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The family of Greg Josephson, a father and business owner who was allegedly stabbed to death during a house party at his mansion in Brisbane, have made the "tough call" to shut down some of his businesses.

The 58-year-old was farewelled a week ago after he was allegedly killed by a 15-year-old boy known to him while about 30 teenagers were celebrating the end of the school term at the Oriel Road property in Clayfield on June 26.

Josephson was the co-founder of the multimillion-dollar youth clothing chain Universal Store and owned several cafes and stores on the Sunshine Coast.

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The management of one of his businesses, Cafe Doonan, announced his family has permanently closed Cafe Noosa, Noosa General Store and Eumundi Sourdough Co last week.

"His beautiful family has been forced to make a tough call, so it is with heavy hearts that we announce the closure of Cafe Noosa, Noosa General Store and Eumundi Sourdough Co, effective since Monday 14th July," Cafe Doonan said in a statement yesterday.

"We know this comes as quite a shock, and we're sorry for any inconvenience caused.

"Cafe Doonan will remain open. We will all do our absolute best to honour Greg's dream."

Josephson was found dead at the mansion about 8.15pm on June 26.

Police arrested a 15-year-old boy on a street nearby and charged him with murder. He remains before the court.

The boy is known to Josephson and had made the call to triple zero. 

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Cafe Doonan paid tribute to Josephson, saying he was a "wonderful owner" and would be "missed dearly by all staff".

"Words can do this loss no justice. Greg was on his way to create an amazing hub of businesses, with a passion and drive that was unmatched," Cafe Doonan said.

"He loved being a part of this community and had an impressive vision for the four locations.

"He was a kind and gentle man who is missed dearly by all staff. We are deeply saddened by this loss."

Universal Store released a statement shortly after news of his death.

"We wanted to share the sad news that Greg Josephson, who founded our company and played a significant role until 2018, has recently passed away," the company said.

"Our sincere thoughts and condolences are with his family at this very sad time."

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Josephson founded Universal Store with his brother Michael in 1999 and acted as company director until it was sold to private equity investors in 2018.

The company was then floated on the ASX in 2020.

Since then, he had acted as the chief executive of Josephson Holdings Pty Ltd.

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Tesla has opened its first-ever diner in Los Angeles featuring a drive-in theatre, restaurant, Tesla merchandise and popcorn all served by a Tesla-branded robot.

In a post on X, Elon Musk described it as a "retro-futuristic diner".

Visitors can order food directly from their Tesla's screen while watching a movie on one of two 45-foot drive-in theatre screens.

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With 80 V4 supercharger stalls, Tesla has claimed that the diner is officially the largest urban supercharger in the world.

Images of the diner's menu were posted to X shortly after the opening, with a majority of the ingredients being sourced locally across California.

Musk's intentions to build a retro diner to accompany his Tesla charging stations in Los Angeles date back as far as January 2018.

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The diner is located on Santa Monica Boulevard, with Musk stating that if the venture is successful, he will launch more across major cities globally.

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Barcelona's cruise ship port is to close two of its terminals, as part of efforts to fight the city's overtourism problem.

The closure, which will bring the number of operational terminals down to five when it takes effect next year, is part of an agreement with Barcelona's city council, announced in a statement from the council Friday.

The agreement also provides funding for a study to evaluate how cruise-ship passengers move around the city, which the council says is a first step in developing sustainable mobility plan.

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In addition, the agreement will involve the modernisation of port infrastructure to make cruise operations more sustainable – for example, by allowing ships to connect to a green onshore power supply while they are docked, meaning their engines can be switched off, cutting emissions.

Overall, the plan will involve €185 million ($331.6 million) in public-private investment, according to the council statement.

It is part of wider efforts to deal with the pressures of overtourism in the city, where local opposition to mass tourism has been rising in recent years, including a now-famous protest in July 2024 in which visitors were squirted with water pistols.

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Barcelona's popularity among tourists has led to complaints from residents about overcrowding and a lack of affordable housing as apartments are given over to short-term holiday lets.

In 2024, the Port of Barcelona, the biggest cruise port in Europe, reported 1.6 million cruise ship passengers "in transit."

The majority come ashore when their ships dock in the morning, tour the city, and return by late afternoon to sail for their next destination, the Barcelona Tourism Consortium press office said in March.

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The resulting crowds, at places like La Rambla street and in the adjacent Gothic quarter, the oldest part of town, are partly to blame for the ire among Barcelona's residents.

Friday's agreement is the latest in a series of efforts to reduce the impact of cruise tourism.

In October 2023, Barcelona closed its northern port terminal to cruise traffic, after an agreement with the local authorities to move ships further out of town.

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That move followed a 2018 agreement between the port authorities and the city council to "move cruise activity away from urban areas… making them more sustainable," the port authorities said in a statement at the time.

Also as a result of the 2018 agreement, the port closed another cruise terminal, the Maremagnum, and the area is now home to restaurants, bars, a sailing club and marina, an aquarium and a shopping mall.

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An icon of Sydney Zoo has died due to complications during birth.

Nzuri the giraffe and her unborn calf passed away due to severe complications during labour on last Thursday night.

Sydney Zoo said in a statement animal care staff noticed signs of active labour in Nzuri but as the process progressed, it became apparent that the birth was not proceeding normally.

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A team of three veterinarians and two veterinary nurses immediately intervened and assisted with the delivery.

However the team found the calf was in an abnormal position with the calf's head and neck positioned in the wrong way, which made a safe delivery "impossible".

The calf died and Nzuri's condition "severely deteriorated" due to the stress and difficulty of the birth.

Sydney Zoo exotics animal care manager Tim Bennett said the deaths were "incredibly heartbreaking" for everyone involved.

"Our animal care team did everything possible to try and save both the calf and the mother Nzuri," Bennett said.

"Decisions like this are never made lightly.

"The animal's welfare is always our primary concern."

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Earth is spinning faster this winter, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and timekeepers.

July 10 was the shortest day of the year so far, lasting 1.36 milliseconds less than 24 hours, according to data from the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service and the US Naval Observatory, compiled by timeanddate.com.

More exceptionally short days are coming on July 22 and August 5, currently predicted to be 1.34 and 1.25 milliseconds shorter than 24 hours, respectively.

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The length of a day is the time it takes for the planet to complete one full rotation on its axis – 24 hours or 86,400 seconds on average.

But in reality, each rotation is slightly irregular due to a variety of factors, such as the gravitational pull of the moon, seasonal changes in the atmosphere and the influence of Earth's liquid core.

As a result, a full rotation usually takes slightly less or slightly more than 86,400 seconds – a discrepancy of just milliseconds that doesn't have any obvious effect on everyday life.

However, these discrepancies can, in the long run, affect computers, satellites and telecommunications, which is why even the smallest time deviations are tracked using atomic clocks, which were introduced in 1955.

Some experts believe this could lead to a scenario similar to the Y2K problem, which threatened to bring modern civilisation to a halt.

Atomic clocks count the oscillations of atoms held in a vacuum chamber within the clock itself to calculate 24 hours to the utmost degree of precision.

We call the resulting time UTC, or Coordinated Universal Time, which is based on around 450 atomic clocks and is the global standard for timekeeping, as well as the time to which all our phones and computers are set.

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Astronomers also keep track of Earth's rotation – using satellites that check the position of the planet relative to fixed stars, for example – and can detect minute differences between the atomic clocks' time and the amount of time it actually takes Earth to complete a full rotation.

Last year, on July 5, 2024, Earth experienced the shortest day ever recorded since the advent of the atomic clock 65 years ago, at 1.66 milliseconds less than 24 hours.

"We've been on a trend toward slightly faster days since 1972," Duncan Agnew, a professor emeritus of geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a research geophysicist at the University of California, San Diego, said.

"But there are fluctuations. It's like watching the stock market, really.

"There are long-term trends, and then there are peaks and falls."

In 1972, after decades of rotating relatively slowly, Earth's spin had accumulated such a delay relative to atomic time that the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service mandated the addition of a "leap second" to the UTC.

This is similar to the leap year, which adds an extra day to February every four years to account for the discrepancy between the Gregorian calendar and the time it takes Earth to complete one orbit around the sun.

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Since 1972, a total of 27 leap seconds have been added to the UTC, but the rate of addition has increasingly slowed, due to Earth speeding up; nine leap seconds were added throughout the 1970s while no new leap seconds have been added since 2016.

In 2022, the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) voted to retire the leap second by 2035, meaning we may never see another one added to the clocks.

But if Earth keeps spinning faster for several more years, according to Agnew, eventually one second might need to be removed from the UTC. "There's never been a negative leap second," he said, "but the probability of having one between now and 2035 is about 40 per cent".

What is causing Earth to spin faster?

The shortest-term changes in Earth's rotation, Agnew said, come from the moon and the tides, which make it spin slower when the satellite is over the equator and faster when it's at higher or lower altitudes.

This effect compounds with the fact that during the summer Earth naturally spins faster – the result of the atmosphere itself slowing down due to seasonal changes, such as the jet stream moving north or south; the laws of physics dictate that the overall angular momentum of Earth and its atmosphere must remain constant, so the rotation speed lost by the atmosphere is picked up by the planet itself.

Similarly, for the past 50 years Earth's liquid core has also been slowing down, with the solid Earth around it speeding up.

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By looking at the combination of these effects, scientists can predict if an upcoming day could be particularly short.

"These fluctuations have short-period correlations, which means that if Earth is speeding up on one day, it tends to be speeding up the next day, too," Judah Levine, a physicist and a fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the time and frequency division, said.

"But that correlation disappears as you go to longer and longer intervals. And when you get to a year, the prediction becomes quite uncertain.

"In fact, the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service doesn't predict further in advance than a year."

While one short day doesn't make any difference, Levine said, the recent trend of shorter days is increasing the possibility of a negative leap second.

"When the leap second system was defined in 1972, nobody ever really thought that the negative second would ever happen," he noted.

"It was just something that was put into the standard because you had to do it for completeness.

"Everybody assumed that only positive leap seconds would ever be needed, but now the shortening of the days makes (negative leap seconds) in danger of happening, so to speak."

The prospect of a negative leap second raises concerns because there are still ongoing problems with positive leap seconds after 50 years, explained Levine.

"There are still places that do it wrong or do it at the wrong time, or do it (with) the wrong number, and so on.

"And that's with a positive leap second, which has been done over and over.

"There's a much greater concern about the negative leap second, because it's never been tested, never been tried."

Because so many fundamental technologies systems rely on clocks and time to function, such as telecommunications, financial transactions, electric grids and GPS satellites just to name a few, the advent of the negative leap second is, according to Levine, somewhat akin to the Y2K problem – the moment at the turn of the last century when the world thought a kind of doomsday would ensue because computers might have been unable to negotiate the new date format, going from '99' to '00.'

The role of melting ice

Climate change is also a contributing factor to the issue of the leap second, but in a surprising way.

While global warming has had considerable negative impacts on Earth, when it comes to our timekeeping, it has served to counteract the forces that are speeding up Earth's spin.

A study published last year by Agnew in the journal Nature details how ice melting in Antarctica and Greenland is spreading over the oceans, slowing down Earth's rotation – much like a skater spinning with their arms over their head, but spinning slower if the arms are tucked along the body.

"If that ice had not melted, if we had not had global warming, then we would already be having a leap negative leap second, or we would be very close to having it," Agnew said.

Meltwater from Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets has is responsible for a third of the global sea level rise since 1993, according to NASA.

The mass shift of this melting ice is not only causing changes in Earth's rotation speed, but also in its rotation axis, according to research led by Benedikt Soja, an assistant professor at the department of civil, environmental and geomatic engineering of The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.

If warming continues, its effect might become dominant.

"By the end of this century, in a pessimistic scenario (in which humans continue to emit more greenhouse gases) the effect of climate change could surpass the effect of the moon, which has been really driving Earth's rotation for the past few billions of years," Soja said.

At the moment, potentially having more time to prepare for action is helpful, given the uncertainty of long-term predictions on Earth's spinning behaviour.

"I think the (faster spinning) is still within reasonable boundaries, so it could be natural variability," Soja said.

"Maybe in a few years, we could see again a different situation, and long term, we could see the planet slowing down again.

"That would be my intuition, but you never know."

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Joe Biden's son Hunter has said the former president's poor debate performance last year was due to a sleeping pill he had been given.

In a long-ranging and profanity-laced three-hour interview, the younger Biden revealed his father was "tired as s—" during the debate.

"They give him Ambien to be able to sleep," he told YouTube channel Channel 5. 

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"He gets up on the stage and looks like he's a deer in the headlights, and it feeds into every f—ing story that anybody wants to tell."

The then-president's dire debate performance led to a litany of prominent Democrats to call for him to retire.

But Biden launched a passionate defence of his father and tore into Democratic heavy-hitters who pushed him to drop out of the race.

Much of his invective was directed at actor George Clooney, who wrote an editorial in the New York Times calling for him to not run for re-election.

"F— him and everyone around him," Biden said of Clooney.

"What right do you have to step on a man who's given … his f—ing life to the service of this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full page ad in the f—ing New York Times."

Biden took particular issue at Clooney claiming the then-president did not recognise him at a fundraiser.

He also vociferously tore into senior Democratic consultants James Carville, David Axelrod, David Plouffe and the hosts of popular podcast Pod Save America.

"James Carville, who hasn't run a race in 40 f—ing years and David Axelrod, who had one success in his political life," he said.

"And that was because of Barack Obama not because of f—ing David Axelrod."

"And the Pod Save America guys who were junior f—ing speechwriters on Barack Obama's Senate staff who have been dining out on the relationship with him for years."

He also went into detail about his father's cancer battle.

"They can treat it but it's not curable," Biden said.

"But seeing him day-to-day he's doing well."

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Biden also gave a full-hearted defence of illegal immigrants in America.

"How do you think your hotel gets cleaned? How do you think you got food on your f—ing table? Who do you think washes your dishes?

"Who do you think is here by the f—ing sheer f—ing grit and will that they figured out a way to get here because they thought they could get themselves and their families a better chance?"

The younger Biden became tabloid fodder in the past decade, with much attention drawn to his legal battles and his addiction to crack cocaine and alcohol.

He said he has been sober for more than six years.

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Tuesday afternoon at 4pm – it's the time of the day and week when we are at our most hectic, rushing to school pick-up, battling traffic or finishing up at work.

It's no accident that this is also the time scammers are most likely to strike, according to an analysis of Westpac transaction data.

The second and third most popular times for scammers are also in the afternoon, on Thursday and Monday.

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Westpac's head of fraud prevention Ben Young said scammers set out to take advantage of people when they were distracted.

"We're seeing a clear pattern where scammers are striking later in the day, most commonly on Tuesday afternoons, when people are multitasking and not paying close attention to the signs that something could be a scam," Young said.

"You might receive a suspicious message in the morning, but it's often in the late afternoon, when your guard is down, that you act on it. 

"That's the window scammers are counting on, and this is why it's so important for people to stay alert and take a moment to think before clicking links, sharing information or sending money."

The Westpac data showed 80 per cent of scam cases happen from lunchtime onwards, and 85 per cent occured during weekdays.

The most common type of scam employed by fraudsters on busy weekday afternoons is the remote access scam, making up 30 per cent of the total cases.

"These scams are designed to catch people off-guard," Young said.

"In particular, remote access scams often involve a sense of urgency or technical confusion, perfectly timed for when people are less focused."

Indonesian police have found two guns in their investigation into a deadly shooting in Bali last month in which one Australian man was killed and another injured.

Today, more than a month since 32-year-old Melbournian Zivan Radmanovic was gunned down at a villa, officers fronted the media, putting one of the recovered pistols on display in an evidence bag.

Radmanovic's friend Sanar Ghanim was left beaten in the attack.

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The gun that police allege is the murder weapon was discovered in an irrigation stream, while the other was found within 50 metres of it.

Police say both weapons have undergone ballistic testing and that the bullets and shell casings are consistent with those used in the June 13 attack.

They also claim DNA has been found on a balaclava and pair of gloves that matches one of the three Australian men currently in custody who are accused of being behind the attack.

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Police have previously said they have enough evidence to bring those three men – Coskun Mevlut, Tupou Pasa Midolmore, and Darcy Francesco Jenson – to trial on charges of premeditated murder.

The maximum sentence for premeditated murder is the death penalty.

An Australian embassy lawyer has been appointed to represent the trio.

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Impatient motorists, cyclists and pedestrians are dicing with death by taking unnecessary risks around the Parramatta light rail in Sydney's west, leaving tram drivers on high alert.

There have been 11 collisions between trams and vehicles as well as dozens of near misses since the line opened seven months ago, according to Transport for NSW coordinator-general Howard Collins.

CCTV of one incident shows a delivery rider straying onto the light rail tracks and pulling back right before the tram passes.

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Footage of another near-miss shows a scooter rider in Parramatta speeding through a crossing, forcing the driver to hit the brakes.

"We've seen a lot of near misses, it catches people out," Collins said.

Transport officials believe pedestrians, cyclists and motorists are simply ignoring the potential dangers.

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Collins said motorists should heed the warnings as each tram weighs 80 tonnes, the equivalent of two adult humpback whales.

"It takes time to stop," he said.

"While people think 'I can walk in front of the tram, it's going to stop if I trip over', it won't."

Of all the accidents that have happened between vehicles and light rail since the line opened, more than half have been at Westmead.

Transport for NSW is now reviewing each of those collisions and near misses.

"Are there even greater signs, markings, lanes, we could put in to really spoon feed those pedestrians and road users to say please do not do that?" Collins said.

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