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Palmerston, one of the UK’s top ‘diplocats,’ dies in Bermuda
The former 'Chief Mouser' of the Foreign Office retired from Whitehall in 2020.
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Police inspect outhouse, water tank in renewed search for Gus Lamont
about 1 hour agoPolice are nearing the end of a two-day search with no evidence found so far.
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Guthrie family members not suspects in Arizona kidnapping, sheriff says
6:14 pm todayGuthrie's family, which includes "all siblings and spouses," has been cooperative and gracious as authorities investigate the kidnapping, the sheriff says.
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One man dead, two people critically injured in Sydney stabbing attack
5:20 pm todayPolice believe there is no relationship between the three victims.
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Kiwi NRL star shot in Sydney drive-by
1:09 pm todayThe ABC is reporting Matt Utai was shot outside a home in Sydney's west.
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The 3 biggest challenges as the Nancy Guthrie case stretches into week 3
1:49 pm todayGuthrie is 84 years old, has a pacemaker and requires daily medication, according to authorities and her family.
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Andrew's daughters grapple with fallout from Epstein scandals
8:52 am todayPrincesses Beatrice and Eugenie are the latest royals to be engulfed in the saga.
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Ukrainian government dogged by corruption scandals
12:57 pm todayThe detention of Ukraine's former energy minister in a money laundering probe is the latest in a series of corruption scandals to have hit Ukraine's government since the Russian invastion
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Cousin pleads with Sydney man abductors for release
1:21 pm todayDetectives say they are certain he was not the intended target.
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How science is shaping the clothes of the future
5:00 am todayNew Zealand is part of a massive European research project aimed at shaking up the textile industry.
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Obama clarifies alien comments after telling podcast 'they’re real'
6:30 am todayThe former US President found himself in the spotlight.
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Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall dead at 95
8:03 am todayThe Oscar-winning actor was best known for his tough guy roles in The Godfather and Apocalypse Now.
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Cape Barren Island uses greenhouse and traditional foods to keep fridges full
16 Feb 2026Nationally, more than half of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander households in remote areas of Australia experience food insecurity.
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Benefits of intermittent fasting 'fail to match the hype', major review finds
16 Feb 2026Researchers found little to no improvement in weight loss for people who were overweight or obese compared with having regular dietary advice or doing nothing at all.
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Elderly man 'mistakenly' snatched from his Sydney house before dawn
16 Feb 2026Australian police have described how a group of three people - possibly more - bundled the 85-year-old into a car before driving away.
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FBI links glove found near Nancy Guthrie's home to suspect on video
Investigators said it appears to match the pair worn by a masked prowler seen in doorbell camera footage before she was abducted two weeks ago.
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Israeli move to designate large parts of West Bank as state land
16 Feb 2026Israel's Foreign Ministry defended the move many others have condemned.
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Police return to remote station in search for missing boy Gus Lamont
16 Feb 2026Officers are at Oak Park Station in South Australia's north-east, where a four-year-old boy went missing almost five months ago.
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Trump's 'desire' to own Greenland persists, Danish PM says
15 Feb 2026Trump insists mineral-rich Greenland is vital for US and NATO security against Russia and China.
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Why haven't humans been back to the moon in over 50 years?
It has been more than 50 years since the last astronaut set foot on the moon - so why has it taken so long for us to get back?
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Trump adviser sought Epstein's help to 'take down' Pope Francis
15 Feb 2026Messages sent between Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein in 2019 revealed Bannon courted the late financier in his attempts to undermine the former pontiff.
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Navalny's death was caused by dart frog poison, European allies say
15 Feb 2026Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said analyses of samples from Navalny's body "conclusively" confirmed the presence of epibatidine.
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Adolescence writer on his new TV adaptation of castaway novel Lord of the Flies
15 Feb 2026The feelings of cruelty and shame that fed into Adolescence are there in Lord of the Flies, the award-winning British writer says.
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Assailants kill at least 30 in northwest Nigeria villages
15 Feb 2026Armed assailants on motorbikes burned houses and shops during raids on three villages in northwest Nigeria's Niger State, witnesses said.
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There is something that doesn't make sense in the Nancy Guthrie case
14 Feb 2026For it to be a kidnapping, this case is missing something rather vital.
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Is Wuthering Heights actually romantic? Heathcliff would say no
15 Feb 2026Heathcliff sneeringly rejected the idea he was a "hero of romance" - though a new film claims Wuthering Heights as the greatest love story of all time. Is it?
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Courts ruled over 4000 times ICE jailed people illegally
14 Feb 2026Reuters review of court records found hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump's administration is detaining immigrants…
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Australian has ovaries, uterus removed after alleged wrong endometriosis diagnosis
14 Feb 2026The federal health minister has described the allegations as "physically sickening".
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