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Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:34:53 +1000
‘Devastating’: Dozens of new flight cancellations leave Australians stranded
With no idea when caps on arrivals will be lifted, Singapore Airlines has been forced to cancel at least one flight a day into Australia over the next three months.

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:16:35 +1000
The world’s smallest army - just 140 soldiers - considers the ‘unthinkable’
A bastion of conservatism even by the standards of the Vatican, the Swiss Guard has been a celebrated institution ever since its foundation in 1506.

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:45:35 +1000
Donors pledge $1.6 billion to help Afghans in need
The UN humanitarian chief says the donations show solidarity but warned “Afghanistan faces a long and hard road ahead”.

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:18:16 +1000
Gallery: The best photos from around the world
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:59:44 +1000
‘Moo-loo’: Scientists are potty-training cows helps to save planet
Radical step required after environmental impact of cattle farming shown to go far beyond mere flatulence.

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:54:36 +1000
Donald Trump on defensive after George W. Bush calls out domestic terrorism
“He shouldn’t be lecturing us about anything,” the former president said of his fellow ex-president. “The World Trade Centre came down during his watch.”

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +1000
‘Revenge’: Ex-wife takes frozen bodies, brains from Moscow cryogenics site
KrioRus, founded in 2006, says it holds the remains of 30 human patients and 20 animals that have been cryo-preserved.

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:56:44 +1000
Prince Andrew hires Armie Hammer’s lawyer to contest ‘baseless, non-viable’ US lawsuit
The Queen’s second son is being sued by Virginia Giuffre, an alleged victim of the late billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 06:00:49 +1000
Saudi activist’s phone leads to discovery of Apple iMessage hack
This is the first time since 2019 that the malicious code used in a Pegasus hack has been discovered by researchers.

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 05:25:39 +1000
Britain’s young teens will be vaccinated - but with a single dose
Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said that vaccinating minors aged 12 to 15 would help reduce the disruption to their education.

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 05:00:00 +1000
Why Xi Jinping is crushing private lives - and wealth
China’s fierce crackdown on its gay citizens is a sign of a bigger agenda: control. The President is also determined to redistribute wealth - and that campaign is shattering the nation’s private capital.

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 02:28:20 +1000
COVID vaccine boosters not widely needed, top FDA and WHO scientists say
Additional COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are not needed for the general population, leading scientists said in an article published in the Lancet medical journal.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:09:13 +1000
Lab-grown cheese gets record cash injection to tap cow-free market
A start-up that makes cultured mozzarella and ricotta cheeses without cows is looking to tap the growing market for environmentally friendly dairy alternatives.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:06:42 +1000
Alabama man dies after being turned away from 43 hospitals as COVID packs ICUs
Now the family of Ray DeMonia is urging those who remain unvaccinated to get immunised to help hospitals that have been pushed to their limits.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:32:39 +1000
Gallery: The best photos from around the world
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:17:46 +1000
‘Designed to fly under the radar’: North Korea’s new long-range cruise missile
The latest test demonstrates serious capability for the country that is in an arms race with its southern neighbour.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:08:47 +1000
Elon Musk’s SpaceX to embark on three-day all-civilian space trip
Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson recently launched themselves into zero gravity on suborbital trips lasting less than an hour.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:49:57 +1000
How outrage over vaccine mandates became a mainstream Republican stance
the fury over Biden’s mandates shows how a once-extreme stance has moved to the centre of the Republican Party.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +1000
Prince Andrew risks ‘provoking wrath of judge’ over pre-trial hearing
The Duke of York has appointed a US-based lawyer but it is understood that no one from his legal team will participate in a court-ordered telephone conference.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 07:27:32 +1000
Gallery: The best photos from around the world this week
From the Caldor fire continuing to rage across California to the the biggest ice melt years for Greenland in recorded history, these are the best photos from around the world in the past week, as chosen by The Age's photo editors.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:12:47 +1000
Outbreak in Putian, China prompts order to ‘strictly control’ movement
China declared the coronavirus under control in early 2020 but has suffered outbreaks of the more contagious Delta variant.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 05:25:59 +1000
Pope urges Orban’s Hungary to be more open to needy outsiders
The brevity of his Budapest stay has prompted diplomats and Catholic media to suggest the Pope is giving priority to Slovakia, in effect snubbing Hungary.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 05:00:00 +1000
‘At risk’: Return of Taliban forces Afghan media workers into the shadows
Media workers left behind in the country find themselves on the hit lists of the regime and criminals alike.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 04:29:00 +1000
‘It’s not a crisis, it’s a collapse’: Life in a total economic meltdown
The situation in Lebanon is so grave it may rank as one of the top three economic calamities to strike any nation for the past 170 years.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 02:06:57 +1000
Taliban to force female university students to study in segregated classes
Female university students in Afghanistan will no longer be able to study alongside their male peers, the Taliban government’s new higher education minister said on Sunday.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 01:09:29 +1000
England to scrap vaccine passport plan as European winter looms
Boris Johnson’s Health Minister says voluntary vaccines, combined with testing and treatments, would provide a “wall of defence” as the virus circulates.

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 18:05:15 +1000
Detention roulette and $1000 soups: account gives insight into China elite
A new memoir has raised a flurry of interest among scholars because of the rarity of insiders going public with details about China’s political royalty.

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 16:13:02 +1000
Gallery: The best photos from around the world
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 15:04:33 +1000
FBI releases newly declassified document into September 11 attacks
The 16-page report is the first document to be released since the President last week moved to declassify materials that for years have remained secret.

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 13:41:54 +1000
‘Children of the same foul spirit’: George W. Bush compares political extremists to 9/11 terrorists
Bush’s compared what he called the unity of Americans after the attacks on September 11, 2001, with the disunity of the present day.

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 12:28:15 +1000
Roe v Wade: What happened to the ‘baby who divided America’?
The child in the landmark Roe v Wade case has finally been named. Here’s how the mother and daughter shaped a nation’s furious abortion debate that still rages 48 years on.

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 11:27:24 +1000
BioNTech owners reveal how Pfizer rejected their jab
The rejection, revealed in a new book, comes as new US research shows that unvaccinated people were 11 times more likely to die from COVID-19.

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 10:48:34 +1000
Prince Andrew’s lawyers question service of documents in Giuffre case
The Prince’s lawyers have raised the possibility of challenging a US court’s jurisdiction in the case filed by Virginia Giuffre, a longtime accuser of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 07:30:47 +1000
‘An evil spectre descended’: New York marks 20th anniversary of September 11
Americans are not renowned for their subtlety, but the occasion was restrained and dignified. The focus was on paying tribute to victims, not politics.

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 04:52:23 +1000
Merkel calls migrant push at EU’s border ‘unacceptable’
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that she found it unacceptable that refugees were being used to apply pressure to Poland and other European Union members on the border with Belarus.

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 00:01:00 +1000
Poetic justice as Amanda Gorman picks a winner
The poet laureate is “weaponising” a big brand to push her own big platform of advancing literacy, equity and access.

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 17:32:38 +1000
‘It’s not a crisis, it’s a collapse’: life in a total economic meltdown
‘It’s not a crisis, it’s a collapse’: life in a total economic meltdown in Beirut.

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 16:48:26 +1000
‘Assume the worst’: coronavirus variants in Africa worry scientists
An international genome-tracking study published in Science warns that Africa’s slow vaccine rollout could produce a vaccine-evading mutation.

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 13:23:24 +1000
‘Even today, we are looking for the lost ones’
The survivors of a massacre say they’re still searching for more than 100 people days after one of the deadliest battles of the Ethiopian conflict.

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 12:08:34 +1000
‘Frenzy fills the night’: Netflix trailer for Diana musical panned in UK
The trailer reveals a dance-off between Camilla and Diana while the script reportedly has the Queen say: “In the old days we would have chopped off your head.”

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 11:01:52 +1000
Evacuation flights of Afghans to the US halted over four measles cases
The decision was made on the recommendation of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention the day after the Taliban cleared new flights from Kabul.

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 10:34:04 +1000
‘I found my purpose’: Ground Zero 20 years later
On the eve of the 20th anniversary ceremony, those whose lives were changed forever have made their way to the memorial to the Twin Towers.

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 09:56:25 +1000
‘Have at it’: Biden readies for Republicans’ vaccine mandate lawsuits
The Republican National Committee plans to sue the administration “to protect Americans and their liberties”.

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 08:41:07 +1000
‘A blueprint’: World’s biggest plant to pull CO2 from the air is up and running
It is a straightforward chemical reaction: taking the carbon dioxide causing global warming out of the air and tucking it away where it can do little harm.

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 06:26:44 +1000
Prince Andrew served with legal papers for sex abuse suit, court filing shows
The Duke of York was served with papers at the Royal Lodge, Windsor on the morning of August 27, according to a witness statement filed in Manhattan federal court.

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 04:25:00 +1000
Lives changed in a moment: the voices of September 11
An eyewitness transformed, a grieving son, a student stifled under Taliban rule - they all remember what they were doing when they heard about the attacks.

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 03:34:53 +1000
New York City subway failed because someone pushed the wrong button
A recent power outage that disrupted half of New York City’s subway system for hours was likely caused by someone accidentally pressing an “Emergency Power Off” button.

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 21:31:28 +1000
Stop lying to the Russians, Australian tells Putin at MH17 murder trial
Lisa Clancy, whose brother-in-law died in the crash, urged the Russian President to admit to his people the Kremlin’s involvement in the murder of the 298 people on the flight.

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 19:45:00 +1000
The day the world changed
Where were you when the world irrevocably changed?

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:08:00 +1000
Scott Morrison set for first one-on-one with Joe Biden to talk China
The planned meeting will offer Morrison an important opportunity to cement a personal relationship with Biden eight months after he entered the White House.



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