Vegemite has returned to the menu at a cafe in Toronto after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ruled the product could be sold in the short term.

Australian-Canadian cafe owner Leighton Walters was ordered to stop selling the spread due to the added vitamin B in the product, which goes against Canada's food regulations.

The food authority has since decided to allow the cafe to sell the product in the short-term.

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"The CFIA has requested a health risk assessment from Health Canada," the food authority said in a statement.

"This science-based assessment has determined that the level of risk to human health from the added vitamins present in the product is low when consumed in suggested serving sizes.

"As such, the CFIA will work with the importer to allow the product to be sold in the short-term, including revised labelling, while we collaborate with Health Canada, the manufacturer, and the importer, to find a longer-term plan for Vegemite sales across Canada.

"The Government of Canada remains committed to food safety while supporting fair and reasonable access to culturally significant products."

The development comes after a campaign to get Vegemite back on the menu, which was supported by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who described the food authority's latest decision as "a win for Australian industry".

"It's also a win for those people in Canada who get to enjoy this wonderful product that is so much a part of Australian culture and indeed, Australian pride as well," Albanese said.

"I can report after the discussions that my government has had with the Government of Canada, and I want to thank (Canadian Prime Minister) Mark Carney and his office and his team for ensuring that the Australian cafe owner Leighton Walters can once again have Vegemite back in his cafe, back on the agenda.

"Happy Easter to all those happy little Vegemites out there."

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A boy living with autism has been reunited with his family after he went missing in the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria.

Parsa, aged 6 is non-verbal. He was at a family Easter gathering at the play space on Olinda Monbulk Road when he wandered off at 4pm.

Friends and family searched frantically for him however, he could not be found, so they reported him as missing to Victoria Police.

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A large-scale search operation was launched immediately to locate him.

The search had been called off the day when a local 18-year-old boy heard about the missing child.

He decided to hop onto his mountain bike and help look for the 6-year-old.

The teenager was riding along a trail when he came across Parsa at 8.15pm.

Victoria Police said the boy "looked sleep deprived" but was in otherwise good health.

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"Searches for lost children with autism can be particularly challenging as often they are unable to communicate with searchers," Knox Acting Senior Sergeant Mel Gostimir said.

"After speaking with Parsa's family, our members found out that his favourite song was Hickory Dickory Dock and a song about learning the alphabet so they began playing that on their phones and through the PA systems on their police cars.

"We are so grateful for the support from the local volunteer services and community members who attended to assist in the search."

He has since been reunited with his family.

Police are trying to piece together the final moments of a Queensland woman before her body was found in a river.

Crystal Beale was found in the Brisbane River by a member of the public at 5.40am on February 22.

Police have established a timeline in the few hours leading up to her suspected murder.

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At 8.30pm on February 21, Beale left a family dinner in Sunnybank in a car with her son and former partner to an address in Annerley.

Beale and her partner then continued travelling to Ryan Street in West End.

Her former partner was the last person to see her alive when she exited the car at 9.30pm on Ryan Street.

The next day her body was found in the Brisbane River.

One of her shoes was found in bushes on Ryan Street, with several other personal items found at Orleigh Park, near the river.

Homicide investigators do not know how she ended up there, 1km away from her last known location.

Detectives have combed through 1000 hours of CCTV with no luck.

"The piece of the puzzle we are trying to understand is how Crystal got from Ryan Street into the Brisbane River," Detective Acting Inspector Rod Watts said.

"This incident happened on Friday evening in West End. It is 1km from her last confirmed sighting to where we located her personal belongings at Orleigh Park.

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"If Crystal had taken this route on foot, part of her journey should have been captured on CCTV, but we are yet to receive any eyewitness accounts or CCTV footage to confirm this.

"From everything that we have been told, Crystal was a loving mother of two, she was well known in the Sunshine Coast community and there is no reason why this has happened to her.

"We know people, who are not suspects, were in this area that evening, and we continue to ask them to come forward.

"Even if the information you have seems small, it may be the crucial piece of the puzzle we need to solve what happened to Crystal that night."

Anyone with any information is urged to come forward.

The White House has launched a new website championing the theory that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was a human-made pathogen that leaked from an infectious disease laboratory in Wuhan, China.

The page revives a long debate about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic that has seen investigations by federal agencies, global health organisations and congressional committees.

In January, the CIA issued a report concluding that a lab leak was likely, but with "low confidence" in that judgement, paralleling similar conclusions from the Energy and State departments.

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The CIA had previously said it did not have enough information to make a determination about where the virus originated.

The World Health Organisation has said it remains open to all hypotheses, including that the virus spread from animals to people in a Wuhan market.

Yet the Trump administration's new website takes the lab leak theory even further than most of those reports, stating that the virus "possesses a biological characteristic that is "not found in nature" and "if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have "already surfaced. But it hasn't."

The federal website Covid.gov, which previously linked to information about vaccines, testing and treatment, now redirects to the White House's lab leak website.

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While US intelligence agencies have remained open to the possibility the virus was naturally transmitted during lab research, they nearly all previously agreed it was not genetically engineered. Many scientists believe, based on analyses of the virus and early cases, that the virus occurred naturally in animals and spread to humans in an outbreak at the Wuhan market. They've also said that the origin of the virus may never be proved.

US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary appeared to defend the website change during a Fox News interview Friday afternoon.

"I think people want some closure. The entire nightmare of Covid for three-plus years was likely entirely avoidable, had we not [been] messing with Mother Nature in a way that they should not have," Makary said. He added that people also want answers on prolonged school closures and vaccine requirements.

In several ways, the new White House page echoes a final report issued last year by the Republican-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, linked on the site. Republican members of the committee concluded last fall that the virus originated in a lab; Democrats issued a separate report that did not draw a definitive conclusion about the virus' origins but also pressed for more transparency.

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The new White House site also details perceived failures of the Covid-19 response, including "lockdowns," mask mandates, infectious disease research funding and HHS "obstruction" of those congressional probes.

Some of those officials are named. A section of the page is dedicated to President Joe Biden's pre-emptive pardon of retired National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Multiple Trump administration officials, such as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have railed against the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Biden administration's response in particular. The website could tee up further action from the health agency, as Kennedy has criticised broad coronavirus vaccine requirements and controversial infectious disease studies know as gain-of-function research.

Many congressional Republicans have also called for the administration to reinstitute a ban on this type of research, which can involve making a virus more transmissible or changing other traits to study its spread. A moratorium on gain-of-function studies was lifted during the first Trump administration.

Biden officials last year issued policy guidance that would have put more stringent oversight on gain-of-function research, but not broadly ban those studies. The guidance is set to go into effect this May.

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A man is in a critical condition after he was shot during a hunting trip in the NSW Central Tablelands.

The 70-year-old man was shot on a rural property on Campbells River Road in Black Springs, about 20km south of Oberon.

Paramedics treated the man for a gunshot wound to his right shoulder. He was airlifted to Westmead Hospital in a critical condition.

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Police have been told that the man and his son, aged 47, were securing their guns on the back of a ute when a round discharged from the 47-year-old's gun.

They had been hunting game on the property.

An investigation is underway.