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Bank of Canada preparing for more uncertain, shock-prone futureThe neglected southern side of Bourke Street Mall is undergoing a transformation with new hotels, shops and “the Mecca of all Meccas” getting closer to completion. The $150 million Melbourne Walk hotel and retail development in the former Walk Arcade building and Mecca’s giant flagship store in the former David Jones building are both on track to open next year. CEO and founder of Mecca Jo Horgan at Mecca’s Sydney boutique. She is opening what she believes will be the biggest beauty store in the world in Bourke Street Mall. Credit: Louise Kennerley Bourke Street Mall, once a prized shopping strip, experienced some lean years after Walk Arcade closed in 2020 and was left empty, and then David Jones shut its menswear store in 2022 . Jo Horgan, founder and chief executive of Mecca , said she believed the Bourke Street Mall Mecca store would be the biggest dedicated beauty store in the world when completed and would become a destination in its own right. “27 years later everything we have done before has culminated in us opening what we hope will be the Mecca of all Meccas,” she said. “I have always been foolishly optimistic and I totally believe in people and consumers and I think if we build it, they will come.” Loading Mecca’s store will span three floors and 4000 square metres stocking more than 200 beauty brands. Advertising firm Clemenger will occupy the floors above Mecca. The store will house a perfumeria dedicated to fragrances, an apothecary wellness hub, a salon for make-up, hair and nail services and ‘Meccaversity’ – a 150-seat educational space for Mecca staff and customers housed in a suspended pod installed on the first floor of the building. Horgan said signing up in the middle of COVID lockdowns to a very complicated project came with its challenges, especially with an “old, culturally significant building”. The site first housed the Coles Book Arcade, a three-storey book store that was once the largest bookstore in the world. “We fell in love with the site, Coles was the largest bookstore in the world, there was a romance in going from the largest bookstore to the largest beauty store,” Horgan said. The former David Jones store is being transformed into a Mecca store on three levels. Credit: Justin McManus However, Mecca’s redevelopment is running behind schedule with a key permit only lodged with Heritage Victoria this month. Horgan said her team got handover in September and “we are now like women possessed to launch it within the timeframe allowed to our build”. “The driving sentiment of the whole team is: how spectacular can we make it, how can we imagine the future of beauty,” she said. “We are so motivated to create an ode to beauty or a Mecca to beauty which will really compel people to make the pilgrimage.” Next door, on a walk through of the Melbourne Walk site, project manager Michael Jansen from builder Hickory said the majority of development had historically always been on the northern side of the Bourke Street Mall. Teck-Lay Tay, executive director of developer Steadfast Capital, and Hayden Djakic, of architecture firm Buchan, inside the Melbourne Walk development. Credit: Simon Schluter “This is the first time that we’re seeing multiple developments, redevelopments, repositioning of assets on the southern side of Bourke Street Mall,” he said. “It’s actually bringing the southern side of the Bourke Street Mall back into play. There’s always been retail over this side, but all the big new shiny objects have always been on the northern side.” Jansen said David Jones moving its menswear department across the road to the southern side of the Bourke Street Mall had opened up the precinct for redevelopment to occur. Melbourne Walk will house two hotels, Hotel Indigo and a Holiday Inn, alongside several stores, including flagship tenant JD Sports. Hayden Djakic, associate at architecture practice Buchan, said the design team wanted to introduce something “quite different” to Melbourne. An artist’s rendering of the Melbourne Walk redevelopment in Bourke Street Mall. “This is really the melting pot of Melbourne, the fine-grain retail itself, where an arcade really celebrates a part of our city and the larger retail of the north amongst Myer, Emporium and David Jones,” he said. “The arcade itself is really a nod to the arcades of old, the likes of the Royal and Block arcades, by taking a modern approach to the classical formation architecture.” The Melbourne Walk team had to remove layers of “pigeon guano” (excrement) from the site before construction could begin. “The building was not occupied from the ground floor up, [since 1980] so we had 10 storeys of pigeons,” Djakic said. Hayden Djakic and Teck-Lay Tay outside the Melbourne Walk site in the Bourke Street Mall. Credit: Simon Schluter Teck-Lay Tay, executive director of Steadfast Capital, said the new developments turned the mall into more of a precinct. “If you look at the next development that’s next door to us [Mecca], David Jones and St Collins Lane, the vision is to have a shopping precinct,” he said. “We invigorate Bourke Street Mall and when the tenants all come in ... it’ll be a very attractive destination for everyone.” Lord mayor Nick Reece said the mall had its ups and downs over Melbourne’s history, but it was now on the up again. “Bourke Street Mall is the most central block in the Hoddle grid, and since the earliest days of Melbourne has been a focus for retail and city life, and so to see it taking on a new lease of life now with these new projects coming online, is a fantastic milestone for Melbourne,” Reece said. Start the day with a summary of the day’s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter . 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Gill: We Foresee Significant Growth in RemittancesIran is poised to “quite dramatically” increase its stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium as it has started cascades of advanced centrifuges, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned Friday. The comments from Rafael Mariano Grossi came just hours after Iran said it conducted a successful space launch with its heaviest payload ever, the latest for its program that the West alleges improves Tehran’s ballistic missile program. The launch of the Simorgh rocket comes as Iran’s nuclear program now enriches uranium at 60%, a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%. While Iran maintains its program is peaceful, officials in the Islamic Republic increasingly threaten to potentially seek the bomb and an intercontinental ballistic missile that would allow Tehran to use the weapon against distant foes like the United States. The moves are likely to further raise tensions gripping the wider Middle East over Israel’s continued war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip and as an uneasy ceasefire holds in Lebanon. However, Iran may as well be preparing the ground for possible talks with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, who in his first term unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers. The U.S. intelligence community in a report released Thursday said that while “Iran is not building a nuclear weapon” it has “undertaken activities that better position it to produce one, if it so chooses.” The Iranian debate over seeking the bomb “risks emboldening nuclear weapons advocates within Iran’s decision-making apparatus and shifting the thinking of current and future Iranian elites about the utility of nuclear weapons,” the report added. Grossi, speaking to journalists in Bahrain, on the sidelines of the International Institute of Strategic Studies’ Manama Dialogue, said his inspectors planned to see just how many centrifuges Iran would be spinning after Tehran informed his agency of its plans. “I think it is very concerning,” Grossi said. “They were preparing and they have all of these facilities sort of in abeyance and now they are activating that. So we are going to see.” He added: “If they really make them turn — all of them — it’s going to be a huge jump.” An IAEA statement issued shortly after Grossi’s remarks said Iran had begun feeding two cascades of advanced IR-6 centrifuges with uranium previously enriched up to 20% at its underground Fordo facility. That site is located under a mountain, protecting it from airstrikes. Cascades are a group of centrifuges that spin uranium gas together to more quickly enrich the uranium. The IR-6 centrifuges enrich uranium faster than Iran’s baseline IR-1 centrifuges, which have been the workhorse of the country’s atomic program. Adding 20% uranium, as opposed to 5% uranium previously planned, further speeds up that process. “The facility’s updated design information showed that the effect of this change would be to significantly increase the rate of production,” the IAEA statement said. Iran separately will start feeding natural uranium into eight other IR-6 cascades at Fordo as well to produce 5%-enriched uranium, it added. The IAEA warned in late November that Iran was preparing to begin enriching uranium with thousands of advanced centrifuges. That came as a response to the Board of Governors at the IAEA condemning Iran for failing to cooperate fully with the agency. Iran did not acknowledge the preparations. The Iranian mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment. Meanwhile, the launch Friday took place at Iran’s Imam Khomeini Spaceport in rural Semnan province, some 135 miles east of Tehran. That’s the site of Iran’s civilian space program, which has suffered a series of failed Simorgh launches in the past. The Simorgh carried what Iran described as an “orbital propulsion system,” as well as two research systems to a 250-mile orbit above the Earth. A system that could change the orbit of a spacecraft would allow Iran to geo-synchronize the orbits of its satellites, a capability Tehran has long sought. It also carried the Fakhr-1 satellite for Iran’s military, the first time Iran’s civilian program is known to have carried a military payload. Iran also put the payload of the Simorgh at 660 pounds, heavier than all its previous successful launches within the country. State television carried footage of a correspondent discussing the payload just as the Simorgh lifted off into the sky, as people called out: “God is the greatest!” The U.S. military referred questions about the launch to the country’s Space Command, which did not respond. Space experts said tracking data appeared to show the launch successfully put objects in orbit. The United States has previously said Iran’s satellite launches defy a U.N. Security Council resolution and called on Tehran to undertake no activity involving ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons. U.N. sanctions related to Iran’s ballistic missile program expired in October 2023. “Iran’s work on space-launch vehicles — including its Simorgh — probably would shorten the timeline to produce an intercontinental ballistic missile, if it decided to develop one, because the systems use similar technologies,” a U.S. intelligence community report released in July said. Iran has always denied seeking nuclear weapons and says its space program, like its nuclear activities, is for purely civilian purposes. However, U.S. intelligence agencies and the IAEA say Iran had an organized military nuclear program up until 2003. Under Iran’s relatively moderate former President Hassan Rouhani, the Islamic Republic slowed its space program for fear of raising tensions with the West. The late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, a protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who came to power in 2021, pushed the program forward. Raisi died in a helicopter crash in May. Iran’s reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian, who has been signaling he wants to negotiate with the West over sanctions, has yet to offer a strategy when it comes to Iran’s ambitions in space. The Simorgh launch represented the first for his administration from the country’s civil space program. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard conducted a successful launch of its parallel program in September.

Kendal Lamm is questionable about starting at Right Tackle Sunday when the Miami Dolphins play the New York Jets with an elbow injury. Terron Armstead is questionable to start at Left Tackle as he is working through a knee injury, but he most likely will play. I think the Dolphins should start rookie Tackle Patrick Paul on Sunday against the Jets. Paul is potentially considered Armstead’s replacement, but he also needs to work on his game and gain some experience. Paul is starting to cross-train at right tackle, so it seems like the perfect spot for him to start on Sunday. The Dolphins need to see what they have with him moving forward. Paul has all of the physical tools to play, but he also needs to work on some of his weaknesses, such as his footwork or going against speedy edge rushers. I feel the Dolphins have nothing to lose and everything to gain by doing. Giving him playing time now and potentially the rest of the season will also show the front office and coaching staff if they have a potential starter and if they need to find someone else, just in case. The Dolphins also have at least a handful of offensive line players who aren’t under contract next year. Lamm has already said that this will be his last season, and Armstead contemplated retiring last year, which is why the Dolphins invested a second-round pick in Paul. Paul has had a lot of work practicing as he worked a lot with the first team at left tackle, which the team was basically doing a load management workload with Armstead considering his durability concerns. He also played in all of the preseason games and played almost the whole game in all of them. The question now is can he do it in regular season games? He started in the 4th game filling in for Armstead and I thought he did a decent job. With the Dolphins all but mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, they really should start considering playing some of their younger players, such as Paul, to see what they have and if they have a future with this team. The Dolphins can’t assume that going into next year, he is going to continue to develop and be fine. They were in denial about the backup quarterback with Skylar Thompson , so look where that got them when Tua Tagovailoa got hurt. I think if Paul plays down the stretch, he will be fine because he has Armstead and Lamm to help him out, just like they did in training camp and the preseason. He also has a good offensive line coach in Butch Berry. The Dolphins have major questions on the offensive line next year especially at the guard position because nobody on the roster at those positions is under contract. The Dolphins can’t afford to have those same questions at tackle if Paul doesn’t get some experience to see what they have in him.Trump's nominee for attorney general a longtime ally

Yashasvi Jaiswal's innings against Australia in the was so good that the Aussie crowd at Optus Stadium couldn't help but stand and applaud. The 22-year-old showed why he's regarded as the best emerging talent in world with a masterful knock of 161 on day three in Perth, putting India in prime position to win the first Test. Resuming on 90 at the start of play, Jaiswal quickly reached his fourth Test century when he ramped Josh Hazlewood over fine leg for six in extraordinary scenes. With KL Rahul making 77, the openers put on a 201-run stand - the highest opening partnership by an Indian pair in Australia. The previous best was the 191 made by Sunil Gavaskar and Kris Srikkanth in Sydney in 1986. Despite scoring two Test centuries in India and another away to the struggling West Indies, there were doubts about how Jaiswal would perform in Australian conditions. And his cheap dismissal in the first innings suggested he wouldn't have it as easy. But his stunning knock in the second innings showed he's every bit a superstar in the making. "All the centuries are amazing, but this will be special," Jaiswal said. "I worked so hard for it in every practice session. I wanted to score runs here in Australia, so I really enjoyed it." As cricket journalist Bharat Sundaresan noticed, the entire crowd seemed to be on their feet as Jaiswal left the field when he was finally dismissed. He wrote on social media: "Australia has risen as one to salute Yashasvi Jaiswal. It takes a special performance to be acknowledged by an Aussie crowd this way. And they’ll be on their feet every time he walks out to bat from now on for years to come." Jaiswal, who grew up in the slums of Mumbai, has outdone the legendary Sachin Tendulkar with his fourth Test ton. It took Tendulkar nine Tests before he posted his first century, and he didn't make his fourth until his 19th match. Jaiswal lived in the slums of Mumbai as a child, often going to bed without dinner as he chased his cricketing dreams. The 22-year-old lived in a tent for three years while selling street food in between training and games. He now has four tons and eight half-centuries in just 15 Tests, and is averaging 58.07 in his blossoming career. He made 171 on debut in the West Indies in 2023, and announced himself as a star with scores of 209 and 214 not out at home against England in February. Great sight this. Frame this Yashasvi Jaiswal. — Amrit Pradhan (@amritpradhan63) We were even giving him an applause from in the concourse too You love to see a young kid doing well no matter who they play for! — 🌈Stu 🇦🇺 (@stuwhy) What a pic. Fantastic — Shankar Iyer (@shankariyer1955) With Australia 3-12 and chasing a record total of 534 for victory, they're already looking to the second Test in Adelaide. "I'm probably looking mostly towards next Test and what plans we can do against these (Indian) batters," Josh Hazlewood said on Sunday night. "It's obviously a long series. It's a five-match series. If we can put some overs into their top quicks, I guess that's probably the couple of goals that we need to tick off (on Monday). If a couple of (our) guys find some form and score 80, 90, or even 100 that's probably the positives we can take out of it."

LOWER MANHATTAN (WABC) -- In the aftermath of the UnitedHealth CEO murder last week, the NYPD and law enforcement want corporate executives to be extra vigilant. They fear last week's public execution of Brian Thompson could inspire other extremists, like Luigi Mangione. Other health-related companies are now facing the wrath of hate and violence, which has made the risks to executives undeniable. And the NYPD's Intelligence Bureau is sounding the alarm. "We, of course, have been on the phone with all of our partners here in the city to make sure everybody is doing what they can to protect everybody that needs protecting," said NYPD Deputy Commissioner Rebecca Weiner. The warning is based on an analysis of Mangione's writings, harshly critical of the healthcare industry, in which he claims, "Frankly these parasites simply had it coming." Counterterrorism officials fear it could be interpreted by some as Mangione's call to action. Outside the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, posters were discovered praising Thompson's murder with a red "X" across his portrait while singling-out another executive. A similar poster on Broadway had been ripped down. The source of the posters was not identified. "Business leaders all take very personally what happened to Brian Thompson, because here was a guy who was doing his job," added Partnership for New York City's Kathryn Wylde. "And, in a sense, it could have been any of them because there is vitriol in social media, across-the-board, about corporate America." Wylde acknowledged executives are stepping up their personal security, while also developing plans to strengthen ties to their communities. "You look at social media, at the posters on the street, and you have to say this is not a one-person problem," she said. "This is a societal issue that we better figure out how to deal with." Mangione was charged with Thompson's murder and has challenged his extradition to New York City by authorities. ---------- * Get Eyewitness News Delivered * More New York City news * Send us a news tip * Download the abc7NY app for breaking news alerts * Follow us on YouTubeMatt Gaetz says he won't return to Congress next year after withdrawing name for attorney general WASHINGTON (AP) — Matt Gaetz is not coming back to Congress. The Florida Republican said Friday he has no intention of serving another term in the House now that he is no longer President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general. Gaetz withdrew as the nominee this week amid growing fallout from the allegations of sexual conduct against him. Gaetz denies the allegations. Gaetz didn't lay out his plans now that he's out of office, saying only, “I’m still going to be in the fight, but it’s going to be from a new perch." After Gaetz's withdrawal on Thursday, Trump named former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi to lead the Justice Department. Vance takes on a more visible transition role, working to boost Trump's most contentious picks WASHINGTON (AP) — After several weeks working behind closed doors, Vice President-elect JD Vance returned to Capitol Hill this week in a new, more visible role. He's been helping Donald Trump’s most contentious Cabinet picks try to win confirmation in the Senate, where he has served for the last two years. Vance spent part of Wednesday at the Capitol with Rep. Matt Gaetz sitting in on meetings with Trump’s controversial choice for attorney general. On Thursday, Vance was back, this time accompanying Pete Hegseth. Vance is expected to accompany other nominees for meetings over the coming weeks as he tries to leverage the two years he has spent in the Senate to help push through Trump’s picks. Beyond evangelicals, Trump and his allies courted smaller faith groups, from the Amish to Chabad Donald Trump’s lock on the white evangelical vote is legendary, but he didn't focus exclusively on large religious voter blocs. He and his allies also wooed smaller religious groups, away from the mainstream. He posted a tribute to Coptic church members on social media and met with members of Assyrians for Trump — two smaller Christian communities with Middle Eastern roots. He visited the grave of the revered late leader of an Orthodox Jewish movement. His allies sought votes from the separatist Amish community. While Trump won decisively, the outreaches reflected aggressive campaigning in what was expected to be a tight race. NATO and Ukraine to hold emergency talks after Russia's attack with new hypersonic missile KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked a central city with a hypersonic ballistic missile that escalated the nearly 33-month-old war. Ukraine's parliament canceled a session Friday over the security threat. In a stark warning to the West, President Vladimir Putin said in a nationally televised speech Thursday that the attack with the intermediate-range Oreshnik missile was retaliation for Kyiv’s use of U.S. and British longer-range missiles capable of striking deeper into Russian territory. Putin said Russia is launching production of the Oreshnik, saying it's so powerful that several of them fitted with conventional warheads could be as devastating as a strike with strategic — or nuclear — weapons. Texas education board approves optional Bible-infused curriculum for elementary schools AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ education board has voted to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools. The approval Friday follows other Republican-led states that have pushed this year to give religion a larger presence in public classrooms. The curriculum adopted by the Texas State Board of Education is optional for schools to adopt, but they’ll receive additional funding if they do so. Parents and teachers who opposed the curriculum say the lessons will alienate students of other faith backgrounds. Supporters argue the Bible is a core feature of American history and that teaching it will enrich learning. 2 convicted in human smuggling case after Indian family froze to death on US-Canada border FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A jury has convicted two men of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border during a 2022 blizzard. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Shand each faced four charges related to human smuggling before being convicted on Friday. Patel is an Indian national. Shand is an American from Florida. They were arrested after the family froze while trying to cross the desolate border during a 2022 blizzard. Storm inundates Northern California with rain, heavy snow. Thousands remain in the dark in Seattle HEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) — Heavy rain from a major storm prompted evacuations from communities near a Northern California river that forecasters say could break its banks Friday, as the storm keeps dumping heavy snow in the region's mountains where some ski resorts opened for the season. The storm reached the Pacific Northwest earlier this week, killing two people and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands before moving through Northern California, where several roads were closed due to flooding and strong winds toppled some trees. Forecasters are warning about the risk of flash flooding and rockslides in areas north of San Francisco as the region was inundated by this season’s strongest atmospheric river. Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old canals used to fish by predecessors of ancient Maya WASHINGTON (AP) — Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s now Belize. The research published Friday in Science Advances shows that long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula. The ancient fish canals were used to channel and catch freshwater species such as catfish. These structures were used for around 1,000 years — including during the “formative” period when the Maya began to settle in permanent farming villages and a distinctive culture started to emerge. California case is the first confirmed bird flu infection in a US child Health officials are confirming bird flu in a California child — the first reported case in a U.S. minor. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced confirmatory test results on Friday. Officials say the child had mild symptoms, was treated with antiviral medication and is recovering. The child’s infection brings the reported number of U.S. bird flu cases this year to 55, including 29 in California. State officials have said the child lives in Alameda County, which includes Oakland, and attends day care, but released no other details. Brazilian police formally accuse former President Bolsonaro and aides of alleged 2022 coup attempt SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Police have formally accused former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people of attempting a coup to keep him in office after his electoral defeat in the 2022 elections. The findings are to be delivered Thursday to Brazil’s Supreme Court, which will refer them to Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet, who will either formally charge Bolsonaro and put the former president on trial or toss the investigation. The former right-wing president has denied all claims he tried to stay in office after his narrow electoral defeat in 2022 to his rival, leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro has faced a series of legal threats since then.Punjab CM briefs NDU delegation on Punjab development initiatives