Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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From The Daily Oz, I'm Lucy Tassel. I'm Zara Seidler. It's Friday the 22nd of May. Here's what's making headlines this evening.
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An Australian man has died after falling on the trail to the ancient Incan site of Machu Picchu in Peru. Matt Payton, a police sergeant based in Victoria, is believed to have fallen hundreds of metres from the tourist trail. The 52-year-old's death was confirmed by Victoria Police, where he had worked as a trainer for new recruits since 2017.
Local police in Peru told Australian media that Payton tripped and fell into a security barrier on a wooden bridge which broke. He was trekking the trail with his wife and leaves behind three children. Local authorities are working to bring his body to the nearest big city.
Mexican-themed chain Guzmín y Gómez has pulled out of the US market, closing all of its restaurants in Chicago effective immediately. The decision was made because the financial performance of the US business was not acceptable or meeting targets, the company said in a statement to investors.
Guzmín's US experiment lasted about six years after it opened its first store in Chicago in January 2020. Founder and co-chief executive Stephen Marks said he had, quote, realised this was going to take significantly more time and capital than we had expected. The chain's restaurants in Australia, Singapore and Japan will stay open.
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Chapter 2: What happened to the Australian man who fell while trekking in Peru?
A Paris appeals court has found plane manufacturer Airbus and airline Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter over a plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 that killed 228 people. It comes three years after a lower court cleared the two companies of responsibility. Both companies are based in France and have repeatedly denied the charges.
The appeal verdict is the latest milestone in a legal marathon involving relatives of the mostly French, Brazilian and German victims. The appeals court ordered them to both pay the maximum fine for corporate manslaughter, €225,000. The fines, amounting to just a few minutes of either company's revenue, have been widely dismissed as a token penalty.
But family groups have said a conviction would represent a formal recognition of their pain.
And today's good news, Las Vegas is set to host a parade celebrating female athletes following a push from American rapper Flava Flav. The rapper is a longtime supporter of women's sport, taking the role of official hype man for the women's water polo team back at the 2024 Olympics.
And after this last Olympics in Milano Cortina, inviting the gold medal winning US women's ice hockey team to celebrate their achievement with him earlier this year. That invitation to the hockey players has expanded into the four day She Weekend, which will see more than 100 female athletes gather in Vegas for events, activities, concerts and community moments.
This week, the local council approved a parade down the Las Vegas Strip as the centrepiece of the festival, which will take place in July. And if you're listening, Flavor Flav, I'm not an athlete, but I am a woman and I would love to come.
I am obsessed with that good news, Lucy. That is the latest from the Daily Oz Newsroom. If you're looking for something else, you can catch up on this morning's Deep Dive, where Billie explains how she prepares for political interviews, including the one that has apparently
gone viral we'll be back next week with another deep dive until then have a great weekend bye
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