World

The photograph Kwan used to create a fake ID card, left, and CCTV footage of him arriving at a Premier Inn.
UK
Chris Brooke

GP disguised himself to ‘kill mum’s partner with COVID jab’

A GP disguised himself as a nurse and tried to kill his mother’s partner with a fake COVID jab laced with poison, a court has been told.

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Video
P. Diddy gives Justin Bieber Bad Boy letterman jacket as a birthday present in LA - February 27, 2016.
Music
Tom Leonard

Justin Bieber’s psychological scars after Diddy ‘freak’ show

Bieber was still a teenager when he started going to Combs’s parties and few would consider the tutelage of a suspected abuser to be an ideal place to grow up.

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A 16-year-old student of Westminster Academy in London has suffered serious burns after being doused in acid by a stranger.
UK
Staff Writers

Man arrested after 'acid attack’ on teens outside school

Police have arrested a 35-year-old man after a suspected acid attack at a school that left one student with ‘potentially life-changing’ injuries.

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An extremist Islamic organisation has thrown its support behind a rally for Palestine and Lebanon on the first anniversary of Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel.
Australia
Georgina Noack

Extremist group throws support behind Oct 7 ‘outrage’ rally

An extremist Islamic organisation has thrown its support behind a rally for Palestine and Lebanon on the first anniversary of Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel.

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The US has been hammered by Hurricane Helene
Other Sports
Staff Writers

Masters damage control after Augusta torn apart by hurricane

US Masters officials have given an update after the course was torn apart as Hurricane Helene ripped through Georgia.

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Police are investigating whether the Israeli embassy was the target of explosions in Copenhagen. (AP PHOTO)
Europe
Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen

Two charged over blasts near Israeli embassy in Denmark

Danish police have charged two Swedish teenagers with setting off grenades on a rooftop near Israel's embassy in Copenhagen.

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Garth Brooks is accused of rape in a lawsuit by a woman who claims to have worked as his stylist.
USA
Andre Dalton

Shock as Country music superstar accused of rape

A lawsuit filed by a woman who says she worked as a stylist for the star claims the country singer raped her in a hotel suite.

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Video
Australians have been offered flights out of Beirut's airport near the sites of Israeli air strikes.
Middle East
Andrew Brown

New warnings as Aussies leave empty seats on Lebanon evacuation flights

Nearly half the seats reserved for Australians on flights leaving Lebanon have not been used, as officials urge citizens to leave the Middle East.

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Rwandan officials say a Marburg virus outbreak was first traced to patients in health facilities.
Africa
Staff Writers

Death toll rises to 11 as health officials seek source of fever outbreak

Health authorities confirm a haemorrhagic fever outbreak has killed at least 11 people as the desperate search for the source of the outbreak continues.

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Video
Yazidi woman Fawzia Amin Sido is seen back in Iraq.
Middle East
Staff Writers

Secret mission frees kidnap victim after 10 years

A Yazidi woman kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Iraq 10 years ago has been freed from the Gaza Strip in an Israeli, US and Iraqi operation.

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Regional officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo gave differing death tolls after a boat sank.
Africa
Staff Writers

Terror after boat capsize leaves 78 people dead

At least 78 people have drowned after a multi-deck vessel capsized.

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Video
Heavy Israeli air strikes have hit the dense Beirut neighbourhood of Dahiyeh.
Middle East
Staff Writers

‘Leave immediately’: Israel rocket strikes aimed at 20 more towns

Israel has warned 20 towns in southern Lebanon to evacuate before retaliation after Hezbollah fired more rockets at Haifa Bay.

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A man on the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border films the aftermath of a rocket attack on Sept. 21. (MUST CREDIT: Heidi Levine for The Washington Post)
Middle East
The Washington Post

Ground offensive preceded by a year of secret raids: Israel

THE WASHINGTON POST: Israel’s ongoing ground offensive in Lebanon was preceded by dozens of secret raids across the border over the past year, the Israel Defense Forces said.

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Foreign Minister Penny Wong says recognising Palestine is the only hope of ending violence. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)
updated
Politics
Katina Curtis and Ellen Ransley

Fears of war as Aussies told to leave Lebanon now

The Australian Government is preparing to evacuate up to 500 Australians wanting to flee Lebanon amid the rapidly escalating conflict, with Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong urging people not to delay.

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A man has been shot dead on the beach behind a luxury hotel in Cancun.
World
Max Corstorphan

Holiday horror as man shot dead, assassins flee on jet skis

Holidaymakers have had their dream getaway descend into horror when four armed men gunned down a businessman before fleeing on jet skis. 

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