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A Georgia woman is facing murder charges after she took the abortion medication misoprostol. (AP PHOTO)

US woman faces murder charge after taking abortion pill

A woman from Georgia, who already had two young children, has been arrested, charged and jailed after taking an abortion pill last December.

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The mum updated her 78,000 TikTok followers just before going under the knife and said she was in ‘good hands’.

TikTokker dies after ‘mummy makeover’ goes horribly wrong

The mum updated her 78,000 TikTok followers just before going under the knife, saying she was in ‘good hands’.

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A report for CBS Pittsburgh described that the pool drain “eviscerated Paloma, ripping her small intestine’s from her body” which for most is a “life ending” injury.

Toddler’s organs ripped out by pool drain on family holiday

A dream family holiday to Mexico turned into a nightmare when a broken pool drain forever changed the life of a young girl, days before her fourth birthday.

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Barely a month after his arrest in New Orleans, Shia LaBeouf is yet again in the public eye - this time begging for a lighter.

Dishevelled Shia LaBeouf spotted begging woman in underwear

Barely a month after his arrest in New Orleans, Shia LaBeouf is yet again in the public eye.

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A five-day-old baby has died after it was attacked by its family dog.

Horror as five-day-old baby brutally mauled to death by dog

Just after the newborn baby girl was taken home from hospital, her family was hit with an unimaginable tragedy.

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Kouri Richins was found guilty of poisoning her husband Eric Richins.

Murder she wrote: Author convicted of murdering husband

A children’s book about coping with grief has taken a dark turn, with its author convicted of poisoning her husband with fentanyl.

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A banner depicting Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei at Enghelab (Revolution) Square in Tehran on March 11, 2026, as attendees gather for funerals of commanders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Trump warned pre-war about emboldened regime in Iran

Iran’s feisty retaliation against US allies in the Middle East should come as no surprise.

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President Donald Trump delivers remarks iN Kentucky on March 11, 2026. The branding of the U.S. military operation against Iran is a quintessentially Trumpian choice for a leader whose tenure has been marked by anger. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

‘Epic Fury’ branding reflects Trump’s combative leadership

Operation Epic Fury is a quintessentially Trumpian choice for the name of a war.

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Emails appear to show Peter Mandelson sent Jeffrey Epstein confidential documents in 2009. (AP PHOTO)

Why UK police want these unredacted Epstein file pages

UK police are seeking access to unredacted correspondence from the Jeffrey Epstein files. Here's why.

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Aussies visiting or passing through the US have been warned they could be in for some serious delays. 

New advice issued for Aussies heading to travel hotspot

Smartraveller has issued updated advice for Australians visiting or passing through this popular destination.

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Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, was preparing to drive his kids to school in the Dallas area on Friday when agents in unmarked vehicles allegedly surrounded him and arrested him in front of his children.

Afghan special forces soldier’s shock death in ICE custody

An asylum seeker who worked alongside US Special Forces in Afghanistan has died after being arrested by ICE agents in Texas while taking his children to school.

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Synagogue attacker Ayman Mohamad Ghazali died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound during an exchange of gunfire with security guards.

US synagogue attacker wanted to avenge brother’s war death

The Israeli military says the brother of the man who drove a truck into a synagogue in Michigan last week was a Hezbollah commander who was killed in an Israeli air strike earlier this month.

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In a symbolic gesture of hatred, nails are hammered into a mock American flag-draped coffin during a rally on Iran’s Quds Day (Jerusalem Day), an annual pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionism event, in Tehran, Iran, March 13, 2026. Ever since Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, which toppled a brutally repressive, staunch American ally, the two country’s governments have repeatedly cast the other as evil. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)

‘Iran has been picking a fight’ since 1979 hostage crisis

The 1979 Tehran hostage crisis set the tone for the US-Iran relationship, with each decade marked by a cycle of confrontation.

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Pete Hegseth has made contempt for what he calls ‘stupid rules of engagement’, and has boasted that he unleashed the military to use ‘maximum authorities on the battlefield’ in the Iran war.

Hegseth pledges ‘maximum’ engagement in Iran war

Pete Hegseth has made contempt for what he calls ‘stupid rules of engagement’, and has boasted that he unleashed the military to use ‘maximum authorities on the battlefield’ in the Iran war.

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All three major US stock indexes have logged daily and weekly declines. (AP PHOTO)

Wall Street closes lower as war fuels inflation worries

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen 119.38 points, or 0.26 per cent, to 46,558.47. The S&P 500 lost 40.43 points, or 0.61 per cent, to 6,632.19.

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