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Australian airlines ban use of portable power banks after string of fires
21 Nov 2025Australian airlines will ban the use of portable power banks from next month following a string of international incidents.
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Billionaire's sci-fi dream became 'world's most hated car'
21 Nov 2025Elon Musk had hinted at his dream for a battery-electric pick-up truck for years before the prototype for his Tesla Cybertruck was unveiled.
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The US plan for ending the Ukraine war: What do we know?
21 Nov 2025The surprise proposal from the United States envisages Ukraine giving up land to Russia and limiting its military capacity, concessions that Kyiv has previously rejected. Audio
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Fire forces evacuation at COP30 climate talks
21 Nov 2025UN climate talks in Brazil were evacuated on Friday morning (NZ time) when a fire broke out inside the venue in Belem.
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'Toxic culture': Boris Johnson's government slammed over Covid inaction
21 Nov 2025Modelling shows that an earlier first lockdown could have prevented 23,000 deaths in England alone, a new report says.
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Kevin Spacey says he doesn't have a home
21 Nov 2025The Oscar-winning actor says he's got "no home," citing the costs he's incurred following allegations of sexual assault.
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Kids who count on their fingers do better at maths
21 Nov 2025If you ask a small child a simple maths question, such as 4+2, they may count on their fingers to work it out.
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BBC faces new woes over discredited Diana interview
The 1995 broadcast was seen as a journalistic coup, but later unravelled when it emerged the journalist had faked documents to secure the interview.
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AI's blind spot: Tools fail to detect their own fakes
21 Nov 2025When outraged Filipinos turned to an AI-powered chatbot to verify a viral photograph, the tool failed to detect it was fabricated - even though it had generated the image itself.
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Trump calls for political opponents, including astronaut, to be hanged
21 Nov 2025US President Donald Trump has evoked the death penalty for Democratic lawmakers who urged the military to refuse illegal orders.
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Donald Trump not invited to Dick Cheney's funeral
21 Nov 2025"In our nation's 248 year-history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump," Cheney once said.
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Top US health body adopts Kennedy's anti-vaccine views on revamped website
21 Nov 2025Scientists took issue with statements on the website that studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
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Eight new MPs elected to Tonga parliament
The caretaker prime minister has kept his place in parliament for another term, winning his constituency in the general election by nearly three-quarters of the electorate vote.
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Narco subs appear in Pacific amid warnings cartels are ramping up trafficking
20 Nov 2025In the past 12 months, three empty vessels have been found floating near the Solomon Islands.
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Israeli fire kills four in Gaza, casting further doubt on ceasefire
20 Nov 2025Israel's military confirmed the strikes but said it was not aware of casualties.
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Hundreds of Indonesians flee homes after volcano erupts
20 Nov 2025Some houses near the volcano were partially buried by volcanic ash and rock fragments.
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Ex-Philippine mayor given life sentence for human trafficking
20 Nov 2025A raid uncovered hundreds of trafficked workers including foreign nationals.
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Some coloured asbestos sand traced to 'a particular quarry in China'
20 Nov 2025It took a fluke discovery at a testing lab to uncover that they contained asbestos.
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From Olympics to drug lord: Federal officials unveil more charges against snowboarder
20 Nov 2025The new charges against Ryan James Wedding include murder, witness tampering, money laundering and drug trafficking.
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Trump signed the Epstein files bill. Will he actually release them all?
20 Nov 2025There are plenty of reasons to be suspicious about how the administration might handle the Epstein files release.
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Chinese research ships, US military active in north Pacific, monitor shows
20 Nov 2025Five Chinese research vessels, including ships used for space and missile tracking and underwater mapping, were active in the northwest Pacific.
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Trump leads boycott of G20 summit
20 Nov 2025The high-powered gathering represents 85 percent of global GDP and two-thirds of the world's population, but the US won't be there.
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Should I kick my diet soft-drink habit? Where do I start?
Here are three evidence-based strategies to help you adjust.
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Trump moves to strip protections for endangered species
20 Nov 2025Trump administration officials defended their proposal as common sense.
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