18 September 2026
Emergency crews rushed to Sorrento Beach in Perth after witnesses reported a man being dragged under by a shark.
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18 September 2026
Emergency services are responding to a suspected fatal shark attack off a beach in the Australian west coast city of Perth.
18 September 2026
UTS places 10th globally in nursing and 18th in artificial intelligence, with 16 subjects ranked in the world’s top 100 in the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects. University of ...
18 September 2026
A man died on Friday after being mauled by a shark while swimming at a popular beach in the state of Western Australia, police said.
18 September 2026
More than 180 writers sign letter renewing calls for information on 12 authors detained incommunicado since 2001 crackdown on free speech by Isaias Afwerki More than 180 writers have signed a letter to Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki calling for proof of life for 12 writers arrested in 2001. Nobel laureates Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee join prominent writers including Colm Tóibín, Elif Shafak, Isabel Allende, Ben Okri, Yann Martel, Kamila Shamsie and Tsitsi Dangarembga in signing the letter dated 18 September, marking 25 years since a government crackdown on the independent press. “Within days, Eritrea’s free press and the nation’s independent voices were systematically crushed,” opens the letter.
18 September 2026
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Friday they had struck the Togo-flagged product tanker Trend after what Tehran described as an “illegal” attempt to transit Hormuz outside its approved passage system. The 7,119 dwt vessel was hit and stopped after a fire broke out onboard, according to the IRGC. The claims have not been independently verified. …
18 September 2026
The Dali casualty has become the largest single loss in the history of the P&I market, with reserves now exceeding $2. 8bn and the claim reaching a layer of the International Group’s insurance structure never previously tested by a casualty of this scale. Gallagher Specialty said the reserve associated with the 2024 destruction of Baltimore’s Francis …
18 September 2026
The Houthis' biggest land grab in years reignited Yemen's 12-year civil war and pushed up global fuel prices, extending their reach to a key maritime chokepoint and threatening Saudi Arabia's oil exports. (Image credit: Abdulnasser Alseddik)
