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The release date of Grand Theft Auto VI has been pushed back once again, forcing fans to wait even longer to get their hands on arguably the most anticipated video game of all time.

The latest instalment of the popular series was officially announced in December 2023, when developer Rockstar Games promised a 2025 release date.

However, earlier this year it was announced the title wouldn't hit shelves until next May, and this morning, Rockstar announced the release date has been delayed once again, this time until November 2026.

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"Hi everyone, Grand Theft Auto VI will now release on Thursday, November 19, 2026," a statement from the developer read.

"We are sorry for adding additional time to what we realise has been a long wait, but these extra months will allow us to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve.

"We want to thank you again for your patience and support."

The predecessor to the hotly anticipated title, GTA V, was enormously successful on its release in September 2013, breaking all kinds of records as it racked up more than $US1 billion in sales in its first three days.

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However, assuming the latest release date proves accurate, fans are now faced with the prospect of having to wait more than 13 years for its sequel – which will be the eighth main instalment of the popular Grand Theft Auto series – to land.

Official announcements about GTA VI have been eagerly devoured by fans, with the two trailers for the game to date racking up a combined 405 million views on YouTube.

Following the announcement this morning, shares in Rockstar's parent company, Take Two Interactive, plunged up to 18 per cent in after-hours trading, despite the NASDAQ-listed business also posting better-than-expected quarterly earnings figures.

The company has since pared back a good portion of those losses, although, as of 2.30pm (AEDT), shares are still down about 6 per cent.

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A man has been arrested after a 10-year-old girl and a woman were killed in a crash in a remote Aboriginal community in Queensland.

A car carrying five people crashed on Doomadgee Road in Doomadgee, 400 kilometres north of Mount Isa, about 6.30am local time today.

Emergency services arrived to find them all seriously injured.

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The driver, a 30-year-old woman from Cloncurry, was given first aid but died at the scene.

Her four passengers were rushed to Doomadgee Hospital, where a 10-year-old girl died.

Of the remaining three, one is fighting for their life while two are being treated for non-life-threatening injuries. 

Police have arrested a 28-year-old man known to the deceased.

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A crime scene has been declared as investigations continue.

Queensland Police are supporting the Doomadgee community and local officers.

They have advised the community that there is no ongoing threat.

For 24/7 crisis support run by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, contact 13YARN (13 92 76).

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Bruce Lehrmann is at risk of arrest after failing to submit a medical certificate explaining his absence from court on car theft charges.

Lehrmann and his lawyer Zali Burrows missed a date in Hobart Magistrates Court yesterday morning, with the apologetic solicitor later appearing by phone.

Burrows told the court via email that Lehrmann was "not available today due to urgent medical issues slash tests", seeking an adjournment.

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Police did not oppose the adjournment but also floated the prospect of a warrant for his arrest.

"We have a strong prima facie case," prosecutor Bunewat Keo told the court, of the November 2024 incident.

Magistrate Robert Webster then ordered the warrant, but asked for it to lie in court pending two conditions: the provision of a medical certificate, and that the pair appear in person for a rescheduled hearing on December 4.

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His medical issues were not specified by Burrows, nor was it heard in open court.

Webster urged Burrows to inform her client to submit the medical certificate with haste.

The Magistrates Court confirmed that as of noon today, no certificate had been presented.

In response to request for comment, Burrows told AAP a "professional standards command complaint has been made in respect of the prosecutor", declining to specify details.

Despite his medical issues, Lehrmann was able to appear in the Federal Court on Tuesday on an unrelated matter.

Whether the failure to provide a medical certificate constitutes a violation of the court is within Webster's discretion.

Tasmania Police declined to comment, as the matter remained within the courts, and had yet to confirm the complaint about Keo's conduct.

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In court yesterday, Webster scolded Burrows for her failure to grasp the nature of the proceeding, a Tasmanian hearing known as a "contest mention".

The contest mention allows the parties to discuss evidence and learn their prospects of success before a full hearing, and can result in a changed plea.

Court documents seen by AAP show Burrows was informed at least four times of the contest mention, and specifically that it involved "case management and (testing the) strength of case".

On the day of the hearing, Burrows told the court, both by email and phone hookup, that she misunderstood this.

She also asked that the medical certificate be sealed, and not released to media.

"Why would it be?" Webster replied.

Police allege Lehrmann stole a Toyota Prado at Mountain River in southern Tasmania, and have the car owner's family, several officers and a service station owner lined up to offer evidence.

Lehrmann, a former Liberal staffer, has been the subject of various court matters since a 2019 alleged rape of then-colleague Brittany Higgins at Parliament House.

A trial was abandoned in 2022 due to juror misconduct, but the Federal Court in 2024 found on the balance of probabilities the rape did occur, dismissing his defamation suit against Network Ten and presenter Lisa Wilkinson.

Lehrmann has appealed the defamation loss.

Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).

A Sydney artist has faith that the "priceless" painting that took her more than 100 hours to complete will be returned after it was taken by someone in just minutes in a suspected case of mistaken street bounty. 

Rachael Egan was in the process of moving home in Erskineville on Tuesday afternoon when the centrepiece of her upcoming solo exhibition disappeared from the footpath.

In the chaos, the 26-year-old did not realise it was missing until she woke up the next morning and thought: "Where on earth is that painting?"

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"I moved everything in and out that whole day. We did a lot of rounds from the car, and we would have definitely seen it outside the front," she told 9news.com.au.

"So I think there was like a five- to 10-minute window when it was outside and someone took it. It wouldn't have been outside for very long."

Egan spent 100 hours over several months this year painting the piece and had planned to sell it at her very first solo exhibition in January.

To her, it is priceless. 

"I put a lot of love and labour into that work, and it's the crux of all the other pieces," she said.

"It was the first piece that jump-started the exhibit.

"So it's very important to me, and a very special artwork for me."

The artwork, titled Bliss – field of infinite potential, was born out of a phrase her yoga teacher had said during a class five years ago.

Egan's mind immediately went to the famed Windows wallpaper.

She spent the years honing her techniques and waiting until she was ready to paint it.

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Egan felt up to it this year, but an injury to her dominant hand meant she had to wait another six months to get started.

When she was finally able to pick up the paintbrush, it took her months to create her take on the Windows wallpaper.

It inspired the rest of the art in her collection.

"My exhibit is an exploration of fields with infinite potentials, but some literal like that, and then others very abstracted," she said.

Egan has posted up flyers around the street, spoken to neighbours and shared her art on her social media, @unsoftserve, to help reunite her with her painting. 

She is convinced it will be returned, believing someone had mistaken it for an item destined for council pickup.

"I know it was an innocent mistake, I'm sure someone fully just took it with street bounty, it wasn't actually intentionally stolen," she said.

"I just really have faith that whoever took it will see this and will return it to me, and they can come to my exhibit because they obviously liked my artwork."

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It's the smoking gun behind the most spectacular heist this side of the Millennium.

A French court has released a report slamming the leadership of the Louvre Museum in Paris for its focus on headline-grabbing purchases and renovation projects over maintaining the security of one of the world's largest museums.

The audacious daytime robbery last month, which saw four men walk away with priceless historic jewellery, was a "deafening alarm signal," Pierre Moscovici, president of the Court of Accounts, which authored the report, told journalists on Thursday.

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Echoing the report, which was commissioned before the October 19 heist, he said that the museum leadership had prioritised "visible and attractive" projects, such as art purchases and revamping the museum layout at the detriment, notably, of the Louvre's security.

Since the heist, information has resurfaced showing that gaps in security appear to have been known for years – including a 2014 warning that alleged one of the museum's key passwords was simply "LOUVRE."

The new report only adds to a number of security failings exposed by the heist.

So what went wrong?

Eyes on

Within four minutes of arriving at the outside wall of the Louvre, the thieves had scaled the building and were breaking through a window.

Only then were internal alarms triggered.

Four minutes later, after breaking into a reinforced case and grabbing nine pieces of historic jewellery, the thieves were making their escape.

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"The weaknesses of the protection of our perimeter are known and identified," Louvre director Laurence des Cars told French politicians after the heist.

Internally too, the situation seems stark.

For the Louvre's 465 museum galleries, security staff had only 432 CCTV cameras to monitor the interior last year, according to the report.

While that's a nearly 50 per cent increase on the number available in 2019, it still left 61 per cent of the galleries without any CCTV coverage.

The world's largest museum, the Louvre covers some 60,000 square metres.

In comparison, the Detroit Institute of Arts in the northern US boasts a similar footprint (including a theatre and recital hall) but has more than 550 CCTV cameras, according to camera manufacturer Axis.

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Des Cars told French senators that she envisions a doubling of the number of cameras within the 37-hectare Louvre property in the years to come.

In its recommendations, the Court of Accounts' report stressed the need for the Louvre to "strengthen its internal control function, which remains underdeveloped for an institution the size of the Louvre."

Foolproof cybersecurity

The holes in the Louvre's security weren't all physical. In the virtual realm its track record left much to be desired.

A 2014 report from the French information security agency (ANSSI) seen by French newspaper Liberation claimed that the password for the server managing the museums' sprawling CCTV network was simply "LOUVRE."

Access to software managed by the security technology company Thales was protected by a similarly foolproof password: "THALES" – according to Liberation.

In the security audit, ANSSI reportedly recommended the Louvre boost its cyber security as well as move away from outdated software that could jeopardise its protective stance.

ANSSI did not deny the report to CNN but added that the audit, "cannot be considered representative of the current level of security" of the Louvre's IT systems.

Bling, bling

The report focused on the museum's budgetary priorities in recent years, which saw some 27 million euros ($48 million) spent on maintenance works between 2018 and 2024, with a further 60 million euros on restoration of the Louvre palace.

In contrast, that period saw the Louvre splash double that figure on altering the museum layout and buying up artworks.

The museum spent 105 million euros on artworks in the six years to 2024, sweeping up 2754 pieces in that time.

In 2021, the Louvre spent some 5 million euros on two works by French Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard. This April, the Louvre made a 2.2-million euro purchase of an "exceptional" Fabergé triptych.

Many of the Louvre's purchases are clouded in a certain secrecy, particularly regarding the purchase price. The Court of Accounts' report said the Louvre should pay greater attention to the price of acquired works and specifically warned the museum against buying art works at a higher price if they were sold at auction for less than two years prior.

Heads firmly in place

In contrast to the focus on glitzy, eye-catching purchases, the damning report notes astonishing delays to work on the Louvre's security infrastructure.

Recommended security upgrades from a 2015 audit still won't be completed until 2032, it revealed.

The report examined nearly eight years of museum operations across periods overseen by two executives.

At the time of publication, no executives (or other staff) have been fired or resigned over the theft.

The offer of des Cars to resign as museum director was not accepted by French Culture Minister Rachida Dati.

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A pharmaceutical executive standing behind US President Donald Trump collapsed in the White House during an announcement about weight-loss medication.

The man's legs appeared to suddenly buckle as officials around him attempted to steady his fall and prevent him from hitting his head.

Footage from the drama in the Oval Office on Thursday (Friday AEDT) showed Trump standing from his desk and looking at the man as a White House medical rushed to his aide.

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He was later identified as Gordon Finlay, a senior executive with Swiss-based pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk.

White House officials quicky ushered reporters and camera crews from the Oval Office.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement: "During the Most Favored Nations Oval Office Announcement, a representative with one of the companies fainted. The White House Medical Unit quickly jumped into action, and the gentleman is okay. The Press Conference will resume shortly."

The drama came as Trump unveiled a deal with drug companies Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to expand coverage and reduce prices for the popular obesity treatments Zepbound and Wegovy.

Known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, the drugs have soared in popularity in recent years but patient access has been a consistent problem because of their cost – about $US500 ($770) a month for higher doses – and medical insurance coverage has been patchy.

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More than 100 million American adults have obesity, according to federal government estimates.

Starting doses of new, pill versions of the treatments also will cost $US149 a month if they are approved.

"(It) will save lives, improve the health of millions and millions of Americans," said Trump, in an Oval Office announcement in which he referred to GLP-1s as a "fat drug."

– With AP

A jury in the US has awarded $US10 million ($15.4 million) to a former teacher who was shot by a six-year-old student, siding with her claims in a lawsuit that an ex-administrator ignored repeated warnings that the child had a gun.

The jury returned its decision against Ebony Parker, a former assistant principal at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia.

Abby Zwerner was shot in January 2023 as she sat at a reading table in her first-grade classroom. She had sought $US40 million ($61.7 million) against Parker in the lawsuit.

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Zwerner spent nearly two weeks in the hospital, required six surgeries and does not have the full use of her left hand.

A bullet narrowly missed her heart and remains in her chest.

Zwerner did not address reporters outside the courthouse after the decision was announced.

One of her attorneys, Diane Toscano, said the verdict sends a message that what happened at the school "was wrong and is not going to be tolerated, that safety has to be the first concern at school. I think it's a great message."

Parker was the only defendant in the lawsuit.

A judge previously dismissed the district's superintendent and the school principal as defendants.

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The shooting sent shock waves through this military shipbuilding community and the country at large, with many wondering how a child so young could gain access to a gun and shoot his teacher.

The lawsuit said Parker had a duty to protect Zwerner and others from harm after being told about the gun.

Zwerner's attorneys said Parker failed to act in the hours before the shooting after several school staff members told her that the student had a gun in his backpack.

"Who would think a six-year-old would bring a gun to school and shoot their teacher?" Toscano told the jury earlier.

"It's Dr Parker's job to believe that that is possible.

"It's her job to investigate it and get to the very bottom of it."

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Parker did not testify in the lawsuit.

Her attorney, Daniel Hogan, had warned jurors about hindsight bias and "Monday morning quarterbacking" in the shooting.

"You will be able to judge for yourself whether or not this was foreseeable," Hogan said.

"That's the heart of this case.

"The law knows that it is fundamentally unfair to judge another person's decisions based on stuff that came up after the fact.

"The law requires you to examine people's decisions at the time they make them."

The shooting occurred on the first day after the student had returned from a suspension for slamming Zwerner's phone two days earlier.

Zwerner testified she first heard about the gun prior to class recess from a reading specialist who had been tipped off by students.

The shooting occurred a few hours later.

Despite her injuries, Zwerner was able to hustle her students out of the classroom.

She eventually passed out in the school office.

Zwerner testified she believed that she had died that day.

"I thought I was either on my way to heaven or in heaven," Zwerner said.

"But then it all got black. And so, I then thought I wasn't going there.

"And then my next memory is I see two co-workers around me and I process that I'm hurt and they're putting pressure on where I'm hurt."

Zwerner no longer works for the school district and has said she has no plans to teach again.

She has since become a licensed cosmetologist.

Parker faces a separate criminal trial this month on eight counts of felony child neglect.

Each of the counts is punishable by up to five years in prison in the event of a conviction.

The student's mother was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for felony child neglect and federal weapons charges.

Her son told authorities he got his mother's handgun by climbing onto a drawer to reach the top of a dresser, where the firearm was in his mum's purse.

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