Lance Easton had already asked the woman to remove her own top and didn’t provide a towel.

Locals used a car to help steer the animal safely into a nearby property.

An Italian man has been busted trying to dress up as his deceased mother to fraudulently collect her pension.

The man, a former nurse who was unemployed, dressed up with lipstick, a 1970s-style blouse and a pearl necklace when going to the Registry Office in the small town of Borgo Virgilio in northern Italy.

He was trying to renew the identity card of Graziella Dall'Oglio, his mother.

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However, she died three years ago, and her son has instead been collecting her pension the entire time, racking up nearly €53,000 ($94,000), according to reports in Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera.

It has now been called the "Mrs. Doubtfire scandal" after the 1993 hit movie starring the late Robin Williams.

In a grim turn, when authorities busted the 56-year-old man and searched the home of his mother, they found her mummified body.

Dall'oglio had not been heard from in years, according to reports.

The mayor of the town, Francesco Aporti, told Corriere Della Sera the scam was exposed after an employee at the registry office noticed some strange things when "Graziella" came to renew her identification, and warned the mayor and police.

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"[He was] wearing a suit with a long skirt, lipstick on his lips, nail polish on his hands, jewellery around his neck and hands, old-fashioned earrings," Aporti said.

"But that neck, upon closer inspection, was a bit too thick, and even the wrinkles were strange, the skin on his hands didn't look like the 85-year-old he claimed to be.

"And his voice, feminine yes, but occasionally a few masculine notes escaped."

After comparing photos between the real Dall'Oglio and those of her son posing as her, they realised they had been fooled, and their investigations revealed her son had been filing regular tax returns.

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To bring him in, they called the son and said Dall'Oglio needed to present herself to the office to complete the identification process; once the son arrived dressed up as his mother, they took him to a police station, where he admitted his scheme.

They found the body of the mother in the home, with a statement from Italian police saying the body had been wrapped in bedsheets and a sleeping bag.

"She probably died of natural causes, but that will be established by a postmortem," the mayor added.

"It's a very, very sad story, certainly one of great loneliness."

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The sixth and final person fatally wounded during a stabbing rampage might have hastily exited the shopping mall instead of returning for her dropped water bottle if an alarm had sounded earlier.

Pikria Darchia, 55, was among 16 people, including a nine-month-old baby, stabbed during a three-minute attack in a Bondi Junction shopping centre in April 2024.

An inquest into the deaths of Darchia and five others is probing issues including the adequacy of the response of on-site security guards and emergency services to the violent and chaotic situation.

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A crucial 77 seconds elapsed between a radio call from a security guard who spotted the knifeman and when Darchia was stabbed.

"There is at least the possibility that if (the alarm) had been deployed earlier, this may have resulted in a different outcome for at least one victim," counsel assisting Peggy Dwyer SC said in closing submissions.

"Ms Darchia may have responded differently.

"She may not have stopped to retrieve the items that she dropped, and instead she may have attempted to hastily exit Westfield Bondi Junction or remove herself from danger."

Dawn Singleton, 25, Ashlee Good, 38, Jade Young, 47, Yixuan Cheng, 27 and security guard Faraz Tahir, 30, also died in the furious attack before Joel Cauchi was shot dead by a lone police officer.

The 40-year-old had been experiencing acute psychotic symptoms at the time.

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When doubling back, Darchia knew something was happening but had no indication there was an armed offender or that anyone was hurt, Dwyer said.

She disagreed with the operators of Westfield Bondi Junction that no alert could have occurred in time to warn Darchia.

Coroner Teresa O'Sullivan has also been asked to make findings about the management of Cauchi's mental health and whether opportunities were missed to detect his deterioration.

Andrea Boros-Lavack, who treated Cauchi for eight years, initially gave evidence he did not have chronic schizophrenia and he was not unwell at the time of the attack.

"I honestly believe, that is my opinion, (the attack) was nothing to do with psychosis," she told the inquest.

That answer was genuinely shocking, Dwyer said.

While Boros-Lavack recanted the next day, it had caused distress to the families of the victims.

Her characterisation of his mental health illness as prolonged first episode psychosis was "at best misconceived".

But it was "more likely (a) deliberately disingenuous" attempt to justify her own decision to wean him off medication and her statement that he was not unwell at the time of the attack, Dwyer said.

However, Boros-Lavack's lawyer contended she had not suggested Cauchi was not unwell at the time.

The psychiatrist has since accepted there were deficiencies in the way she handed over Cauchi's care, including not flagging his relapse symptoms or the high risk that he would relapse.

The symptoms included thinking he was under satanic control, the inquest was told.

The families of Cauchi's victims have called for the psychiatrist to be referred to a regulatory body.

Dwyer recommended the implementation of a preventative mental health care model, rather than a crisis-driven approach.

She commended the bravery of all of the emergency services staff responding to the fast-moving and violent scene, including Amy Scott.

Scott, the first police officer on the scene, quickly tracked down Cauchi, drew his attention and then shot him as he ran at her.

"I thought he was going to kill me," the officer told the inquest.

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Motorists are being urged to use alternative routes as diversions remain.

Authorities have confirmed the highly contagious H5 bird flu has reached an extremely remote Australian territory for the first time.

Australian scientists noted unusually high mortality rates in elephant seals during an environmental management visit to Heard Island, about 4000km south-west of Perth and 1700km north of Antarctica, in October.

They did not observe any impacts on other wildlife on the island, including penguins and seabirds. 

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Testing of dead elephant seal samples has now confirmed the presence of H5 bird flu.

Agriculture Minister Julie Collins said the result was not unexpected due to the outbreak in nearby sub-Antarctic islands and does not significantly change the risk to mainland Australia.

She said the detection does, however, reiterate the importance of Australia's biosecurity.

"While this detection of H5 bird flu on Heard Island does not substantially increase risks to Australia, it does reinforce the ongoing need for Australia to remain focused on preparing for a potential outbreak," she said.

Environment Minister Murray Watt said the confirmation "reinforces the importance and urgency of the work currently underway across Australia to protect threatened species and priority biodiversity, and build resilience of our most at risk species in nature".

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Australian scientists are on a second voyage to Heard Island to gather more information about wildlife health.

They are scheduled to arrive in late December and return to Hobart in February.

Australia has been the only continent free from the virus, which has spread across the US, Europe, Asia and Antarctica and caused serious illness and deaths in millions of wildlife.

The H5 bird flu only reached mainland Antarctica for the first time in February 2024, which caused experts to warn that it would almost certainly reach Australia. 

Australia has been preparing for an outbreak, with the federal government throwing more than $100 million at strengthening the nation's measures and responses and researchers monitoring the global spread of the virus.

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States and territories are also helping the most threatened and vulnerable species to build resilience to the virus. 

Springtime is a particularly precarious time, with birds migrating from the south arriving in Australia.

H5 bird flu would have a devastating effect on Australia's wildlife population and agricultural industries.

Threatened Species Commissioner Fiona Fraser has said the spread of the virus cannot not be able to be stopped or eradicated once it reaches Australia.

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Cobra, 14, was last seen leaving her Christchurch school on Monday last week.

It comes two days out from the Govt officially failing its police recruitment target.