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Australian Reptile Park to milk its largest recorded funnel-web spider
8 Jan 2025The spider named Hemsworth, measuring in at 9.2cm, will have its venom extracted for antivenom.
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More assaults of women since Vanuatu earthquake - police chief
9 Jan 2025There have been dozens of cases reported to the police's family protection unit, a police inspector says.
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Urgency mounts in search for survivors of powerful Tibet earthquake
8 Jan 2025Search and rescue teams race the clock to find those unaccounted for as temperatures are to drop as low as minus 18 degrees Celsius overnight.
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Why does Trump want to end US daylight saving time?
8 Jan 2025And what's New Zealand's role in it being in force in the first place?
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Tasmanian whisky makers harness sheep poo to stand out
9 Jan 2025Some of Tasmania's 90 whisky distillers are going to great lengths to give their drops a distinct style.
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Hiker found after two weeks lost in Australian mountains
8 Jan 2025Authorities where alerted on Boxing Day after Hadi Nazari failed to return to the campground he had agreed to meet at.
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Rottnest Island seaplane crash pilot identified as 34-year-old James Wong
8 Jan 2025The plane crash killed people including the pilot James Wong.
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HMPV may be spreading in China. Here's what to know
8 Jan 2025Analysis - Five years on from the first news of Covid-19, recent reports of an obscure respiratory virus in China may understandably raise concerns.
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South Korea's Yoon faces second arrest attempt in fortified compound
The first arrest attempt was called off after authorities were blocked from entering the presidential compound by a human chain of hundreds of PSS members and military guards.
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Wildfires rage in Los Angeles, forcing tens of thousands to flee
8 Jan 2025More than 30,000 people have been evacuated as three blazes destroy numerous buildings and creating traffic jams.
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AC/DC childhood home demolished
8 Jan 2025Developers responsible have issued an apology, claiming they had no idea of the Sydney property's cultural significance.
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Evacuations as extreme winds fan LA fires
8 Jan 2025Huge plumes of smoke are blowing from hills as flames encroach on homes.
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Las Vegas Cybertruck suspect used ChatGPT to plan blast, police say
8 Jan 2025Officials say the suspect used asked ChatGPT how much explosives would be needed to trigger the blast which occurred outside the the Las Vegas Trump International Hotel on New Year's Day.
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Rescue efforts under way after earthquake in Tibet kills more than 120
8 Jan 2025An initial survey showed 3609 homes had been destroyed in the Shigatse region of Tibet.
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Disinformation experts slam Facebook decision to end fact-checking
8 Jan 2025The shock announcement is seen as an attempt to appease US President-elect Donald Trump.
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More than 120 dead in Tibet quake, search for survivors in freezing cold
8 Jan 2025The magnitude 6.8 earthquake has so far claimed at least 126 lives and flattened hundreds of houses.
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'Snowball's chance in hell' - Trudeau rejects Trump's call for Canada to join US
8 Jan 2025The incoming US president suggested Canada become the 51st state. The outgoing Candian PM thinks otherwises.
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Police officer who fatally struck Indian student fired
8 Jan 2025Kevin Dave hit and killed graduate student Jaahnavi Kandula in Seattle two years ago.
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Two bodies found in wheel well of a JetBlue plane in Florida
8 Jan 2025It's the latest in a string of incidents that have raised concerns over airline security.
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Vanuatu earthquake: Latest update paints a distressing picture
Concerns over gender-based violence in Vanuatu have emerged in a government report following the devastating earthquake in Port Vila just over three weeks ago.
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French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen dies
8 Jan 2025Controversy was Le Pen's constant companion: his multiple convictions for inciting racial hatred and condoning war crimes dogged the National Front.
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New pest control method poisoning mating male mosquitoes
Researchers say the Toxic Male Technique could significantly reduce the threat of insect pests such as disease-carrying mosquitoes.
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Fiji's suspended Kiwi chief prosecutor reinstated
8 Jan 2025Fiji's suspended chief prosecutor Christopher Pryde has been cleared of alleged "misbehaviour" and reinstated after 21 months.
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Back to Black's Marisa Abela among Rising Star Award nominees
8 Jan 2025By Marie-Louise Gumuchian of Reuters Marisa Abela, who portrayed late singer Amy Winehouse in biopic "Back to Black", and "Anora" star Mikey Madison are among the five nominees for the...
