A 12-year-old indigenous girl living in a community near Adelaide has taken her own life - making her the fifth Aboriginal girl to commit suicide in nine days.

The wave of reported suicides include three cases in Western Australia, one in Queensland, and the most recent one in South Australia.

Meanwhile, a 12-year-old boy was flown on Monday from Roma to Brisbane where he is on life support in hospital after what is thought to be a suicide attempt, according to The Australian.

A man reportedly wielding a machete has been tasered and arrested on the platform of a south London railway station.

Police were called to Tulse Hill station at about 6.30pm on Monday to reports of a man in possession of a knife.

A group of officers surrounded the man and pinned him to the ground. Pictures from the scene appeared to show a large machete on the ground nearby.

The man, 59, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon.

Conor Fortune said he was on a Thameslink train siting at Tulse Hill when he heard a male voice "shouting quite loudly".

Ring, a home security camera company owned by Amazon, allowed employees unrestricted access to the cameras inside people's homes, according to a report from the Intercept.

The Intercept reported last week that Ring "provided its Ukraine-based research and development team virtually unfettered access to a folder on Amazon's S3 cloud storage service that contained every video created by every Ring camera around the world."

"This would amount to an enormous list of highly sensitive files that could be easily browsed and viewed. Downloading and sharing these customer video files would have required little more than a click," the Intercept explained, adding that "the video files were left unencrypted," and the "Ukraine team was also provided with a corresponding database that linked each specific video file to corresponding specific Ring customers."

Ring also reportedly provided similar access to "executives and engineers in the U.S." allowing "unfiltered, round-the-clock live feeds from some customer cameras, regardless of whether they needed access to this extremely sensitive data to do their jobs."

An unnamed source told the Intercept that if an engineer "knew a reporter or competitor's email address, [they] could view all their cameras," and claimed employees joked around by spying on their co-workers' home cameras.

Many in the U.S. and around the world disapprove of how much technology is being used in school systems. However, for over a decade already, "high tech" public schools have been promoted and implemented despite the fact that Silicon Valley parents (tech inventors) have been sending their own kids to low-tech or no-tech schools and limiting their exposure to screens at homes. Now these Silicon Valley parents are reportedly even more desperate. They are actually making nannies sign "no screen" contracts and spying on them to make sure they don't break them.

Activist Post is one of countless sources that has been reporting about the many controversies stemming from tech use and exposure to children both in and out of the classroom. Tucker Carlson has weighed on this before as well. Last week, he and Michelle Malkin discussed how companies have also been collecting students' private information (aka Data Mining) through school technology.

When we think of "economic collapse" our imaginations usually lead us immediately to the desperation we've witnessed in places like Venezuela or Greece. We think of starvation, a complete lack of medical care, and waves of suicide by people who simply can't survive. We imagine an apocalyptic societal breakdown that is immediately visible.

Here in America, I suspect the collapse is going to look a lot different than it has in these other countries...at least, at first. And in my description, it's entirely likely you'll see that many of these signs have been happening all around us for years.

It will be gradual.

The thing with collapses that we see in the media is that we are seeing the end results of events that have been slowly declining for years. Venezuela was one of the wealthiest countries in the world back until the mid-1980s, due to their rich oil reserves. Then oil prices collapsed and their fall began. It was actually several decades though before it was truly evident that the country was in trouble.

Airlines are known to charge for extras, but one UK family got much less than they expected when the seats they purchased turned out to be non-existent. The airline, now under scrutiny, made them sit on the floor for their flight.

When Paula Taylor, along with her husband Ian and daughter Brooke boarded a TUI flight in June to return home to Birmingham from the popular holiday destination of Menorca, they didn't expect their £1,300 flight to be quite so "economy."

Despite having boarding passes for seats 41 D, E and F on the plane, the Taylors were shocked to discover nothing but an empty space under the numbers for where their seats should have been.

"We all just looked at each other as if to say 'where's our seats gone?'," Mrs Taylor told BBC One's consumer watchdog show, Rip-Off Britain: Holidays.

Israel opened a new road in the central occupied West Bank on Thursday with an eight-meter wall separating Palestinian and Israeli traffic, leading many to deem the route "Apartheid Road."

The road connects the illegal Geva Binyamin Settlement, southeast of Ramallah, to Route 1, a major highway that runs through the West Bank and into Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem.

The new 5-kilometer Route 4370, also known as the "Easter Ring Route" is a four lane route: two lanes for Israeli settlers travelling from the West Bank into Jerusalem, and two lanes circumventing around the borders of Jerusalem for Palestinians with West Bank IDs.

The Israeli-accessible portion of the road is currently only operating between 5am and noon, but will be fully opened as of January 10th, Israeli media reported.

While Israeli media have reported that Palestinians with Jerusalem IDs or Israeli citizenship would be allowed to use the Israeli-side of the road to travel from Jerusalem to the West Bank, heightened security and a new checkpoint along the road have led to speculation that Palestinians, no matter what ID they carry, will be subject to discrimination by Israeli border police who man the checkpoint.

There are dozens of segregated and settler-only roads across the occupied Palestinian territory, but Route 4370 is the first of its kind to have a wall - half concrete, half fence - separating Palestinians from Israelis.

A gay rights advocacy group claims at least 40 people have been arrested in Russia's Chechen Republic, alleging wave of persecution. Chechen leadership says the claim has no truth behind it.

Since late December 2018, 40 people suspected of being gay have been detained in the Chechen Republic, claims the advocacy group "Russian LGBT network." There are both men and women among the detained. Two of them were "tortured to death" in a secret prison in the city of Argun, the statement by the group's Program Director Igor Kochetkov said.

The report was denied by a spokesman for the Chechen government, who said it simply rehashes untruthful accusations that first surfaced in 2017.

"If even a single person were arrested, let alone 40, the entire Chechen public would have known. The claim that two were killed is even more absurd," said Alvi Kraimov. "[The network] must have forgotten that the so-called prison in Argun was checked many times by the Western media and rights organizations, which found no secrets prisons there or in any other place."

In modern society, many of the ways we talk about male identity have either negative connotations or encourage disparaging, eye-rolling satire. If the term is man, then common terms we hear are "man flu," "manspreading," or "mansplaining."

If the term is dad, then there is a droll shaking of the head at a "dad bod" or at "dad jokes." If the term is guy, it is often in relation to stubbornly self-defeating behaviour: 'I got sick, but I did the typical guy thing, and didn't go see the doctor." Or: "I was battling with my mental health, but I did the typical guy thing and didn't ask for help." If the term is masculinity, it is often used in relation to things males must atone for or confront: "toxic masculinity," or "the crisis in masculinity."

If educators, psychologists, and the media want to dissect emerging troubles in masculine identity, then a good place to start would be to acknowledge that many of the ways we talk about male identity undermine this goal. This is a problem that affects us all, because boys are growing up in a culture that is increasingly questioning what's wrong with them, whilst perpetuating casual cynicism towards them.

There are several reasons why this kind of thing gets overlooked. One argument is that it's just light-hearted ribbing, and shouldn't be taken too seriously; but many of the examples above are not light-hearted, and it all adds up to a big picture of masculinity being an obligingly easy target. It seems that women are in many ways entitled to "punch up" at a fracturing but still prevalent male entitlement, and that therefore putting male-chauvinist antics or clumsily wayward men "in their place" is an amusingly empowering thing to do.

A dream coming true when her fiancé kneeled to propose has ended up with the harshest of sanctions for an Arabic language major from Al-Azhar University as the video of the two young lovers embracing in public went viral in Egypt.

Egypt's Al-Azhar University, rated to be one of the oldest academies in the Arab world, has expelled a female student over a viral video with the woman hugging her boyfriend on campus, Ahram Online reports citing, an official from the school, which prohibits women and men from studying together.

University spokesman Ahmad Zarei told the media outlet that her penalty may be reduced by the high disciplinary board and that the expelled student can rightfully appeal her punishment.

"No decision is taken haphazardly; this is all according to the university's law. The student has violated the values of Al-Azhar, society and the university", the official told the outlet.

The expulsion was preceded by an investigation. There is no information if her fiancé, who is a student at Al-Mansoura University, was punished for the video.