Today's odd spot is fitting, given the time of year:
A Brazilian man was arrested after trying to save Jesus from being crucified duyring a Passion of Christ play in the town of Nova Hartz. The man leapt onstage and hit an actor playing a Roman soldier on the head with a motorcycle helmet.
On this day in 1970, The Queen, Prince Philip and Prince Charles arrived in Melbourne for a Royal Visit. They had previously been in Hobart for what The Age described as “the most boring day of their tour so far” (more about why it was so boring at 8.30am).
During their weekend in Melbourne, The Queen and her entourage watched a football match at the MCG. They were welcomed into the ground by 38,000 fans who “roared a full-throated welcome as the Royal Family drove around the ground in two open Land Rovers”.
The Age from April 6, 1970. Over the weekend, The Queen had watched a game of footy at the MCG.
Photo: MicrofilmSingle-use plastic bags will be phased out in three Victorian Woolworths stores following the Easter break.
The supermarket giant confirmed that its Wyndham Vale, Taylors Lakes and Toorak stores will no longer offer plastic bags to customers from this morning.
The move is one of Woolworths' first steps in a national ban across its entire store network, which will stop some 3.2 billion single-use bags going into circulation each year.
A plastic bag. (In case you were not sure what one looked like)
It's time for today's nine-letter word.
The letters are: T O Y U A R H I T
Can you rearrange them into the target word? I haven't been able to solve this one, but will dash downstairs to get a coffee now and that might provide the inspiration.
Let me know if you've figured it out. First with the answer gets the bragging rights.
Meanwhile, in Sydney: a police operation has closed several lanes on the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Wednesday morning.
Police received reports of an unauthorised climber on the bridge shortly before 4.30am.
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Photo: Fairfax MediaMeanwhile, in Sydney: a police operation has closed several lanes on the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Wednesday morning.
Police received reports of an unauthorised climber on the bridge shortly before 4.30am.
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Photo: Fairfax MediaPolice were responding on Tuesday to a mass shooter at the headquarters of YouTube in San Bruno, California, officials said.
Police in the city south of San Francisco warned people in a Twitter message to stay away from the address where YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc's Google, is based. A police dispatcher said by telephone that it was an "active situation."
Outside YouTube's headquarters as police respond.
Photo: SuppliedParent company Alphabet Inc. said in a statement that it was investigating reports of a shooting.
Vadim Lavrusik, a product manager at YouTube, wrote on Twitter that he and coworkers were barricaded inside a room, before later tweeting "Safe. Got evacuated. Outside now."
Recap: A Doncaster woman is on the run following an apparent hit-run on Bourke Road in Clarinda last night.
Police have been told the 40-year-old woman rammed another car while her a man believed to be her ex-partner and his new girlfriend were inside.
A 34-year-old woman got out of the car and was mown down on the footpath. An Ambulance Victoria spokesman said she was taken to The Alfred in a stable condition with leg injuries.
The driver then allegedly tried to run the man over but he managed to avoid any injury.
The woman then fled, but the damaged bumper bar and registration plates on her vehicle fell off her car during the incident.
Police are responding to an active shooter at YouTube's California headquarters, the BBC is reporting.
An employee at YouTube posted a tweet saying the building was evacuated, while video footage from the scene shows people fleeing the building.
It will be 22 degrees and sunny today, with the chance of rain being virtually zero.
The weather for Thursday and Friday will be pretty much the same as today's give or take a degree or so.
It's definitely edging into autumn now, and while we have sweated through the last 30 degree day for some time, the weather bureau expects a top of 29 degrees on Sunday.
The weather forecast for the next couple of days.
Photo: Bureau of Meteorology
