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Australian girls are being hunted by online crime networks and coerced into acts of violence - against themselves, their siblings or pets - in a "twisted type of gamification", police have warned.A new taskforce has been set up to...

Australian authorities are investigating after an 80-year-old woman who was left behind on a Great Barrier Reef island by a cruise ship was found dead.The woman had been hiking on Lizard Island, 250 km (155 miles) north of Cairns,...

The U.S. military struck four more vessels that were allegedly trafficking narcotics in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing 14 and leaving one survivor, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. Charlie D'Agata has details. Source link

Hurricane Melissa became one of the most powerful hurricanes on record to make landfall in the Atlantic Basin.Melissa made landfall Tuesday afternoon in southwestern Jamaica near New Hope as a Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph,...

Washington — President Trump heads Wednesday to Gyeongju, South Korea, for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and his highly anticipated meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Mr. Trump is expected to address the summit Wednesday...

For decades, Bill Gates has warned of climate disaster — but his tone meaningfully shifted Tuesday as the billionaire Microsoft co-founder cautioned against taking a "doomsday view" on the planet's future.In a memo posted online,...

The BBC said it was "deeply concerned" about the wellbeing of one its journalists who has been unable to leave Vietnam for several months.The Vietnamese national travelled to the country to visit family and renew their passport, but the...

David Gritten,Jerusalem and Rushdi Abualouf,Gaza correspondent, in IstanbulAnadolu via Getty ImagesEarlier, Israel's prime minister had pledged to take unspecified "steps" against Hamas after the group handed over a coffin containing human remains on Monday night that did not belong...

Microsoft Corp. once again surpassed $4 trillion in valuation, joining artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia in the exclusive club that also briefly included Apple on Tuesday. The sky-high valuations highlight the investor frenzy around artificial intelligence. Earlier in the day,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is reassigning at least half the top leadership at Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices around the country in a major shake-up of the agency responsible for carrying out the president’s vision for mass...