The man was stretchered off stage and the show at Spark Arena stopped for half an hour.

A Queensland woman is set to face court today after a detailed search of her suitcases at Sydney Airport allegedly revealed 39kg of meth covered in chilli flakes.

Australian Border Force (ABF) officers allegedly found the illicit drugs after selecting the 20-year-old for a baggage examination following her arrival from Los Angeles yesterday.

Initial tests indicated that the substances in the two suitcases were methamphetamine.

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The Australian Federal Police were notified and questioned the woman before she was charged with one count of importing a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug.

The charge carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

AFP Detective Acting Inspector Amy Knox said the quantity could have been sold as 390,000 individual street deals, making over $36 million for criminals.

"We know the devastating impact methamphetamine and other drugs have on individuals and our communities – that's why we're working closely with ABF and other partners to stop the flow of illicit drugs," Knox said.

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"Every detection of drugs at the border keeps Australia safer and ensures that drug traffickers cannot reap profits by exploiting the Australian community.

"If someone asks you to carry a suitcase or package overseas and you suspect it could be illegal, refuse the request and contact police immediately. Don't take risks, nothing is worth jeopardising your safety or freedom."

"Criminal syndicates are exploiting young travellers who may not understand the risks of importing border-controlled drugs into Australia, all for their own financial gain," ABF Superintendent Elke West said.

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"We too often see people from all walks of life enticed into situations by organised crime groups, for which the individual doing the dirty work faces very real consequences.

"The ABF's intelligence-led targeting continues to result in significant quantities of illicit drugs being stopped at the border.

"Our officers will continue to work around the clock to ensure the border remains a hostile environment for those doing the wrong thing."

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A man is in custody following an alleged stabbing in Melbourne's south-east.

Police were told a couple escaped in their car after a man they knew started assaulting the male driver on The Esplanade in Narre Warren just after 10.30pm last night. 

The victim managed to drive off but was involved in a crash with another car at the intersection of Grices Road and Glassscocks Road in Cranbourne North.

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The male victim was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and is believed to have been stabbed.

No one else was seriously injured in the collision.

Police attended a nearby address and have taken a man into custody.

He is currently assisting police with their enquiries. 

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A call to overturn the landmark US Supreme Court decision legalising same-sex marriage America-wide is on the agenda for the justices' closed-door conference.

Among the new cases the justices are expected to consider is a longshot appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.

Davis had been trying to get the court to overturn a lower court order for her to pay $554,000 in damages and attorney’s fees to a couple whom she denied a marriage licence.

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The justices could say as early as Monday what they'll do.

In urging the court to take up her case, Davis' lawyers repeatedly invoked the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, who alone among the nine justices has called for erasing the same-sex marriage ruling.

Thomas was one of four dissenting justices in 2015. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito are the other dissenters who also remain on the court.

Roberts has been silent on the subject since he wrote a dissenting opinion in the case. Alito has continued to criticise the decision, but said recently he was not advocating that it be overturned.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was not on the court in 2015, has said there are times when the court should correct mistakes and overturn decisions, as it did in the 2022 case that ended a constitutional right to abortion.

But Barrett has suggested recently that same-sex marriage might be in a different category than abortion because people have relied on the decision when they married and had children.

Davis drew national attention to eastern Kentucky’s Rowan County when she turned away same-sex couples, saying her faith prevented her from complying with the high court ruling. She defied court orders to issue the licences until a federal judge jailed her for contempt of court in September 2015.

She was released after her staff issued the licences on her behalf but removed her name from the form. The Kentucky Legislature later enacted a law removing the names of all county clerks from state marriage licences.

Davis lost a reelection bid in 2018.

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Exclusive: In a new nine.com.au series starting today we'll be talking to some of Australia's smartest and sharpest entrepreneurs, founders and CEOs to find out what makes them tick – and what advice they'd have for anyone starting out.

Sophia Begg (known online as @sophadophaa) is one of Australia's most recognisable young influencers with more than 2 million combined social media followers.

She's also co-founder of All For Mimi, the wildly successful fashion brand she launched in 2023 that shot to fame for its viral sell-out tank tops.

Now a successful internet personality and business owner, she's juggling two lucrative careers at just 21 years old.

These are her secrets to success.

How do you start the day to set yourself up for success?

I love to start the day with a morning walk with my partner before making my Tropeaka matcha to enjoy a quiet moment before the chaos!

What are three daily habits you always stick to?

Morning matcha, daily gratitude, and 'no-phone' time before bed.

Lots of Aussies are looking for a career change — what small action can help them get ahead of other candidates?

What stands out to me is when applicants take the time to attend to the finer details.

You'd be surprised at how many applications don't have a cover letter or have spelling errors!

What financial myth do you wish you never bought into?

In my first ever car, when I was 18, I believed that if I put my windows down the car would go slower and therefore use more petrol.

So even in summer, in 30 degree heat, I would keep my windows up and never use the aircon to save money.

What do you wish you could tell your 20-year-old self?

Last year [Begg turned 20 in 2024] was a wild one as it was the first year of my brand All For Mimi.

I would tell my 20-year-old self to speak kindly to herself, take each "mistake" as a learning curve, and keep moving forward.

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Exclusive: Carly McNamara thought it was a glitch when she opened Spotify and saw track nine from one of her favourite albums had vanished.

Shock turned to sadness when she learned the song – Human Too by The 1975 – had been wiped from streaming services entirely.

And the culprit was none other than the band's frontman, Matt Healy.

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While his decision left some fans inconsolable, it also made any physical copies of the album in their possession a whole lot more valuable.

"If you've got a CD and you press play on it, it's not going to get affected by The 1975 deciding they don't like that song," University of Wollongong researcher and music psychologist Dr Tim Byron told 9news.com.au.

"Artists can recall the ones from the shop, but they can't recall it from the cupboard where you keep your vinyl and CDs."

That's valuable in an age where artists can and will remove music they no longer want on streaming services without warning.

Healy said on Reddit that he wiped Human Too so the album it was originally included on, Being Funny in a Foreign Language, would be "more how I want it to be".

"Previous physical release obviously remain the same," he conceded.

"I doubt the same will happen with any other records as I am pretty happy with them outside of What should I say from Notes On A Conditional Form."

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Healy said that track may also be removed from streaming in future, making fans like McNamara nervous.

She's been a fan of The 1975 for over a decade and is used to the eccentric frontman's "random nature" but losing Human Too was an unexpected tragedy.

"I was really saddened," she told 9news.com.au.

"I love that track and not being able to listen to it as easily was something I wasn't prepared for."

McNamara has spent hundreds on The 1975's albums, concert tickets and merch.

Now she fears more of the songs she's been singing since she was 14 could disappear from streaming services without a trace.

"I do worry, definitely," she said.

"They've done it once, why not again?

But The 1975 aren't the first to chop and change their music on streaming platforms.

In 2022, Beyoncé removed a track from her album Renaissance and replaced it with a new version after controversy over an interpolation in the original.

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That same year, Neil Young pulled his music off Spotify in protest over Joe Rogan's podcast (he has since returned).

Back in 2016, Kanye West made multiple changes to his album Life of Pablo after it hit streaming services.

Monash University lecturer Dr Ben Morgan said the only reason we haven't seen more artists doing it is because society is still holding on to an outdated idea of how music should be consumed.

"From a technological standpoint, there's no reason why people can't just continue to make things better," he told 9news.com.au.

"But in the case of popular music, there's a whole lot of reluctance to see artists doing things that they're 'not supposed to' because it's too commercial or not authentic."

Morgan suspects that will change as technology advances and streaming services continue to dominate the music industry.

Record labels may even come to encourage artists to reupload improved or 'optimised' versions of old tracks to make more money.

Or remove music that doesn't perform well.

Being able to edit or remove music from streaming also gives artists the chance to distance themselves from work they no longer resonate with.

"I could imagine if I put out music 10 years ago that now I think is terrible, that I would potentially want to just take it down," Byron said.

"Or if you're an artist and you discover that you've collaborated with someone who turns out to be a despicable person.

"Lady Gaga would be within her rights to take down the version of the song that she did with R Kelly [Do What U Want, released in 2013]."

Either way, we can expect to see more artists following in The 1975 and Beyoncé's footsteps.

And that could make physical media, like the dusty old CDs many Australians have sitting around their homes, a lot more valuable.

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A convicted sex offender who was mistakenly released early from a London prison was arrested on Friday after more than a week of freedom, police said.

Brahim Kaddour-Cherif was one of two men accidentally released from Wandsworth Prison in the past two weeks that has caused a political headache for the government and focused renewed attention on an overcrowded and overwhelmed prison system.

The other inmate, Billy Smith, 35, who was sentenced to nearly four years for fraud, surrendered at the Victorian-era lockup on Thursday.

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Cherif, 24, a registered sex offender due to a previous indecent exposure conviction, was serving time for trespass with intent to steal.

The Algerian national who overstayed a legal visit to the UK in 2019 was in the initial stages of deportation when freed from the prison.

He was stopped by police in north London in an arrest filmed by Sky News. He initially denied he was the man they were looking for and then said he was not to blame for being on the streets.

"I'm not Brahim, bro," he initially told a police officer who said he recognised his distinctive nose.

"Everyone know him, he's in (the) news," Cherif said.

After police officers pulled out their phones to look at the photo of the wanted man, he effectively admitted he was Cherif.

"It is not my fault," Cherif said. "They released me illegally."

Both men were wrongly freed from Wandsworth, which was built in southwest London in the middle of the 19th century, and was under scrutiny after another prisoner escaped two years ago by clinging to the underside of a food delivery truck.

The inadvertent releases followed more stringent security checks that were supposed to be in place after an asylum-seeker who inspired a rise of anti-immigrant protests was mistakenly freed from Chelmsford Prison, east of London, on October 24.

Prison chiefs were summoned to a meeting on Thursday to discuss the errors and said efforts were being made to update a system that still uses paper prison records.

The mistaken releases have become a source of heated debate and a political liability for the Labour government after being a thorn in the side of their Conservative predecessors.

According to government figures, 262 prisoners were released in error in the year ending March 2025, a 128 per cent increase on the previous 12-month period.

Conservatives say the Labour government is to blame for a policy to release some inmates earlier to ensure prisons don't exceed capacity.

But Labour has blamed 14 years of Conservative rule and years of austerity that has starved the Prison Service of resources.

"We inherited a prison system in crisis and I'm appalled at the rate of releases in error this is causing," Justice Secretary David Lammy said after the arrest.

"I'm determined to grip this problem, but there is a mountain to climb which cannot be done overnight."

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