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Four passengers have received minor injuries after another plane incident occurred in the USA on Friday.
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Artemisia Blythe

Plane issues: Delta plane evacuates by emergency slides

Four passengers have received minor injuries after another plane incident occurred in the US on Friday.

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The new Nuuk International Airport will allow larger planes to land at Greenland’s capital.
Travel
Anne Clifford

Travelling to Greenland is about to get easier as new international airport opens

Visitors should be aware they’re not in for a standard tourism experience when they arrive.

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Peggie Martin, right, gets a hug from longtime friend Shannon Hahn after finding a cherished family item at the home she grew up in.
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The Washington Post

‘No one has a home’: What fire took from one neighborhood

The scale of residential ruin from the Los Angeles fires is slowly coming into focus — particularly in Altadena, a tight-knit community where as many as 5000 structures burned.

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The ancient monument of Stonehenge is viewed from a hot air balloon on September 7, 2016, in Wiltshire, England.
World
Ashley Strickland

Scientists think they know why Stonehenge was rebuilt thousands of years ago

‘It shows that this site on Salisbury Plain was important to the people not just living nearby, but across Britain.’

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Mandy Moore says she has lost part of her home in the fires which has so far killed at least 10 people.
World
Molly Magennis

Hollywood star lashes out on social media following LA fires GoFundMe post

The actress hit back at critics who slammed her on social media after she shared a fundraiser for family members who had lost everything in the devastating fires.

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A view of the remains of homes destroyed by the Palisades wildfire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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USA
Peta Rasdien

Death toll climbs with fears more grim news on the way

The death toll from the LA fires has climbed again and it’s feared that it is likely to grow further when it is safe for authorities to return to neighbourhoods incinerated in the flames.

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Morgan Geyser appears in a Waukesha County courtroom Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Waukesha, in the US state of Wisconsin
World
David K. Li, Halle Lukasiewicz and Ava Kelley

‘Slender Man’ stabber set to walk free from US psychiatric hospital

Morgan Geyser was just 12 when she and a friend brutally stabbed a classmate to appease a fictitious bogeyman.

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The world’s most powerful passports have been revealed, with Australia ranking well inside the top 10.
World
Maureen O’Hare

World’s most powerful passports revealed - here’s where Australia sits

There’s been some movement in the rankings of the most powerful passports for visa-free travel.

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Gary Hall lost his Olympic medals in the devastating fire.
USA
Ben Sutton

Olympic champion shares scary details of Palisades wildfire

The swimming legend had to leave his medals behind as his evacuation quickly descended into chaos.

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Gay men will be allowed to become priests in Italy, so long as they abstain from sex.
World
Staff Writers

Vatican to allow gay men to become priests in Italy

Priests have been allowed to bless same sex relationships for some time, but gay priests have been a taboo subject.

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US President-elect Donald Trump had vented his outrage after being sentenced by a New York criminal court. (AP PHOTO)
US Politics
Max Corstorphan

‘Despicable charade’: Trump rages after sentencing

President-elect Donald Trump has vented his outrage over his sentencing by a New York criminal court, calling the hush money case ‘illegal and fake’.

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President-elect Donald Trump seated next to his attorney Todd Blanche, gives his sentencing statement on screen virtually during his sentencing hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court., Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in New York.
US Politics
Max Corstorphan

Donald Trump’s full statement in court before sentencing

President-elect Donald Trump has been sentenced by a Manhattan court over 34 felony counts regarding falsifying business records of hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

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A home in Altadena burns to the ground as the Eaton Fire rages.
World
The Washington Post

‘There was nothing you could do’: City of Angels turned hell

With the ocean behind her, flames up ahead and thick, yellowed smoke everywhere closing in, Ms Yospe wound her way through one of the most sublime corners of the country, her heaven turned hell.

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Fire crews walk as they battle the Kenneth Fire in the West Hills section of Los Angeles on January 9.
World
Andrew Marszal

Ten dead as LA counts the cost of fire catastrophe

Massive wildfires that engulfed whole neighbourhoods and displaced thousands in Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people, authorities said.

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This combination of pictures shows homes in Pacific Palisades, a neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California on October 20, 2024, before the Palisades fire., and (bottom) homes in Pacific Palisades on January 9, 2025, after the Palisades fire.
USA
Max Corstorphan and Elisia Seeber

PHOTOS: LA’s ‘worst’ fires cause heartbreaking destruction

Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna described the destruction in Los Angeles as like ‘an atomic bomb dropped’. SEE THE PHOTOS

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