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Authorities became suspicious of the 19-year-old Taiwanese woman's unusual movements as she prepared to board a flight

Teen with 30 tortoises under clothes nabbed at Thai airport

Sabastian Sawe was given a hero's welcome at Nairobi's international airport

'I did it for all of us'

Hero's welcome in Kenya for marathon record-breaker Sawe

President Donald Trump said that a US naval blockade against Iran could last months

Amid naval blockade

Trump warns Iran blockade could last months, sending oil prices soaring

Australia's social media ban for under-16s comes into force on December 10

Australia's social media ban

No 'meaningful' shift from social media sites after Australia teen ban: govt report

Soren Torpegaard Lund will compete in Vienna on May 16th with the song 'For vi gar hjem' ('Before We Go Home'), an ode to the world of nightclubs

'I'm trying to really play it cool'

Denmark's Soren Torpegaard Lund to 'stay true' at Eurovision

Sajid Akram and son Naveed are accused of opening fire as Jewish families thronged Bondi Beach for a Hanukkah celebration in December

'We demand answers'

Australian Jewish group warned of 'attack' before Bondi mass shooting: inquiry

Jordan Adams carrying a fridge starts the 2026 London Marathon

'A hard disease'

Marathon brothers run Ireland in race to find dementia cure

Morning Roundup

RTL Today Radio on FM, Luxembourg's traditional working week is disappearing, and the Iran war has cost America $25 billion

Naoya Inoue (front L) and Junto Nakatani (front R) attend a press conference ahead of their May 2 fight

Tokyo Dome showdown

Inoue wary of 'clever' Nakatani in sold-out Tokyo superfight

White supremacist killer Brenton Tarrant appealed to the Court of Appeal in February

New Zealand mosque killer loses bid to overturn convictions

One of the key outcomes was the creation of an expert scientific panel to advise governments pathways away from fossil fuels

Conference takeaways

Key points from the first global talks on phasing out fossil fuels

Japan's Sunrise festival attracts devotees from across the country every spring to a largely untouched mountaintop outside Tokyo

Sunrise festival

Mountain festival marks spring arrival high above Tokyo

Social media posts flaunting the hamlet's stunning views have left residents fuming that their little slice of paradise has turned into an internet sensation

'Everyone's fed up'

Australia's 'most beautiful' street fed up with viral fame

Climate activists have called for a rapid exit from oil and gas during the first conference on breaking fossil fuel reliance, in Santa Marta, Colombia

Global energy transition

Nations urged to 'go further' as fossil fuel exit talks wrap in Colombia

Cuban 10-year-old Juan Jose Guilarte, who was born with a congenital malformation that saw his left leg develop only to the kneecap, dreams of becoming an Olympian

Olympic ambition

Cuban boy's sporting dreams on hold as surgery backlog grows

Bali's local government gave just weeks notice for a prohibition on organic waste dumping at the bulging Suwung landfill in the capital Denpasar

As government bans open tips

Bali drowning in trash after landfill closed

Violinist Linda Lampenius and singer Pete Parkkonen are favourites to win Eurovision for Finland

ESC preparation

Finland's Eurovision favourite brings flames and a frantic violin to Vienna

FIFA President Gianni Infantino is juggling multiple issues ahead of the 76th FIFA Congress in Vancouver, the last major gathering of football's global governing body before the World Cup

FIFA Congress in Vancouver

Iran, World Cup loom over FIFA Congress

Reigning champion Zhao Xintong of China has been knocked out of the World Snooker Championship by Shaun Murphy

13-10 quarter-final defeat

World snooker champion Zhao Xintong succumbs to 'Crucible curse'

D4vd faces murder charges over the death and dismemberment of a young teenager

Celeste Rivas Hernandez

D4vd used Amazon chainsaws to hack up teen's body: prosecutors

Activists have deployed posters to oppose Jeff Bezos's involvement in the Met Gala

Plea for action

Anti-Bezos campaign urges Met Gala boycott in New York

Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla placed flowers at the 9/11 memorial in New York

'We stand united'

King Charles touts 'solidarity' with US at 9/11 memorial

Des locaux de Google à Manhattan

Google-parent Alphabet soars as Meta stumbles over AI costs

Outgoing Fed Chair Jerome Powell stressed the need for the US central bank to be 'free of political influence'

Ahead of mandate ending

Powell's decision to stay on at Fed ignites new Trump insult

The Central Bank of Brazil said that Wednesday's cut was part of a 'calm and cautious' approach

Economic policy shift

Brazil lowers benchmark rate to 14.5% in second consecutive cut

Paris on December 28, 2016, during a period of increased air pollution

'EU standards were mostly met'

Air quality improving in Europe but more effort needed: report

President Vladimir Putin said he was ready to declare a ceasefire for the duration of Victory Day celebrations

'Very good conversation'

Putin, Trump discuss Iran, Ukraine in phone call: Kremlin

The calls to law enforcement included false claims of homicides, suicides, kidnappings and mass shootings

Justice Department

Romanian behind 'swatting' attacks in US gets four years in prison

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