Arnold Dix landed in Kathmandu confident in the hope of finding more survivors trapped hundreds of metres below the earth as another man was brought out alive 10 days after the floods.

Qantas plane bound for Sydney from Queenstown, New Zealand was diverted to Christchurch after flames appeared to sputter from the engine.

A Qantas plane travelling from Queenstown to Sydney was diverted to Christchurch.

For families whose desperate combing of Kathmandu hospitals after Nepal’s devastating flooding have come to naught, the morgue holds closure or hope.

The US was the only country to vote against the move to limit use of the famous 16th-century Mercator map for the Equal Earth projection, saying it promoted an “ideological agenda”.

South-East Asia correspondent Zach Hope reports from Kathmandu, where people gather at a morgue to see if their relatives are among the flood victims.

Clancy was on trial for the murder of her three children in 2023 in a case that has divided the US over mental illness and the 36-year-old’s criminal culpability.

A mistrial has been declared after mother Lindsay Clancy was charged with three counts of murder over the deaths of her three children.

New York police have fatally shot a man after he attempted to climb the Brooklyn Bridge.

The 15-strong specialist drone team, which includes 10 Fire and Rescue NSW personnel, has arrived in Kathmandu following a plea for help from Nepal’s government.

Twenty-five years since the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, 9/11 casts a shadow over a nation that just can’t seem to agree on anything any more.

Addressing Reform UK’s annual conference, British right-wing leader Nigel Farage admitted there had been “loose pub talk” by two aides on donations but declared the party had not broken the law.

Two workers have been pulled alive from a tunnel nine days after Nepal’s devastating flash floods.

The number of Australians missing since last week’s flood has been revised down to 36, while Nepalese officials remain hopeful that more hydropower workers will be rescued.

The brutal reality of unstinting heatwaves has forced a cultural shift in a country where home owners usually weather the summer with open windows and fans.

The annual Nevada desert “freak fest” known for its anything-goes excess seems to be turning into a turn-off for Gen Z.

Rescuers have pulled several survivors from tunnels in Nepal after more than a week of being trapped by the catastrophic flooding and landslides.

In the village of Thulo Bharkhu on the Nepal-Tibet border, families mourn the loved ones lost, even as relatives of the Australians missing after the floods continue their desperate search.

The president linked the issue to the Iran war by noting, again, that former British prime minister Keir Starmer turned down his request for military support to help open the Strait of Hormuz.

Tributes have flowed to journalist and feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who has died aged 92.