and was "closely affiliated" with high-up Hezbollah officials.

Thursday's strike along the Lebanon-Syria border, about 50 kilometres east of Beirut, led to the closure of the road near the busy Masnaa Border Crossing.

Israel said it had targeted the crossing because it was being used by Hezbollah to transport military equipment across the border. It said fighter jets had struck a tunnel used to smuggle weapons from Iran and other proxies into Lebanon.

Hezbollah is believed to have received much of its weaponry from Iran via Syria. The group has a presence on both sides of the border, a region where it has been fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces.

Associated Press video footage showed two huge craters on each side of the road. People got out of cars, unable to pass the site of the strike, carrying bags of their possessions as they crossed on foot.

Tens of thousands of people fleeing war in Lebanon have crossed into Syria over the past two weeks.

The new wave of strikes came after Israel warned people to evacuate communities in southern Lebanon, including but also beyond an area that the United Nations declared a buffer zone after Israel and Hezbollah fought a monthlong war in 2006.

Israel launched a ground incursion into Lebanon on Tuesday and its forces have been clashing with Hezbollah militants in a narrow strip along the border. A series of attacks before the incursion killed some of the group's key members, including longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived Friday in Beirut for meetings with Lebanese officials. He warned that if Israeli carries out an attack on Iran, Tehran would retaliate in a harsh way.

Araghchi's visit to Beirut came three days after Iran launched at least 180 missiles into Israel, the latest in a series of rapidly escalating attacks that threaten to push the Middle East closer to a regionwide war.

"If the Israeli entity takes any step or measure against us, our retaliation will be stronger than the previous one," Araghchi said after meeting Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

Iran is Hezbollah's main backer and has sent weapons and billions of dollars to the group over the years.

In the Iranian capital, Tehran, the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led Friday prayers and delivered a speech where he praised the country's recent missile strike on Israel and said Iran was prepared to conduct more strikes if needed.

He spoke to thousands of people at the capital's main prayer site, the Mosalla mosque, which was decorated with a huge Palestinian flag.

The strike at the main border crossing was the first time it has been cut since the beginning of the war.

Lebanese General Security recorded 256,614 Syrian citizens and 82,264 Lebanese citizens crossing into Syrian territory between September 23 — when the Israel launched a heavy bombardment of southern and eastern Lebanon — and September 30.

There are half a dozen border crossings between the two countries and most of them remain open. Lebanon's minister of public works said all border crossings between Lebanon and Syria work under the supervision of the state.

Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across Lebanon's southern border almost daily since the day after Hamas' cross-border attack on October 7, 2023, in which the militants killed 1200 Israelis and took 250 others hostage.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army said it carried out a strike Thursday in Tulkarem, a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank, in coordination with the Shin Bet internal security service.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said 18 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a refugee camp there.

Violence has flared across the Israeli-occupied territory since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October 2023. Tulkarem and other northern cities have seen some of the worst violence.

Israel declared war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip in response to their October 7 attack.

More than 41,000 Palestinians have since been killed in the territory, and just over half the dead have been women and children, according to local health officials.

Nearly 2000 people have been killed in Lebanon in that time, most of them since September 23, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

Israel's military said on Friday that militants in Gaza fired two rockets into Israeli territory, the first time Israel has seen rocket fire from Gaza in about a month.

The military said one of the rockets was intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system and the other fell in an open area near a kibbutz across the border from Gaza.

The number of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel has slowed considerably since the start of the war.

Australian billionaire Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest has called on other philanthropists and big business to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, today pledging a further $18 million through his Minderoo Foundation.

$7.3 million will be provided to support World Central Kitchen's work in Gaza, funding more than 1.5 million meals, and another $7.3 million will be provided to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

$3.6 million will be provided to the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA), UNICEF and others working to deliver water and sanitation infrastructure across Gaza.

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Since 7 October 2023, the escalating crisis in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory has caused more than 41,000 civilian deaths and 96,000 injuries, and a lack of medical supplies, food, water and fuel have depleted an already under-resourced health system, according to the World Health Organization.

"Minderoo Foundation will not sit on its hands while children starve to death," Forrest said in a statement.

"We are one of few philanthropies in Australia giving to the humanitarian needs in Gaza.

"We want to see the philanthropic and private sector respond more strongly to the humanitarian needs in Gaza."

World Central Kitchen has delivered 70 million meals to Palestinians since October 7.

The UN World Food Programme delivers food parcels to families in shelters, supports bakeries, and provides hot meals and specialised nutritional products for mothers and children.

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Nicola Forrest said the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza demanded swift action.

"It is heartbreaking to see the suffering of civilians in Gaza, especially children, who suffer disproportionately as innocent victims of conflict," she said.

About 1.8 million people in Gaza, including 900,000 children, require humanitarian water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) assistance, according to UNICEF.

"The lack of clean water and safe sanitation is on the verge of becoming a catastrophe," UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell told the UN Security Council last year.

"Unless access to clean water is urgently restored, more civilians, including children, will fall ill or die from dehydration or waterborne diseases."

The funding announced today brings the Minderoo Foundation's humanitarian support in Gaza to nearly $41 million (US$28 million) since October 2023.

Forrest has called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the region.

Forrest was named Australia's second wealthiest person last year in the Australian Financial Review 2023 Rich List, but dropped to number eight in this year's edition.

In 2013, he and his then-wife Nicola pledged to give away the majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.

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A wheeze James Tsindos developed as he was wheeled into a hospital was the "sliding doors moment" healthcare staff missed which could've saved his life, a globally renowned doctor has said.

Tsindos suffered anaphylaxis after consuming a burrito bowl containing a sauce made from cashews he ordered off the now-defunct Deliveroo food delivery app on May 27, 2021, an inquest was told on Friday.

The 17-year-old began experiencing allergy flare-ups from his sensitivity to nuts, including swollen lips, nausea, tingling in the throat and abdominal cramps, prompting his father to call an ambulance.

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Paramedics arrived at their Brighton home about 2.50pm, designating him a potential anaphylaxis case despite finding no rashes or signs of troubled breathing.

Paramedic Jonathon Hammond administered two doses of adrenaline five minutes apart which eased most of James' symptoms, withholding a third due to lack of symptoms, and he was transferred to the nearby Holmesglen Private Hospital as a precaution.

"He appeared comfortable (during the ambulance ride) and able to speak in clear sentences about school and interests," Hammond told the Coroners Court in Melbourne.

As he was wheeled through the hospital doors at 3.44pm, Tsindos told the paramedics he was "wheezy".

He then used his asthma puffer 15 times.

The teenager was placed in an isolation room while Hammond engaged in a handover with the nurses, which has been a subject of contention over whether the nurses were told about the wheezing symptom.

"It was one of the first things I (told them) and that's why the nurse left to get the puffer spacer," Hammond said.

At 4.10pm he was placed on oxygen therapy and administered with adrenaline and saline but began having trouble breathing.

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He was transferred to the resuscitation ward and within a minute became unresponsive before entering cardiac arrest.

Doctors and nurses spent 40 minutes trying to resuscitate James, longer than what would usually occur given his young age.

He was transferred to The Alfred but his brain injury from the cardiac arrest meant Tsindos never recovered.

His life support was turned off on June 1.

The inquest is examining whether the medical care provided to Tsindos was appropriate and if there are opportunities to prevent the circumstances occurring again.

He was admitted to hospital triage under category 3 which signalled an urgent case that needed medical care within 30 minutes.

But globally renowned intensive care clinician Warwick Butt told the court Tsindos' initial condition warranted an emergency category 2 response where medical care was provided in 10 minutes.

"The moment that he got a wheeze, that was not a new symptom, but it was a progression of the disease signalling the adrenaline wearing off," Butt said.

"That was a huge red flag, a sliding doors moment."

Counsel assisting Rachel Ellyard asked the expert whether an earlier adrenaline shot and a higher dosage at the hospital would have led to a better survival prospect.

"It's more likely than not," Butt responded

"This event was preventable."

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James' devastated family are seeking answers for what happened to their beautiful boy who was filled with laughter, joy and hope and whether his death could have been prevented, lawyer Shari Liby said outside the court.

"The Tsindos family are very committed to ensuring that systems are put in place so that no other family suffers a single loss under these kinds of circumstances," she said.

UberEats rolled out new features in June, including disclaimers that tell consumers if restaurants can accommodate food allergy requests.

Menulog urges customers to contact the restaurant to relay the details of their allergies, while DoorDash users can add special instructions and restaurants, an option for allergen requests.

Exclusive: More than 500 unsafe toys and items have been seized from the Melbourne Royal Show by Consumer Affairs Victoria.

Out of more than 300 vendors at the event, one has been identified as selling products that could be non-compliant, and potentially deadly.

They include light-up butterfly wings, headbands, and wands all featuring accessible button batteries.

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"If they are swallowed, they can quickly burn through your esophagus and cause serious injury or even death, so it's a very serious matter," Consumer Affairs Victoria's Nicole Rich said.

Other items include light-up alien toys without the correct safety labelling, and yo-yo water balls which pose a strangulation risk.

Consumer Affairs Victoria has been conducting inspections to ensure the show is safe.

Its team made the discovery on Wednesday and by yesterday, the Melbourne Royal Show removed the vendor from the grounds.

"It is really disappointing when we do, unfortunately, see something like this, where a trader hasn't done the right thing and is selling clearly dangerous products to people," Rich said.

Anyone who may have purchased any of the items has been urged to remove them and make sure their children are not playing with them.

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"It's not a position that we want to be in, but the absolute priority for us is the safety of our families and children attending the show," Melbourne Royal Show manager Hannah von Bibra said.

"We have not been alerted to any other non-compliance so we're really comfortable and confident that families can still come along to the show and have a safe and wonderful enjoyment time here."

Melbourne Royal Show says the vendor won't be allowed back next year

Consumer Affairs Victoria is still considering further punishment.

A would-be arsonist has set themselves on fire while trying to firebomb a tobacco store in Adelaide.

CCTV footage captured just before 5am shows the person attempting to break into the Clearview tobacco store with a crowbar and jerry can.

The person douses the store's front in petrol and sets it alight, only to be engulfed in flames themselves, running across Hampstead Road to a waiting car.

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The incident comes amid an ongoing turf war over control of Adelaide's illegal tobacco market. It is the 10th arson attack connected to the escalating conflict and the fourth this week alone.

"It's very concerning for us that we've had so many arsons and even after announcing that we have a taskforce in operation," Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said.

The innocent owners of an IT store in Brooklyn Park were caught up in one of the attacks earlier in the week, while other businesses located near tobacco stores are now in fear.

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"We've doubled our insurance because of all of the stuff that's been going on," neighbouring Clearview business owner Emily Collins said. 

"All of the stuff in Melbourne about burning down the shops and stuff like that. So as soon as they moved in, we've been a bit more worried."

This article was produced with the assistance of 9ExPress.

A Broome tradie has been convicted of two counts of assault for cable-tying young children who were trespassing at his house.

Matej Radelic was issued a suspended fine of $2000, a penalty he will not have to pay provided he does not commit another offence for 12 months.

In March, the 46-year-old Broome man restrained a six-year-old girl and seven-year-old boy who had broken into his home and were found swimming in his pool.

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A third child was also cable-tied but managed to escape and alert their family.

The 46-year-old's home, which was on the market for sale, had been broken into several times and trashed.

He originally faced charges in relation to all three children.

Today, a magistrate convicted him of two counts of common aggravated assault and acquitted him of the third.

Radelic's lawyers argued it was a lawful citizen arrest while prosecutors said he used excessive force.

Magistrate Deen Potter today said the tradie "must have looked like a giant to the children."

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"A reasonable person would make the assessment that the continued use of cable ties was not required," Potter said.

The magistrate also said the duration of the restraint was "not entirely his fault."

Radelic was also awarded more than $5000 in court costs for the charge he was acquitted of.