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Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:30:00 +1000Clancy faces years of confinement, no matter what comes next
Even as a jury failed to reach a verdict in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, her future is unlikely to include freedom, at least for a long time. But Americans have been divided over the goal of her confinement.
Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:07:08 +1000Indonesian volcano eruption halts flights at country’s busiest airport
Four Qantas flights – the arriving and departing non-stop services between Sydney and Jakarta and Melbourne and Jakarta – were cancelled on Sunday.
Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:00:21 +1000Lava spews from Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano
Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano has erupted, prompting the cancellation of all flights at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.
Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:48:22 +1000Farage says Britain is broken and only Reform can fix it. Now the pressure is on to deliver
From a distance, it is easy to dismiss Reform as an extreme movement that wants to overturn British politics with radical change. Up close, however, the members are ordinary people with everyday concerns.
Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:30:00 +1000School run presents ‘most dangers’ to Harry and Meghan
Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, will start at a new British school next week.
Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:30:00 +1000Trump is an outlaw. And the US system was not built for an outlaw in the Oval Office
He zeroes in on legal loopholes and the assumption that our leaders – and their families – will be not be voracious scam artists.
Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:11:40 +1000Two people are rescued 10 days after deadly Nepal floods
A woman is rescued from a house and a man is rescued from a tunnel, as teams from across the world work to find those trapped follow the floods in Nepal.
Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:22:57 +1000She was given up for dead, then a faint cry came from the depths of the mud
A rescue from a mostly buried house has given new hope to a town devastated by floods in Nepal. Earlier, another survivor had been pulled from a tunnel.
Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:40:09 +1000US destroys three Iranian oil tankers
The US military says it has destroyed three Iranian oil tankers after its ships were targeted.
Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:30:00 +1000‘Treasonous’: Pentagon forces staff to take polygraphs in hunt for leaks to journalists
The investigators asked military officers and civilian employees if they disclosed classified information and about whether they provided information about a shortage of long-range missiles and Patriot interceptors.
Sun, 06 Sep 2026 04:45:00 +1000How cheap armed drones are changing the economics of war
Open-source technology and 3D-printed parts are making drones the future of armed conflict around the world, and reshaping the business of war.
Sun, 06 Sep 2026 01:25:13 +1000US strikes three Iranian oil tankers after it says warships were targeted
The US Central Command said an aircraft carrier and guided-missile destroyer evaded “multiple unprovoked Iranian attacks”, a day after President Donald Trump sought to minimise the conflict as “small potatoes”.
Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:55:51 +1000‘Survivable pockets’: Australian tunnel expert arrives in Nepal as two people rescued after 10 days
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.
Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:47:50 +1000Two people found alive 10 days after floods
Rescuers in Nepal pulled out a Chinese man and a woman in separate operations Saturday, 10 days after devastating floods hit the country, as teams continued searching for thousands of missing people.
Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:20:19 +1000Qantas plane diverted after suspected engine issue
Qantas plane bound for Sydney from Queenstown, New Zealand was diverted to Christchurch after flames appeared to sputter from the engine.
Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:54:24 +1000Qantas plane diverted after suspected engine issue
A Qantas plane travelling from Queenstown to Sydney was diverted to Christchurch.
Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:45:00 +1000At first, the smell is overwhelming. Then, they open the book of the dead
For families whose desperate combing of Kathmandu hospitals after Nepal’s devastating flooding have come to naught, the morgue holds closure or hope.
Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:45:00 +1000Australia and Africa expand, North America and Europe shrink: UN adopts new world map
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”.
Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:06:41 +1000In Nepal, families look for loved ones, but dread what they will find
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.
Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:52:18 +1000Judge declares mistrial in Lindsay Clancy murder case that gripped America
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.