Category: World
Gold Coast high school students hospitalised after eating mushroom gummies – as it happened
Queensland state election Katter’s Australian party will preference the Liberal National Party for the first time in a crucial north Queensland region at the state [more…]
More than 9,000 scam Facebook pages deleted after Australians lose $43.4m to celebrity deepfakes
Australians could see fewer deepfake images of celebrities being hauled off in handcuffs, or promoting a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment on Facebook, after Meta launched a [more…]
Typhoon Krathon: Taiwan shuts down as it braces for storm’s landfall
Taiwan has grounded flights and closed schools, offices and financial markets ahead of a typhoon approaching the main island’s south west, after bringing flash floods [more…]
New Caledonia election postponed for a year by France’s new prime minister
France’s new prime minister, Michel Barnier, has announced that a provincial election scheduled for December in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia has been [more…]
Justin Trudeau survives a second parliamentary confidence vote
Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, has survived a second parliamentary confidence motion in less than a week after opposition parties vowed to keep his minority [more…]
Many feared dead after fire on school bus in Thailand
A devastating fire has torn through a bus carrying 44 students and teachers on a school trip outside Bangkok, with up to 25 feared dead. [more…]
Seoul crowd crush police sent to jail for deadly failings in Itaewon disaster
A South Korean court has given three police officers prison sentences over their handling of a 2022 Halloween crush in a Seoul nightlife district that [more…]
Parrots overwhelm Argentinian town with screeching, poo and power outages
The town of Hilario Ascasubi near Argentina’s eastern Atlantic coast has a parrot problem. Thousands of the green, yellow and red birds have invaded, driven [more…]
‘Do they take us for fools?’: Argentina vice-president lambasts Falklands pact
Argentina’s vice-president has lambasted a new UK-Argentina Falkland Islands agreement, saying her nation had been offered “crumbs”. The pact, announced last week, includes resuming flights [more…]
Dikembe Mutombo, NBA Hall of Famer and humanitarian, dies at 58
Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo, whose towering presence dominated basketball on and off the court, has died from brain cancer at the age of [more…]
