Business leaders says the success of the fundraiser shows the community’s solidarity.

A Qantas flight travelling from Singapore to London has been diverted to Azerbaijan due to a fault in the cockpit.

The A380 "QF1" was more than 10 hours into its journey when it was forced to land at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku at about 2.15pm (EST).

The aircraft was met by fire and rescue teams, who are currently assessing the issue.

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Flight radars show that the flight was forced to turn back near the Georgian border.

"Our flight from Singapore to London has made an unscheduled landing at Baku Airport in Azerbaijan after pilots received an intermittent fault indicator in the cockpit," a Qantas spokesperson said.

"Engineers will inspect the aircraft prior to continuing its journey."

It is unclear how long the plane will remain in Baku.

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Seven-year-old Tug has been with foster carers awaiting his forever home for nearly six months.

He is one of many dogs in the care of Melbourne-based organisation Starting Over Dog Rescue which is facing an uphill battle to rehome animals as the number of foster carers and dogs needing temporary accommodation remains wildly unbalanced.

The volunteer group have issued a stark warning not to give dogs as Christmas presents as they are dumped at "alarming rates" after the festive period, fuelling a worsening problem across the country.

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Director Ruth King told 9news.com.au the group were "desperate" for foster carers and are trying to place more than two dogs each day.

"It's so hard you have no idea. Every day we are looking for carers no matter what day it is," King said.

"It's nearly impossible. Things are very difficult at the moment."

The organisation is run by unpaid volunteers who use their homes to accommodate and foster animals.

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The intake for dogs needing care has continued to rise for the group, from 581 a year in 2018 to 852 in 2022, and the year isn't over.

Giving animals as surprise presents can have far-reaching consequences for animal rescue groups in the future.

King's group have a rigorous adoption process to ensure their animals aren't given as Christmas presents as they are concerned they might just come back, and need rehoming again.

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"Animals are dumped at alarming rates in the country," she said.

"We take some surrenders but we simply don't have the capacity to take them all.

"Our foster carers do a really steady job of speaking to the people and making sure they are ready for a dog.

"We never ever give a dog as a Christmas present, it does happen with breeders."

"We don't want the dogs to come back to us."

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This issue is being faced across the country.

Lost Dogs Home hit capacity at its North Melbourne and Cranbourne shelters multiple times this year.

Spokesperson Suzana Talevski warned those thinking of adopting to consider the "10-15 year commitment" they would be making before taking on an animal.

"The last thing that we want is a whole plethora of animals being returned post-Christmas," Talevski told 9news.com.au.

"We would love all of our animals to go to home for Christmas but we want to make sure it is well-researched.

"Pets are like newborn babies, they take a while to settle into a family. It can take from three weeks to three months for a pet to settle in a new environment."

Talevski said it was important to remember that animals can't be exchanged or returned like a pair of socks.

"It's absolutely heartbreaking when we see pets surrendered to the shelter (for the wrong reasons) and it's devastating for the animals," she said.

"Pets deserve to be treated with respect."

It follows Tuesday’s decision which said a deportee should be excused from parole.

The number of people waiting for non-acute elective operations continues to grow.

A man has been arrested after he allegedly pointed a replica gun at people and police in Western Sydney this morning.

Concerned members of the public called police after they saw the man pointing a gun at cars driving along John Street in Cabramatta, about 9am.

The 46-year-old then walked into Cabramatta Police Station, while police were responding to those calls for help, and allegedly pointed the replica firearm at an officer and woman in the foyer.

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Police chased him out of the station and arrested him on John Street.

"A replica firearm was seized from under a nearby parked vehicle," NSW Police said in a statement.

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"During a search of the man, police located and seized another replica pistol in his bag."

The man was taken to Fairfield station where he is assisting with inquiries.

National’s Simon Watts calls the Govt’s changes to its controversial legislation ‘sloppy’.

The report also details extensive breaches in how the Crown conducted land transactions.

The House January 6 committee’s final report asserts that Donald Trump criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 US presidential election.

It further claims he failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol, concluding an extraordinary 18-month investigation into the former president and the violent insurrection two years ago.

The 845-page report released Thursday comes after the panel interviewed more than 1000 witnesses, held 10 hearings and obtained millions of pages of documents.

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The witnesses — ranging from many of Trump’s closest aides to law enforcement to some of the rioters themselves — detailed Trump’s actions in the weeks ahead of the insurrection and how his wide-ranging pressure campaign to overturn his defeat directly influenced those who brutally pushed past the police and smashed through the windows and doors of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The central cause was “one man”, the report says: Trump.

The insurrection gravely threatened democracy and “put the lives of American lawmakers at risk,” the nine-member panel concluded.

In a foreword to the report, outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the findings should be a “clarion call to all Americans: to vigilantly guard our democracy and to give our vote only to those dutiful in their defence of our Constitution."

The report’s eight chapters of findings tell the story largely as the panel’s hearings did this summer — describing the many facets of the remarkable plan that Trump and his advisers devised to try and void President Joe Biden’s victory.

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The lawmakers describe his pressure on states, federal officials, lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence to game the system or break the law.

Trump's repeated, false claims of widespread voter fraud resonated with his supporters, the committee said, and were amplified on social media, building on the distrust of government he had fostered for his four years in office. And he did little to stop them when they resorted to violence and stormed the Capitol.

The massive, damning report comes as Trump is running again for the presidency and also facing multiple federal investigations, including probes of his role in the insurrection and the presence of classified documents at his Florida estate.

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This week is particularly fraught for him, as a House committee is expected to release his tax returns after he has fought for years to keep them private. And Trump has been blamed by Republicans for a worse-than-expected showing in the midterm elections, leaving him in his most politically vulnerable state since he won the 2016 election.

It is also a final act for House Democrats who are ceding power to Republicans in less than two weeks, and have spent much of their four years in power investigating Trump.

Democrats impeached Trump twice, the second time a week after the insurrection. He was acquitted by the Senate both times. Other Democratic-led probes investigated his finances, his businesses, his foreign ties and his family.

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On Monday, the panel of seven Democrats and two Republicans officially passed their investigation to the Justice Department, recommending the department investigate the former president on four crimes, including aiding an insurrection.

While the criminal referrals have no legal standing, they are a final statement from the committee after its extensive year-and-a-half-long probe.

Trump has tried to discredit the report, slamming members of the committee as “thugs and scoundrels” as he has continued to falsely dispute his 2020 loss.

In response to the panel’s criminal referrals, Trump said, “These folks don’t get it that when they come after me, people who love freedom rally around me. It strengthens me.”

The committee has also begun to release hundreds of transcripts of its interviews. On Thursday, the panel released transcripts of two closed-door interviews with former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who testified in person at one of the televised hearings over the summer and described in vivid detail Trump’s efforts to influence the election results and indifference toward the violence as it occurred.

In the two interviews, both conducted after her July appearance at the hearing, she described how many of Trump’s allies, including her lawyer, pressured her not to say too much in her committee interviews.

The woman suspected of stealing a car that had five-month-old twins inside was taken into custody on Thursday in Indianapolis, but one of the children was not located with her and remains missing.

Suspect Nalah Jackson was arrested at approximately 2pm on Thursday by officers with the Indianapolis Metro Police Department (IMPD) after officials received several tips that she was in the area, said Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant during a news conference.

Jackson was charged with two felony counts of kidnapping. The vehicle has not been located.

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The mother of the children, Kason and Kyair Thomass, was picking up a restaurant order while working as a DoorDash driver and left a black 2010 Honda Accord running outside a pizzeria on High Street in Columbus on Monday night, CNN previously reported.

When she came out, the car was gone. Kyair was later found abandoned near the Dayton International Airport at around 4.15am on Tuesday.

"At this moment, she is being questioned by police. However, Kason Thomass was not with her at the time of her arrest," Bryant said, adding that officers have been working "around the clock" since the twins went missing on Monday.

"We will not stop until we find Kason," the chief said. The FBI is offering a $10,000 (A$15,000) award for the safe return of Kason, she added.

Since Jackson crossed state lines, she will be facing federal charges, Bryant said.

"It will absolutely be a federal investigation," she said.

A warrant for Jackson's arrest was filed through the Franklin County Court, according to an online docket. An Amber Alert went out for the twins at 1.37am on Tuesday, officials said.

Restaurant employees told police that a homeless woman exited the restaurant after the twins' mother entered the restaurant.

The individual was later caught on camera at a gas station where she asked an employee for money.

Witnesses spotted suspect

Columbus Police Deputy Chief Smith Weir said during the Thursday news conference that officers have received "over three dozen tips" since Wednesday from throughout the state.

Late on Thursday morning, the department's hotline received several calls from people in Indiana who believed they spotted Jackson in Indianapolis and officers "implored" the witnesses to call 911. IMPD informed Columbus police around 2pm that they had stopped an individual who they believed to be Jackson and both departments worked together to identify her before taking her into custody, Weir said.

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"If you have any information regarding this crime or the whereabouts of this baby, please contact us as soon as possible," Weir said, adding that three detectives from the Columbus Division of Police are traveling to Indianapolis to coordinate with IMPD and the FBI to further the investigation.

Indiana will issue an Amber Alert asking for information that could help locate Kason and the missing vehicle, Weir said.

Family pleads for the child's safe return

Earlier Wednesday, family members and community leaders gathered to pray for the safe return of the child.

During the vigil, the twins' grandmother, LaFonda Thomass, begged for the return of Kason.

"If you look at him and you see anything, see a precious child who's longing for his mother," she said. "We beg you, please, please, please do the right thing and just bring my baby home."

First Assistant Chief of Police LaShanna Potts said during the vigil, "We are committed to finding baby Kason. We want Nalah to do the right thing. … We know she's capable of doing it because she did release one baby."

Officials are asking people to be on the lookout for a black Accord with a torn Ohio registration sticker on the rear bumper and a white bumper sticker that says, "Westside City Toys."

The vehicle was recently purchased and did not have a license plate, which made it harder to track, Weir said.

"I plead to you, please return Kason Thomass. We thank you for returning Kyair. You've already shown us you can do the right thing. You can return him to any safe location," Bryant said during a news conference Tuesday.

Officials do not believe there's a connection between the twins' family and the suspect.