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Delhi Social Media Influencer Arrested After Admitting to Attack on Protester’s Father
A 22-year-old social media personality facing charges over an alleged assault during a July demonstration in India's capital has been taken into custody afte...

Sydney braces for 33C heat as southern NSW readies for snow
Sydney is set for a scorching start to spring, with suburbs forecast to hit 33C on Saturday and the city on track for its hottest

Queensland’s Former Police Chief Dies After Battling Stage 4 Lung Cancer
Steve Gollschewski, who led Queensland's police force before stepping down in February following a cancer diagnosis, has died at age 67. The former commissio...

Australia’s push for ‘basic’ homes stirs a debate over speed, standards and future costs
Australia’s opposition is promising faster approvals and simpler rules to get more homes built, but the plan is already raising a harder question: what gets

Convicted murderer gets second life sentence after daylight abduction of teenager
A convicted murderer who recorded voice memos about a planned “abduction point” has been handed a second life sentence after kidnapping a 15-year-old girl in

Allies Question Washington as Trump’s Wars and Diplomacy Shake Trust
Countries around the world are rethinking how far they can trust the United States, as Donald Trump pushes America away from old alliances and into

Grass fire shuts Heathrow rail links, stranding passengers at London’s Paddington hub
Train services to and from Heathrow Airport stopped on Saturday after a grass fire beside the tracks near London’s Paddington station knocked out the electri...

Seven aid workers killed on Gaza road were marked as targets after WCK convoy, Guardian says
Seven international aid workers were killed when Israeli drones struck three clearly marked World Central Kitchen vehicles in Gaza after a food delivery run to

Johannesburg’s mayoral race turns into a fight over competing realities
Johannesburg’s next mayor may be decided as much by competing poll numbers as by votes. With the city headed for another hung council, Helen Zille’s

India tests Khagantak-243 glide bomb, a new long-range strike weapon built at home
India’s air force has test-dropped a new indigenous glide bomb that is meant to let fighter jets hit targets from far outside enemy air defences.

Saharanpur mosque demolition triggers political uproar after court-backed order; opposition MP confined to home
Authorities in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur demolished a mosque inside the District Magistrate’s office complex on Saturday after a court upheld an earlier ord...

Teen’s quick thinking helped police tie kidnapping suspect to car by DNA clue
A kidnapped 15-year-old girl in England helped leave investigators a crucial trace after tearing out her own hair and putting it in her abductor’s car,

Belgium’s leader says Europe ignored India’s warning on economic dependence — and is listening now
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said on Friday that Europe is paying for years of complacency over economic dependence, and that Indian Prime Minister

Minns says pro-Palestine protest fire exposed a hard lesson for Sydney’s stadium politics
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has described the fire that erupted around a pro-Palestine protest in Sydney as a “bitter lesson” for authorities, with

Man and boy charged after false identities spark chaos on Sydney-to-Melbourne flight
A Sydney-to-Melbourne flight was thrown into chaos after a man and a boy allegedly tried to board under false identities. The pair have now been

Brisbane teenager granted bail in alleged Kelvin Grove carjacking death case
A 15-year-old boy accused over the killing of a Brisbane man in an alleged carjacking has been granted bail in the city. The teenager faces

German Backpacker Carolina Wilga Recounts 11 Harrowing Nights Lost in Western Australia’s Outback
German backpacker Carolina Wilga has described how she survived 11 freezing nights lost in Western Australia’s remote outback after crashing her van last yea...

Auckland rescue team uses 3D mapping and drones in “extraordinary” Nepal mission after quake-triggered landslides
An Auckland-based rescue specialist says a team on the ground in Nepal is using drones and 3D mapping to tackle what he called an “extraordinary”

Hurricane Lowell sharpens northward track, putting Hawaii on alert for possible direct hit
Hawaii is bracing for a possible direct hit as Major Hurricane Lowell moves south of the islands and forecasters say it could swing north late

Iran Buries Wedding Victims After Reported U.S. Strike as Missiles Hit Kuwait Base
Iran buried victims of a reported U.S. strike that hit a wedding celebration, even as Tehran fired missiles and drones overnight at a U.S. base

UN says the Paris climate promise is broken as warming overshoot looms
Paris was supposed to mark the turning point. Ten years on, the United Nations says the world has already lost the race to hold warming

Victoria’s education chief exits after anti-corruption report deepens pressure on ex-Andrews staff
Victoria’s public service shake-up has claimed another senior figure, with Education Department secretary Tony Bates leaving his post after an anti-corruptio...

U.S. House Passes Bill to Cut College Funding Over Israel Boycotts as 33 Democrats Break Ranks
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Thursday approved a bill that would cut federal aid to colleges and universities that take part in boycotts or

Four Middlesbrough schools to close early for funeral linked to fatal A66 crash
Four schools in Middlesbrough will let pupils out early on Friday as leaders brace for large crowds and traffic disruption around the funeral of Jakub