World No.1 Iga Swiatek also had her struggles in the women’s draw, but she too got the job done versus Wimbledon quarter-finalist Jule Niemeier to take her place in the second round. There were emphatic wins on day one for Daniil Medvedev, Jannik Sinner, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Maria Sakkari as the tournament got under way at Melbourne Park. MORE: Australian Open 2023 LIVE: Schedule, results, scores, Aussies on court...

Israel Folau was fired by Rugby Australia in April after claiming on social media that homosexuals, adulterers and other sinners would go to hell unless they repent. Now, he’s doubled down on those claims in a church sermon where he claimed the bushfires that have devastated Australia are God’s punishment for legalizing abortion and same-sex marriage. In a video live-streamed on the Truth of Jesus Christ Church Sydney’s Facebook page on Sunday, viewed by Newsweek, Folau said: “I’ve been looking around at the events that’s been happening in Australia, this past couple of weeks, with all the natural disasters, the bushfires and the droughts....

From early 2020, cats are banned from being outdoors between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m., officials in Mount Barker, a southern Australian town around 20 miles from Adelaide, said on Wednesday. Cats found breaking the curfew will be reunited with their owners, or impounded and rehomed if the individual can’t be found. Owners will also be required to register their pets, in a bid to help return lost animals....

In what Australia’s ABC News reported was an “unprecedented” move, the state’s Country Fire Service (CFS) called on police to evacuate Vivonne Bay, which has a population of around 400. People were urged to move to the only safe places on the island, Penneshaw and the main town of Kingscote. In a statement on Thursday, the CFS said that the south coast of the island, between Stun Sail Boom and Seal Bay, was a particularly dangerous area....

Michelle Deloach told KXAN-TV that she and her boyfriend spent weeks searching for a place to rent in Austin, and they jumped at the chance to move into the home they found on Zillow. “Things in Austin go like that. So we thought, ‘We love this house, let’s jump on it,” Deloach told KXAN. Believing the Zillow rental listing was exactly what they needed, Deloach and her boyfriend said they acted quickly....

The new study examined the relationship between thimerosal exposure from vaccines given in the first seven months of life, and neuropsychological development between the ages of 7 and 10. A total of 1,047 children provided a range of thimerosal exposures—from 0 to nearly 200 micrograms, or the most any child would get if they took all of the thimerosal-containing vaccines at the prescribed time. Researchers found no significant effect on speech, verbal memory, fine motor coordination, attention, behavior or general intelligence....

Some of the most popular types of apps for autism include: High-end communication tools for people with little or no useful spoken languageTeaching tools focused on social skills Behavioral tools that either support or track specific behavioral goalsCalming and sensory apps intended to help lower anxiety and reduce meltdowns Some of these are apps intended for the general public which just happen to also be effective for people on the autism spectrum....

Callie Kimball and her husband said that they and their son, Carter, were removed from a Spirit Airlines flight from Las Vegas to their home city of Little Rock on Monday morning, despite showing staff a doctor’s note stating that he’s exempt from wearing a face-covering. According to his parents, Carter “holds his breath” or “starts freaking out” and “will harm himself” whenever he wears a face mask. Spirit Airlines, which is attracting widespread criticism for the incident on social media, said that its current face mask policy “does not provide for medical exemptions, regardless of diagnosis,” but that it plans to introduce an exemption application process for customers with “a medical disability” later this week....

While AEB systems are effective at reducing the rate of pedestrian crashes with injury by 30 percent in daytime, IIHS found that the rate of crashes in darkened conditions is the same whether a vehicle is equipped with AEB or not. “This is the first real-world study of pedestrian AEB to cover a broad range of manufacturers, and it proves the technology is eliminating crashes,” IIHS vice president of research Jessica Cicchino said in a press release....

In a new statement posted to social media, Max shared her condolences and devastation toward gun violence. “I am devastated at the shooting that happened after our show in Philly,” the star writes. “I don’t know what this country has come to. Everywhere we go we are terrified. We are traumatized. This needs to end. I pray everyone stays safe in the upcoming shows and events,” she concludes. The suspect has yet to be identified and brought into custody....

COLD HARBOUR The fact that Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon are from the same town in Nova Scotia was completely inescapable coming into the game. We'd imagine they mentioned it a few times on NBC Sports Network, as well. Neither recorded a point—the first such occurrence this season for Crosby, who still has a league-leading 17 in eight games. He was fantastic in the first period, putting five pucks on the net and coming within a foot or so of four points, but he cooled off after that....

Christian Luyindama got the hosts ahead in the eighth minute but Awoniyi’s excellent solo effort pulled both sides level ten minutes later. After the break, the striker gave a deft back-heel pass to assist Dorin Rotariu who brought the visitors back on par after Sebastien Pocognoli had restored the lead. In the 76th minute, Awoniyi completed his brace with a brilliant strike to put his side ahead for the first time in the tie....

He responds to his time away with two new albums, “Human Touch” and “Lucky Town,” both due in stores this week. He recorded “Human Touch” first, then went looking for one more song to complete it. When that song emerged as the resoundingly affirming “Living Proof” (box), he realized he was onto a new theme, grist for a new album. Working mostly alone in his home studio, he, wrote and recorded the rest of what became “Lucky Town....

Alvin Patterson Kaunda was delivering a news report on Friday at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, which rescues elephants and rhinos from poaching and habitat destruction in Kenya. Reporting for Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), Kaunda was covering the devastating impact of Kenya’s current drought on wildlife in the region. “It was actually my first time at the trust,” Kaunda told Newsweek. “I knew I was going to see the elephants but didn’t know that they’d let me so close to them....

The infant, born after just 23 weeks on Wednesday morning in the city of Puebla, southeast of Mexico City, was thought by medics to be dead at birth. Medical personnel from La Margarita General Hospital informed the parents their baby had died, allegedly sending the child to the morgue where it would remain in a refrigerator for six hours, infobae reports. The parents were even allegedly handed the baby’s death certificate as they reportedly planned to hire funeral services....

From the ruins of war, Eritreans are transforming their new nation into that rarity on the African continent: a country that works. Hundreds of exiles have returned from the United States and Europe, bringing cash and technological expertise to a land starved for both. Former freedom fighters are mending ruined roads and clinics. They show the same unity and self-sufficiency that sustained them during the war, when they built huge subterranean complexes and filled them with hospitals and schools....

The letter-grade ratings–which range from ‘AAA’ for financially stable companies to ‘D’ for a company in default, for example–are used by investors as a measure of a company’s financial health and by banks to determine the amount of interest a company pays on its debt. But a recent survey by the Association of Financial Professionals (AFP) shows that nearly one-third (29 percent) of financial executives who work for companies with rated debt believe their companies’ ratings are inaccurate....

A: This is a tough one. Brokers don’t owe you a fiduciary duty in the legal sense of keeping your money safe. But they do owe you investment picks that suit your age and circumstances. Maybe you have an arbitration case against the broker. At your point in life, you should have been advised to shift to a more conservative mode, says attorney Allan Fedor of Fedor & Fedor in Largo, Fla....

I also know this, which is even more disconcerting: That two of the principles that have made this country exceptional–the free press and the idea of representational government–have inexplicably, impossibly, been, if not quelled, then stifled. Or bullied. None of this has felt very healthy. First the media. There have been a few voices of dissent: Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, has been nothing short of heroic in her thoughtful articulation against this war; Harper’s Magazine has had back-to-back cover stories that point out the holes in U....