Police in New Zealand are conducting DNA tests on a body they believe is British tourist Hannah Timings, from Gloucestershire, after finding the wreckage of a helicopter which went missing eight years ago. Hannah, who was 28, from Cheltenham, and local Kiwi pilot Campbell Montgomerie, 27, were flying in Fiordland, a remote part of the country on the South Island, when they crashed. Read article
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A TOURIST is dead and as many as four others have serious injuries after a three-car crash northwest of Bundaberg this afternoon. Police said the accident happened at Granite Creek, near Miriam Vale, about 3pm. The highway is closed and traffic is being diverted. Read article
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Bus passengers ganged up on some French tourists, even threatening to kill them, on an Australian bus after they started singing a French song. A shocked passenger caught the racist outburst as several people hurled verbal abuse at four French girls on a bus in Melbourne on Sunday at 10.30pm. As they sung, a female […]
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The man and his 28-year-old taxi driver died in the crash on the way from the airport in Perth to the city. The Briton was reportedly a physics doctor who was on a two-week trip to Perth for a conference. Police in Western Australia said they were working with the British Consulate to contact his […]
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A 25-YEAR-OLD Korean tourist was killed in a crash at the intersection of the Bruce Highway and Gregory Cannon Valley Rd last Friday afternoon. The man and his 22-year-old female passenger had allegedly failed to stop and give way at the intersection and when they entered the highway from Gregory Cannon Valley Road were hit […]
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HIV rates have increased substantially for the first time in five years, leading experts to warn that urgent action is needed to stop the spread of the virus. Figures released today show that the number of new diagnoses increased by 8 per cent last year, and by 50 per cent during the past 10 years. […]
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Australian health officials are urging travellers to avoid getting tattoos in developing countries after it was reported a West Australian man contracted HIV after getting etched in Bali. The man undertook a blood test after returning from Indonesia when the infection was discovered. Read article
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A 24-year-old Irish tourist was killed in a car accident about 300 kilometres north of Carnarvon at the weekend. The woman was travelling with two other European tourists in a four-wheel drive about 3:00pm (AWST) on Saturday in Yannarie. Read article
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A tourist has been arrested after trying to take a police officer’s gun and Taser during a scuffle in far north Queensland. Police say they went to speak to the 27-year-old man in central Cairns around 11.30am (AEST) on Saturday, when he tried to remove a Taser from an officer’s belt. Read article
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A teenager was killed in a quad bike crash while a 24-year-old tourist died when the car she was driving rolled over in two separate road accidents in Western Australia. An 18-year-old woman died at the scene when the quad bike on which she was a pillion passenger collided with a car near the entrance […]
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