An extraordinary photo of a monster ute teetering over solid white lines along a busy Melbourne road has sparked furious backlash.

The oversized GMC Sierra Denalis, which is imported to Australia from the US and costs upwards of $200,000 for the latest model, was spotted in Clayton last week.

“Something needs to be done about this,” the disgruntled driver captioned the photos of the black ute.

“Dude can’t even stay within one lane and blows soot into any car behind him when taking off at the lights,” they added.

“Didn’t realise it was so easy to get a national heavy license plate either.”

The rant sparked fury online, with other Aussie motorists blowing up about the influx of monster trucks taking up space on the roads and in parking spots.....

A Canadian tourist lost both her hands when she tried to take a picture with a 6-foot shark while swimming in Turks and Caicos and it bit her.

The 55-year-old woman was snorkeling off Providenciales, the main island in the archipelago, Feb. 7 when she tried to “engage with the animal from the shallows in an attempt to take photographs,” the Turks and Caicos Department of Environment and Coastal Resources said in a statement.

The woman was a few yards offshore when the beast clamped its jaws on her arms, officials told the Daily Telegraph.

The tourist’s horrified husband jumped in the water to try to scare the shark away.

Radio giant Alan Jones has been slapped with a fresh charge of assault with an act of indecency relating to an 11th alleged victim.

The 83-year-old was already facing 34 charges including committing an aggravated indecent act and sexually touching a person without consent, as well as assault with an act of indecency.

The charges were related to 10 complainants, and are alleged to have taken place between 2001 and 2019.

Mr Jones pleaded not guilty to the existing charges in December last year, telling reporters outside the courthouse afterwards he was “certainly not guilty”.

I will not be engaging in a running commentary in the media, but I want you to understand this: These allegations are either baseless or distort the truth,” Mr Jones said.

The former 2GB host was issued a Court Attendance Notice for the additional assault charge on Friday.

He is set to front Downing Centre Local Court on March 11 where a brief of evidence of his other charges is also expected to be heard........

Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte is in the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC) after being arrested on crimes against humanity charges linked to his "war on drugs".

The ICC confirmed the charges shortly after his arrival in the Netherlands on Wednesday.

His arrival was delayed after a long layover in Dubai, during which he received medical checks.

He's expected to be transferred to a detention centre on the Dutch coast, before facing an initial court appearance in coming days. He has always denied wrongdoing.

"He was arrested by the authorities of the Republic of the Philippines in accordance with an arrest warrant issued by Pre-Trial Chamber I for charges of murder as a crime against humanity," the ICC said in a statement.

The ICC's warrant for his arrest states that as president he created, funded and armed death squads that carried out murders of purported drug users and dealers......

Heathrow Airport will be closed all day Friday after a fire at a nearby electrical substation that supplies it with power

The fire is still burning, London Fire Brigade says, with no power at Terminal 2 and 4 as well as 5,000 homes nearby

Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, warns of days of disruption - more than 1,350 flights are thought to be affected today

• no spatial separated, alternative (backup) HV connection?
  
• Backup power (diesels) just for navigation & air ops (2? Megawatts); no backup power for operating terminals?
  
• resilience?
  

* Backup power (diesels) just for navigation & air ops (2? Megawatts); no backup power for operating terminals?

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband called it "unprecedented"; the blaze hit both the primary supply and the reserve system at North Hyde substation.

Heathrow draws power from two major connections to the British grid. A major substation called Hydes North, provides the bulk of its needs. — and was the one that caught fire. Engineers, however, had anticipated a visit from Mr Murphy, so they designed a triple-redundancy system, with three different super transformers handling the job of lowering the voltage to 66,000 volts from 275,000 volts. One of the transformers is located far away from the two others, to add an extra layer of physical safety. Together, the power system has what engineers call an N-2 rating, which effectively means that it should be able to lose two of its components and still operate.

The problem? No one foresaw all three super transformers failing simultaneously, which is what happened on Thursday night. What looked like a system with embedded redundancy was, instead, a vulnerable single point of failure.

If Heathrow was a data center rather than an airport, it’s likely that it would have had sufficient back-up generating capacity to continue running even when its connection to the national network failed.

From memory:
Working across the picture from left to right
Cooling oil reservoir - undamaged
Earth resistor bank - I think there were three of them, but now only appears to be one, but there's a lot of smoke/steam around them
Main transformer, comprising three sets of winding in a common oil circuit - looks as if one phase (nearest the resistors) has been damaged.
Radiators for the oil cooling circuits - looks OK, but who knows.

Sometimes - like now - a chain is only important as its weakest link. The cost of having a whole extra power supply to run the airport just in case would cost huge amounts of money and resources for a privately-owned business like Heathrow.
Questions over whether additional back-ups are worth the additional cost will continue long after the passengers and cargo delayed by Friday's disruptive, and internationally embarrassing, failure have got where they are going.

The national grid is currently facing significant backlogs as housing and infrastructure projects wait to be connected to the network. In 2022, it was reported that housebuilding could be banned in three west London councils until 2035, when more grid capacity becomes available.

The piece, made by Maurizio Cattelan, was featured in an exhibition at England's Blenheim Palace.

The working 227 pound, 18-karat gold toilet titled America (2016) was dismantled as part of a five minute raid only two days after it was publicly displayed. Ensured for approximately $6 million, the piece was featured in an exhibition of the artist’s work at the 18th-century castle and family home of Winston Churchill.

“This was an audacious raid which had been carefully planned and executed—but those responsible were not careful enough, leaving a trail of evidence in the form of forensics, CCTV footage and phone data,” said Shan Saunders from the Crown Prosecution Service. “It has been a complex case to prosecute, involving a nationwide investigation with many lines of inquiry to identify those who were subsequently charged in relation to the theft.”

He added, “While none of the gold was ever recovered—no doubt having been broken up or melted down and sold on soon after it was stolen—we are confident this prosecution has played a part in disrupting a wider crime and money laundering network.”