Australian police say a shooting at Bondi Beach, which killed 12 people - including one gunman - targeted the Jewish community on the first day of Hanukkah. Twenty-nine people were injured, with a second gunman in critical condition. Drone footage appears to show a gunman firing from a bridge in a nearby carpark. In the wake of a recent fatal shark attack, the BBC is off the coast in Sydney to learn how authorities are trying to protect people. The BBC's Katy Watson was in the courtroom as Erin Patterson was sentenced to life.

Anna Kepner, an 18-year-old Florida cheerleader, died under mysterious circumstances on a Carnival cruise ship, with FBI investigating and autopsy results still pending.

Michel Nieva's Dengue Boy is set on a drowned future Earth Spread-eagle on that strange white surface which lay beneath the inclement Antarctic sun, Dengue Destroyed saw everything flash by in no more than a second. What of life is there to look back on in the space of a few instants when a boy, a girl, a destroyed void, believes it is about to die? Might it think of its dear mother, lament the father it never knew, or perhaps recall, some humorous or traumatic anecdote involving its classmates? Truthfully, not much else had happened during her brief time on Earth. However (for the mind works in mysterious and unpredictable ways, especially the mind of a mutant mosquito), Dengue Destroyed did not think about any of these people, but rather about a story her mother used to read her at bedtime, the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Cruise line Hurtigruten Norway has unveiled pictures of its first zero-emission ship - and it features extraordinary retractable sails fitted with solar panels. The 164ft- (50m) tall sails are one of several'firsts and improved solutions' on the electric vessel - due to launch in 2030 - that'do not exist on cruise ships today', including'AI manoeuvring' and'retractable thrusters'. Renderings showcase the striking design of the 443ft- (135m) long vessel, which will boast 270 cabins to hold 500 guests and 99 crew. The ship will run on a combination of energy from 60-megawatt battery and wind technology, charging up with renewable energy when it's docked in port. Battery levels will be displayed on the sides of the cruise ship.

There Will Be Blood begins nearly in silence. Its stunning opening 20 minutes follow a solitary figure as he struggles through an American wasteland, digging, bleeding, building. In its howling quiet, its violent yet graceful choreography, the film presents an iconic image of the ravages of greed, the inextricable link between the mythology of American exceptionalism and the circuits of capital--a lone tragic hero representing the creation of the American dream as well as its inevitable apocalyptic end. Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 epic begins with one of cinema's greatest depictions of the desire and despair at the heart of American capitalism. But then, so does WALL-E. Nearly everything about the knockout opening of Anderson's masterpiece is also true of Pixar's masterpiece, released in theaters the following year, and, as of this week, the first film from the animation studio to be inducted into the vaunted Criterion Collection.

Cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) may soon be aboard cruise ships, according to Hannes Lindthaler, managing director of MarineXchange Software, offering the MXP enterprise software platform for the cruise industry. Celebrating MarineXchange's 20th anniversary this year, the company has played a key role in developing software written specifically for the industry, with a portfolio of software and hardware solutions, managing all office and ship related activities. Today, MarineXchange has offices in Hamburg and Graz, Austria, and has more than 60 employees. The client list counts some 40 cruise lines and approximately 300 ships, including ocean-going ships and river cruise vessels. "We are working very closely with Microsoft to bring cloud computing onboard ships next," Lindthaler said.

Work is due to start on the world's first'space hotel' in low Earth orbit in 2025 - and it will come equipped with restaurants, a cinema, spa and rooms for 400 people. Developed by the Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), the Voyager Station could be operational as early as 2027, with the infrastructure built in orbit around the Earth. The space station will be a large circle and rotate to generate artificial gravity that will be set at a similar level to the gravity found on the surface of the Moon. Voyager Station's hotel will include many of the features you might expect from a cruise ship, including themed restaurants, a health spa and a cinema. It will feature a series of pods attached to the outside of the rotating ring and some of these pods could be sold to the likes of NASA and ESA for space research.

Work is due to start on the world's first'space hotel' in low Earth orbit in 2025 - and it will come equipped with restaurants, a cinema, spa and rooms for 400 people. Developed by the Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), the Voyager Station could be operational as early as 2027, with the infrastructure built in orbit around the Earth. The space station will be a large circle and rotate to generate artificial gravity that will be set at a similar level to the gravity found on the surface of the Moon. Voyager Station's hotel will include many of the features you might expect from a cruise ship, including themed restaurants, a health spa and a cinema. It will feature a series of pods attached to the outside of the rotating ring and some of these pods could be sold to the likes of NASA and ESA for space research.

Before the internet, if you wanted to book a flight or hotel, you picked up the phone and called an agent. The internet changed all that. It gave you hundreds of websites and mobile applications to research options, read reviews and make reservations. In the next few years, you'll be picking up the phone and chatting with an agent again -- but this time, you'll be talking to an AI-powered bot that will understand your needs and preferences, hunt down the best deal and take care of your reservations. We're entering an era where machines will help us make sense of the vast amounts of information and get things done for us -- bots, robots, assistants.

The Carnival Vista is the newest ship in the Carnival Corp. fleet and has the latest tech on board. Ocean cruises are no longer about going off the grid to enjoy leisurely days at sea and on-board entertainment. Cruise ships are installing better Wi-Fi, adding tech-enabled wristbands and luggage tags, and even having robots greet passengers as they board the ship, all in an attempt to create a tech-rich environment. As times have changed and tech becomes a part of everyone's daily lives, passengers have become increasingly interested in staying connected to the outside world and for their lives to continue unabated on the high seas. Passengers also expect more than just a second-run version of a Broadway show--they want the outside world and a lot more.