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Retired Foster police sergeant Jim Lowe at Waratah Bay in South Gippsland, where a windsurfer was last seen in the 1980s.

Victoria’s last fatal shark attack that maybe never was

Victoria’s last fatal shark attack has been misreported for years. Four decades after a windsurfer’s disappearance, a librarian, a scientist and a former police sergeant reveal the truth.

  • Cassandra Morgan

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Aidan Becker.

Good Samaritan killed at train station remembered as hero with a kind soul

Aidan Becker was killed while intervening as a group allegedly tried to rob a schoolboy, police say. His friends remembered him as kind and optimistic.

  • Angus Delaney and Marta Pascual Juanola
The bodies of two fishermen have been found in the water off Little Beach at Bouddi National Park.

Bodies of fishermen pulled from water at ‘treacherous’ Central Coast beach

The men, aged 42 and 67, were fishing at Little Beach in Bouddi National Park when one was swept off the rocks.

  • Angus Thomson and Riley Walter
Holly Wells (left) and her best friend, Jessica Chapman, both 10, who disappeared from Soham, Cambridgeshire in 2002.

Ian Huntley, one of UK’s most notorious child killers, dies days after prison attack

The murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman transfixed Britain after the best friends left a barbecue to buy candy and vanished in 2002.

  • Pan Pylas
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‘It’s lifting houses!’ At least six dead as suspected tornadoes hit Michigan, Oklahoma

Photos and videos posted on social media showed flattened homes and downed trees.

  • Dave Collins, Steve Karnowski and Mike Householder
Police Air Wing vision as they approached the area where the two bodies were located on Mount Bogong.

Hiker sent final message to mum before dying with friend from exposure

Two university students found dead near Mount Bogong likely became disorientated in severe weather after taking on a hike they were inexperienced for, according to a coroner.

  • Katie Bice
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Chloe Jeffries, 8, was remembered as a “very special part” of her local netball community.

Eight-year-old Gold Coast girl killed at Japanese ski resort

Chloe Jeffries became the fourth Australian to die at a Japanese ski resort this year after the snowmobile she and her mother were riding overturned.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Alan Roger Jolliffe, 57, and another foreigner appear to argue on a street near the popular Patong Beach. Image supplied.

Australian-British tourist dies after alleged assault in Phuket

Unverified footage appears to show Alan Roger Jolliffe, 57, and another foreigner arguing on a street near the popular Patong Beach before the former is knocked unconscious.

  • Zach Hope and Am Sandford
Police have urged anyone with information about the incident to come forward.

Body found at dog park in Brisbane’s north

The body was found early on Friday, drawing a heavy police presence.

  • Dominique Tassell
Daniel Stevens, 24 (left), and Gerard Andrews, 29.

A cigarette butt, a burnt car and Pig Latin: Inside the hunt for alleged killers of Sydney grandfather

Shocking details of the case can be revealed after sources revealed the full allegations against two men to the Herald.

  • Perry Duffin, Riley Walter and Amber Schultz