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1. Boy raped at public pool by man who told police the attack was a “sexual emergency”.
Warning: This item may be distressing for some readers.
The owners of a Sydney wine bar have taken to social media to express their anger after police accused them of promoting heavy drinking with their chalkboard list of expensive wines.
10 William Street, a Sydney food and wine bar posted a photo on Instagram of the extensive wine list writing, “
So according to NSW POLICE FORCE our blackboard with what we are pouring by the glass is promoting unsavory behaviour. SYDNEY, WHAT THE F**K IS HAPPENING.” They were one of many licenced venues across Sydney inspected by police this weekend during a compliance and anti-social behaviour crackdown by the police.
10 William Street co-owner Marco Ambrosino told Broadsheet police were concerned about their sign promoting “free wines” a reference to additive free wines and the blackboard listing, which police explained could be seen as promoting heavy drinking because it didn’t make clear the venue was also an eatery.
“We are a wine bar, so we put our wines by the glass at the front and hand people a menu when they sit down. We’ve had it like this for six years,” Mr Ambrosino told Broadsheet.
7. UN Security Council to meet over North Korea rocket launch.
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting after North Korea launched a long-range rocket into space just weeks after a nuclear bomb test.
The BBC reports that South Korea, Japan and the United States requested the meeting. Pyongyang said it fired the rocket to place a satellite in orbit, but critics believe the real purpose was to test a ballistic missile.
A state TV newsreader said the launch had been ordered by North Korea’s leader Kim Jon-un and more satellite launches were planned for the future.
8. Girl, 5, dies after catching cold.
A five-year-old girl has died from a rare complication of catching a cold.
Elizabeth Spencer, from Gloucestershire in the UK started getting flu-like symptoms but her family assumed it was a cold, when she collapsed they took her to hospital where she was put in an induced coma.
But tragically she died 18 days later.
Metro reports that it was an extremely rare auto immune condition, which sent her body into overdrive to fight off the original virus. The condition, Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis, caused her body to go into septic shock, shutting down her major organs and cutting off the blood supply to her limbs.
Her mother, Natalie told media “I couldn’t believe it to begin with. In the morning I thought she had a flu and in the evening I was told she probably wouldn’t make it.”
“It’s devastating for a mother to see a child like that. It was 18 of the most heart-breaking days. Her immune system killed her.”
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Top Comments
I'm still pretty P.O'd that the rapists in #3 can't have their good behaviour bond enforced here.
Its so sad that theres no positive news, Im saddend by the news that the little girl who caught a cold died afterwards! Poor little mite