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  • Queen Nazli of Egypt's 1939 diamond and platinum collar necklace on display

    Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen in Vienna smash-and-grab raid

    Police hunt two suspects after historic 200-carat piece is snatched from Austrian museum during opening hours
  • Mark Zuckerberg walks through a crowd of photographers and reporters outside a courthouse

    What could Meta’s US settlement mean around the world – and what now for other claims against firm?

  • arrested woman

    UK urged to help free British-Egyptian ‘arrested in Cairo over sister’s activism’

  • A featherless pink parrot chick sits on a cloth, with an egg visible behind it

    South African police arrest two Thai men for allegedly smuggling parrot eggs

  • The foot and hand of an African man is seen with pink blisters highly visible against his skin

    Mpox is back – and in new countries. How can this outbreak be contained?

  • Tattoo of a former combatant in the ZUT

    Was it a mistake for 99 Colombian guerrillas to lay down their arms?

    Fighters in legal limbo after accepting ‘total peace’ plan of Petro government just days before hardliner Abelardo De la Espriella took over
  • Red, yellow, and blue flag in wooden pier, with choppy water and very long ship beyond.

    Trump announces new US oil agreement with Venezuela

  • An oil pumpjack near a refinery

    Venezuelan opposition up in arms over reports US wants big stake in oil and gas

  • A satellite image of a tropical storm

    Tropical Storm Dolly downgraded to ‘open tropical wave’ as it heads to Caribbean

  • The Gordie Howe International Bridge, with two tall white towers, spans the river in Windsor

    Detroit despairs as ‘insanity’ of Trump’s Canada trade war punishes city

  • Survivors pulled from the mud in Nepal

    Search continues as number missing in Nepal-Tibet floods rises to 2,478 – as it happened

    Chinese rescue team reaches all-but-obliterated Gyirong border crossing complex to find ‘nothing but ruins’
  • Soldiers help a family disembark from a helicopter after they are rescued from an area affected by flash flooding in Nepal's Nuwakot district

    At least 93,000 ‘in great need’ after Nepal-Tibet flash floods, says Red Cross

  • Composite of the three women

    Families of 33 missing Britons rush to Nepal as fears grow of more floods

  • planes on the deck of an aircraft carrierUSS

    USS Abraham Lincoln to visit port in Thailand after more than 250 days at sea

  • Rescue workers walk along a concrete barrier beside a raging muddy river

    Nepal-Tibet flood rescue efforts resume after being halted by overflowing lake

  • An older person's hand sorting through a handful of medications

    Statins can safely cut risk of heart attacks or strokes in healthy people aged over 70, world-first clinical trial shows

    Australian-led trial finds low risk of side effects from common cholesterol-lowering medication for otherwise healthy older people
  • A balcony power station on a balcony railing

    Plug-in solar panels could save households up to $370 a year – if Australia made them legal as in the UK

  • Australians missing in Nepal. Clockwise from left: Karan Bhardwaj; Chitra Venkatraman; Venkatraman Balakrishnan; Muralitharan family: Shylaja, Aarush, Ashwin and Chandrasekaran; Sumi Adhikari; Suhasini Kandimalla; Narayan Panthi.

    What we know about the Australians missing in the Nepal floods

  • a composite of Daniel Andrews (L) and Ben Carroll (R)

    Controversial plans for a Daniel Andrews sculpture officially scrapped by Victorian government

  • ***BESTPIX*** Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Attends Federal Cabinet Meeting In PerthPERTH, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 25: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese looks on during a federal cabinet meeting at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Office on August 25, 2026 in Perth, Australia. Anthony Albanese declared that there would be no change to Western Australia’s favourable GST arrangement while he remains prime minister as he faces further GST backlash standing by the lucrative deal. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/Getty Images) ***BESTPIX***

    Number of Australians missing in Nepal’s deadly floods rises again, as Albanese deploys more personnel

  • HMS Duncan, a naval destroyer, sails past a pier as onlookers watch from Portsmouth

    Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels in UK waters

    Three vessels and a helicopter deployed to monitor four ships travelling through the North Sea to the Channel
  • Emergency service workers respond to a Russian strike on a warehouse where black smoke billows

    Russian drone strike on Kyiv warehouse storing weapons kills at least 37

  • Laurie Anderson leans against a wall.

    Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library

  • A liquid natural gas (LNG) tanker, at the Isle of Grain, England, February 2025. Typically, the UK relies on imports of gas via pipelines from Europe or tankers from the US and Middle East.

    ‘Winter panic’: EU gas stores at their lowest level in 13 years

  • Brown speaking at an event in 2023

    Ireland will be united, says Gordon Brown

  • How to Sell A Genocide is back on the shelves at Waverley library in Bondi Junction after previously being removed for review.

    Bondi library returns book How to Sell a Genocide to shelves after State Library ‘outlines the law’

    Book was removed for review earlier this month following complaint but reinstated after petition and State Library letter to Waverley council
  • President Trump and John Ratcliffe converse at a podium during a White House press briefing

    Trump downplays Moscow visit by CIA director as ‘semi-routine’

  • Saqer Abu Rabee sprays water from a hose over green plants

    On scraps of land and under constant threat, Gaza farmers struggle to survive

  • A woman raises her hand in a fist while covering her mouth against thick smoke that obscures the trees behind her.

    Iran seeks to criminalise all contact with foreign media in ‘chilling’ crackdown

  • A girl walks along a beach as ships sit offshore

    Iran faces strait of Hormuz paradox as strategic value of chokehold erodes

  • A man in the ruins of a house with a tree trunk that has crashed into it

    Live
    Nepal-Tibet floods: Nepal calls for technical support for rescue efforts as number of missing rises to nearly 3,000 – latest updates

    Nepali government says India and China are sending expert tunnel rescue teams, as minister estimates cost of rebuilding could be billions of dollars
  • Rescue workers gather near landslide debris at Gyirong Port, China

    Number of missing in Nepal and Tibet rises to nearly 3,000 as operations continue

  • A woman tapes a missing person poster to a wall after Nepal's flash floods, another woman beside her

    ‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital

  • Rescue workers and vehicles on a muddy bank by a raging ricer

    Chinese control of information hampers assessment of Tibet flood damage

  • An aerial picture of a flooded landscape.

    Race to get aid into Nepal and Tibet amid warnings flood lake could burst

  • James Cleverly

    James Cleverly resigns from shadow cabinet to run for mayor of London

    Shadow minister for housing, communities and local government to resign with immediate effect
  • Sarah Ferguson, smiling with red hair and black headband, waves in a black glove

    Sarah Ferguson to return to UK after relocating amid Epstein revelations

  • Two police officers escort a handcuffed man in a grey hoodie

    Cells for arrested offenders may run out without early prison release, says Labour

  • Comedian Chris Cantrill laughs while speaking into a microphone on stage

    Fourth time lucky as Chris Cantrill’s spoof whodunnit wins Edinburgh comedy award 2026

  • A wide high shot of tents, crowds and banners at the 2026 Big Church festival on the Wiston Estate

    Man, 41, dies after large sign falls at Christian festival in West Sussex

  • An older man gestures while speaking at a lectern.

    Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers says he saw Bin Laden’s body with his ‘own eyes’. He did not

    Ex-House intel committee chair, now running against Abdul El-Sayed, instead saw photo of Osama bin Laden’s body
  • The FBI seal.

    FBI no longer treating applicants’ experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring

  • Donald Trump speaks at a lectern.

    Ex-White House teleprompter operator fined $172,000 for Trump speech bets

  • A yellow boat cutting through ocean water near a beach.

    US officials urge swimmers to be cautious amid surge in drowning deaths

  • Eve Ogden Schaub smiles, holding a pitchfork beside a basket of flax fiber she grew

    ‘I wanted to find the slowest fashion imaginable’: the woman growing her own dress

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