Young expectant father has lost two digits in the attack.

The constable who survived the Wieambilla shootings has "uplifted" a whole town by attending a candlelight vigil for her colleagues who were mercilessly slain in a calculated ambush at a rural Queensland property.

Constable Keely Brough, 28, stood silently in the nearby town of Chinchilla on Friday evening as the community grieved.

Vigil organiser Lance Payne told Today "it was the most uplifting thing the community needed".

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"To see the strength she had to turn up to an event like that was incredible," Payne said.

"To go through what she did and then four nights later on to turn up to a community event just to show her support for the community, that was uplifting for the whole town."

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Payne said 18 businesses came forward to help put on last night's event, allowing the community to come together as one.

"McDonald's was delivering cheeseburgers all night for the kids that turned up."

Queensland Police Assistant Commissioner Charysse Pond hugged Constable Brough at the ceremony, where a guard of honour was formed by locals who openly wept during the tribute.

Constable Matthew Arnold, 26, Constable Rachel McCrow, 29, and Good Samaritan neighbour Alan Dare were shot dead by Nathaniel and Gareth Train and Gareth's partner Stacey Train during the horrific ambush at Wieambilla on Monday.

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Constable Randall Kirk, 28, and Constable Brough, managed to escape with their lives despite the sustained gunfire from the heavily-armed Train trio.

Constable Kirk was wounded and is recovering in hospital after surgery.

During the siege, Constable Brough sent text messages to her loved ones fearing she was about to die. The Trains had set fire to the grass she was hiding in to try and flush her out.

The Trains were already wearing camouflage gear when the shooting started, and police are investigating whether the officers were intentionally lured to the property.

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Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers said the two officers killed had been "executed".

"This was a pure execution," he said.

Yesterday, more than 200 people gathered at Tara Police Station to pay tribute to the victims.

"They are such a close-knit and caring community and the loss of these lives has fallen hard on a great many people," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

"An act of violence and bloodshed so sudden, so cruel, so alien to the community and country that they know."

An elderly couple have been allegedly assaulted and had their car stolen after being offered help with their grocery shopping by a stranger in Sydney's west.

A man is said to have asked for a lift after helping the couple with their shopping in Casula on December 13. NSW Police report the 81-year-old woman driving the car noticed the man allegedly steal her phone from her handbag before pulling over and asking him to get out.

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After leaving the gold Nissan Micra, he allegedy assaulted the woman and drove off with the 90-year-old passenger still in his seat before pushing him out in the nearby suburb, Liverpool.

"Emergency services attended, where NSW Ambulance paramedics treated the 90-year-old for facial injuries," NSW Police said in a statement.

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"He was taken to Liverpool hospital in a stable condition."

Police have released CCTV and images a man who may be able to assist with their enquiries.

The man is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 50-years-old with short dark hair and light stubble.

"He was wearing a black, long sleeve jacket, grey tracksuit pants, black slides and a black cap," NSW Police said.

Police are urging anyone with information to contact Crimestoppers on 1800 333 000.

A huge aquarium in Berlin burst on Friday, causing glass, water and hundreds of tropical fish to spill out of the Sea Life tourist attraction in the heart of the German capital.

A wave of debris swept out of the building, which also contains a hotel, cafes and a chocolate store, as 1 million litres of water poured from the aquarium.

Berlin's fire service said two people were slightly injured by splintered glass. Rescue dogs were searching the building for anyone who might be trapped under debris, they said.

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The operators of Sea Life say the 25 meters tall AquaDom was the biggest cylindrical tank in the world and held more than a thousand tropical fish before the incident. Among the 80 types of fish it housed were blue tang and clownfish, the species known from the popular animated movie “Finding Nemo.”

“We have not yet been able to walk the first floor completely, which is probably where these fish will be," fire service spokesman Adrian Wentzel said.

"But the thing is that the water has completely leaked out and these about 1,400 fish that were in this aquarium could not be saved either.”

There was speculation freezing temperatures that got down to minus 10 degrees Celsius overnight caused a crack in the tank, which then exploded under the weight of the water. Police said there was no evidence the incident resulted from an attack.

About 300 guests and employees had to be evacuated from the hotel surrounding the aquarium, police said.

Sandra Weeser, a German lawmaker who was staying in the hotel, said she was awoken up by a large bang and thought there might have been an earthquake.

“There are shards (of glass) everywhere. The furniture, everything has been flooded with water," she said. "It looks a bit like a war zone.”

The aquarium, which was last modernised in 2020, is a major tourist magnet in Berlin. The 10-minute elevator ride through the tropical tank was one of the highlights of the attraction.

A man in his forties has died in a light plane crash on the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia.

The plane crashed in the Caiguna area, about 350 kilometres west of the Western Australia-South Australia border, about 9.30am on Friday.

Western Australia police said the man, who was the pilot, was the only person on board.

Initial reports suggested the aircraft was a Cessna, however the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATBU) says the plane involved was an "amateur built" Jabiru recreational aircraft.

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Cincinnati Art Museum's chief conservator Serena Urry was conducting a routine inspection of the US institution's prized Paul Cézanne painting Still Life with Bread and Eggs when she noticed something "odd".

For an artwork dating back to 1865, the appearance of small cracks was no surprise.

But they were concentrated in two specific areas, rather than distributed evenly across the canvas.

What's more, they revealed tiny flashes of white that stood out in contrast to the brooding palette of the French painter's so-called "dark" period.

"I thought there might be something underneath that we should look at," Urry said in a video interview.

The conservator asked a local medical company to bring a portable X-ray machine to the museum, where a technician scanned the 76cm-wide oil painting in several parts.

As Urry stitched the series of images together digitally using Photoshop, she saw "blotches of white" that indicated the presence of more white lead pigment.

"I was trying to figure out what the heck they were… then I just turned it (90 degrees)," she recalled.

"I was all alone but I think I said 'wow' out loud."

When the scan was rotated vertically, an image of a man emerged, his eyes, hairline and shoulders appearing as dark patches.

Given the figure's body position, Urry and her museum colleagues believe it to be Cézanne himself.

"I think everyone's opinion is that it's a self-portrait … He's posed in the way a self-portrait would be: in other words, he's looking at us, but his body is turned.

"If it were a portrait of someone other than himself, it would probably be full frontal," she added.

Should that be the case, it would be among the earliest recorded depictions of the painter, who was in his mid-20s when the still life was completed.

Cézanne is known to have produced more than two dozen self-portraits, though almost all of them were completed after the 1860s and were largely executed in pencil.

"We are at the outset of the process of discovering as much as we can about the portrait," said Peter Jonathan Bell, the museum's curator of European paintings, sculpture and drawings, over email.

"This will include collaborating with Cézanne experts around the world to identify the sitter, and undertaking further imaging and technical analysis to help us understand what the portrait would have looked like and how it was made.

"Stitched together, this information may add to our understanding of a formative moment in the early career of this great artist."

Unanswered questions

Part of the Cincinnati Art Museum's collection since 1955, Still Life with Bread and Eggs was painted in a realist style — inspired by the Spanish and Flemish Baroque periods — that Cézanne deployed early in his career.

He later developed a more colourful aesthetic under the guidance of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, before spearheading the more structured style of the post-Impressionist movement.

In the mid-1860s, Cézanne was developing a new coarse painting technique, often using a palette knife to apply colour.

But whether his hidden portrait was an experiment gone wrong, or whether he simply reused an old canvas to save money, remains a matter of speculation.

Another possibility, Urry ventured, is that the painter suddenly felt inspired and "needed a canvas" — a theory supported by the fact that he appears not to have removed much paint before starting work.

"It's pretty clear that he didn't scrape it down," Urry explained.

Many other questions remain, including the colours Cézanne used and how complete his original portrait was.

Museum experts hope to analyse the painting using advanced scanning processes like multispectral imaging, which might reveal the underlying brushwork by assessing textures invisible to the human eye.

X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, meanwhile, could reveal which chemical elements are present and, thus, what coloured pigments were used by the artist.

"We're hoping to reach out to colleagues in the conservation and curatorial worlds to see if we can get access to other equipment," Urry said.

For now, however, the museum is looking forward to putting Still Life with Bread and Eggs back on display.

Since making the discovery in May, Urry has cleaned the painting and thinned the varnish on its surface.

It returns to public view, alongside an image of the X-ray, from December 20.

Further scans and analysis could entail transporting the artwork to another institution, presenting logistical challenges and meaning visitors to the museum might miss out on a chance to see one of only two — or arguably, now, three — Cézannes in its collection.

"You can't just pop it in your car and drive it to Chicago," Urry said.

"The portrait has been there since he painted it, and it's been there since (we acquired it in) 1955," she added, "so there's no rush."

"Everybody knows someone who has either been scammed or attempted to be scammed."

It's been a cruel lesson for one of Australia's top racehorse trainers, Rob Heathcote, who has spoken publicly as a warning to other Australians after he was scammed out of $100,000 trying to buy a Mercedes-Benz for his wife.

Speaking on Nine's new Anatomy of a Scam podcast, the Brisbane-based trainer says he will forever be "kicking himself" for falling victim to the sophisticated scam.

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He paid a deposit in December 2021 and was told that there would be delays getting the car.

Emails were sent back and forth for some months.

"It was at that time that we ceased to communicate via phone and it was pretty much exclusively done via email," he said.

"Sometime during that period, we don't know exactly when, a hacker, a scammer intercepted emails from Mercedes-Benz to me, and ultimately from myself to Mercedes-Benz, and then started to play each of us other against each other, in an attempt to create the illusion that I was actually talking to Mercedes-Benz."

It's a scam known as business email compromise, a type of phishing attack.

AFP Commander Cybercrime Operations Chris Goldsmid explained on the podcast that, unfortunately, it's the sort of scam that is becoming increasingly common in Australia.

"One of the scam types that we are really focused on is business email compromise, and that's a particularly nefarious type of scam where criminals will compromise an email account and then use that email account to send legitimate-looking to try and trick people into sending payments to the wrong account," he said.

"It's a really common type of scam in Australia.

"So it's causing significant loss, with the average cost per incident of $50,000."

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A Victorian sanctuary owner has desperately pleaded for the return of a stolen baby camel, with fears the mother could die from "heartbreak".

The almost six-week-old camel was allegedly taken from Ardmona's For the Love of Camels sanctuary earlier this week.

Owner Brian Fankhauser has said the baby's mother, Manuka, is "absolutely devastated".

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He told 3AW radio camels are known to die from "heartbreak" when their babies are taken from them at an early age.

"Camels are very emotional creatures and are very connected," he said.

He said Manuka was "very upset" since her baby went missing.

"She cries a lot," he said.

Fankhauser said the baby was the youngest of 26 camels at the farm and that he believed the alleged theft had been targeted.

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He said he was not sure how the theft had occurred, seeing as camels were such protective animals.

He has pleaded for everyone to keep a lookout for a baby camel and for whoever has taken the camel to return it, saying no questions would be asked.

Extra cameras have been installed at the sanctuary since the baby was discovered missing.

Standing up for his friend cost Melbourne tradie Cameron Smith his life.

His stabbing murder has cost his killer, Jack Ledlin, the next 22 years of freedom.

The 21-year-old was ordered to serve at least 16 years behind bars before he is eligible for parole.

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Smith, 26, had been enjoying dinner and a walk with his friend Natasha Stroumos at Seaford on November 25, 2020.

They had ended their nearly four-year relationship a few months earlier but remained close.

They were headed to the beach to watch sunset when a confrontation occurred with Ledlin and girlfriend, who called Stroumos a dog and a fat b****.

Smith's kind reply that she wasn't fat, she was sexy, were some of the last things he said to her.

They walked away from the group, but crossed paths again a short distance later, near Seaford train station.

A fight broke out and Smith, a carpenter, was punched to the head by another man.

He threw a punch back and in the ordeal that followed Ledlin, then 19, pulled out a blade and stabbed Smith once.

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The blade struck his chest and pierced straight through his heart, severing his coronary artery.

Two men, friends of Ledlin and his girlfriend, kicked Smith's head and all four then fled on foot.

"At no stage did you give any indication of taking responsibility for what you had done," Justice John Champion said while sentencing Ledlin on Friday.

"You waited for police to come and arrest you the following day."

Passers-by tried to save Smith but he died before paramedics could arrive.

His mother described identifying the body of her son, her rock, as the worst moment of her life.

His father contrasted the joy of carrying his newborn son home from hospital with the unimaginable pain of carrying him out of a funeral home in an urn just 26 years later.

Prosecutors refused an offer by Ledlin to plead guilty to manslaughter, instead pressing on with a murder trial.

A jury convicted him of murder in September 2022.

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Justice Champion found Ledlin and his friends had instigated the attack on Smith.

While Smith was occupied with another of the group, Ledlin had taken steps to arm himself with the murder weapon.

He couldn't be sure the weapon was a knife or scissors, but said it made little difference given how it had been used to kill.

"Cameron Smith was unsuspecting of what was about to occur and had no reason to expect an attack with a sharp weapon was indeed imminent," he said.

Justice Champion noted Ledlin experienced a profoundly deprived and chaotic childhood, and was exposed to drugs, alcohol and domestic violence at a young age.

He spent time in custody and developed a heroin addiction.

Ledlin also described experiencing paranoia, hyper-vigilance and hallucinations in the months before Smith's murder.

An expert found he had a substance-induced psychotic disorder, which likely contributed to his offending against Smith.

Ledlin, who has a history of possessing weapons, has already served two years of his sentence.

Billionaire businessman Anthony Pratt and his famous family are under fire after revelations they held a lavish party at their Melbourne mansion during a COVID-19 lockdown.

CCTV obtained by Nine newspaper The Age shows guests hiding from Victoria Police and tricking officers into believing they were not breaching the stay-at-home restrictions.

The illegal lockdown party was held at the Kew mansion of the Pratts – the wealthiest family in Victoria – on July 23 last year, when Melbourne was in the grips of its fifth lockdown.

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The Age has reported the dinner was hosted by Jeanne Pratt and her son Anthony, who live on the property in separate compounds.

It was held to mark Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest, and attended by up to 12 people.

Victoria Police was tipped off, with several officers sent to investigate.

They were escorted onto the property by a staff member and arrived to find an empty round table set for a large group, but no guests.

But leaked CCTV from the mansion has shown 10 guests were taken to the basement to hide.

They emerged from the basement smiling 12 minutes later – once police had left.

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Billionaire businesswoman, Fiona Geminder, who is the daughter of Jeanne Pratt, was among those hiding from police.

Victoria Police has said officers spoke with residents and staff and determined no offence had been committed.

No action was taken against the Pratts.

Victoria Police told 9News it wasn't made aware of the CCTV at the time.

The statute of limitations for lockdown restrictions has since expired, meaning police can no longer take action.

Representatives for the Pratt family did not respond to requests for comment.