A woman has driven a car through a fence and onto a runway at Brisbane's domestic airport, preventing planes from landing.
The woman is being treated by paramedics, but the extent of her injuries are unknown.
It is believed the vehicle has been removed from the tarmac.
Authorities say planes have been prevented from landing on the runway withoriginal post found her several planes circling the area in a holding pattern.
johnny Depp has made a cameo in the latest Sir Paul McCartney music video - as a blues musician.
Johnny Depp rocked up for a jam session and ended up in the video
Depp got to appear in the clip after calling in for a jam session with the ex-Beatle on the day it was being filmed.
In the video for Early Days, McCartney starts off playing solo on an acoustic guitar.
One-by-one, several blues guitarists come into frame as they start to play alongside the veteran musician.
The 51-year-old Depp, with rolled up sleeves and battered hat, also joins in the session.
It is the third time the Pirates of the Caribbean star has appeared in a McCartney music video.
The video was shot as an homage to the early influences on the Beatles
Emmy-nominated director Vincent Haycock said: "Paul's scene was incredibly fun to create. It was just him, some blues players and Johnny Depp jamming on set all day.
Mr Haycock added: "The idea was inspired by the chance meeting in 1957 that would change Paul, John, George, and Ringo's lives forever."
"This film is a poetic homage to the legendary beginnings of Paul McCartney and John Lennon’s relationship."
The video was filmed in Los Angeles for two days with the former Beatle, along with separate footage shot in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Musician and poet Patti Smith watched the video being filmed in LA
Mr Haycock has previously made videos for Cheryl Cole and Spiritualized, and the title sequence for TV hit Nip/Tuck.
Also at the filming in LA was legendary musician and poet Patti Smith, 67, though she did not perform on the song.
Sir Paul, 72, is currently touring in the US after being forced to take nearly eight weeks off when a mystery bug put him in hospital in Japan.
Kate McCann has told a libel hearing her son asked her about allegations linking her to the disappearance of Madeleine, which were published in a book by former police chief Goncalo Amaral.
Mrs McCann told a court in Portugal her son Sean had heard about the claims on the radio while travelling on a school bus.
She said: "Sean asked me in October 'Mr Amaral said you hid Madeleine.'
"I just said he said a lot of silly things."
The McCanns are suing over claims made in Mr Amaral's book, The Truth Of The Lie, including suggestions they hid Madeleine's body after she died in an accident and faked an abduction.
They say the allegations damaged the hunt for their daughter and exacerbated their anguish.
Sky News' Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said she testified for almost an hour at Lisbon's Palace of Justice.
Madeleine has been missing for seven years
Both Kate and Gerry McCann had said they were eager to deliver personal statements at today's hearing after the case was adjourned last month.
It happened when Mr Amaral sacked his lawyer in what the McCanns claimed was a "blatant and cynical" attempt to hold up proceedings.
They had travelled to Lisbon on what was due to be the last day of the long-running trial.
Afterwards they accused him of trying to wear them down and delaying justice for their missing daughter.
Madeleine, who was then nearly four, disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on May 3, 2007 as her parents dined at a nearby restaurant with friends.
Police searching for clues in Praia da Luz
If successful, the couple could receive around £1m in damages. A judgement is not expected until later this year.
Their latest visit to Portugal comes after Scotland Yard detectives returned to the country last week to help interview suspects in the case.
Officers from the force's Operation Grange joined their Portuguese counterparts in Faro as they questioned "people of interest".
The suspects were believed to include three workers from the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz who have been linked to a string of burglaries in the area before Madeleine vanished.
Last month the British detectives teamed up with their Portuguese counterparts in searches of three areas of land near the Ocean Club.
Afterwards police said it was the "first phase of this major investigation which has been agreed with the Portuguese".
They added there was "still a substantial amount of work yet to be completed in the coming weeks and months".
Mr and Mrs McCann previously said the fact police found no evidence relating to Madeleine had reinforced their belief she could still be alive.
Anew federal registry of U.S. troops and veterans possibly sickened by toxic smoke in Iraq and Afghanistan has gathered nearly 11,000 eligible names -– including the ill airman who inspired the site but expected to die before it launched.
“What I really feel is relief. It's been a battle,” said Master Sgt. Jessey Baca, 54, a member of the New Mexico Air National Guard. He and his wife, Maria, began pushing for the registry in 2010. “When I started, I figured I might not be alive to see it.”
Baca, who maintained fighter jets during two Iraq tours, has constrictive bronchiolitis. The airway-plugging malady is, “in certain situations, a progressive, terminal disease,” said Dr. Robert Miller, a Nashville-based pulmonologist who performed lung biopsies to diagnose the ailment in Baca plus about 65 other troops and veterans.
A former half-marathoner who once jogged along the irrigation canals near his Albuquerque home, Baca no longer has the energy to wash his truck or tend his garden. He’s created a bucket list. His days, he said, “are numbered.”
But five times weekly, Baca dons his Air Force uniform and drives to Kirtland Air Force Base. That duty preserves his cherished link to national service. The diagnosis has forced him into light duty -– computer work. And that change, he admits, is “hard to accept” for a man who once lived “at 100 miles per hour.” Some mornings, he must will himself out of bed.
Like dozens of recent war veterans, Baca blames his fading body on combat time spent working, eating and sleeping near a huge, open-air “burn pit.” The U.S. military used such trenches throughout Iraq and Afghanistan to incinerate mounds of battle trash: Humvees, unexploded ordnance, rocket launchers, bloody gauze, body parts and more.
“The smoke used to be at knee level and it was blue. It reminded me of San Francisco fog,” Baca said. “A rotten, oily smell that burned your eyes, your sinuses. It never stopped, 24-7. The ash would settle on top of you, like it was snowing. That’s how we lived.
“Nine of 10 individuals got sick within 10 days of arriving. It was expected. We nicknamed it the ‘Iraqi crud.’ Within the first week, I was feeling the symptoms, like the flu and a real bad chest old. They put me on bed rest. We used to kick the question around: ‘What is this doing to us?’ ”
On June 25 -– 17 months after President Barack Obama signed a law creating a national tally for burn pit-related illnesses -– the VA launched the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry. Service members and veterans are eligible to enroll if they served in Iraq, Afghanistan or Djibouti, Africa after Sept. 11, 2001, or if they served in the Gulf War or “the Southwest Asia theater of operations after Aug. 2, 1990,” according to a VA news release.
“The Department of Veterans Affairs is committed to caring for the needs of veterans who have lung and other health conditions possibly related to their deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Victoria Dillon, an agency spokeswoman. The registry was built for “veterans to report their health concerns and exposure to particulate matter and other environmental hazards, such as smoke from burn pits.”
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Jessey Baca, left, shows his grandson Logan Sweeney, age 5, how to push a lawnmower as grandson Zachary Garcia, age 3 plays with a non-running lawnmower in the backyard of Baca's Albuquerque home.
During the registry’s first five days, more than 7,000 veterans accessed it –- and nearly 4,000 more have since enrolled, according to VA officials. Some veterans complained the site often crashed. As of late last week, the registry was “online and operational,” Dillon said.
Among the roughly 65 troops who Miller says he diagnosed with constrictive bronchiolitis, their X-rays and lung-function tests were normal. But their symptoms, including shortness of breath, were strikingly familiar. Miller performed lung biopsies to confirm the disease.
“What they said was consistent: ‘I was elite. I was athletic. I was deployed. And now I can’t do my two-mile run, and I’m not deployable.’ That’s really what tipped us off,” Miller said. “It’s an untreatable disease. We don’t know what's going to happen to these people down the road. The people we’ve followed have been stable (in lung function). But they've become de-conditioned and tend to gain weight. From that standpoint, they’ve lost ground. I am concerned about what’s going to happen, but I don't know if that’s in 10 years, 20 years or when.”
The registry may help reveal the scope of sicknesses. More than 2 million Americans served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among deployed service members, the rate of “newly reported respiratory symptoms” was 14 percent, according to a 2009 study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-New Mexico -– co-author of the registry law –- said on its launch day: “Jessey and his wife, Maria, have been incredible partners in this effort. He and his fellow service members answered our call to serve without hesitation, and (now), we can finally help answer their call for better information.”
“I’m just a victim of this. I’ve just been the picture (of the illness),” said Baca, who gets extra oxygen through a CPAP machine when sleeping. “The advocacy work is an 80-20 split (with Maria). She’s the 80. I don't have the energy to go at it like she does. When you have somebody who’s passionate with good reason, get out of her way.”
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Jessey Baca during his deployment(s) to Iraq. He maintained fighter jets during two Iraq tours.
Maria Baca quietly listened to her husband. She’s been planning for one of Jessey’s bucket list requests: a seven-day family cruise through the Caribbean this summer. By then, her husband likely will have medically retired from the service, she said.
“He just wants to create these memories, especially with his (two) grandchildren,” Maria Baca said. “He asked God to just let him see one (VA) retirement check. After that comes, he has said, ‘Then you can take me.’ ”
Oscar Pistorius' Defense Rests Case at Olympian's Murder Trial
PRETORIA, South Africa - Oscar Pistorius' defense lawyers rested their case Tuesday, bringing the Olympic sprinter's murder trial closer to a verdict. Some witnesses did not want to testify for the defense because of publicity surrounding the case, chief defense lawyer Barry Roux told the High Court in Pretoria, adding that he chose not to ask Judge Thokozile Masipa to compel them to appear. "There's nothing that we can do about it," Roux said.
Closing arguments will take place on July 30 and August 4 and final arguments are now scheduled to begin on August 7. Double-amputee Pistorius, who is free on bail, is accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his home on Valentine’s Day last year. Dubbed the "Blade Runner," Pistorius admits fatally shooting her but denies premeditated murder, saying he mistook her for an intruder.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says any attempt by Japan to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean would not damage a "special friendship" underlined today by the signing of a free trade deal.
Prior was dropped for the final two Tests of the 5-0 Ashes defeat by Australia last winter, and struggled with an Achilles injury earlier this season.
The 32-year-old returned to the Test side for the recent series at home to Sri Lanka, scoring 139 runs and taking 14 catches.
Buttler's innings against Sri Lanka at Lord's was the fastest ever one-day international century by an England player.
That led to calls in some quarters for him to be picked for the Tests against the Sri Lankans at the start of June, but captain Alastair Cook suggested at the time that Buttler was "not quite ready" to play Test cricket.
Caballero is expected to provide back-up and competition for England number one Joe Hart.
He told the club's website: "I am very happy, and really looking forward to the start of pre-season and performing well to help the team.
"I know I am coming to a big club with a very good goalkeeper. City already have a great goalkeeper in Joe Hart, but I will try and compete for the number one spot."
ASA Satellites See Neoguri Grow into a Super TyphooN
From July 4 to July 7 Tropical Cyclone Neoguri strengthened from a tropical storm into a supertyphoon. NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites passed over the rapidly intensifying storm and provided forecasters with visible, infrared and microwave data on the powerful supertyphoon.
On July 4 at 0900 UTC (5 a.m. EDT) Neoguri had maximum sustained winds near 55 knots (63.2 mph/101.9 kph). It was located near 13.1 north and 141.4 east, about 207 nautical miles (238.2 miles/383.4 km) west of Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. It was moving to the northwest at 13 knots (14.9 mph/24.0 kph). This visible image from the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite at 03:40 UTC on July 4 showed the bulk of the clouds and showers south and east of a clear eye.
NASA's Terra satellite passed over Neoguri as it became a typhoon on July 5. At 01:20 UTC (July 4 at 9:20 p.m. EDT) the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer known as MODIS that flies aboard Terra captured a visible image of Neoguri as it moved through the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. The MODIS image showed a clear eye, and a large, thick band of thunderstorms in the southern quadrant of the storm wrapping into the center.
On July 5 at 0900 UTC (5 a.m. EDT) satellite data helped confirm that Neoguri had become a typhoon in the Northwestern Pacific after it passed Guam. At that time it was centered near 16.0 north and 137.0 east, about 813 nautical miles (935.6 miles/1,506 km) southeast of Kadena Air Base. It was moving west-northwest at 14 knots (16.1 mph/25.9 kph) and had maximum sustained winds near 115 knots (132.3 mph/213.0 kph).
On July 6 Typhoon Neoguri continued to strengthen. Neoguri was located near 18.5 north and 131.4 east at 0900 UTC (5 a.m. EDT) on July 6. That's about 661 nautical miles (760.7 miles/1,224 km) southeast of Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan. It had maximum sustained winds near 120 knots (138.1 mph/222.2 kph) and was moving to the west-northwest at 15 knots (17.2 mph/27.7 kph). The Joint Typhoon Warning Center or JTWC noted that Neoguri was generating very rough and high seas as high as 32 feet (9.7 meters).
A false-colored infrared image of Supertyphoon Neoguri on July 6 at 17:17 UTC (1:17 p.m. EDT) was made at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California using data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument. AIRS flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. The infrared imagery showed very cold, high, powerful thunderstorms around the center of Neoguri's 40-nautical-mile-wide-eye and in a thick band south of the center.
By July 7 at 1500 UTC (11 a.m. EDT), Neoguri had grown into a supertyphoon with maximum sustained winds near 130 knots (149.6 mph/240.8 kph). The JTWC expects Neoguri to strengthen further. Neoguri was located near 21.6 north latitude and 127.3 east longitude, about 246 nautical miles (283.1 miles/455.6 km) south-southwest of Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan. It was moving to the northwest at 15 knots (17.2 mph/27.7 kph). As Neoguri strengthened, the ocean has become more turbulent, and JTWC estimates maximum significant wave heights near 40 feet (12.1 meters).
Tropical storm-force winds extend 210 nautical miles (241.7 miles/388.9 km) from the center, and hurricane-force winds extend up to 60 nautical miles (69.0 miles/111.1 km) from the center.
For a graphic of watches in warnings in effect in Japan, visit the Japan Meteorological Agency's page:http://www.jma.go.jp/en/warn/.
Neoguri is moving northwest and continuing to strengthen. The JTWC expects Neoguri to turn to the north late on July 7 (EDT) and pass Kadena Air Base. A landfall in Kyushu is expected by July 9. The JTWC noted in a July 7 discussion: by July 9, cooling sea surface temperatures, increasing vertical wind shear ahead of the mid-latitude westerlies (winds), and landfall into Kyushu, Japan, will slowly erode the system.
The jury on the trial of a man charged with two murders in Tasmania has heard recordings made by undercover police officers in which the accused discussed the deaths.
The Supreme Court in Hobart also heard the accused blamed police for one of the murders and that he was an informant.
Stephen Roy Standage, 61, pleaded not guilty to the murders of Ronald Frederick Jarvis at Nugent in the east Midlands in 1992 and John Lewis Thorn at Lake Leake in the state's south-east in 2006.
Both men were shot and their bodies found in bushland.
The court was previously told Standage had drug dealings with both men.
In the recordings played today, the jury heard that Standage said Mr Jarvis was a "waster" who sold confiscated drugs on behalf of police and was killed by officers.
"He got knocked by the cops," he said.
"He used to recycle and sell their dope ... and when they used to be selling speed in Hobart, the cops ... he got caught up in all that.
"He owed the cops a lot of money and there were a few nasty cops around in those days."
Standage told the undercover officer that no one had been charged for the 1992 murder because police were not going to charge themselves.
In the recordings, Standage claimed he had covertly taped conversations with now senior police and had paid police for years.
"It's the only reason why I'm still walking around," he said.
The court heard the Launceston drug squad was later disbanded because of corruption issues.
Former officer says accused gave police information on drug dealers
Today Patrick Groves, who was a sergeant in the Launceston drug squad between 1990 and 1995, gave evidence that Standage was a police informant.
He said Standage used to call him with information about drug dealers, but he was unable to give details of that information.
The court heard that information on reports Mr Groves claimed to have made about Standage's calls could not be found.
Standage said he had been Mr Thorn's friend for 30 years and was a suspect in his murder because he was the last to have seen him alive.
His DNA was also found in the dead man's ute.
Standage suggested it would have been impossible for him to have killed Mr Thorn during the 45 minutes in which his whereabouts was unaccounted for.
"In three quarters of an hour I'm supposed to have taken him out into the bush and killed him and moved his car a few kilometres and got home," he said.
"He was a mate for 30 years, lives next door, owns a backhoe and a dozer and gets all me (sic) wood for me," Standage said.
Mr Thorn's son Adam was in court when the tape was played and heard Standage say: "Before we even knew he was dead his son was asking me where he stashed his cash".
Standage told the officer he thought Mr Thorn was murdered in a drug deal gone wrong.
"Before he died he said to me he had someone to buy [cannabis] from him for $4,000 a pound ... that's a bit much for 'bush','' he said.
"I told him to be careful ... I reckon they've turned up and taken the dope and not given him the money."
Two Victorian undercover officers posing as criminal gang members were seconded to the investigation and met with Standage.
They are expected to start giving evidence on Wednesday.
They are the final witnesses for the Crown, who expect to have their case wrapped up by Thursday.
The defence will present their case to the jury next Wednesday.
There are three main types of HIV tests: antibody tests, RNA tests, and a combination test that detects both antibodies and viral protein called p24. All tests are designed to detect HIV-1, which is overwhelmingly the most common type of HIV in the United States. Some antibody tests and the combination test can also detect HIV-2 infections, which are less common in the U.S. No test is perfect; tests may be falsely positive or falsely negative or impossible to interpret ("indeterminate," see below).
Positive test results are reportable to the health department in all 50 states and include the patient's name. This information is then reported to the CDC (without names) so that the epidemiology and infection spread rates can be monitored. The names sent to the state remain confidential and will not be reported to employers, family members, or other such people. Some states allow anonymous testing in which the patient's name is not recorded.
HIV antibody tests: HIV possesses many unique proteins on its surface and inside the virus itself. When someone is infected with HIV, their body produces substances designed to neutralize the virus. These substances are called antibodies, and they are directed against the unique proteins of HIV. Unfortunately, these HIV antibodies do not eliminate the virus. However, their presence serves as a marker to show that someone is infected with HIV. HIV antibody tests are the most commonly used tests to determine if someone has HIV.
Antibody testing is usually done on a blood sample, often using an enzyme-linked assay called an ELISA or EIA. In this test, a person's serum is allowed to react with virus proteins that have been produced in the laboratory. If the person has been infected with HIV, the antibodies in the serum will bind to the HIV proteins, and the extent of this binding can be measured. Negative EIA results are usually available in a day or so.
There are some rapid HIV testing kits on the market that can be used in a doctor's office or other points of care. Most of these kits still require blood to be drawn, although it can be done using a simple finger stick in some cases. Home-testing is also possible and may be more convenient for some individuals. Home testing is done by adding a drop of blood to a test strip and mailing the sample to a laboratory. The FDA has also approved kits that test for antibodies in saliva/oral fluid instead of blood. Saliva is obtained by swabbing the gums. Some of the newest tests are done on urine, although results may be less accurate than results from blood.
Because there is a small chance that a person's antibodies will falsely attach to the non-HIV proteins during the test, a second test is done on all initially positive tests. This second test is called the Western blot test. In this test, the HIV proteins are separated by size and electric charge and the person's serum is layered on the test strip. If the test is positive, a series of bands are detected which indicate specific binding of the person's antibody to specific HIV virus proteins. This test is only done in combination with the initial screening test.
HIV RNA tests: The HIV RNA is different than all human RNA, and tests have been developed to detect HIV RNA in a person's blood. This uses a type of test called a polymerase chain reaction (PCR). These tests are important for newborn screening of HIV-positive mothers since maternal antibody may cross the placenta and be present in the newborn. These tests may also be helpful in detecting HIV infection in the first four weeks following exposure, before antibodies have had time to develop. However, they are costly and are not routinely used to screen for infection.
HIV combination test: The HIV combination test detects antibodies directed against HIV-1 or HIV-2, as well as a protein called p24, which forms part of the core of the virus. This is important because it takes weeks for antibodies to form after the initial infection, even though the virus (and the p24 protein) is present in the blood. Thus, combination testing may allow for earlier detection of HIV infections. Preliminary studies suggest that diagnosis could be made an average of one week earlier using the combination test, compared to antibody testing alone. The test uses a reaction known as "chemiluminescence" to detect antibodies and p24 protein. In other words, if either the antibody or the p24 protein is present, the test reaction emits light that registers on a detector. There is only one currently approved combination test, the Architect HIV Ag/Ab Combo assay. If this test is positive, it is recommended it be repeated. Tests that remain positive are confirmed with Western blot as described above.
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