A man has been found guilty of fatally stabbing his girlfriend and leaving her lying on the floor with a blood-soaked washcloth covering her wounds.

Anthony "Tony" Eriksen, 63, defended himself during a NSW Supreme Court trial after he pleaded not guilty to murdering his partner Lisa Fenwick in their Sydney apartment in April 2023.

The 59-year-old woman was found lying in her own blood on the floor of a bedroom with a bloodied washcloth covering her multiple stab wounds, the jury was told.

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She had been repeatedly stabbed in her heart and lungs with a kitchen knife that was found in the sink with blood on the blade, crown prosecutor Daniel Boyle said.

Those allegations were accepted by jurors, who deliberated for little more than two hours today before finding Eriksen guilty of murder.

The jurors were told the de facto couple got into an argument after Fenwick sent Eriksen a text message with a link to a house-sharing website.

Fenwick was insistent that Eriksen move out of their Mascot apartment after she supported him for several years while he was unemployed.

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Her friends testified that Fenwick had confided in them about her concerns and frustrations with Eriksen in the lead-up to her death.

"I am fearful of Tony. That is why I am telling you this," she texted one friend.

"I just (need) to have a record if something happens to me."

Paramedics told the court they found Fenwick with several stab wounds to her chest, abdomen and right arm, which they deemed "incompatible with life".

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Eriksen was wearing a bathrobe and with dried up blood on his face, wrist and right foot when the first responders arrived at the scene, the court was told.

In a triple-zero call, the jury heard Eriksen told the operator he had got into an argument with Fenwick and he had "put a knife in her".

He will face sentencing at a later date.

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The victim can no longer stand the smell of cigarettes or seeing a white car.

Staff in AMG-branded gear worked to conceal the damaged car at the scene.

Researchers are pushing for an overhaul of Australia's food labelling system, warning confusion about the current use of best-before and use-by dates is contributing to waste that is costing households thousands of dollars a year.

RMIT University and Food Waste Australia have found consumers, overwhelmed by the information presented on packaging, often err on the side of caution and discard food that may still be safe to consume.

"It's like a massive car park full of a whole lot of information jostling for the best park," Professor Simon Lockrey from End Food Waste Australia said.

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Australia currently wastes 7.6 million tonnes of food each year, costing households an average of $2500. 

"It's really just throwing away money," Associate Professor Lukas Parker from RMIT said.

"Do a bit of a smell, or a taste, or even just touching the food sometimes could really tell us whether the food is fresh," he added.

The researchers are spearheading a push for a system overhaul, calling for a standardised, colour-coded labelling system that provides clear, visual instructions to help consumers make their food stretch as far as possible. 

"People need a new tool belt to put all the tools in to deliver really good food outcomes," Lockrey said.

In the meantime, while dates are the common driver for Australians' decision to ditch food, there is a rule of thumb to remove some risk.

"Use by is a safety label – you shouldn't eat food past that date," Lockrey said. 

"Best before is a suggestion on good quality."

This article was produced with the assistance of 9ExPress.

His death is treated as unexplained and has been referred to the coroner.

Private ambulance operators say they injected drugs into fruit as training exercises.

Banks are to benefit from the controversial decision.

The Israeli government has launched a series of attacks on Iranian governmental targets deep inside its capital of Tehran, including the notorious Evin Prison.

Evin Prison is known for holding political activists, journalists, dissidents and foreigners who are often used by Iran as bargaining chips in negotiations with the West.

Australian academic Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a Melbourne-based scholar of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, was held for two years in Evin prison – from 2018 until 2020.

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Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years on espionage charges but was released after the Australian Government intervened with a prisoner swap.

Iranian state television aired black-and-white footage it said was shot inside Evin Prison after the strike, with prisoners under control. 

However, the Washington-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Centre for Human Rights in Iran said many families of detainees "have expressed deep concern about the safety and condition of their loved ones" in the prison.

Other sites targeted by Israel include the security headquarters of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guards, Palestine Square, and the paramilitary Basij volunteer corps, which is a part of the Revolutionary Guard.

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The Israeli government made clear the strikes were a pointed attack aimed at the Iranian ruling apparatus.

"Viva la libertad!" Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar wrote on X, with his post showing footage of the Evin prison strike.

In a post on X, Moore-Gilbert wrote: "Every single person who has ever passed under these gates, or has been forced to stand outside them to film the regime's propaganda, will be staring in disbelief at these scenes."

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said the Israeli strike on the prison had put two of its citizens in danger.

"The strike targeting Evin Prison in Tehran, put our citizens Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris, who have been held for three years, in danger. It is unacceptable," Barrot wrote on X.

"All strikes must stop now to open the way for negotiations and diplomacy."

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A chime sounds. A driver glances down to read the notification on their smartwatch, then looks back at the road.

It only took a few seconds but that distraction may have doubled the risk of a crash, and could cost Australian drivers hundreds or even thousands of dollars in fines depending on where they're caught.

The problem, according to one expert, is that most Australians have no idea they can be penalised for using a smartwatch while driving.

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Smartwatch ownership has boomed in the last decade but there are currently no specific road rules addressing their use while driving.

Instead, drivers may be penalised for using a smartwatch behind the wheel under distracted driving or mobile phone road rules.

But these rules and the penalties associated vary between states and territories.

In South Australia, drivers caught using a smartwatch while driving may face a $125 fine, while in Tasmania fines can exceed $2000.

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Iran has retaliated for the US attacks on its nuclear sites by targeting Al Udeid Air Base, a sprawling desert facility in Qatar that serves as a main regional military hub for American forces.

President Donald Trump said in a social media post that no Americans were harmed and "hardly any damage was done".

As of this month, the US military had about 40,000 service members in the Middle East, according to a US official.

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Many of them are on ships at sea as part of a bolstering of forces as the conflict escalated between Israel and Iran, according to the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations research and policy centre.

Bases in the Middle East have been on heightened alert and taking additional security precautions in anticipation of potential strikes from Iran, while the Pentagon has shifted military aircraft and warships into and around the region during the conflict.

The US has military sites spread across the region, including in Qatar, Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria and the United Arab Emirates.

Here's a look at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

Al Udeid hosts thousands of service members

The sprawling facility hosts thousands of US service members and serves as a major staging ground for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

At the height of both, Al Udeid housed some 10,000 US troops, and that number dropped to about 8000 as of 2022.

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The forward headquarters of the US military's Central Command, Al Udeid is built on a flat stretch of desert about 30km south-west of Qatar's capital, Doha.

Over two decades, the gas-rich Gulf country has spent some $US8 billion ($12 billion) in developing the base, once considered so sensitive that American military officers would say only that it was somewhere "in south-west Asia".

Trump has visited Al Udeid

Trump visited the air base during a trip to the region last month.

It was the first time a sitting US president had travelled to the installation in more than 20 years.

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Al Udeid cleared its tarmacs

Last week, ahead of the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, Al Udeid saw many of the transport planes, fighter jets and drones typically on its tarmac dispersed.

In a June 18 satellite photo taken by Planet Labs PBC and analysed by The Associated Press, the air base's tarmac had emptied.

The US military has not acknowledged the change, which came after ships off the US Navy's 5th Fleet base in Bahrain also had dispersed.

That's typically a military strategy to ensure your fighting ships and planes aren't destroyed in case of an attack.