Nine years after trailblazer Michelle Payne became the first woman to ride a Melbourne Cup winner, a record contingent of four female jockeys will attempt to become the second to claim Australia’s most prestigious horse race.

Minister for Multi-Ethnic Affairs and Sugar Industry, Charan Jeath Singh, says an assessment will soon be conducted on the Muaniwane Crematorium in Naitasiri that was recently destroyed in a fire.

We have an update on America’s early voting numbers – they have ticked over the 81m-mark, according to the University of Florida Election Lab.

The High Court of Suva has awarded damages of $4000 plus interest to a man for false imprisonment.

James Van Der Beek is opening up about a health battle.

The top court in the battleground state of Georgia ruled that Cobb County cannot extend the deadline for counting about 3,000 absentee ballots that were sent out shortly before Election Day, handing a victory to the Republican National Committee and presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Irish trainer Willie Mullins will seek an elusive first Melbourne Cup victory in Australia’s most famous race.

The Electoral Commission has commenced the process of selecting a new Chairperson following the recent resignation of Barbara Malimali.

Search has resumed for a Fijian man reported missing in the Murrumbidgee River, Yanco, in New South Wales, Australia, yesterday.

The Ministry of Health is urging the public to be cautious and take preventive measures against communicable diseases like typhoid as Fiji approaches another cyclone season.

A friend of Quincy Jones, the titan of music whose death was announced, recalled how the all-night jam sessions they used to have during the Montreux Jazz Festival crackled with the electricity between the musicians present.

For six months or so in 2021, as vaccines paved an economic reopening from the COVID-19 pandemic and fresh waves of federal benefits flowed to household bank accounts, President Joe Biden’s administration reaped the benefit with an approval rating pinned above 50%.