The severed leg of a surfer who was attacked by a shark has washed up on an Australian beach, with doctors now racing to see if it can be reattached.

Kai McKenzie, 23, was surfing near Port Macquarie in New South Wales (NSW) on Tuesday, when a 3m (9.8ft) great white shark bit him.

He managed to catch a wave into shore, where an off-duty police officer used a makeshift tourniquet to stem his bleeding, according to authorities.

His leg washed up a short time later and was put on ice by locals before being taken to hospital, where a medical team is now assessing surgery options.

Mr McKenzie - who is a sponsored surfer - remains in a serious but stable condition, according to emergency services, who have thanked the off-duty officer for his rapid response to the incident.

“He used the lead off his dog as a tourniquet... and essentially saved his life until the paramedics got there,” said NSW Ambulance's Kirran Mowbray.

She described Mr McKenzie as “calm” and “able to talk” following the attack. “He’s just a really brave and courageous young man,” she added.

Mr McKenzie was rushed to a local hospital shortly after the incident, before being flown to the John Hunter Hospital - which is a major trauma centre - in Newcastle some 200km (124 miles) away. His severed leg also made the long journey.

The keen surfer had only recently returned to the water after suffering a significant neck injury which forced him to take time off from the sport, according to local media reports.

A GoFundMe page to help Mr McKenzie's family with his medical and rehabilitation costs has been created, attracting over A$75,000 ($49,000; £38,000) as of Wednesday.

While Australia has more shark attacks than any other country except the US, fatal attacks remain relatively rare.

Crowd trouble forced the first football match of the Olympics to be suspended for nearly two hours amid chaotic and worrying scenes, with the game eventually completed in an empty stadium.

Morocco had been 2-0 ahead against Argentina, but Cristian Medina appeared to have equalised in the 16th of what had been 15 scheduled minutes of injury time at the end of the second half.

After the resulting crowd trouble, play finally resumed after a lengthy delay with no fans present, and with VAR having ruled out Argentina's equaliser, Morocco secured a controversial 2-1 victory.

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Andy Murray says it is the "right time" for him to retire from tennis after the Paris Olympics - and he is "happy" with the decision.

The two-time Olympic singles champion confirmed on Tuesday the Games, where he will play in the doubles with Dan Evans, will be his final event.

Murray, 37, said recent injuries, which prevented him playing singles in his Wimbledon farewell earlier this month, mean he is now content with ending his career.

"I didn't feel that way a few months ago when I thought that this is when I was going to stop," said the Scot in his first interview since the announcement.

"I didn't want to. Now I want to. I know it is the right time for me."

The pilot who survived a deadly plane crash in Nepal was saved after his cockpit was sheared off by a freight container seconds before the rest of the aircraft crashed in flames.

Captain Manish Ratna Shakya, the sole survivor of the disaster that killed 18 people at Kathmandu airport, is being treated in hospital but BBC Nepali has confirmed he is talking and able to tell family members he was “all good”.

Rescuers told the BBC that they had reached the stricken pilot as flames neared the cockpit section of the aircraft embedded in the container.

“He was facing difficulty to breathe as the air shield was open. We broke the window and immediately pulled him out,” Senior Superintendent of Nepal Police Dambar Bishwakarma said.

"He had blood all over his face when he was rescued but we took him to the hospital in a condition where he could speak,” he added.

Nepal's civil aviation minister Badri Pandey described how the aircraft had suddenly turned right as it took off from the airport, before crashing into the east side of the runway.

CCTV footage shows the aircraft in flames careering across part of the airport before part of it appears to fall into a valley at the far edge of the site.

"It hit the container on the edge of the airport... then, it fell further below," Mr Pandey said. "The cockpit, however, remained stuck inside the container. This is how the captain survived.”

Nepal has been criticised for its poor air safety record. In January 2023, at least 72 people were killed in a Yeti Airlines crash that was later attributed to its pilots mistakenly cutting the power.

It was the deadliest air crash in Nepal since 1992, when all 167 people aboard a Pakistan International Airlines plane died when it crashed on approach to Kathmandu Airport.

CrowdStrike is facing fresh backlash after giving staff and firms they work with a $10 UberEats voucher to say sorry for a global IT outage that caused chaos across airlines, banks and hospitals last week.

The cybersecurity company - whose software update on Friday affected 8.5 million computers worldwide - said in an email to its partners that it recognised the incident had caused extra work.

"To express our gratitude, your next cup of coffee or late night snack is on us!" CrowdStrike wrote, directing people to use a code to access the $10 credit.

But the gesture was greeted by derision by some. One Reddit user branded it an "absolute clown show" while another said: "I literally wanted to drive my car off a bridge this weekend and they bought me coffee. Nice."

One LinkedIn user, external claiming to be a CrowdStrike partner, said: "The gesture of a cup of coffee or Uber Eats credit as an apology doesn't seem to make up for the tens of thousands lost in man hours and customer trust due to the July 19 incident."

CrowdStrike confirmed to the BBC that it sent the vouchers to "teammates and partners" who had helped customers deal with the impact of the outage.

But some people who said they had received a voucher also took to social media to say it did not work.

"Uber flagged it as fraud because of high usage rates," CrowdStrike admitted.

It comes amid growing questions over what financial compensation CrowdStrike customers and people impacted by the outage will be able to claim.

The firm has pledged to improve its software tests after a faulty content update for Windows systems caused the mass IT outage.

Its mistake resulted in problems for banks, hospitals and airlines as millions of PCs displayed "blue screens of death".

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Henry John Patch (17 June 1898 – 25 July 2009), dubbed in his later years "the Last Fighting Tommy", was an English supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the last surviving trench combat soldier of the First World War from any country. Patch was not the longest-surviving soldier of the First World War, but he was the fifth-longest-surviving veteran of any sort from the First World War, behind British veterans Claude Choules and Florence Green, Frank Buckles of the United States and John Babcock of Canada. At the time of his death, aged 111 years and 38 days, Patch was the third-oldest man in the world, behind Walter Breuning and Jiroemon Kimura.

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Boneless chicken wings do not have to be bone-free, Ohio's top court ruled, ending a lawsuit filed by a man who fell ill after swallowing a piece of bone from his order.

Michael Berkheimer sued Wings on Brookwood in 2016, saying the restaurant failed to warn him that the boneless wings could in fact contain bones, a piece of which became lodged in his throat and caused an infection.

The court on Thursday ruled that "boneless wing" refers to "cooking style" and is not to be taken literally.

The 4-3 ruling was peppered with dissent, with one judge calling the majority opinion "utter jabberwocky".

But a majority of the judges considered being cautious of bones in a boneless wing to be common sense.

Writing for the majority, Justice Joseph T Deters said: "A diner reading ‘boneless wings’ on a menu would no more believe that the restaurant was warranting the absence of bones in the items than believe that the items were made from chicken wings, just as a person eating ‘chicken fingers’ would know that he had not been served fingers."

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2016 – Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for President of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

2020 – Olivia de Havilland, American actress (b. 1916)

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Cineworld has announced plans to close six cinemas across the UK as part of a wide-ranging restructuring plan.

Part of the world's second largest cinema chain, the business - which has 101 locations in the UK and Ireland - has struggled since the Covid pandemic and with the rise in streaming services.

The affected sites are: Glasgow Parkhead, Bedford, Hinckley, Loughborough, Yate and Swindon Circus.

Cineworld entered administration in July 2023 while struggling with a debt pile estimated to be almost £4 billion.

The company - which also owns the Picturehouse chain in the UK - had been trying to find a buyer for some or all of its UK sites, but after failing to do so has announced plans to close six sites deemed to be "commercially unviable".

PR representatives for Cineworld said affected staff had been contacted to begin a consultation process and that they hoped to be able to redeploy as many people as possible.

They strongly denied media reports that a further 19 cinemas could close, or that redundancies "could run into the hundreds", as widely reported elsewhere.

Cineworld will also enter into negotiations with landlords at an unspecified number of sites to try to reduce costs. This could take the form of reduced rents.

The company is part of the Regal Cineworld Group, and when the UK operation entered administration, Cineworld employed more than 28,000 staff across 751 sites globally, with 128 locations in the UK and Ireland. Its business operations outside the UK are not affected.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler (born November 9, 1928) is an American chemical engineer, businessman, and preservationist. He cofounded ChemTreat, Inc., a water treatment company, in 1968, and restored the Sherwood Forest Plantation. He is a son of Lyon Gardiner Tyler and the last living grandchild of former U.S. president John Tyler. Tyler purchased Fort Pocahontas in 1996 and advocated for its preservation.