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Teenage girl killed in shark attack near Brisbane
A teenage girl has died after being attacked by a shark in Queensland, Australia. Paramedics responded to reports of a “serious shark bite incident” at Woorim Beach, just north of Brisbane, around 16:45 local time (06:45 GMT) on Monday, Queensland Ambulance Service wrote on X. Police confirmed that the girl had suffered life-threatening injuries and…
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Amy Allen becomes first woman to win best songwriter Grammy
Getty Images You may not have heard of the first woman to be named best songwriter at the Grammys before – but you may well have sung along to one of her hits. Amy Allen is behind a string of pop chart-toppers including Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso and Please Please Please, and was also nominated for…
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BBC reports from site of Queensland flooding
Severe flooding in Queensland has forced thousands of people to evacuate, cut power to homes and washed away sections of a vital highway. In Townsville, one of the hardest-hit cities in the region, people are bracing themselves for further flooding. As the rain eased up on Monday evening, BBC reporter Simon Atkinson joined locals surveying…
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Pro-Russia paramilitary leader killed in Moscow blast
The leader of a pro-Russian paramilitary group in eastern Ukraine has died in hospital after being injured in an explosion in Moscow on Monday morning, Russian media have said. Armen Sargsyan, the leader of the “Arbat” battalion, was severely injured following a blast in the entrance hall of a residential building in north-west Moscow, 12km…
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France readies itself for child abuse trial of former surgeon
AFP Court sketch of Joel Le Scouarnec at his first trial in 2020 Warning: This story contains distressing details from the start A former surgeon who is accused of abusing hundreds of young patients, often while they were under anaesthetic, is set to go on trial this month in the largest child abuse trial in…
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Spain football kiss ‘stained’ World Cup win, Hermoso tells Rubiales trial
Jenni Hermoso has told the trial of former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales that the kiss he gave her at the 2023 World Cup “stained one of the happiest days of my life”. Rubiales, the former president of Spain’s football federation, went on trial in Madrid on Monday over the kiss, accused of sexual assault…
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Beyoncé given Grammy by Taylor Swift after record-breaking night
Beyoncé took home three Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night, including best album. The star was recognised for her eighth album, Cowboy Carter, which celebrates and contextualises the black roots of country music. She also won the Grammy for best country album – to her evident surprise – in an announcement from Taylor…
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Car bomb blast in northern Syria kills 15 agricultural workers
Fifteen people, including 14 women, have been killed in a car bomb attack on a vehicle transporting agricultural workers in northern Syria, first responders say. Another 15 women were wounded by the blast on the outskirts of the city of Manbij, east of Aleppo, according to the Syria Civil Defence. The agency, which is also…
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Donald Trump to cut off funding for South Africa over land seizure policy
US President Donald Trump has said he will cut all future funding to South Africa over allegations that it was confiscating land and “treating certain classes of people very badly”. Last month, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law a bill that allows land seizures without compensation in certain circumstances. Land ownership has long been a…
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Chinese fashion giant re-enters India five years after ban
Nikita Yadav BBC News, Delhi BBC Shein has been relaunched in India by Reliance Retail Chinese fast fashion app Shein has relaunched in India five years after it was banned by Delhi, under a deal with Indian firm Reliance Retail. An official from Reliance Retail, who did not wish to be named, told the BBC…
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