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Cape Barren Island uses greenhouse and traditional foods to keep fridges full
Nationally, 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
4:23 pm todayResearchers found little to no improvement in weight loss for people who were overweight or obese compared with having regular dietary advice or doing nothing…
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Elderly man 'mistakenly' snatched from his Sydney house before dawn
3:26 pm todayAustralian 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
1:46 pm todayInvestigators 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
2:57 pm todayIsrael'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
1:44 pm todayOfficers 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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US military preparing for potentially weeks-long Iran operations
14 Feb 2026President Donald Trump told US troops at a base in North Carolina it had "been difficult to make a deal" with Iran.
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US billionaires Musk, Bezos race China to moon
14 Feb 2026Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos pivot their space firms toward the moon as NASA urges speed in the race with China.
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US jury finds Johnson & Johnson liable for cancer in latest talc trial
14 Feb 2026The jury sided with family members of Gayle Emerson, who claimed that Johnson & Johnson knew for years its talc-based products were dangerous but failed to warn consumers.
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Why being hopeful is more radical than ever now
14 Feb 2026For award-winning playwright Simon Stephens, theatre's enduring role is to remind us that human beings are complex and that polarisation is a lie.
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UK High Court ruling major blow to government
14 Feb 2026The UK High Court has ruled the government's decision to ban activist group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation last summer was unlawful.
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Denmark's PM says she and Greenland's PM had constructive meeting with Rubio
14 Feb 2026A push by US President Donald Trump for the US to acquire Greenland has prompted severe tensions in recent months.
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Russia, Ukraine to hold talks in Geneva next week
14 Feb 2026The announcement by both countries signals the next leg in fraught US-brokered negotiations seeking to end the four-year war.
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Second US aircraft carrier to deploy to Middle East: reports
13 Feb 2026Washington and Tehran began indirect talks last week over the future of Iran's nuclear program, and Trump warned of "very traumatic" consequences for the country if it failed to make a nuclear deal.
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Former Norway PM charged with corruption over alleged ties to Epstein, lawyers say
13 Feb 2026Norway's former Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland has been charged with "aggravated corruption" after a police probe into his alleged ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to the law…
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ICE blocked detainees' access to lawyers in Minnesota, judge finds
13 Feb 2026Detainees are sometimes moved so quickly and frequently that ICE loses track of where they are, the judge found.
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The Gucci-wearing teen who may be North Korea's next leader
13 Feb 2026The Kim family has ruled North Korea with an iron grip for decades, and a cult of personality surrounding their "Paektu bloodline" dominates daily life in the isolated country.
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Dr Oz invited Epstein to a Valentine's Day party
13 Feb 2026Dr Oz sent the invite almost a decade after Epstein's first sex crime charges became public in July 2006.
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