Tired of having spent much of the last year cooped up at home, customers are buying high-end items as they emerge from lockdown.

Naftali Bennett, the head of a small ultranationalist party, will take over as prime minister. But if he wants to keep the job, he will have to maintain an unwieldy coalition of parties from the political right, left and centre.

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Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson will thrash out the final terms over a lavish dinner at Downing Street.

The heavy sentence comes amid a continuing flurry of incidents and arrests at places like banks and polling places across the US over masks.

Tigsti’s mother walked for 12 days to get her famished newborn to a clinic in Tigray. The UN says this is the world’s worst famine conditions in a decade.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said he could count on police officers “whatever happens,” as the far-right former army captain dubbed the country’s state military police “my army”.

ID cards and other possessions from people long disappeared were found at the junk-filled home, suggesting the trail of killings may go back years.

The Russian leader bristled when a US reporter named specific opponents of Putin’s who have been killed in recent years.

The company’s first flight into space is scheduled for July 20, the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Scott Morrison, Joe Biden and Boris Johnson agree more co-operation is needed because the “strategic context in the Indo-Pacific was changing”.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says more work is needed to find out what caused the global “carnage” of the coronavirus pandemic.

The United States is back as a cooperative leader of the free world under President Joe Biden, France’s Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday, illustrating the relief felt by many key US allies that the tumult of Donald Trump’s presidency is over.

Airline bookings have been picking up since February, as more Americans were vaccinated against COVID-19.

Hawking’s personal reference library and his papers are being preserved by Cambridge University Library, which also holds the papers of other scientific giants, such as Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.

“I realised, oh my God, I’m in a whale’s mouth and he’s trying to swallow me,” lobster diver Michael Packard told a Boston TV station. “This is it. I’m gonna die.”

Chow, along with Joshua Wong and Nathan Law, who has since been given asylum in Britain, came to prominence as teenagers during the 2014 protests.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will debate the fast-tracked vaccine timeline in Carbis Bay this weekend, as world leaders discuss readiness for the next virus.

She is the heir apparent. But after the Vice-President’s difficult week, Democrats are asking if she would be up to the task of running for president in 2024.

Chinese officials have charged 31 people over the deaths of 21 runners in freezing conditions in a 100-kilometre race in the country’s northwest.

As the Prince of Wales called on world leaders to tackle climate change with pandemic-level urgency, the Queen openly rejoiced in her return to the world stage.

Darnella Frazier ushered her niece into a store then went back out to the footpath to begin recording because “it wasn’t right. He was suffering. He was in pain”.

World leaders are being warned their plan to donate 1 billion vaccine does not go far enough and is “taking a gamble” with the economy.

Two passengers who were sharing a room on the ship tested positive for the coronavirus, two days before the cruise was scheduled to end.

The Justice Department under former president Donald Trump secretly seized data from the accounts of at least two Democratic lawmakers in 2018, sources say.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is one of several key world leaders to have their travel disrupted because the airport has been deemed too dangerous. 

Muslim community advocates have slammed the planned “They Are Us” film to feature Australian Rose Byrne as Jacinda Ardern as distasteful.

People and companies who comply with US and EU rules may be denied entry into China or be expelled. Their assets may be seized or frozen.

Suddenly, it seems, everyone in America has very long hair: men, women, children…Will regular haircuts become a thing of the past?

As the government clamps down on dissent and the COVID-19 crisis deepens, opposition political figures have appealed to the king to lift the state of emergency.

The satellite would allow continuous monitoring of facilities ranging from Persian Gulf oil refineries and Israeli military bases to Iraqi barracks that house US troops. 

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There will be no foreign spectators, limited numbers of Japanese fans – and even cheering is banned. Welcome to a Games like no other.

Scientist on UK advisory board says wearing masks should be as routine as wearing seatbelts.

National Geographic announced this week it will recognise the body of water that encircles Antarctica and runs along Australia’s southern coast near Victoria, as the world’s fifth.

Johnson was clearly trying to shed his Trumpian image and develop a bond with the new US President.

“Nothing is really in my defence,” Toobin said. “This was deeply moronic and indefensible. . . . It was wrong, it was stupid, and I’m trying to be a better person.”

The US agency and other health regulators have been investigating heart inflammation cases after Israel’s Health Ministry reported it had found a likely link to the condition in young men.

In a touch of symbolism, US first lady Jill Biden wore a black jacket with “LOVE” embroidered on the back, which she said was a message of “love from America”.

Australian and US officials are hoping to co-ordinate the visit with a high-powered joint summit with the Japanese and Indian prime ministers in Washington.

Damien Tarel was also banned from ever holding public office in France after he slapped Emmanuel Macron’s left cheek as the French leader was greeting a crowd.

Emma Coronel Aispuro appeared in federal court in Washington and pleaded guilty to three federal offences as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has offered his view on how to handle relations with the rising superpower after a meeting with Scott Morrison on Thursday.

Tokyo’s patience with China - as demonstrated by its strong backing of Australia - is wearing thin despite centuries of shared culture, trade and war.

The country’s second-largest lake is gone. It dried up about five years ago. Its people and language are struggling to stay alive.

The 79-year-old from Los Angeles has been charged with wire fraud and money laundering.

The first in-person gathering of world leaders since the pandemic began features a beach barbecue, but the summit’s main menu is several meaty issues.

The unappetising muck has become a source of national embarrassment and rising anger, prompting the President to intervene.

It may not be a race in Australia, but the urgency to distribute whatever COVID-19 vaccine supplies are available in the region is palpable.

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