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Constable Keely Brough, one of the two police officers who survived the Queensland shooting, said goodbye to her loved ones in a text message during the siege.

Prime minister Anthony Albanese described the incident as "an act of violence and bloodshed" as he reveled more details of the Wieambilla shooting, during an address in Parliament House this morning.

Albanese told the house Constable Brough assumed she would die, either being shot by "her pursuers" or burned alive, after the murderers set the grass she was hiding in alight to "try and drive her out".

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"Constable Brough grabbed her phone to seek assistance for her colleagues," Albanese told the house.

"And then, she texted her loved ones, what she imagined would be her final goodbyes.

"Even then, surrounded by danger and death, her first thought was for her fellow officers."

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He said it was "a miracle" Brough survived.

Constable Randall Kirk was shot and wounded but is recovering well after an extensive surgery.

In his condolence motion he expressed his "deep regret" over the death of Constable Rachel McCrow, Constable Matthew Arnold and Alan Dare.

"Mr Speaker, Monday, 12 December should have been an ordinary summer's day on the Western Downs… Instead, that quiet was shattered by the gunfire of an atrocity.

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"A vicious and deadly ambush that has stolen lives, broken hearts, devastated a community and shocked our nation."

He said the four Queensland police officers from Tara Police Station where conducting an "ordinary part of their job" and didn't know they were entering "a fortress and an armoury".

"Police officers in regional Australia are servants of the community and they're part of its fabric."

Albanese said neighbour Alan Dare went to the property's front gate, "driven by that great Australian instinct to help".

"An innocent Australian who paid for his kindness and concern with his life."

Over 200 people gathered at Tara Police Station to pay tribute to McCrow and Arnold while Chinchilla has run out of flowers.

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

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

Albanese pledged to honour those who were killed and examine what drove the murderers.

"And we grieve for Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, who have paid a price that no one who puts on the uniform should ever have to pay.

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"We can never count the true cost. We can never repay the full debt.

"All we can offer is the humble thanks of a grateful nation and the heartfelt condolences of the Australian people."

COVID-19 vaccine developers Moderna have developed a breakthrough cancer treatment that targets the personal genetics of patients fighting melanoma.

The vaccine consists of mRNA, which primes the patient's immune system to recognise the mutations on the cancer cells as foreign invaders.

Each vaccine is personalised – using the patient's own tissue biopsy to sequence the mutations, much like identifying a fingerprint.

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A trial involving 150 high-risk patients produced "exciting" results, according to Moderna chief medical officer Paul Burton.

"The combination of a personalised cancer vaccine plus Keytruda reduced the risk of either dying from cancer, or having the cancer progress, by 44 percent," Burton said.

Professor Georgina Long of the Melanoma Institute of Australia said it could be the "penicillin moment" in cancer treatment.

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The institute will carry out confirmatory studies, while a larger trial is set to take place next year.

It's even hoped people with other kinds of cancer could benefit.

A ruling that there would be no "public benefit" in an inquest into the suspected murder of a Queensland mother has been overturned after campaigning by the woman's daughter.

The Queensland coroner has decided there will be an inquest into Tina Greer's disappearance, finding it is in the public interest after months of her daughter lobbying against an earlier decision.

Tina Greer was meant to pick up her daughter, Lili Greer, from a friend's house in January 2012, after spending the day with her boyfriend.

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A piece of debris from the doomed flight MH370 passenger jet points to one of the pilots deliberately lowering the plane's landing gear, backing theories the aircraft was crashed deliberately.

The Boeing 777 aircraft vanished on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing with 239 people aboard, including six Australians.

It remains one of the greatest aviation mysteries.

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Damage to landing gear door from the Malaysian Airlines jet, found in the possession of a fisherman in Madagascar last month, is the first physical evidence to suggest one of the pilots deliberately destroyed the aircraft.

Amazingly, the fisherman was oblivious to how important the piece of wreckage was.

His wife had used it as a washing board since he discovered it on a beach in 2017, three years after MH370 disappeared.

The find came to light in a new report this week by British engineer Richard Godfrey and American MH370 wreckage hunter Blaine Gibson.

They suggest the landing gear debris – known as a trunnion door – was likely penetrated from the inside by the aircraft's engines breaking up on impact.

This points to the landing gear probably being down when the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean eight years ago.

During emergency landings on water, pilots are trained to retract a plane's landing gear and lower the flaps to ensure a low-speed and controlled ditching.

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But the flaps on MH370 were not believed to have been retracted to slow the aircraft's speed and extending the landing equipment would have caused the collapse of the fuselage once the plane struck the sea at high speed.

Putting down the landing gear would also raise the chances of an aircraft sinking rapidly, reducing the time any survivors had to evacuate.

In their new report, Godfrey and Gibson suggest the plane was crashed deliberately.

"The fact that the damage was from the interior side to the exterior side … leads to the conclusion that the landing gear was highly extended on impact, which in turn supports the conclusion that there was an active pilot until the end of the flight," the report reads.

"The level of damage with fractures on all sides and the extreme force of the penetration right through the debris item leads to the conclusion that the end of the flight was in a high-speed dive designed to ensure the aircraft broke up into as many pieces as possible."

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One of the prevailing theories about how flight MH370 crashed has been that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a veteran Malaysian Airlines pilot, deliberately flew the plane into the ocean.

The damaged landing gear door brings the number of pieces of MH370 debris discovered in Madagascar and handed to authorities to 19.



An unprecedented wave of COVID-19 cases in China has sparked panic buying of fever medicines, pain killers, and even home remedies such as canned peaches, leading to shortages online and in stores.

Authorities said they had detected 2249 symptomatic COVID-19 cases nationally through nucleic acid testing, 20 per cent of which were detected in the capital Beijing. CNN reporting from the city indicates the case count in the Chinese capital could be much higher than recorded.

Demand for fever and cold medicines, such as Tylenol and Advil, is surging nationally as people rush to stockpile drugs amid fears they may contract the virus.

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Canned yellow peaches, considered a particularly nutritious delicacy in many parts of China, have been snapped up by people looking for ways to fight COVID-19. The product is currently sold out on many online shops.

Its sudden surge in popularity prompted Dalian Leasun Food, one of the country's largest canned food manufacturers, to clarify in a Weibo post that canned yellow peaches don't have any medicinal effect.

"Canned yellow peaches ≠ medicines!" the company said in the post published Friday. "There is enough supply, so there is no need to panic. There is no rush to buy."

The People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party, also tried to set the record straight. It published a long Weibo post on Sunday urging the public not to stockpile the peaches, calling them "useless in alleviating symptoms of illness."

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Authorities also pleaded with the public not to stockpile medical supplies. On Monday, the Beijing city government warned residents that it was facing "great pressure" to meet demand for drug and medical services because of panic buying and an influx of patients at clinics.

It urged the public not to hoard drugs or call emergency services if they have no symptoms.

Stock frenzy

The rising demand and shortage of supply of COVID-19 remedies have fuelled bets on drugmakers.

Shares of Hong Kong-listed Xinhua Pharmaceutical, China's largest manufacturer of ibuprofen, have gained 60 per cent in the past five days. The stock has so far jumped by 147 per cent in the first two weeks of this month.

"Our company's production lines are operating at full capacity, and we are working overtime to produce urgently needed medicines, such as ibuprofen tablets," Xinhua Pharmaceutical said.

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Ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat pain and fever. It is also known as Advil, Brufen, or Fenbid.

The drug shortage has spread from mainland China to Hong Kong, a special administrative region which has a separate system of local government. On Sunday, the city's health chief urged the public to refrain from panic buying cold medicines they do not need and urged residents "not to overact."

In some Hong Kong drugstores, fever drugs such as Panadol, the local brand name for Tylenol, have sold out. Most of the buyers were sending the medicines to their families and friends in the mainland, sales representatives told CNN.

Shares of Shenzhen-listed Guizhou Bailing Group Pharmaceuticals, known for making cough syrup, have gained 21 per cent this week and risen 51 per cent so far this month. Yiling Pharmaceutical, the sole producer of Lianhua Qingwen, a traditional Chinese medicine recommended by the government for treating COVID-19, has also jumped more than 30 per cent in the past month.

Even providers of funeral services and burial plots have gotten a huge boost. Shares in Hong Kong-traded Fu Shou Yuan International, China's largest burial service company, have soared more than 50 per cent since last month.

There is "strong pent-up demand for burial plots" in 2023, analysts from Citi Group said in a recent research report, adding that they've noticed increasing investor interest in the sector.

They cited the existence of hundreds of thousands of cremated remains, which are being temporarily stored in government facilities awaiting burial. Lockdowns across much of the country have halted funeral services, they said.

Stephen “tWitch” Boss, the longtime and beloved dancing DJ on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and a former contestant on So You Think You Can Dance, has died at the age of 40.

His wife, Allison Holker Boss, confirmed his passing in a statement published on People.com.

“It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to share my husband Stephen has left us,” she said. “Stephen lit up every room he stepped into. He valued family, friends and community above all else and leading with love and light was everything to him. He was the backbone of our family, the best husband and father, and an inspiration to his fans.”

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Her statement did not include details on the cause of his death.

tWitch started his tenure at The Ellen Show in 2014 and later was promoted to co-executive producer in 2020.

"I’m heartbroken. tWitch was pure love and light. He was my family, and I loved him with all my heart. I will miss him. Please send your love and support to Allison and his beautiful children – Weslie, Maddox, and Zaia," Ellen DeGeneres stated on Twitter, alongside a photo of the two embracing in a hug backstage.

The dancer-DJ also appeared in films like Step Up: All In and Magic Mike XXL and was featured in Disney+'s The Hip Hop Nutcracker, released this year. He also had placed as a runner-up on So You Think You Can Dance and later judged season 17 of the dance competition show.

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“We are shocked and heartbroken by the tragic news of the passing of Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss. tWitch was a multi-faceted talent and integral part of The Ellen DeGeneres Show and our Warner Bros. Television Group family. He had the ability to bring communities of people together each day to share in joy and laughter,” Warner Bros. Television Group said in a statement Wednesday.

The Alabama native studied dance performance at Southern Union State Community College and Chapman University.

His love of dancing permeated through all aspects of his life as he aspired to emulate greats like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

“My personal opinion: The greatest of all time had to be Gene Kelly, man. Gene Kelly, because he’s a guy’s guy. I love Fred Astaire, but Fred Astaire was so smooth, and it was great. He was so classy," Boss said in an interview with the Associated Press in 2014. "But Gene Kelly — he could be like somebody’s dad, who just decided to get up off the couch and dance around and clean the kitchen up.”

Boss posted dance videos on TikTok with his wife, who is also a professional dancer, with their children making guest appearances.

Celebrities like Questlove, Kerry Washington and Carrie Ann Inaba posted on social media in mourning.

“I have no words man. May his family find resolution in this dark time. May we all find peace of mind in our everyday lives. Everyday is a winding road and you just may never know who is on the edge,” Questlove posted on Instagram.

“Twitch brought joy and love to people all over the world through music and through dance. My heart is heavy today for his family and all of those who knew and loved him,” Washington also posted on Instagram.

“He was a special one. A good man, a husband, an artist, a dancer, an entertainer, a bright light…He was extraordinary. He could do anything and he did it with a joy and grace and some swagger. Twitch, I’m at a loss… my heart seems to be frozen… like I don’t want to exhale, hoping that maybe if I don’t exhale, that someone will correct this horrible mistake. And all will be okay again,” Inaba, a Dancing with the Stars judge, posted on Instagram.

Boss's passing was first reported by TMZ.

He is survived by his wife and three children.

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Twitter has suspended an account that used publicly available flight data to track Elon Musk's private jet, despite a pledge by the social media platform's new owner to keep it up because of his free speech principles.

Tweets from the widely-followed @elonjet account were no longer viewable Wednesday. The account had more than 526,000 followers as of Tuesday.

"Account suspended," says a note that appears when clicking on the account's handle. "Twitter suspends accounts that violate the Twitter Rules."

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Started in 2020 by then-teenage programmer Jack Sweeney, the account automatically posts the Gulfstream jet's flights with a map and an estimate of the amount of jet fuel and carbon emissions it expended.

"My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk," Musk tweeted on November 6.

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Sweeney runs similar "bot" accounts tracking other celebrities' airplanes. His accounts tracking private jets used by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and various Russian oligarchs were still on Twitter on Wednesday, as were his accounts tracking Musk's jet on rival social platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.

Sweeney didn't immediately return a request for comment Wednesday but on his personal Twitter account posted a screenshot showing a notice from Twitter that said @elonjet was permanently suspended. The note didn't specify a reason for the permanent ban. Twitter didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456

Sweeney had days earlier accused Musk's Twitter of using a filtering technique to hide his tweets, and revealed what he said were leaked internal communications showing a Twitter executive ordering her team to suppress the account's reach. The Associated Press has not been able to independently verify those documents.

Musk has previously criticised that filtering technique — nicknamed "shadowbanning" — and alleged that it was unfairly used by Twitter's past leadership to suppress right-wing accounts. He has said the new Twitter will continue to downgrade the reach of negative or hateful messages but will be more transparent about it.

In his push to loosen Twitter's content restrictions, he's reinstated other high-profile accounts that were permanently banned for breaking Twitter's rules against hateful conduct, harmful misinformation or incitements of violence.

In the weeks since the Tesla CEO took over Twitter after buying it for $US44 billion in late October, the @elonjet account has chronicled Musk's many cross-country journeys from his home base near Tesla's headquarters in Austin, Texas, to various California airports for his work at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters and his rocket company SpaceX.

It showed Musk flying to East Coast cities ahead of major events, and to New Orleans shortly before a December 3 meeting there with French President Emmanuel Macron.

In a January post pinned to the top of the jet-tracking account's feed before it was suspended, Sweeney wrote that it "has every right to post jet whereabouts" because the data is public and "every aircraft in the world is required to have a transponder," including Air Force One that transports the US president.

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