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Australia Post is hiring more than 4,000 new staff as locked-down consumers buy online in unprecedented numbers. The national mail carrier is so flat out delivering parcels during the pandemic that every day is like Christmas - which is also coming up fast. One thousand of the jobs that need to be filled are delivery drivers. Australia Post needs to fill more than 4,000 roles nationwide leading into Christmas (stock image) 'Our posties and drivers have been out there since March last year often delivering on most days like it's Christmas,' executive general manager Nicole Sheffield said. 'We know that Australians are relying on us more than ever and will continue to in the coming months, which is why we are putting some key measures in place to be ready for our biggest Christmas ever.' Australia Post predicts close to 500,000 parcels will be delivered before the end of 2021. Up to 3,500 positions in delivery need to be filled urgently, including 350 in regional area

A US Army nurse and two others helped deliver a baby girl inside a plane full of 300 Afghanistan evacuees shortly after it landed in Germany on Saturday. Registered nurse and US Army Capt. Erin Brymer was called to help 10 minutes before the C-17 transport aircraft landed at the US Ramstein Air Base in Germany after the unnamed Afghan woman went into labor.  The plane flew in from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, part of the US's hurried efforts to evacuate translators, allies and others who helped the US during their 20-year occupation of the country against the Taliban, which has now taken over the country. Upon landing, Brymer and two people from the 24/7 women's health team helped deliver the baby on the plane as it sat on the tarmac at Ramstein.  She said afterwards: 'I think all Army medical personnel are trained to work … in a field hospital setting. It was the coolest moment of my life.' US Army Capt. Erin Brymer said the woman who gave birth was 'past the point

An award winning photographer covering the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was left behind by reatreating Afghan Natonal Army commandos and killed by Taliban fighters who later mutilated his body, according to his company. Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, 38, was killed at the start of the Taliban's lightning offensive to retake Afghanistan in the southern town of Spin Boldak.  He is now believed to have been injured by shrapnel from a rocket while covering the fighting between Taliban and Afghan commandos in the of Spin Boldak, Kandahar province. It is believed he was then left behind by the retreating Afghan army, with whom he was embedded as part of his investigation, before falling into the hands of the Taliban. Mr Siddiqui, an Indian Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and father-of-two, was later killed, his body mutilated and then possibly run over by a car.  Taliban fighters are alleged to have carried out the mutilation, though a spokesperson for the extreme Islami

The Associated Press came under fire once again after it published an article on Tuesday describing Palestinians who launched an incendiary balloon attack on Israel as 'activists.' 'Activists in the Gaza Strip on Monday launched incendiary balloons into southern Israel, setting off at least three fires across the border, Israel's national fire service said,' read the controversial article filed by the American news agency. The piece discussed the rising tensions between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.  An individual who shot an Israeli sniper in the head at point-blank range was also called a 'Palestinian activist.'  Many highlighted that the nature of the attack from individuals linked to Hamas was not activism, but rather terrorism, and that the AP article was highly editorialized.    Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz said: 'Israel continues to be under a constant barrage of attacks. Some may want to call themselves activists, but t

Damaging winds, heavy rain and wild storms have left a widespread trail of destruction in NSW, cutting power to thousands of homes and leaving fallen trees and crushed cars in their wake. More wild weather is on the way a day after extreme conditions smashed large swathes of NSW as they make their way further south towards the ACT and Victoria. The NSW south coast felt the brunt of the gale force winds, with 18,000 homes and businesses in the Illawarra and Shellharbour regions losing power on Tuesday night. More than 7,000 were still without power on Wednesday morning and may remain cut off until later in the day, Endeavour Energy warned. Up to 2,000 also remain without power in the Central Coast and Hunter regions north of Sydney.  One family was woken up by the sound of the roof being ripped from their home at Flinders in Shellharbour's south. The roof damaged several homes before it landed in a front yard several hundred metres away in an adjoining cul-de-sac. 'It was like a

Britain could be forced to wrap up its Kabul evacuation mission within 24 hours - potentially leaving thousands of Afghan refugees at the mercy of the Taliban - after Joe Biden began withdrawing US troops from Kabul last night.   The US President insisted his troops were 'on pace' to leave Afghanistan by August 31, after rebuffing pleas by Boris Johnson and other G7 leaders for America to extend its evacuation timetable. However, in a live TV broadcast last night, he warned the Taliban must 'continue to co-operate' with the US' evacuation mission in order for his troops to be out of Kabul by the end of this month. It comes amid claims from people on the ground in Kabul that westerners are being blocked by Taliban fighters from accessing the city's airport for evacuation.  Yesterday the extremist Islamist group issued an edict banning Afghans from leaving the country. They also blocked roads and set up check-points around Kabul airport. With an American pull-out