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A Filipino family who recently moved to New Zealand say they don’t feel safe after their 12-year-old was viciously beaten outside an Auckland McDonald's on Saturday. The young girl was at McDonald's Glenfield wit
A woman once branded "Australia's worst female serial killer" has been pardoned after new evidence suggested she did not kill her four infant children. Kathleen Folbigg has spent 20 years in prison after a jury fo
Thousands of cruise passengers were evacuated from their rooms in the early hours this morning after a fire broke out on a ship off the New South Wales coast. The blaze was detected on a balcony of the Pacific Adve
A government official in India has been suspended after he ordered a reservoir to be drained to retrieve his phone. It took three days to pump millions of litres of water out of the dam, after Rajesh Vishwas droppe
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
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
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, 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
A Manhattan federal jury found that Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in a luxury department store dressing room in the spring of 1996 and awarded her US $5 million for battery and defamation. While the
A gunman has shot and killed eight people shopping at a mall north of Dallas, Texas. Hundreds of people were evacuated from the mall in the city of Allen, as eyewitnesses described a man firing indiscriminately at
A US court has ruled that British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran did not copy Marvin Gaye's “Let's Get It On†when composing “Thinking Out Loudâ€. Sheeran had denied stealing elements of the song for his 2014
A teenager who killed eight fellow students and a security guard in a Serbian school planned the attack for weeks and had a "kill list", according to police. The 13-year-old was arrested following Wednesday morning
A man suspected of killing five of his neighbours in Texas has been arrested after police found him hiding in a cupboard underneath a pile of laundry. The suspect was detained north of Houston several miles from hi
The United Nations has warned 800,000 people may flee Sudan as rival military factions battle in the capital despite a supposed ceasefire. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands wounded over 16 days of v
After stepping down as leader of New Zealand earlier this year, Jacinda Ardern has revealed that she is swapping the rough and tumble of politics for a stint of quiet reflection within academia overseas, heading to Harv
