Your No.1 family news website The Bug was the first in the world to be informed of the death in a plane crash overnight of Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. (at left in main picture)
In the early hours of this morning Australian time a senior editor of The Bug on duty at its 24-hour newsroom in Brisbane took a call from a Kremlin spokesperson and was told of the death of Mr Prigozhin in the crash that occurred during a flight by his private jet from Moscow to Leningrad.
The Kremlin spokesperson explained that he had been directed to break news of the event to international news outlets prior to informing Russian domestic newsrooms and that The Bug was the first organisation he had called.
Asked by the editor when the crash occurred, the spokesperson said: “In about an hour.”
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Legal adviser to former US President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, (centre in main picture) has spoken briefly to reporters following his appearance at a Georgia jail to be formally charged with offences related to the attempted overthrow of 2020 presidential elections results in the state.
“I’m dyeing to appear in court to answer these charges,” Mr Giuliani told a throng of media representatives outside the jail (main picture).
“And as usual I won’t need a lawyer because I’ll be conducting my own prosecution.”
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New comments by US President Joe Biden (at right in main picture) have come to light following claims of the “insensitive” and “tone deaf” remarks he made while touring communities on the Hawaiian island of Maui hit by recent wildfires.
Mr Biden has been heavily criticised for joking about the special shoes fitted to highly trained sniffer dogs used to locate dead bodies in the fire ruins and for comparing his experience with a small kitchen fire at his Delaware home to the trauma suffered by Maui residents.
But now an unidentified Hawaiian Government source travelling with Mr Biden has revealed other remarks made by the President on his arrival to inspect the devastated island communities.
The source said just as the President stepped off Air Force One and looked across the tarmac to see the smoking ruins of hundreds of homes he said: “What the hell happened here?”
Later on the organised tour of the island Mr Biden upset locals by insisting on a barbecue lunch and saying: “It’s OK, I’ve brought the matches!”
“Although they were very upset, the locals obliged and cooked up some steaks on an in-ground fire pit,” the source said.
“Mr Biden then upset them more by walking barefoot across the embers while they were cooking, although I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean to do that.”
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