A fisherman was killed late Saturday morning after an attack by a suspected nearly 15-foot shark off the coast of Western Australia.

The unidentified 35-year-old was spearfishing near Michaelmas Island, a protected sand cay on the Great Barrier Reef not far from the city of Albany.

The island is around 240 miles south of Perth, the state’s capital.

His was the third fatal shark attack in the country in less than a month.

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The man was brought by boat to shore, but paramedics weren’t able to revive him.

On May 24, 39-year-old Michael Jensz was killed after suffering head injuries while spearfishing along the Great Barrier Reef off the country’s northeast coast. 

A bull shark is suspected in his death.

On May 16, 38-year-old Steve Mattabonni was killed by a white shark at Rottnest Island, a popular resort in Western Australia. He was also spearfishing.

In January, a 12-year-old also died a week after he was attacked by a shark in Sydney Harbor.

Australia usually averages around three shark deaths per year.

“We do see an increase in larger sharks this time of the year, particularly chasing the sardine and the salmon along the coast, which is quite normal,” commercial fisherman Gregory Sharp told the Australian Broadcasting Company Saturday.

He added that sharks also tend to attack in areas “where there’s a lot of seals, and the island area in King George Sound is renowned for seals.”

Michaelmas Island is located in King George Sound.

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Western Australia Premier Roger Cook said in a Facebook post Saturday that he was deeply saddened to hear of this morning’s fatal shark attack in Albany. 

This is a tragedy and my thoughts are with the victim’s family and friends, as well as the first responders.”

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06/06/2026 – 20:24 GMT+2

On June 6, 1944, during World War II, nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy, France, on what is known as ‘D-Day’, and they launched ‘Operation Overlord’ to liberate German-occupied Western Europe.

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Over 4,400 Allied troops were killed on that single day, and more than half of them were Americans. The exact number of German casualties on D-Day is not known, but it is estimated between 4,000 and 9,000 killed, wounded or missing.

This year commemorates the 82nd anniversary of the Normandy beach landings, with only a handful of war veterans still alive to tell the story. And six of those last veterans have made the journey to France to commemorate the landings at the British Normandy Memorial.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu and the Pentagon’s second-in-command, Elbridge Colby, take part in the international ceremony at Langrune-sur-Mer on Saturday to honour those veterans.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth was also present at the ceremony and laid tributes at the American memorial honouring war veterans who took part in the invasion that helped change the course of the war.

Hegseth was joined at the ceremony by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine, as well as other military personnel.

Referring to the servicemen who sacrificed their lives, Hegseth stated they “carried the hopes and prayers of a free world.”

“They crossed an ocean to fight for their country on a continent that they’d never seen, to save a people they did not know..()..Alongside the brave forces of Great Britain, Canada, France, Norway, Poland, and our other capable and steadfast allies, the United States military spearheaded a great crusade to shatter the Nazi war machine and liberate the continent,” Hegseth said.

UK Defence Secretary John Healey also paid his respects as he laid a wreath at the foot of the British Normandy Memorial, which lists 22,540 British names on its Roll of Honour.

As the largest seaborne military operation in history, D-Day launched with tens of thousands of troops landing simultaneously across 5 separate beaches in Normandy.

Following more than a year of intense strategic planning, the invasion was delayed by 24 hours due to severe storms, missing its original 5 June target date, which commanders chose to capitalise on rare optimal weather, low tides, and a full moon.

In military terminology, the “D” simply stands for “day”, marking the designated start date of a major operation.

Jodie Foster reminisced about her time playing 12-year-old prostitute Iris in “Taxi Driver” alongside Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Paul Schrader during the film’s 50th anniversary reunion at the Tribeca Festival. One memory that remains “seared in [her] memory” is arriving on set and finding Scorsese and De Niro unable to stop giggling as they tried to explain how to unzip De Niro’s pants for a provocative scene.

“Marty was trying to explain to me how I was supposed to pull down [De Niro’s] fly. They couldn’t stop giggling, and Bob’s like, ‘I’m gonna tell her.’ He would try to tell me what to do, and then he would start giggling,” Foster recalled Friday night at the OKX Theater in lower Manhattan. “They couldn’t give me a note because they were just so nervous that I was so young.”

As the laughter continued, Foster took matters into her own hands. “And I was like, ‘Well, you just want me to- okay, fine! First I pull down the fly, then I do this and I walk over there. What’s the big deal?’”

Half a century later, Foster’s confidence and command of a room remain intact. One of the night’s biggest laughs came when she politely (and directly) called out Schrader for beginning to answer a question without using his microphone. “He might be sitting on it!” Scorsese quipped. (Sure enough, he was).

This self-assurance is what impressed Scorsese the moment they met in his office before production began on the 1974 comedy “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.” Foster was just 11 years old and still wearing her school uniform, but she made it clear that she already had eight years of acting experience under her belt.

“You just sat down [and said], ‘Yeah, I can do that. Okay, I got it. No problem,’” Scorsese recalled, mimicking her matter-of-fact attitude. “‘What are you doing next?’” he asked, to which she said, ‘Oh, I’m doing this other thing over at Disney.’” Foster giggled beside him, scrunching her shoulders and squirming in her seat as if she transported back to Scorsese’s set all those years ago. “She had an authority — I’m not kidding — an authority,” Scorsese concluded. “She was really quite supportive, if you could put it that way, because it was a hard shoot.”

During her January cover story interview with Variety, Foster said she’s always found working with male directors “kind of simple.” Her philosophy, as she put it: “You tell me what you want; I do it.” Her passion for cinema began with trips to the theater alongside her mother, where she was introduced to European, French New Wave and Japanese cinema. Yet it was De Niro’s slow-motion saunter into Tony’s bar in “Mean Streets” (set to the beat of Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”) that crystallized her ambitions.

“The truth is, I saw ‘Mean Streets’ when I was a kid … and that was it,” Foster said, smiling toward De Niro. “I just wanted to be a part of this. Anything that you would have offered me, I would have done.” She then sprang from her seat and turned toward Scorsese. “In fact, I think I tried to be an extra in ‘New York, New York,’ but it didn’t work out because I was under 16 and they wouldn’t let me work at night.”

And then, moderator W. Kamau Bell said, “you did ‘Taxi Driver.’”