The alleged offenders stole the boy’s bike, cash and ‘other property’.

Tukere, 42, died after a daylight brawl in Ngāruawāhia on December 27.

They were pulled away from the beach by strong tides at Cape Farewell.

A Melbourne woman is shocked after confronting a masked intruder in her Windsor home and posting the video on social media.

Flora Socratous was woken around 6am on January 6 by the sound of a window rod and confronted the home invader in her kitchen.

"I was in shock, I wasn't sure if I was dreaming," she told 9News.

"He could have pulled out a weapon, he could have pulled out a kitchen knife."

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The video she posted online shows Socratous following the home invader around her house, asking "how did you get into my home?" and "what is in your bag?"

The invader, who is thought to be male, tries to exit through the front door, though it appears locked. The invader then runs into a room and jump out a window, scaling a fence and running off. 

"I don't know what possessed me to take a photo or video footage of him but I'm glad I did," says Socratous.

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Police are investigating the aggravated burglary and have been told that no one was hurt and nothing was stolen during the break-in.

The intruder is believed to have broken the window latch to enter the home.

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Pasifika couple honoured for dedication to youth and Pacific communities.

‘They’ve drilled them all into a creek, all into gateways, and taken them off one by one.’

All the glamour and action on the red carpet at the 82nd Golden Globe awards.

Lifesavers in Far North Queensland have shared a video showing just how surprisingly tiny the highly-venomous Irukandji jellyfish are.

The footage was taken of an Irukandji jellyfish caught two weeks ago at the popular Palm Cove Beach north of Cairns. 

It shows the potentially deadly jellyfish swimming over a $2 coin to put its size in perspective. 

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"This is what we mean when we say Irukandji really are THAT small!" the post on the Australian Lifeguard Service in North Queensland's Instagram page reads.  

Cairns senior lifeguard Jon Murray told 9news.com.au that it was almost impossible to spot the Irukandji jellyfish in the water, a fact that surprised many people.

"In some of our huts we have specimens in formaldehyde jars, and a lot of the feedback we get is, I knew they were small, but I just didn't know how small," Murray said.

Murray said that, contrary to public perception, the stinger nets set up in some Far North Queensland beaches did not protect swimmers from Irukandji jellyfish.

"The stinger nets themselves are made to stop the box jellyfish, a much bigger, much more lethal type of jellyfish," he said.

"It cannot, and does not claim to stop the Irukandji.

"That's why we advise people, especially anyone with any sort of cardiovascular history, to wear a microsuit when swimming inside the net." 

Researchers had predicted this singer season, which runs from November to May, would be much quieter than recent years because of ecosystem damage from floods from Cyclone Jasper. 

However, this had so far proven not to be the case, Murray said.

"The researchers weren't expecting much, but we have started catching some stuff that has caught them off guard a bit." 

"We just want to get the message out that the stingers are actually there, so please swim between the flags, and the stinger net for safety."

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Murray said it was not always easy to tell straight away if a swimmer had been stung by an Irukandji jellyfish, as there was often a delay of about 20 to 40 minutes before the symptoms appeared.

"The sting is not always that giveaway, by any means, with Irukandji," he said. 

"But as soon as the symptoms kick in, it's very telling and very obvious." 

The first true sign of an Irukandji sting was usually a patient reporting they had a sore lower back, Murray said.

"The way that the patients have described it to us. It's like having a cricket bat slam in your back over and over and over that just starts to spread throughout the body as the poisons hit the lymph nodes," he said. 

"So as soon as the patient says, I've got a sore lower back, that's when we escalate and close the beach."

Swimmers can check here to see which beaches in the Douglas Shire, Cairns Regional Council and Cassowary Coast regions may be closed due to the presence of jellyfish.

Planning holidays around Australia's public holidays can maximise your hard-earned time off.

With some careful preparation, you can spread out your annual leave to get 39 days off – by taking 18 days of annual leave.

Australia has 10 paid public holidays across the calendar.

By lining up your annual leave with public holidays and weekends in January, April, June, and December, you can significantly increase the amount of time you get to spend away from work.

Here are all the public holidays for 2025, along with some tips to make the most of leave next year.

State-by-state guide to Australia's public holidays for 2025

January

Book five days of leave for 10 days off from Saturday 18 to Monday 27 January (all states and territories)

Public holidays for the month fall on: 

• Wednesday 1 January
• Monday 27 January: Australia Day Holiday (day in lieu)

February

Book four days of leave for nine days off from Saturday 8 to Sunday 16 February (TAS)

Public holidays for the month fall on: 

• Monday 10 February: Royal Hobart Regatta (TAS)
• Wednesday 26 February: Launceston Cup (TAS)

March

Book four days of leave for nine days off (all states and territories except NSW, QLD and NT)

Public holidays for the month fall on: 

• Monday 3 March: Labour Day (WA)
• Tuesday 4 March: King Island Show (TAS – King Island only)
• Monday 10 March: Canberra Day (ACT), Adelaide Cup Day (SA), Labour Day (VIC), Eight Hours Day (TAS)

April

Book six days of leave for 16 days off from Saturday 12 to Sunday 27 April (TAS)

Book seven days of leave for 16 days off on the same dates (all other states and territories)

Public holidays for the month fall on: 

• Friday 18 April: Good Friday
• Sunday 20 April: Easter Sunday
• Monday 21 April: Easter Monday
• Tuesday 22 April: Easter Tuesday (TAS)
• Friday 25 April: ANZAC Day

May

Book four days of leave for nine days off from Saturday 3 to Sunday 11 May (QLD and NT)

Public holidays for the month fall on: 

• Monday 5 May: May Day (NT), Labour Day (QLD)

June

Book four days of leave for 10 days off from Saturday 31 May to Monday 9 June (ACT)

Book five days of leave for 10 days off from Saturday 31 May to Monday 9 June (all states and territories except QLD and WA)

Public holidays for the month fall on: 

• Monday 2 June: Reconciliation Day (ACT), Western Australia Day (WA)
• Monday 9 June: King's Birthday (National except QLD and WA)

August

Book four days of leave for nine days off from Saturday 2 to Sunday 10 August (NSW and NT)

Book four days of leave for nine days off from Saturday 9 to Sunday 17 August (QLD)

Public holidays for the month fall on: 

• Monday 4 August: Bank Holiday (NSW), Picnic Day (NT)
• Wednesday 13 August: The Ekka (QLD – Brisbane only)

September

Book four days of leave for nine days off from Saturday 20 to Sunday 28 (VIC)

Book five days of leave for ten days off from Saturday 20 to Sunday 29 (WA)

Public holidays for the month fall on: 

• Friday 26 September: Friday before AFL grand final (VIC)
• Monday 29 September: King's Birthday (WA)

October

Book four days of leave for nine days off from Saturday 4 to Sunday 12 October (ACT, NSW, SA)

Public holidays for the month fall on: 

• Monday 6 October: Labour Day (ACT, NSW, and SA), King's Birthday (WA)

November

Book four days of leave for nine days of from Saturday 1 to Sunday 9 November (TAS and VIC)

Public holidays for the month fall on: 

• Monday 3 November: Recreation Day (TAS) 
• Tuesday 4 November: Melbourne Cup Day (VIC)

December

Book four days of leave for 13 days off from Saturday 20 December to Thursday January 1 (NT and SA)

Book five days of leave for 13 days off on the same dates (QLD)

Book six days of leave for 13 days off on the same dates (all other states and territories)

Public holidays for the month fall on: 

• Wednesday 24 December: Christmas Eve (NT, QLD, SA)
• Thursday 25 December: Christmas Day
• Friday 26 December: Boxing Day (Proclamation Day in SA)
• Wednesday 31 December: New Year's Eve (NT and SA)

A soccer-loving nun from Brazil is believed to have become the world's oldest living person at nearly 117 following the recent death of a woman from Japan.

Sister Inah Canabarro was so skinny growing up that many didn't think she would survive childhood, Cleber Canabarro, her 84-year-old nephew, told The Associated Press.

LongeviQuest, an organisation that tracks supercentenarians around the globe, released a statement on Saturday declaring the wheelchair-bound nun the world's oldest person validated by early life records.

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In a video shot by the organisation last February, the smiling Canabarro can be seen cracking jokes, sharing miniature paintings she used to make of wildflowers and reciting the Hail Mary prayer.

The secret to longevity? Her Catholic faith, she says.

"I'm young, pretty and friendly — all very good, positive qualities that you have too," the Teresian nun tells the visitors to her retirement home in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.

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Her nephew spends time with her every Saturday and sends her voice messages between visits to keep her spirits up following two hospitalisations that left her weak, with difficulty talking.

"The other sisters say she gets a jolt when she hears my voice," he says. "She gets excited."

Canabarro was born on June 8, 1908, to a large family in southern Brazil, according to LongeviQuest researchers. But her nephew said her birth was registered two weeks late and she was actually born on May 27. Her great-grandfather was a famed Brazilian general who took up arms during the turbulent period following Brazil's independence from Portugal in the 19th century.

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She took up religious work still a teenager and spent two years in Montevideo, Uruguay, before moving to Rio de Janeiro and eventually settling in her home state of Rio Grande do Sul.

A lifelong teacher, among her former students was General Joao Figueiredo, the last of the military dictators who governed Brazil between 1964 and 1985. She was also the beloved creator of two marching bands at schools in sister cities straddling the border between Uruguay and Brazil.

For her 110th birthday, she was honoured by Pope Francis. She is the second oldest nun ever documented, after Lucile Randon, who was the world's oldest person until her death in 2023 at the age of 118.

Local soccer club Inter — which was founded after Canabarro's birth — celebrates every year the birthday of its oldest fan. Her room is decorated with gifts in the team's red and white colours, says her nephew.

"White or black, rich or poor, whoever you are, Inter is the team of the people," she says in one video posted on social media celebrating her 116th birthday with the club's president.

Canabarro took the title of the oldest living person following the death of Japan's Tomiko Itooka in December, according to LongeviQuest. She now ranks as the 20th oldest documented person to have ever lived, a list topped by Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122, according to LongeviQuest.

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