Al Pacino has revealed he almost died from Covid-19 in 2020, saying he “didn’t have a pulse” for several minutes. In interviews with the New York Times and People magazine published on the weekend, the 84-year-old Godfather and Scarface actor detailed his experience with the virus, which he contracted in 2020 before a vaccine was…

A Royal New Zealand Navy vessel has run aground and sunk off Samoa, the New Zealand Defence Force said in a statement on Sunday. Manawanui, the navy’s specialist dive and hydrographic vessel, ran aground near the southern coast of Upolu on Saturday night as it was conducting a reef survey, Commodore Shane Arndell, the maritime…

A 74-year-old Colorado man was injured after a black bear with three cubs crashed in through his sliding glass door and he was unable to get them to leave, the Colorado parks and wildlife department said. Residents of the home were startled by a loud crash at about 8.30pm Thursday night and saw the bears…

NHS maternity staff will take part in a mandatory training programme to improve patient safety after a damning report by the health regulator said that poor care and harm in childbirth was in danger of becoming “normalised”. Obstetricians, midwives and obstetric anaesthetists at nine maternity units across England will all have to do extra training…

Bill Shorten backs permit system for Victorian protestors The NDIS minister, Bill Shorten, has suggested Victoria should consider a permit system for protests. In NSW people who wish to stage a protest must lodge paperwork known as “form 1” or a “notice of intention to hold a public assembly” with the police commissioner in advance…

At least one person was killed and 10 injured in an explosion near the international airport of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Sunday night, local media reported. The nature of the blast was not immediately clear, the broadcaster Geo News cited a provincial official as saying. He said at least one foreigner had…

Summary of the day so far… Police and emergency responders said at least one person was killed and 10 others injured in a shooting attack at a bus station in Israel’s southern city of Beersheba. The attacker has been killed and the shooting is being treated as a “suspected terrorist attack”. The Israeli foreign ministry…

Christopher Ciccone, a multihyphenate artist, dancer, designer and younger brother of Madonna, has died. He was 63. Ciccone died Friday in Michigan, his representative Brad Taylor told the Associated Press Sunday. He had cancer. A dancer since his youth, Ciccone was deeply intertwined with his sister’s rise in pop stardom in the 1980s, appearing in…

Two boys, ages 12 and 13, were arrested Saturday in connection with an assault on former New York governor David Paterson and his stepson, police said. Paterson, 70, and his stepson, Anthony Sliwa, 20, were attacked at about 8.30pm Friday while they were out for a walk on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. They were treated…