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Documents that were included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files are photographed Friday, Jan. 2, 2026

US Justice Department watchdog to review Epstein files release

The review from the inspector general's office will focus on how the department collected, reviewed and redacted materials in preparation for their release.

Crime and Justice

30 mins ago

Donald Trump

Trump: US military to 'shoot and kill' Iranian small boats choking Strait

"I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be ... that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz," Trump posted

World

51 mins ago

Rescuers at the site where two trains have collided between Hilleroed and Kagerup, north of Copenhagen, Thursday, April 23, 2026.

Trains collide in Denmark, leaving 5 people critically injured

There were 38 people aboard the two trains, according to a spokesperson for the North Zealand police.

World

7:06am

US troops board a tanker associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil.

US military says it seized another oil tanker associated with Iran

It comes amid a standoff with Iran, a day after its paramilitary Revolutionary Guards took control of two vessels in the crucial Strait of Hormuz.

World

6:28am

Cooling towers of nuclear power plant against sky and clouds

Why nuclear energy is having a global revival 40 years after Chernobyl

Decades after the worst ever nuclear energy disaster, there's a renewed appetite around the world, now boosted by war in the Middle East.

World

6:00am

Documents that were included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files are photographed Friday, Jan. 2, 2026

US Justice Department watchdog to review Epstein files release

The review from the inspector general's office will focus on how the department collected, reviewed and redacted materials in preparation for their release.

Crime and Justice

30 mins ago

Donald Trump

Trump: US military to 'shoot and kill' Iranian small boats choking Strait

"I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be ... that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz," Trump posted

World

51 mins ago

Rescuers at the site where two trains have collided between Hilleroed and Kagerup, north of Copenhagen, Thursday, April 23, 2026.

Trains collide in Denmark, leaving 5 people critically injured

There were 38 people aboard the two trains, according to a spokesperson for the North Zealand police.

World

7:06am

US troops board a tanker associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil.

US military says it seized another oil tanker associated with Iran

It comes amid a standoff with Iran, a day after its paramilitary Revolutionary Guards took control of two vessels in the crucial Strait of Hormuz.

World

6:28am

Cooling towers of nuclear power plant against sky and clouds

Why nuclear energy is having a global revival 40 years after Chernobyl

Decades after the worst ever nuclear energy disaster, there's a renewed appetite around the world, now boosted by war in the Middle East.

World

6:00am

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Ahmad Vahidi, who was recently appointed as commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has consolidated his position as a key power broker in Iran.

Who is actually calling the shots in Iran?

Iran has become a powerful militia with a state, writes expert Andreas Krieg.

World

6:00am

Ali Shamkhani, then secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, right, shakes hands with Saudi national security adviser Musaad bin Mohammed al-Aiban, left, as Wang Yi, China's most senior diplomat, looks on.

China's behind-the-scenes role in Iran war diplomacy

Long reluctant to get involved in conflicts far from its borders, China has emerged as a major player with attempts to mediate conflicts from Southeast Asia to Europe.

World

7:48pm

2:19

Jimmy Donaldson (aka MrBeast) is currently the world’s most successful YouTuber reportedly making US$700 million per year.

MrBeast staffer says she was harassed for years in new lawsuit

The ex-employee alleges she was fired after returning from maternity leave, raising disturbing allegations about the culture behind YouTube’s most popular creator.

World

6:54pm

The download screen for Truth Social app is seen on a laptop computer, March 20, 2024, in New York.

Trump Media pivots to crypto, nuclear – but Its stock keeps falling

Investors are fleeing with the stock is down more than 60% since Trump was re-elected president, wiping out US$6 billion in shareholder wealth.

World

6:34pm

A woman smokes on a street in London on April 16, 2024.

UK lawmakers back smokefree generation laws earlier repealed in NZ

The law in the UK is similar to one New Zealand MPs passed in 2022 under the previous Labour government, but was repealed by the coalition.

World

6:16pm

The DOJ Logo.

US flies 10-year-old back from Cuba amid gender surgery concern

The returned child is at the centre of a custody dispute involving gender identity.

Crime and Justice

6:00pm

Alva Palosaari Sundman, right, checks out secondhand clothes at a clothing swap event in Stockholm, Sweden.

Sweden's secondhand clothing swaps offer trendy way to cut waste

Last year, some 140,000 people participated in 140 swap events and took home more than 44,000 pre-owned items.

Environment

5:00pm

A Lufthansa aircraft rolls on a bridge over a highway at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany.

Lufthansa cuts 20,000 flights as war squeezes fuel prices, supplies

The Lufthansa Group said the cancellation of less profitable routes would save the equivalent of approximately 40,000 metric tonnes of jet fuel.

World

3:31pm

The Sandilands saga continues.

Ratings slump as Kyle and Jackie O sued for millions

Audience share in the battling duo's former slot with ARN has seen a decline in listenership as the Sandilands saga drags on.

Crime and Justice

2:53pm

King Charles III and Queen Camilla were gathered with other members of the royal family to remember the life of Queen Elizabeth II.

New photo of royal family released for Queen Elizabeth II's birthday

Buckingham Palace shows portrait of working royals on what would have been the late Queen's 100th birthday.

World

2:39pm

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A photo of Celeste Rivas Hernandez is displayed Monday, April 20, 2026, in Los Angeles for a press conference regarding the case of singer D4vd.

Teen who singer D4vd is charged with killing died from penetrating wounds

David Burke, 21, was charged on Tuesday in the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

Crime and Justice

2:13pm

A table tennis robot built by Sony manoeuvres to hit the ball back to its human opponent, Akito Saeki, during a match in Tokyo, December 2025. (Source: Sony AI via AP)

Robot beats human pros at table tennis in milestone for machines

Ace proved a worthy adversary, though one with some non-human attributes: nine camera eyes and an uncanny ability to measure the ball's spin.

World

1:04pm

Aboriginal sovereignty protest January 2026.

'Lost' rule opens door to Australian Indigenous sovereignty

Research by Melbourne Law School's Olivia Barr has found a 1935 legal rule she says means there is an "open door" for the High Court to get involved in questions of Indigenous sovereignty.

Politics

12:17pm

 A Banned Books Week display is at the Mott Haven branch of the New York Public Library in the Bronx borough of New York City.

Book bans and attempted bans remain at record highs at US libraries

The American Library Association defines a challenge as "an attempt to have a library resource removed, or access to it restricted, based on the objections of a person or group".

World

10:55am

1:32

CDC officials haven't proposed an alternative information gathering technique.

US health officials nix publication of study on Covid vaccine effectiveness

The cancellation raised concerns around the deadly implications of political "muzzling" of scientific information.

Health

9:26am

Australian actress Alicia Gardiner was cleared of "breaking girl-code" but still faces AUD$500 fine for role in Palestine protest.

Prosecutors drop breast-grab charge against Aussie actor

Australian TV actress Alicia Gardiner was cleared of breaking the "girl code" during a parliamentry protest for Palestine, in which she allegedly twisted another woman's nipple.

Crime and Justice

8:59am

1:44

The Jordan flagged cargo ship "Baghdad" sails in Persian Gulf towards Strait of Hormuz in United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, April 22, 2026.

Iran fires on 3 ships in Strait of Hormuz, US maintains blockade

The attacks came a day after US President Donald Trump extended a ceasefire while maintaining an American blockade of Iranian ports.

World

Thu, Apr 23

2:18

Plush toys are displayed at a Camp store in New York. Camp, Nov. 21, 2019.

The everyday items the Iran war could make more expensive

Even plush playthings are not immune when oil shipments from the Middle East are constrained.

World

Thu, Apr 23

The highly contaminated control room for Reactor No. 4 is seen inside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, Nov. 10, 2000.

In photos: Chernobyl’s painful legacy of silence, sacrifice and danger

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, recalls the disaster that has haunted him and Ukraine for 40 years.

World

Wednesday 7:26pm

After threatening to bomb when the deadline expired, the US President instead permitted negotiations to continue. 

Iran attacks ship in Strait of Hormuz, complicating talks with US

Attack came after US President Donald Trump said the US would indefinitely extend the ceasefire with Iran.

World

Wednesday 6:49pm

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