Tuesday's news
23 Jul 2013
The Royal baby arrives, radioactive water leaks into the Pacific, Sydney sees its fifth shooting in two weeks, search for missing man continues in the Blue Mountains and alleged rape victim free to leave Dubai.
Royal baby boy
The Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to a baby boy in London’s St Mary’s Hospital. The baby was born at 4.24pm London time at just under 3.8kg, and is now third in line to the throne.
Kensington Palace sent out a press release detailing the delight of the young prince’s family.
"The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Harry and members of both families have been informed and are delighted with the news.”
Read more on BBC News and watch the official announcement at Buckingham Palace below.
Fifth shooting in a fortnight
When a man presented at Fairfield Hospital in Sydney’s south-west last night with a gunshot wound to his thigh, he became the fifth shooting victim in the area in the past two weeks.
Police are unable to confirm whether this latest shooting is related to the previous four, the victims of which were all linked to the Hells Angels and Comanchero bikie gangs.
The man is in a stable condition after being transferred to Liverpool Hospital.
Radioactive water leaking into ocean
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which operates Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, has confirmed that the site is leaking radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.
A spokesman for the company has said that the actual impact on the ocean is limited, but in the past weeks TEPCO has been unable to explain why levels of radioactive caesium in groundwater at the Fukushima plant have soared to 100 times previous levels.
Search continues in Blue Mountains
One of the largest searches to have been mounted in the Blue Mountains regions of NSW is continuing a week after 23-year-old Sydneysider Gary Tweedle went missing.
Tweedle left Leura’s Fairmont Resort in the early hours of last Tuesday morning, disappearing into nearby bushland after being sighted just 400m from the resort. He later called friends at the resort, telling them he was lost and trying to work out where he was.
Tweedle’s father has travelled from Britain to join the search, conducted by police and more than 700 emergency workers and volunteers. Despite temperatures dropping below zero, police are hopeful of finding Tweedle alive and will reassess the search at the end of the week.
Alleged rape victim free to leave Dubai
The Norwegian woman sentenced to 16 months in a Dubai prison for having sex outside of marriage after reporting her alleged rape has been pardoned and is free to return to Norway.
24-year-old Marte Deborah Dalelv plans to leave the United Arab Emiates soon.
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