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An artist who uses typewriters to create portraits was "pleasantly surprised" to receive praise from one of his subjects - singer Burna Boy. 26-year-old James Cook was asked by the Coachella music festival to make
Meta has been fined a record-breaking USD$1.3 billion by European Union regulators for violating EU privacy laws by transferring the personal data of Facebook users to servers in the United States. The European Dat
A 40-year-old Australian man has died while descending Mount Everest. Jason Kennison, a South Australian living in Perth, died during the descent on Friday morning. His father Jock Kennison said he was notifie
Even by Papua New Guinea's standards, it has been a madcap fortnight. Just as the world turned its eyes to the Pacific nation for a historic US presidential visit, things suddenly started to fall off the rails.
People across Queensland last night caught a rare glimpse of what an astrophysicist says can only have been a meteor. Sightings are being reported across the state with hundreds of people taking to social media to
Montana has become the first US state to ban TikTok on all devices, even personal ones, triggering renewed doubts about the short-form video app’s future in the country. CNN reports the state’s governor, Greg
An unusual duo is winning laurels for India in karate. Geeta Godara,60, and her 13-year-old granddaughter Aashka recently won medals in different categories at an international karate competition in Dubai. Go
Police in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby have arrested the First Secretary to the Minister for Petroleum and Energy, Kerenga Kua, following an incident that occurred early this morning that led to the death o
An elderly Perth doctor who had been held captive in West Africa after being kidnapped in Burkina Faso has been released more than seven years later. Kenneth Elliott, now aged 88, was abducted with his wife Jocelyn
The police officer involved in a critical incident where a 95-year-old woman was tasered remains on the job, despite having his duties under review. Great-grandmother Clare Nowland is in critical condition at Cooma
Airport firefighters in Thailand have battled a huge swarm of bees that injured six people after a plane landed. The Thai Smile flight FD3260 had just parked when the cloud of insects descended on the right engine
New Zealand police have arrested a man and charged him with two counts of arson in connection with a fire at a Wellington hostel that killed at least six people. Police says the investigation is ongoing and they co
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, were trailed in their car by photographers as they left a New York City charity event on Tuesday night, local time, briefly taking refuge at a police station before
Prince Harry, Meghan and her mother were involved in a "near catastrophic car chase" involving paparazzi, a spokesperson for the couple has claimed. BBC reports that the incident happened after the Duke and Duchess
New Zealand police have launched a homicide inquiry into a fire at an emergency housing hostel in Wellington, where at least six people were killed. Officials said up to 20 people were still missing and they were t
US Pesident Joe Biden has cancelled his upcoming visits to Papua New Guinea and Australia due to the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations in Washington. White House White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said
The creator of advanced chatbot ChatGPT has called on US lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence (AI). The BBC reports that Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, testified before a US Se
Eastern Australia is facing the increased likelihood of a dry winter and spring with a United States federal agency declaring an El Niño pattern almost a foregone conclusion. The US Climate Prediction Centre (CPC)
Bobi, a 31-year-old guard dog who cheated death in his first days, has celebrated his birthday as a celebrity in central Portugal after being declared the world's oldest dog ever two months ago. Bobi's owner Leonel
Paul Walker’s daughter, Meadow Walker Thornton-Allan, is honoring her late father’s legacy by making a cameo in the upcoming “Fast X†movie. Thornton-Allan posted a preview of her appearance in the movie on
