Perth’s iconic Cottesloe beach has been shut down after a two-metre bronze whaler shark breached the barrier net on Wednesday morning, winding up trapped on the swimmer side of the ocean.

A two-metre bronze whaler inside a new shark barrier at Cottesloe Beach has been freed after a 27-hour operation, but the probe into the animal allegedly being shot with a speargun continues.

Disgraced former congressman George Santos, facing a federal prison sentence, has won a few months' freedom to come up with ...

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