Hugh Whitfeld

Jul 15, 2024 | 7news.com.au | Hugh Whitfeld

We were driving through Southern Israel having visited a hospital where Bedouin Israelis were being treated after a Hamas rocket attack. It was July 17, 2014. War was raging in the Middle East, and Ukraine. The late, great, Rob Brown — a veteran Seven News camera operator — was in the passenger seat. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today He was scrolling Twitter, and simply said: “Something’s happened to another Malaysian Airlines plane”.

Jun 22, 2024 | 7news.com.au | Hugh Whitfeld

Things can go wrong in space. If an astronaut has to perform CPR on the International Space Station, in a zero gravity environment, how would they not just eject themselves off the patient instead of being able to perform compressions? They put their feet to the roof, and use it to steady themselves. After all, there’s no upside down. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today It’s the sort of skill Katherine Bennell-Pegg has learned.

Jun 15, 2024 | 7news.com.au | Hugh Whitfeld

Trooping the Colour is held on the second Saturday in June because the weather is meant to be better. Late in the English spring, it should be sunny and mild - perfect for celebrating the monarch’s birthday. They discovered that during the reign of King George III whose birthday fell in June. King Charles III was born in November when it’s usually cold and wet. Like it was today. Until it wasn’t.

Jun 12, 2024 | 7news.com.au | Hugh Whitfeld

Simon Marr was getting used to having doors shut in his face, so to speak. The boss of Aussie crane company, Marr Contracting, put it down to the way people do business in the UK. “You get people stuck in their ways, that’s how people are,” he said. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today “Generally, construction can be quite conservative, and there was pushback.”Marr’s business provides the largest capacity cranes to construction sites around the world, including Sydney Metro.

Jun 8, 2024 | 7news.com.au | Hugh Whitfeld

ANALYSISAs Joe Biden was standing shoulder to shoulder with Emmanuel Macron honouring France’s war dead at Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, they were celebrating in Tel Aviv. Israel had successfully freed four hostages held by Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s apparent refusal to sign up to a ceasefire agreement had found limited, short-term success.