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Police have launched an investigation after a man's body was found in a Sydney river.

Officers were called to Lane Cove River in West Pymble after the man's body was found in the river about 6.50am today.

"Officers attached to North Shore Police Area Command believe the body is that of a man aged in his 50s," NSW Police said in a statement.

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"A crime scene has been established, and detectives have launched an investigation into the incident."

Police are urging anyone with information to come forward.

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The wreck of one of the most storied US Navy submarines of World War II has been found in the South China Sea eight decades after its last patrol, the Navy's History and Heritage Command said.

The USS Harder lies under about 900 metres of water off the northern Philippine island of Luzon, sitting upright and intact except for damage behind its conning tower from a Japanese depth charge, the NHHC said in a press release.

Harder was lost in battle on August 24, 1944, along with its entire crew of 79 submariners, while on its sixth patrol of the war, as the US sought to retake the Philippines from occupying Japanese forces.

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"Harder was lost in the course of victory. We must not forget that victory has a price, as does freedom," NHHC Director Samuel J. Cox, a retired US Navy admiral, said in the press release.

According to a US Navy history, Harder sank two Japanese escort ships off the Bataan Peninsula on August 22, 1944, and then headed north along the Luzon coast with two other subs in search of more targets.

In a battle with Japanese escort ship CD-22 on the morning of August 24, Harder fired three torpedoes that missed and was later sunk by the Japanese ship's fifth depth charge attack, according to Japanese records cited by NHHC.

The NHHC said the wreck of the Harder was confirmed by data provided by the Lost 52 Project, an effort led by Tim Taylor, CEO of Tiburon Subsea, to find the 52 US subs lost in World War II.

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The group has previously located at least six WWII subs, the NHHC said.

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"We are grateful that Lost 52 has given us the opportunity to once again honour the valour of the crew of the 'Hit 'em Harder' submarine," the NHHC's Cox said, in reference to the vessel's motto.

The NHHC said the wreck is "the final resting place of Sailors that gave their life in defence of the nation and should be respected by all parties as a war grave."

The Philippines was a US territory attacked by Japan just after its strike on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

By the spring of 1942, US and Philippine forces on Luzon surrendered to Tokyo's forces and Japan used the captured archipelago to protect its supply lines from the East Indies and Southeast Asia.

But by mid-1944, the US was rolling back Japanese gains across the Pacific, and was planning landings to do the same in the Philippines.

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Harder, which had the motto of "Hit 'em Harder," was captained by Cmdr. Samuel Dealey, who would be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the US military's highest decoration, for his actions in Harder's fifth patrol, from March to July 1944.

During that time Harder sank three Japanese destroyers with another two likely destroyed or heavily damaged over the course of just four days, according to the National Medal of Honor Museum.

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The museum's page on Dealey described one particularly harrowing encounter.

Coming under attack from a Japanese destroyer, Dealey ordered a head-on torpedo shot at the bow of the charging enemy, known as a "down the throat" shot, according to the museum account.

"At 1,500 yards, Dealey fired three torpedoes and ordered the sub to dive. As the Harder passed 80 feet underneath the destroyer, two of the torpedoes struck the ship, sending shock waves through the submarine."

On its first four patrols after commissioning on December 2, 1942, Harder sank 14 Japanese warships and merchant vessels, according to the Medal of Honor Museum.

A Thai town, run ragged by its ever-growing population of marauding wild monkeys, launched an offensive against the simian raiders on Friday, using trickery and ripe tropical fruit.

Several high-profile cases of monkey-human conflict recently convinced authorities in Lopburi in central Thailand that they had to reduce the animals' numbers.

If all goes well, most will end up behind bars, before starting a new life elsewhere.

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The first stage of the plan, instituted on Friday, is to bait cages with the animals’ favourite food, then wait for hunger to get the better of their natural caution.

There was early success for the catchers on one street, with three of the macaques falling for the ruse and ending up trapped because they had fancied a taste of rambutan fruit.

The cages had been placed on the street earlier in the week so the monkeys got used to them and found them less threatening.

There are thought to be around 2500 monkeys running around the town.

The capture of the unlucky trio and around 30 others – trapped in other parts of the town – slightly pared down that total.

The effort will go on for five days this month, then is likely to be repeated.

Some of the monkeys will be left free to maintain Lopburi’s image as Thailand’s monkey town.

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But no one is expecting it to be easy.

“With the monkey’s intelligence, if some of them go into the cage and are caught, the others outside won’t enter the cage to get the food because they’ve already learnt what’s happened to their friends,” said Patarapol Maneeorn from Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation.

The roaming monkeys have long been a symbol of the town, 140 kilometres north of Bangkok, and are a major tourist draw.

They've become increasingly aggressive, however, with several videos of them snatching food from residents and causing injuries being widely shared online.

One auto parts shop now trades from behind wire.

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The owners erected it at the time of the coronavirus pandemic, but keeping out the light-fingered primates was also a prime concern.

They say they’ve adapted to the monkey problem, but not everyone has.

“When there are a lot of monkeys around, customers are afraid of buying the goods at the shop. Only our regulars aren’t frightened,” said Supaporn Tantiwong.

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The town’s mayor, Chamroen Salacheep, agrees that the monkeys, while bringing in visitors, have also become bad for trade, with shops and malls seeing a drop in income and even people’s homes damaged.

Lopburi, he said, is almost an “abandoned town.”

“After our operation is over I will do a big cleaning across the town and paint all the buildings to regain the faith of the people,” Chamroen said.

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These may seem like grim times for monkeys in Lopburi, but there is a plan to give them a fresh start.

On Friday authorities began sedating them to carry out health checks before cleaning and sterilising them and inking them with tattoos so they can be identified to keep accurate records.

After that they’ll transfer them to a series of huge holding pens, just outside the town centre, while looking for a permanent home.

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Wildlife crews have successfully freed a 12-metre humpback whale found entangled in fishing line near Perth after a rescue mission spanning two days. 

The distressed whale was first reported to Parks and Wildlife on Wednesday when it was spotted near Fremantle.

DBCA Swan Coastal Acting District Manager Melissa Evans said untangling the whale was a complicated task.

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"The line was wrapped around the fins, went through the mouth and then around the body," she said.

"We managed to get a satellite tag on the animal and had some attempts at cutting the lines on the animal."

Crews tracked the animal overnight as it moved towards Rottnest island, then made a second attempt to free it at first light.

"It was a challenge to cut the right lines at the right time to free that animal," Evans said. 

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After four hours of determined effort, the rescue team finally managed to free the whale.

Evans said it was "a fantastic result."

Every year thousands of whales move from WA's south to the north, with the annual migration now underway, people are asked to look out for any mammals in distress.

This article was produced with the assistance of 9ExPress.

WA Police have charged former North Melbourne AFL player Barry Cable with alleged historic sexual abuse of a young girl.

The 80-year-old is accused of assaulting a girl aged between 9 and 10 years old at a time when he was playing football in the WAFL.

"It will be alleged; between 1967 and 1968 the man sexually assaulted a girl who was between 9 and 10 years old at the time," WA Police has said.

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Cable has been charged with five counts of indecent dealing with a girl under 13 and two counts of unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under 13 years.

He is due to appear in the Perth Magistrates Court on Thursday.

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