Police say a bag of meat was allegedly stolen from a Masterton shop.

A Sydney socialite has been found dead in her apartment in a beachside suburb.

Annabelle Price was discovered by police in Maroubra last week following a welfare check. There are no suspicious circumstances surround her death.

She was a big name on the Sydney social scene and had once been married to investment banker Freddie Blencke, with whom she had two children.

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She was also later engaged to financier Thomas Fennell, which she announced in 2023 on Instagram.

She shared a photo of a diamond ring on social media at the time/

NSW Police said officers were called to a concern for welfare at a unit on Wride Street, Maroubra last Sunday.

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"With the assistance of Police Rescue, entry was forced into the unit where the body of a woman aged in her 30s was located," police said.

"A crime scene was established.

"There are no suspicious circumstances and a report will be prepared for the information of the coroner."

If you or someone you know is in need of support contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue. In the event of an emergency dial Triple Zero (000).

Forecasters are watching tropical cyclones Maila and Vaianu in the Pacific.

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Residents in storm-lashed Far North Queensland could be facing another tropical cyclone in a few days, a potential second giant storm within just a few weeks.

The Bureau of Meteorology said today it was tracking severe Tropical Cyclone Maila, a category 3 storm, with sustained winds of 120 km/h and gusts of up to 165 km/h.

Tropical Cyclone Narelle last month was the latest to ravage Australia, tearing through north Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia as a cyclone and ex-cyclone.

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The bureau says Tropical Cyclone Maila is currently slow moving in the Solomon Sea, but is forecast to move towards the Far North Queensland coast later in the week, potentially crossing the coast on the weekend.

Residents who experienced damaging winds and flooding from Tropical Cyclone Narelle last month face more of the same if this latest severe weather system continues moving south-west.

This year's cyclone season, which runs until the end of this month, has already been a busy one, Weatherzone reports.

Tropical Cyclone Maila is the 11th named tropical cyclone to form in or move into the Australian region this season.

The cyclone should reach severe intensity (Category 3) by late next Sunday or early Monday, modelling suggests.

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"Should it cross the Cape York Peninsula, the system could weaken over land and then reintensify in the Gulf of Carpentaria, before impacting the eastern Top End early next week as it moves west," Weatherzone said.

It's too early to forecast whether Tropical Cyclone Maila will also impact Western Australia, forecasters say.

But they're reminding Top End communities to be mindful that a weakened or redeveloped system could bring heavy downpours and to check for updates.

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The man was tasered and punched up to 20 times by two people who stormed his office.

Exclusive: A shopper has been caught trying to defraud an Australian small business by using generative AI to make it look like her order was destroyed in the mail.

The worst part is that it almost worked.

Gabbie Foord, founder and creative director of Victorian candle brand MILKWICK, told nine.com.au there were no red flags when the new customer initially placed an order.

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Then she got an email from the customer claiming the order had been damaged in transit, including a photo of two ruined candles.

The customer wanted a free replacement, which Foord would usually have no issue with.

But something in the photo the customer supplied seemed off.

"Initially when I saw it I was like, 'Oh my gosh, that's been severely broken, something really bad has happened during transit,'" Foord told nine.com.au.

"Then, within a few seconds, I realised that the shape of the [candle] jar doesn't match the shape of our jars.

"I noticed that the writing on the label had kind of been jumbled up [and] the more I looked at it, the more I discovered red flags."

Foord said the "proof" the customer sent was obviously an AI-generated image.

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The fact that the customer asked MILKWICK to replace the two damaged candles with different scents only made her more suspicious.

Fortunately, she shared her concerns with husband Kane before he sent out replacement candles.

"Initially he wasn't thinking it was AI and he was definitely going to proceed with it," Foord said.

"That's what was quite shocking, that this customer almost got away with it."

She asked the customer to send a video of the damaged order, at which point Foord claims the customer became defensive and threatened to report the business.

When Foord told the customer she would report any fraudulent claims to Victoria Police, the customer cut contact.

And that's exactly what this was, according to Jeannie Paterson, Professor of Law at The University of Melbourne – attempted fraud.

"It's actually a criminal offence, because you're fraudulently trying to obtain an advantage," she told nine.com.au.

"Fraud means intentionally deceive someone and you cannot argue it's not intentional. You're trying to operate a fraud on a business."

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Paterson has also heard of consumers using AI to generate fake receipts to try and access refunds they may not be entitled to.

She described it as a kind of "reverse scam" where shoppers target sellers.

"We're in this spiral of fakes and frauds. I just feel awful about it," she added.

Foord never imagined fraud by way of AI-generated images would be part of her journey as a small business owner.

The experience has forced her to reconsider how she processes replacements for orders damaged in transit.

Currently, MILKWICK doesn't require customers to ship damaged products back to their Victoria warehouse because it's an extra cost for the business.

That may change as AI becomes more ubiquitous.

"Maybe we will have to move to paying for those to be shipped back to us, even though they're broken and that will be an extra expense for our business," Foord said.

"You can't risk people just stealing from you."

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Paterson predicts AI fraud cases like this could push small businesses to raise prices to cover the cost of additional shipping insurance or losses due to fraud.

Businesses may also start requiring video proof of faulty or damaged goods before issuing replacements, exchanges or refunds.

"It's very hard to see our way around this problem of AI fraud by the customer, because at the end of the day if the customer says the product broke or the product didn't arrive, what does the business do?" Paterson said.

"If they refuse to refund, they may be said to be in breach of the law, and they may also get bad reviews online which can be a killer for a business."

She urged small business owners to educate themselves on AI and the red flags to look out for.

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Foord echoed that message in a social media video she posted, warning other Aussies to watch out for this new type of fraud.

It has already received nearly 300,000 combined views across Instagram and TikTok.

"I just wanted to raise awareness that there's people out there that are unfortunately doing this," Foord said.

"There's people out there that have probably gotten away with it as well, and think they can get away with it again."

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Hiding alone in a mountain crevice behind enemy lines, the injured American airman knew exactly what to do: survive and evade.

For more than one day, the weapons systems officer whose F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down inside Iran avoided being captured by encroaching Iranian forces.

At one point, he scaled the rugged terrain to a ridgeline more than 2000 metres above sea level, equipped with little more than a pistol, a communication device and a tracking beacon.

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It was into the high mountains that a team of American commandos, accompanied by US aircraft dropping bombs to clear the area, swarmed to locate the officer, bringing him and themselves to safety.

Two US officials described the details of the risky operation afterwards.

It involved hundreds of American military and intelligence personnel, including special operations forces who carried out the successful rescue mission, and CIA operatives who mounted a deception campaign beforehand to throw off potential Iranian captors.

And it came with multiple twists, including a pair of damaged US special operations aircraft that the US had to blow up on the ground in Iran during the operation.

"WE GOT HIM!" President Trump wrote on social media after spending Saturday monitoring the operation from the White House.

"Over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in US History."

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The race to find and recover the officer had quickly become an all-consuming endeavour for the administration after the fighter jet was shot down on Friday. The pilot of the plane was found quickly, but the White House and Pentagon refused to confirm the rescue as a second, more prolonged mission to find his crewmate was under way.

Both had ejected from the plane when it was hit, but the weapons systems officer's whereabouts were unknown. After sustaining injuries during the ejection, he hid in the crevice to avoid detection by Iran, whose leaders had issued a bounty for his capture. He made contact then with the military.

But his communication was sporadic as he worked to avoid being detected by Iranian forces.

In Washington, Trump spent Friday in the West Wing, moving between the Oval Office and its adjacent dining room to receive updates on the mission to find the officer.

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The downing of the F-15E, along with Iran's ability to strike another plane — an A-10 Warthog — and a US helicopter assisting in the search-and-rescue mission seemed to undercut his administration's claims of air dominance over Iran.

Trump skipped the golf course on Saturday, remaining at the White House as the operation to enter Iran to find the downed airmen came together.

At the same time military planners were rushing to piece together the operation, a parallel effort was under way by the CIA. American intelligence operatives worked to circulate information inside Iran that both crew-members had been recovered, looking to confuse Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members who were urgently searching themselves for the downed officer.

Israel, meanwhile, postponed some planned strikes in Iran to not interfere with the search and rescue efforts, an Israeli official told CNN, and offered intelligence support, according to two Israeli sources.

It was the CIA that ultimately identified the officer's exact location and shared the information with the military.

"This brave Warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour, but was never truly alone," Trump wrote.

As American special operations forces converged on the mountainside where the officer had been hiding, US planes conducted strikes in the area to ensure Iranian forces were not able to get there first. Trump was watching along from the Situation Room.

At a remote airstrip in Iran, two MC-130J special operations transport aircraft had been waiting to take the commandos and the rescued airmen out of the country. But they had become damaged at some point during the operation.

The military decided to send in new planes and blow the damaged ones up rather than take the risk of them falling into Iranian hands.

In a Sunday social media post, Trump said he would speak to reporters about the remarkable operation at a news conference in the Oval Office at 1pm on Monday (3am Tuesday AEDT).

He also offered some new details on the crew member, whom he described as "seriously wounded" and "really brave," and said was rescued from "deep inside the mountains of Iran".

Trump called the operation "an AMAZING show of bravery and talent by all!"

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The grieving sisters of one of the officers killed by Dezi Freeman are set to sue Victoria Police over their brother's death.

Detective Constable Neal Thompson's siblings Dianne Thompson and Lois Kirk say special tactical officers should have been at Porepunkah on the day he was killed.

They claim they've been kept in the dark throughout the investigation.

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Thompson's sisters say they expected grief but "did not expect to feel invisible".

They claim they were sidelined at his police funeral and left in the dark about the investigation.

"From the moment we were informed of Neal's death by a phone call, instead of in-person, it felt as though the magnitude of the loss … had not been understood," they wrote in a letter to Chief Commissioner Mike Bush.

Victoria Police acknowledged issues were raised by the pair and said they responded once Bush received the letter.

"We have been in contact with the families since the incident occurred and have taken every step to ensure they are kept up to date and that support services are in place for them," Victoria Police said in a statement.

"The Chief Commissioner has spoken directly a number of times to Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson's partner, the parents of Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart, and the officer seriously injured during the incident on 26 August, 2025.

"However, we also acknowledge some issues raised by the sisters of Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson and police have met with them directly as a result of a letter they sent to the Chief Commissioner."

The sisters say they'll sue Victoria Police over their brother's death.

They claim the arrest warrant for Freeman should have been executed by a specialist squad.

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Victoria Police has appointed the sisters their own police liaison officers from the homicide squad and the local area to update them on the investigation.

The force is in discussions with the pair about any ongoing concerns, but refused to provide further details.

"Victoria Police acknowledges that the past seven months have been an incredibly difficult time following in the incident in Porepunkah, particularly the families of the two police officers killed," Victoria Police said.

"While every effort is made to provide timely updates to all families involved, we are always conscious of the need to manage ongoing investigations." 

Former homicide detective Charlie Bezzina provided said policing could be unpredictable.

"We just don't have crystal balls, you can go into a situation quite comfortably about saying how safe it is, and then the whole topsy-turvy happens," he said.

Former colleagues say Thompson had dealt with Freeman before the shooting, and considered him relatively low-risk.

Police are still investigating how he managed to evade capture for so long.

They arrested and released two of his alleged associates yesterday.

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A young surfer has told of his terror as he realised a shark had grabbed his foot and knocked him off his board in South Australia.

Oliver Tokic-Bensley, 16, said he was surfing by himself in murky water off the tourist town of Middleton was he was struck.

He was about 100 metres offshore, frantically paddling in, hoping the shark wouldn't strike again.

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"(I was) sitting on my board waiting for a wave to come and something just came and grabbed my foot," he said.

"I fell into the water with it and then maybe five metres in front of me there was a little fin that popped up, and I just hopped on my board and legged it back to the beach."

When the fin disappeared below the surface, Oliver faced every surfer's worst nightmare, not knowing if the predator would strike again.

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"It was pretty frantic," he said.

"There were no waves to catch at the time it got me so I just had to paddle."

His father, Andrew Bensley, had been watching his son from their holiday home but didn't see the attack.

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"I think the movement of his foot and maybe the murky water, the shark mistimed the hit. If it was a little bit up he definitely would have lost his foot," he said.

"Based on the size of the teeth it was a reasonable-sized shark."

When Oliver finally made it to shore and reached his phone he called his sister to raise the alarm.

"I just said 'I just got attacked by a shark'. I didn't word it very well so she thought it was a lot worse than it was. So she sort of started stressing out," he said.

While Oliver has quite the tale to tell – he says the attack won't keep him out of the water.

He's planning to be out catching waves again as soon as his foot is healed.

"He said to me, 'the chances of getting attacked by a shark is one in 3 million and what are the chances of getting attacked twice right?'" Bensley said.

Judging by the colour of the fin, Oliver believes the shark might have been a bronze whaler, which struck his foot about 4.30pm on Good Friday.

"We were talking around having a religious presence in your life and I said 'your guardian angel's definitely working overtime for you today," his father said.

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