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Viral footage of double knockout more than meets the eye
Video of a man knocking out two people in a matter of seconds on Darwin's party strip has gone viral on social media, but there's more to this incident than meets the eye.
The Mitchell Street madness shows a woman charge at a man before being knocked out clean after one blow, leaving her unresponsive on the roadway.
A male then runs in – he drops his milk before he also drops to the ground after one hit.
It's left, right, goodnight, within five seconds.
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The man that threw the single punches is confronted again by another man – you can hear: "One on one! One on one!"
But police won't be laying any charges against him for delivering the blows. NT Police told 9News he is actually the victim.
Police allege moments earlier inside a nightclub, the man in the yellow shirt inappropriately touched the other man's girlfriend.
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After a confrontation between the pair, the man in yellow allegedly started a physical altercation, punching the fellow in the white shirt several times to the face and head.
The duo were kicked out of the club before it's then alleged the man in white has tried to walk away – that's when the female is seen launching herself at him.
After reviewing CCTV and speaking to witnesses, police are satisfied the knock-out punches were thrown in self-defence.
The man also declined to take legal action against those that confronted him.
Little girl falls multiple storeys from balcony – and lives
A little girl has had the luckiest of escapes after plunging from a high-rise balcony in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Video showed the three-year-old hanging off the balcony, clinging on by just one hand.
She lets go and falls multiple stories.
However, amazingly, a delivery driver was waiting below to make a lifesaving catch.
He had spotted the girl's plight and managed to climb up onto a roof before she fell.
Amazon changes app icon after Hitler comparisons
Amazon has quietly changed the design of its new app icon, replacing the blue ribbon on top that drew some unfavourable comparisons.
Users of the Amazon Shopping app will now see a brown box that resembles a parcel with a blue strip that looks like packaging tape above the company's signature arrow in the shape of a smile.
Amazon introduced the initial new icon in a handful of international markets in late January, but has now changed the design of the blue tape after some said it resembled a toothbrush-style moustache, similar to the one worn by Adolf Hitler.
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"I completely missed that amazon quietly tweaked its new icon to make it look… less like hitler," wrote Alex Hern, a technology editor for the Guardian, on Twitter.
The new icon, the first design change in more than five years, replaces the shopping cart and ditches the word "Amazon," but displays the company's smiling arrow logo more prominently. The blue tape looks like it's being torn off, as if opening the package.
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"We designed the new icon to spark anticipation, excitement, and joy when customers start their shopping journey on their phone, just as they do when they see our boxes on their door step," an Amazon spokesperson said. The app icon was tweaked based on user feedback.
Only iOS users in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and Netherlands saw the Hitler-esque logo over the past few weeks.
The updated logo rolled out worldwide for iOS users last week. Android users will see the new logo beginning this week.
Sick young girl's birthday dreams come true
Police in Queensland's Lockyer region have made a sick girl's dreams come true by recruiting her as their youngest officer.
As Savannah Burns celebrated her birthday on Wednesday, officers in Gatton brought the excited young girl along for an adventure-filled day of policing.
The seven-year-old hit the streets with her fellow officers, saying hello to locals, sounding the lights and sirens in an official police car, conducting an RBT and even sitting in the cockpit of the police helicopter, Polair.
"It's an absolute miracle to see her so happy," Savannah's mum, Johanne, told 9News.
Savannah has terminal cancer but the Queensland Police Service and Make-A-Wish Australia teamed up to take her mind off her illness.
She also rode with the police service's mounted unit and met firefighters and ambulance officers.
Make-a-Wish has been trying to make Savannah's dream of becoming a police officer come true for more than a year but the plans have been on hold due to COVID-19.
The organisation still has another 800 on its list of children to delight.
"Seeing her smile is just absolutely wonderful but it is a very bittersweet day," police officer Kimberly Allen said.
"I'm glad we could make her wish come true."
Rockets hit airbase in Iraq hosting US troops
At least 10 rockets targeted a military base in western Iraq that hosts US-led coalition troops on Wednesday, the coalition and the Iraqi military said.
It was not immediately known if there were any casualties.
The rockets struck Ain al-Asad airbase in Anbar province at 7.20am, spokesman Col. Wayne Marotto said.
Later, the Iraqi military released a statement saying the attack did not cause significant losses and that security forces had found the launch pad used for the missiles.
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An Iraqi military official said they had been found in the al-Baghdadi area of Anbar, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to brief media.
It was the first attack since the US struck Iran-aligned militia targets along the Iraq-Syria border last week that killed one militiaman, stoking fears of a possible repeat of a series of tit-for-tat attacks that escalated last year, culminating in the US-directed drone strike that killed Iranian General Qassim Soleimani outside the Baghdad airport.
Wednesday's attack targeted the same base where Iran struck with a barrage of missiles in January last year in retaliation for the killing of Soleimani.
Dozens of US service members were injured, suffering concussions in that strike
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Wednesday's attack comes two days before Pope Francis' is scheduled to visit Iraq in a much-anticipated trip that will include Baghdad, southern Iraq and in the northern city of Irbil.
Last week's US strike along the border had been in response to a spate of rocket attacks that targeted the American presence, including one that killed a coalition contractor from the Philippines outside the Irbil airport.
After that attack, the Pentagon said the strike was a “proportionate military response” taken after consulting coalition partners.
Marotto said the Iraqi security forces were leading an investigation into the attack on Ain al-Asad.
US troops in Iraq significantly decreased their presence in the country last year under the Trump administration. The forces withdrew from several Iraqi based across the country to consolidate chiefly in Ain al-Asad and Baghad.
Frequent rocket attacks targeting the heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses the US Embassy, during President Donald Trump's time in office frustrated the administration, leading to threats of embassy closure and escalatory strikes.
'Hit' jobs case: PR consultant apologises and promises cash to settle defamation case that came from Dirty Politics
An apology and cash payment has been made by a public relations consultant to three public health experts who were victims of defamatory online attacks alleged to have been funded by money from Big Sugar and Big Tobacco.The apology…
Human remains found on Mollymook beach confirmed as missing man
Human remains found on a beach on the NSW South Coast have been confirmed as belonging to a man who went missing from Sydney last month.
Initial investigations raised questions about whether the remains were linked to Sydney businesswoman Melissa Caddick.
However, NSW Police today said they have been determined to belong to a 37-year-old from Ingleburn, last seen in Kiama.
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Kenneth Klees was reported missing on February 1 and his death is not being treated as suspicious.
The DNA profile of the was compared against the missing persons database, which contains the hereditary and genetic mapping of missing people in NSW, NSW Police said today.
"Earlier today the remains were confirmed to be that of a man reported missing from Ingleburn last month.
"The 37-year-old man was last seen at an ATM in Kiama about 1.30pm on Monday 1 February 2021, after he caught a train from Ingleburn to Kiama.
"Officers from Campbelltown City Police Area Command commenced inquiries to locate the man and will continue to lead investigations into the man's final movements.
The death is not being treated as suspicious, and a report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Jacinda Ardern and Papatoetoe High School principal Vaughan Couillault have 'frank and open' talk about blaming families with Covid
Papatoetoe High School principal Vaughan Couillault says he has had a “frank” discussion with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern about blame that has been heaped on Covid-infected families for spreading the virus.Couillault, whose school…