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A passenger was partially sucked through a dislodged window on a Ryanair flight shortly after take off from Thessaloniki in Greece, two airport sources say, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing. The plane was scheduled to fly from Thessaloniki to Memmingen airport in Germany but returned to Thessaloniki "when a passenger window dislodged inflight," Ryanair said in a statement. It is unclear what led to the broken window.

Melbourne are playing champagne football and defying the doubters along the way, but Richmond will be aiming to spoil the party in Sunday's clash at the MCG. The Demons (10-6) have defied the pre-season doom-and-gloom predictions to be sitting pretty heading into round 18, with their exciting brand of football under first-year coach Steven King catching the eye of fans.

Ukraine is setting up a "long-range impact" command within its armed forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says. It comes as Ukraine's campaign of strikes against Russian energy and logistics has forced the Kremlin to ban diesel exports and restrict shipping near the Sea of Azov, which abuts the Black Sea.

Rory McIlroy has taken advantage of the scoring holes in windy conditions and Australian Min Woo Lee is thriving too in a Scottish Open that no longer has Scottie Scheffler. As comfortable as McIlroy looked, in a three-way share of the halfway lead at North Berwick on Friday, Scheffler struggled from the start and wound up with a 72 on Friday (Saturday AEST) to miss the 36-hole cut for the first time in nearly four years.

First-time homebuyers are missing out on thousands of dollars by not using a little-known scheme that helps save them money for the deposit. The First Home Super Saver Scheme lets them take advantage of their superannuation account's favourable tax status. "The scheme has been around since July 2017 but it's not that well known out there," says Sydney-based Bridges Financial Services financial planner Dominic Sgro. "People probably don't use it so much.

Oscar Piastri's manager Mark Webber has dismissed as fiction lingering reports suggesting that McLaren's Australian driver might swap places with Red Bull's Max Verstappen. Four-times world champion Verstappen's race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase has already signed a deal to join McLaren when his contract allows, by 2028 at the latest, and the Dutch driver has been unhappy with Red Bull's performance.

Novak Djokovic admits he was on the end of a "good old blow-out" at the merciless hands of champion Jannik Sinner in their Wimbledon semi-final -- but he still hopes to return one more time at 40. World No.1 Sinner again showed how time has moved on as he dynamited the 39-year-old Djokovic's latest attempt to win a record 25th grand slam in clinical manner, wrapping up a 6-4 6-4 6-4 win on Centre Court in the evening sunshine on Friday.

Having shagged both the economy and the housing market, reaffirmed Labor’s de facto marriage to the Greens and gone on a speed-dating round with several Pacific nations, Anthony Albanese should be exhausted. And yet he still had time to fit in a podcast with a woman who is clearly smarter than him, but camouflages it with raunchy sex-based banter. What a man.

Thousands of primary school kids are enduring extra-long swimming lessons, partly because of a lack of access to public swimming pools and a shortage of instructors. Dozens of WA schools are replacing the standard 40-minute lessons held over 10 days with 80-minute sessions held over five days. One school which has opted for the longer sessions, Eddystone Primary School, said in a newsletter it was “due to limited access to pools in the northern suburbs and a shortage of swimming teachers”.

Annelies Moens is the Western Australian Information Commissioner. We caught up at Salter Point. Tony Buti: What does the role of Information Commissioner for WA entail? Annelies Moens: It’s a brand new role. Previously the Information Commissioner only looked after freedom of information. The new office, established on July 1 2025 looks after both freedom of information and privacy. WA has new privacy laws that became operational on July 1 this year.