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Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke told the National Press Club in Canberra that immigration was "fundamentally a strength" for Australia, but accepted that housing pressures required changes to policy

Australia to cut migration to fix housing crisis: minister

Last year was among the driest for the world's rivers in over three decades, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said

Increasingly erratic

World's water cycle becoming more unpredictable, UN warns

Before the impact (L) and after the creation of a new crater on the Moon's surface, taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera

Only recently formed

NASA scan discovers new, 'once in a century' Moon crater

Lionel Messi scored his 100th goal for Inter Miami in the Campeones Cup

Messi heads Inter Miami to Campeones Cup triumph

A 5.2-metre crocodile removed from the Fitzroy River in 2017

Croc-habitat gets green light for 2032 Olympic rowing

Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will discuss a range of issues at the summit, with trade likely top of the list

World's top economies

Where the US-China tariff row stands ahead of White House summit

Wildlife observer and former poacher Octavius using a mobile phone equipped with a telephoto lens to take pictures of wildlife in a forest near Labian village in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan

Turning bad to good

Indonesia cash-for-photos scheme turns animal hunters into protectors

Brazil's President and presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is warning his US counterpart not to meddle in next month's elections

At United Nations General Assembly

Lula says he will go to UN to tell Trump to 'stay out' of Brazil's elections

British and Thai Buddhist monk Shaun Chiverton, now known as Ajahn Jayasaro, walks along a meditation path in Bangkok on September 1, 2026

First non-Thai to reach status

'Left-field' life: Briton becomes Thailand's top foreign monk

India's changes to its transgender law disrupted Kali Sidharth Medepalli's hormone treatment

India's transgender amendment leaves many in limbo

AI looms large ahead of Xi, Trump summit

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, before they fell out of love with royal life

Have kept low profile

Harry set for UK public outings with security, royal status hazy

Badawi is best known for her work as a broadcaster for the UK's Channel 4 News and the BBC

Sold over 110,000 copies

UK-Sudanese author pens book to give children 'African history of Africa'

Real Madrid and Elche players wore a shirt in support of the people of Ceuta, but three of the team rolled it up partially

'Same as not wearing it'

Mbappe explains Ceuta shirt stance after criticism

Manchester United suffered a miserable exit from the League Cup against Brighton

Ongoing struggles

Carrick takes the blame as troubled Man Utd suffer League Cup misery

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, the husband of singer Taylor Swift, was among those named as an investor who was defrauded in a Ponzi scheme

Husband of singer Taylor Swift

NFL Chiefs' Kelce among investors bilked in Ponzi scheme

US Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said the rate hike was necessary in order to tackle stubbornly high inflation

Higher-than-target inflation

US Fed raises rates to tackle 'too high' inflation, irking Trump

Data centers, like this facility in Stone Ridge, Virginia, have sparked anger over noise and rising energy bills in residential areas across America

US House backs data center power cost bill amid midterm backlash

Argentine President Javier Milei has seized on Washington's readiness to review its stance on the disputed Falkland Islands

British-Israeli project

Argentine judge orders suspension of Falklands oil project

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh voted to increase interest rates, risking a rift with President Donald Trump, who appointed him to the post

Oil remains above $100

US stocks fall, dollar gains after Fed lifts interest rates

Turkish police rounded up 106 demonstrators in Istanbul on Tuesday but released them some 36 hours later

Turkey releases 106 protesters, jails more LGBTQ activists

The issue of AI looks set to dominate a week of talks and meetings between world leaders

Topic set to dominate week of talks

Candidate for UN chief calls for AI regulation akin to nuclear weapons

Air traffic controllers strike

Flights cancelled at Charleroi Airport, disruption could last until October

Canadian AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says humanity is losing control of the technology and urgent action is needed

Canadian computer scientist

'We're losing control,' AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio tells AFP

The vast majority of buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed in Israeli strikes, according to the United Nations

Damaged in strikes

Gaza apartment block collapse kills 21, including 12 children

The latest Ebola outbreak in DR Congo is the deadliest to hit the country

WHO eyes 'encouraging' signs in DRCongo fight against Ebola

The summer was the hottest in France for over a century

Hottest since 1900

Almost 8,000 excess deaths in France's scorched summer: statistics

Rachida Dati is one of the most prominent figures on the French right

Prominent right-winger

French ex-minister Dati goes on trial in Renault-Nissan corruption case

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