PERTH: Rugby league great Mal Meninga has quit as coach of the new Perth Bears NRL team.

In a radio interview yesterday announcing his appointment as the Perth team’s inaugural coach, (main picture) Meninga began to explain his reasons for accepting the job but then after just 30 seconds announced he was quitting the post.

“I’m buggered. I’m sorry. I have to resign,” he told the interviewer before walking out of the studio.

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WASHINGTON DC: US tech billionaire Elon Musk has reportedly increased his personal security arrangements following his falling-out with President Donald Trump.

Musk, who already travels with an undisclosed team of bodyguards, is believed to have ordered a doubling of his personal security retinue.

It is understood his decision followed comments earlier today by President Trump in exchanges with reporters in the Oval Office.

In his remarks responding to reporters’ questions about his acrimonious split with the world’s richest man, the President said he was planning to fly Musk to the White House on one of his personal Trump Corporation helicopters to discuss their feud.

In doing so Trump referred to Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla as “the Wagner Group” before correcting himself.

This was followed by Trump using the name “Yevgeniy Prigozhin” instead of “Elon Musk” before once again correcting himself.

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AUKLAND: Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern says she has been forced to start writing another memoir following persistent questioning by reporters and fans on her current international publicity tour for her autobiography A Different Kind of Power.

Ardern said since the launch of her book she had participated in dozens of media interviews, book signings, and meet-the-author events.

“Without fail I get lots of questions asking me if my faeces are still as odourless as they were when I was New Zealand’s PM from 2017 to 2023,” Ardern explained.

“I explain that, yes, I still extrude fluffy, lavender-coloured stools with the consistency of fairy floss and which almost always have absolutely no odour. (below)

“Admittedly, they do sometimes give off a very, very slight aroma, similar to a rather weak lavender scented candle.

“The subject is of such interest to readers that they are very disappointed when they find it is not covered in my new book.

“So I’m now starting to pen a second book with the working title A Different Kind of Pooer that I hope will satisfy my fans,” she said.

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