ufa slot game Second-warmest November on record means that 2024 is likely to be Earth's hottest yearOpposition Leader Peter Dutton had confirmed he would only display the Australian flag as prime minister, as he has in opposition, opting not to replicate Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s trio of the Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags. Speaking to Peta Credlin on Sky News last night, Dutton said he was “very strongly of the belief” that we should be “united under one flag”. Peter Dutton. Credit: AFR “We’re asking people to identify with different flags, no other country does that,” Dutton said. “We are dividing our country unnecessarily.” Dutton concluded that while we should have respect for the Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander flags, they are “not our national flags”. Asked about Dutton’s confirmation on Nine’s Today this morning, Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth said he was “trying to get a headline”. “I think we can take a lot of pride in our history and the future of this country,” she said. “I think this is Peter Dutton just doing what he knows how to do best. Try and get a headline with no substance, no real policies about, for example, tackling cost of living or things that really matter to the Australian people.” Also speaking to Today , Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie said Australians “want to be united as one”. “I’m excited to be part of a future Dutton government if we get that great privilege. And to restore the primacy of the Australian flag.” Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has weighed in on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s decision to play tennis in Perth on Saturday, as he faced criticism for taking to the court a day after the Adass Israel synagogue firebombing. Albanese was in Perth when the terror attack took place on Friday, where he remained through the weekend before returning to Canberra. On Monday, the PM defended the tennis match, saying that after he concluded six appointments on Saturday, including a private visit to a synagogue, he “did some exercise”. A social media photo showing Anthony Albanese playing tennis in Perth. “That’s what people do,” he said. Dutton came to the PM’s defence when he was asked about the tennis match on radio this morning. “I think the prime minister deserves some downtime, he’s got a busy job and deserves some time with his family and friends,” Dutton said. “I don’t begrudge him that.” But Dutton criticised Albanese for being slow in “calling this out as a terrorist attack”. “I think the prime minister has been trying to win Green votes in inner-city Melbourne and Sydney, and I think he’s taken a decision, a very deliberate decision, to hedge his bets when it comes to Israel and the Jewish community,” he said. “I think it’s divided our country.” A police operation to clamp down on illegal electric motorbike use has been bestowed with what might be the quirkiest name of 2024. With echoes of Boaty McBoatface , Operation Zappo Stoppie is tasked with reducing the illegal use of unregistered electric bikes in the Noosa area. A 58-year-old Sunshine Beach man was fined this week for allegedly allowing his teenage children to ride unregistered vehicles after a previous warning. Under Operation Zappo Stoppie, police have charged 24 people, completed 27 street checks, warned 31 children, issued eight infringements and impounded three bikes. “The rules around the use of a motorbike doesn’t change, regardless of if it’s powered by petrol or an electric battery,” Noosa Heads Senior Constables Danny Baker said in a statement. “We will continue with enforcement activities like Operation Zappo Stoppie.” Opposition Leader Peter Dutton had confirmed he would only display the Australian flag as prime minister, as he has in opposition, opting not to replicate Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s trio of the Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags. Speaking to Peta Credlin on Sky News last night, Dutton said he was “very strongly of the belief” that we should be “united under one flag”. Peter Dutton. Credit: AFR “We’re asking people to identify with different flags, no other country does that,” Dutton said. “We are dividing our country unnecessarily.” Dutton concluded that while we should have respect for the Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander flags, they are “not our national flags”. Asked about Dutton’s confirmation on Nine’s Today this morning, Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth said he was “trying to get a headline”. “I think we can take a lot of pride in our history and the future of this country,” she said. “I think this is Peter Dutton just doing what he knows how to do best. Try and get a headline with no substance, no real policies about, for example, tackling cost of living or things that really matter to the Australian people.” Also speaking to Today , Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie said Australians “want to be united as one”. “I’m excited to be part of a future Dutton government if we get that great privilege. And to restore the primacy of the Australian flag.” A trio wanted over the attack on a synagogue remain on the run, as the Joint Counter Terror Team takes over the investigation into Friday’s arson at the Adass Israel Synagogue at Ripponlea in Melbourne’s south-east. Authorities declared the fire a likely terror attack on Monday and confirmed investigators were looking for three suspects, but would not give details on who the attackers might be. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw and Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus announced the antisemitism task force on Monday. Credit: AAPIMAGE Monday’s terror declaration opens up a raft of extra powers for investigators including the ability to stop, search and seize people without a warrant as well as detain and question those they believe have knowledge of, or links to, the attack. The JCTT is made up of state and federal police and ASIO officers. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also declared a federal taskforce to investigate acts of antisemitism in recent months. Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan says her government is looking at introducing laws to protect people at places of worship from protesters, similar to the state’s laws for abortion clinics. The community has vowed to rebuild the synagogue, built by Holocaust survivors, after Torahs, books and papers were destroyed by fire and water, and walls inside the building collapsed. Read more about the investigation here. Along with the mugginess in Brisbane since the weekend, we’re expecting a high chance of showers today. The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast a 80 per cent of showers, most likely from late this morning. The mercury should reach 28 degrees today, a maximum it’s predicted to hit – give or take a few degrees – every day for the rest of the week. Here’s the seven-day outlook: Stories making the rounds beyond Brisbane this morning include: Police have taken Luigi Mangione into custody over the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Credit: Luigi Mangione The man suspected of killing a UnitedHealth executive in a brazen shooting outside a Manhattan hotel last week has been arrested . The suspect, identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, was spotted at a McDonald’s by someone who believed he resembled the gunman. The Coalition is standing by its stated goal of reducing permanent migration after scrapping a separate pledge to cut the number of net arrivals to 160,000 a year, as an exclusive survey shows strong majority support for a lower intake. Rupert Murdoch with children Elisabeth, Lachlan and James. Credit: Jamie Brown A Nevada commissioner has ruled against Rupert Murdoch’s bid to change his family trust to consolidate control of his media empire in the hands of his son Lachlan. Jews around the world will be warned about the risk of antisemitic attacks when visiting Australia under a travel advisory issued by a US-based Jewish human rights organisation following the firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue by suspected terrorists. Forty Australian women and children trapped in a detention camp in Syria say the conditions on the ground in the war-torn country are deteriorating and they fear the chaos that might follow the overthrow of the central government. Good morning, thanks for joining us for Brisbane Times’ live news blog. It’s Tuesday, December 10, and we’re expecting showers today and a top temperature of 28 degrees. In this morning’s local headlines: As the Kangaroo Point Bridge opens this weekend and ferry services from Mowbray Park return, those hoping for a riverside bike and walking path all the way to East Brisbane will be left waiting , documents obtained by this masthead reveal. An Instagram influencer has admitted in Brisbane Magistrates Court to using her job at a government health agency to help a drug dealer obtain mobile phones through identity theft . MPs elevated to chair Queensland parliamentary committees may get less attention than ministers or opposition frontbenchers, but they wield a lot of influence, and enjoy a $64,364 boost to their $183,985 base salary . So far, this summer has been much stickier than usual. Escaping the heat and humidity has not been easy, with many relying on running their air-conditioners day and night. So what’s causing it? And Australian swimming legend Dawn Fraser is recovering in hospital after suffering serious injuries in a fall at her home on the Sunshine Coast.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now marked itself safe from its closest-ever encounter with the sun. The probe sent a signal just before midnight on Dec. 26, saying it was “alive” and doing fine. This should come as a relief to NASA scientists since communication with the probe “went dark” Christmas Eve when it made its record-breaking closest ever pass — a mere 3.8 million miles from the sun’s surface, according to a NASA blog . That might seem like a big distance, but in the universe, everything is relative. If the Earth and sun marked opposite end zones of an American football field, the probe’s latest pass took it to the sun’s four-yard line. Read More: How Old Is the Sun? Better Understanding the Sun The probe is collecting data that will help researchers better understand how the sun “works.” Scientists hope the information will help solve some solar mysteries, like why is the corona 300 times hotter than the sun’s actual surface, which is 300 miles below it? What powers the supersonic solar wind that blows charged particles into the solar system? And what makes those particles move at up to half the speed of light? “This is one example of NASA’s bold missions, doing something that no one else has ever done before to answer longstanding questions about our universe,” Arik Posner, Parker Solar Probe program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said in another blog before the probe broke its record. “We can’t wait to receive that first status update from the spacecraft and start receiving the science data in the coming weeks.” That data will help scientists better understand the Northern Lights because they are generated when the “space weather” driven by the sun’s supersonic winds interacts with Earth’s atmosphere. But there are practical concerns and reasons to understand these forces better as well. Geomagnetic storms can impair GPS satellites and could disable electricity grids. Scientists expect the probe’s first data transmissions from its close pass around January. This moment has been a long time coming, according to a Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory timeline . Long Time Coming When Eugene N. Parker was a professor at the University of Chicago in the mid-1950s, he predicted the solar wind with mathematical theory. In the 1970s, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposed a flyby mission — but they didn’t yet have the technology — especially the means to protect an instrument from the sun’s heat. That changed in the 2000s. Scientists developed a carbon composite heat shield that can withstand temperatures up to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit while holding the probe’s electronics and instruments to 85 F. They also created a cooling system for the spacecraft’s solar panels by pumping pressurized water through titanium radiators, keeping their temps to 320 F while collecting energy to power the craft’s instruments. Parker was present when the probe launched on August 12, 2018. He died on March 15, 2022, at age 94. The probe holds a plaque with a quote from its namesake: “Let’s see what lies ahead.” As data begins flowing back from the probe after this and the next two passes, it should provide some answers. Read More: The Aurora Borealis Like You've Never Seen It Article Sources Our writers at Discovermagazine.com use peer-reviewed studies and high-quality sources for our articles, and our editors review for scientific accuracy and editorial standards. Review the sources used below for this article: NASA. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reports Successful Closest Approach to Sun NASA. Parker Solar Probe Begins Record-Setting Closest Approach to the Sun John's Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. A Star Explored Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in newspapers, but switched to scientific magazines. His work has appeared in publications including Science News, Science, Nature, and Scientific American.

Nokia Corporation Stock Exchange Release 12 December 2024 at 22:30 EET Nokia Corporation: Repurchase of own shares on 12.12.2024 Espoo, Finland – On 12 December 2024 Nokia Corporation (LEI: 549300A0JPRWG1KI7U06) has acquired its own shares (ISIN FI0009000681) as follows: * Rounded to two decimals On 22 November 2024, Nokia announced that its Board of Directors is initiating a share buyback program to offset the dilutive effect of new Nokia shares issued to the shareholders of Infinera Corporation and certain Infinera Corporation share-based incentives. The repurchases in compliance with the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (MAR), the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 and under the authorization granted by Nokia’s Annual General Meeting on 3 April 2024 started on 25 November 2024 and end by 31 December 2025 and target to repurchase 150 million shares for a maximum aggregate purchase price of EUR 900 million. Total cost of transactions executed on 12 December 2024 was EUR 3,676,744. After the disclosed transactions, Nokia Corporation holds 213,393,499 treasury shares. Details of transactions are included as an appendix to this announcement. On behalf of Nokia Corporation BofA Securities Europe SA About Nokia At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together. As a B2B technology innovation leader, we are pioneering networks that sense, think and act by leveraging our work across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. In addition, we create value with intellectual property and long-term research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs. With truly open architectures that seamlessly integrate into any ecosystem, our high-performance networks create new opportunities for monetization and scale. Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital services and applications of the future. Inquiries: Nokia Communications Phone: +358 10 448 4900 Email: press.services@nokia.com Maria Vaismaa, Global Head of External Communications Nokia Investor Relations Phone: +358 40 803 4080 Email: investor.relations@nokia.com Attachment Daily Report 2024-12-12Pep Guardiola spoke of his relief after Manchester City finally got back to winning ways with a comfortable 3-0 defeat of Nottingham Forest on Wednesday. The champions had descended into crisis after a run of seven games without a win – six of which were defeats and the other an embarrassing 3-3 draw after leading 3-0. Four of those losses had come in the Premier League, heavily damaging their chances of claiming a fifth successive title, but they appeared to turn the corner by sweeping Forest aside at the Etihad Stadium. “We needed it,” said City manager Guardiola. “The club, the players, everyone needed to win. A good night's work 🫡 Thank you for backing us all the way, City fans 🩵 pic.twitter.com/UOcKm0Y6Ry — Manchester City (@ManCity) December 4, 2024 “But it is just one game and in three days we are at Selhurst Park, where it has always been difficult. “We played good. We still conceded some transitions and missed some easy things and lost some passes that you have to avoid, but in general, the most important thing was to break this routine of not winning games and we won it.” Kevin De Bruyne, making his first start since September after overcoming a pelvic injury, made a huge difference to a side that appeared rejuvenated. His powerful header was turned in by Bernardo Silva for the opening goal and the Belgian followed up with a powerful strike to make it 2-0. The 33-year-old is out of contract at the end of the season but it was a strong riposte to recent suggestions of a rift with Guardiola. A sweet strike 💥 ⚡️ #HighSpeedMoments | @eAndGroup pic.twitter.com/WJOkfKo2zr — Manchester City (@ManCity) December 4, 2024 “I’m so happy for him,” said Guardiola of De Bruyne’s telling contribution. “Last season he was many months injured and this season as well. “I’m so happy he’s back. He fought a lot, he’s worked and he’s back with his physicality. The minutes he played in Anfield were really good and today he played 75 fantastic minutes.” Jeremy Doku wrapped up a pleasing win when he finished a rapid counter-attack just before the hour but there was still a downside for City with injuries to defenders Nathan Ake and Manuel Akanji. Guardiola said: “For Nathan it doesn’t look good and Manu has struggled a lot over the last two months. We will see. “Phil (Foden) has bronchitis but when he doesn’t have fever he will be ready.” Despite City’s dominance, Forest did have some bright moments and manager Nuno Espirito Santo was not downbeat. He said: “When you lose 3-0 and you say it was a good performance maybe people don’t understand, but I will not say that was a bad performance. “There are positive things for us in the game. Of course there are a lot of bad things, mistakes, but we had chances. “We didn’t achieve but I think we come out proud of ourselves because we tried. For sure, this game will allow us to grow.”

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