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Millions of Queensland residents are bracing for severe weather, according to reports from Sydney Morning Herald, WA Today, and Brisbane Times. The warning, issued on October 11, 2026, covers a broad area and has prompted authorities to urge preparedness as storms are expected to impact the region.
South Australian police are investigating the death of a baby at a hotel in Adelaide, with the circumstances of the incident still unclear.
Reform UK has announced it would close the country's asylum system for a full parliamentary term if elected, rejecting all new and existing applications, scrapping the asylum tribunal system and pulling the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights to prevent legal challenges.
MPs will debate a petition calling for the United Kingdom to rejoin the European Union on Monday, the first day back in Parliament after the conference season. The petition, titled 'Apply to Rejoin', argues that 'Brexit’s not working' and has collected over 110,000 signatures, passing the threshold for parliamentary debate. The debate has been welcomed by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who has urged the government to prepare voters for a return to the EU, and follows Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s recent signals that his administration could eventually propose rejoining.
A new survey of 3000 people has found that one in three New Zealand households struggled to provide affordable, nutritious meals in the past year, with 17% facing severe food insecurity involving disrupted eating patterns and skipped meals.
Natural Resources Wales has warned people across Wales to prepare for "the unthinkable" this autumn, saying long-range forecasts point to wetter and windier conditions than usual in the months ahead. The agency also revealed that just 27% of eligible residents are signed up to receive flood warnings directly to their phone or email.
Labor frontbencher Murray Watt has described the Pentagon's planned livestream of a US military execution as "absolutely disgusting", as the government faces calls to prevent Australians from watching the December 3 broadcast. Watt confirmed the eSafety Commissioner does not have the power to proactively block the stream and stopped short of committing to any legislative change.
Powderfinger have revealed the full schedule for their reunion tour: an 18-show run across six Australian cities that begins in their hometown of Brisbane in September 2027 and runs through late October. The dates, posted on a new band website on Monday, come days after the group first confirmed they would play together again.
Max Verstappen roared to victory at the Singapore Grand Prix on his 250th race start, while Australian Oscar Piastri battled to fifth place after a late puncture, overtaking Lewis Hamilton on the final lap to salvage valuable championship points for McLaren.
One of Australia's most iconic outback roads, the Birdsville Track, has been closed for 400 days out of the past two years because of rain damage, and remote businesses along its length say trade has collapsed.
Hurricane Simon is lingering just off Mexico's Pacific coast days after reaching Category 4 strength, with NASA satellite imagery showing the storm's eye still offshore and President Claudia Sheinbaum urging residents of four states to remain sheltered from wind, rain and the threat of mudslides.
Seven US senators from both parties said on Sunday that President Donald Trump's agreement to import Russian diesel violates US law and demanded the administration reverse course, the most forceful challenge yet to a deal the White House says will ease soaring fuel prices.
Eight orangutans have been released back into the wild in Borneo after their habitat was threatened by wildfires over the summer, International Animal Rescue Indonesia (Yiari) and Indonesia's forestry ministry have said.
Finance officials from around the world are gathering in Bangkok this week for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, with a widening war in the Middle East, the biggest energy supply shock on record and rising interest rates dominating the agenda.
A teenage boy has been charged with ten offences after allegedly hitting a 57-year-old woman with a stolen car near the Melbourne Marathon route on Sunday morning, as runners also complained of being struck by pacing vehicles during the event.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pledged to continue drone strikes targeting Russian oil refineries, pushing back against criticism from US President Donald Trump over the campaign.
At least 11 people were killed and 27 injured on Sunday morning when a tour bus collided with a tow truck near toll booths on a highway in western Turkiye, according to the Manisa governor's office.
A framed Crown apology on the remote Chatham Islands formally acknowledges the New Zealand government's role in creating and propagating a false history that declared the Moriori people extinct, while a movement is underway to revive the ta rē Moriori language. Historian Garritt C. Van Dyk, writing for The Conversation, reports that the 2020 apology details the Crown's failure to protect the Moriori from enslavement and land dispossession, and its role in spreading a fabricated account that misled generations of schoolchildren.
With fewer than 50 days until Victorians cast their votes, the state election is shaping up as a proxy war with national consequences, as One Nation's rising influence collides with the Liberal Party's identity crisis and Labor's fight to convince voters it offers change.
Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are considering removing U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle after a series of reports alleging improper conduct, including a potential quid pro quo. A senior U.S. official said Sunday that the pair are "extremely pissed off" and will likely decide this week after Monday's federal holiday.
Beijing will become the only city in China to ban the ownership of drones when new rules take effect on November 15, forcing residents to move their aircraft out of the capital or dispose of them through government-approved buyback and recycling programs.
Victorian Opposition Leader Jess Wilson's plan to fund 25,000 additional elective surgeries by winding up state-owned investment company Breakthrough Victoria has left an $880 million hole in Coalition costings, according to a Parliamentary Budget Office analysis, as a letter to The Age draws comparisons to the privatisation era of former premier Jeff Kennett.
Domestic violence victim-survivor advocates are warning that federal government and opposition proposals to crack down on visa overstayers will embolden abusers who weaponise Australia's migration system, including through threats of deportation, visa cancellation and detention.
A 14-year-old student in the southern Philippines has recounted how he kicked an armed classmate and blocked his classroom door during a lunchtime shooting that left students with gunshot wounds and ended with the gunman dying by suicide.
The Minns government has announced a significant shake-up of NSW lobbying laws, extending disclosure rules to local councils for the first time and formally making the NSW Electoral Commission the regulator for lobbyists with new investigative powers, but the reforms have already been criticised as a watered-down response to the Operation Rosny corruption inquiry.
More than 97,000 people were hospitalised with respiratory disease in New Zealand in 2025, according to new data from the Cardiac and Respiratory Foundation showing admissions have climbed steadily for three years at an estimated cost to the economy of about $11.5 billion a year.
Manchester City shrugged off a vitriolic reception at Anfield to defeat Liverpool 3-0 on Sunday, in their first match since being found guilty of 114 Premier League financial rule breaches. Second-half goals from Erling Haaland, Jeremy Doku and Rayan Cherki maintained City's perfect start under manager Enzo Maresca, but the victory does little to resolve the existential threat posed by the guilty verdict and the club's ongoing appeal.
An analysis published by Al Jazeera warns that United States sanctions on the International Criminal Court could paralyse its operations, urging member states to use a 180-day grace period to strengthen the court's resilience instead of pursuing negotiations with Washington.
Sara Qalandari has been her family’s carer since she was 10, and at 25 she says the role is forcing her to choose between caring for her brother and her dream of becoming a doctor. She is one of an estimated 40,000 young carers in Western Australia, and her advocacy for a university pathway for carers has so far brought little response from politicians.
Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali was set to take her seat as the new MP for Holborn and St Pancras on Monday, as Green Party leader Zack Polanski faced a mounting internal backlash over a controversial party conference motion equating Zionism with racism. In an op-ed for the Guardian, Polanski proposed a significant overhaul of the party's internal democracy, arguing leaders need more control over strategic direction to prevent a small minority of members from setting damaging policy.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signalled his willingness to accept an energy ceasefire with Russia after US President Donald Trump declared the deal unilaterally on social media, but reported that Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure continued throughout Sunday, including an attack on a power plant in Kharkiv.
Polish police have arrested 117 people nationwide for possessing knives or other weapons or threatening schools, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Sunday, as he blamed a week of school stabbings on the online 'glorification of violence' and 'nihilistic violence' associated with the extreme right.
Russian strikes hit Ukrainian energy infrastructure, including a power plant in Kharkiv, within hours of US President Donald Trump declaring that both sides had agreed to an immediate 'energy ceasefire'. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the announcement was 'news to him' but expressed willingness to support the truce if Moscow reciprocates. The Kremlin has not publicly confirmed the agreement.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of violating the US-brokered 'energy ceasefire' almost as soon as it was announced, saying a power plant in Kharkiv was hit 'immediately after' President Donald Trump declared the truce. Speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum on Monday, Zelenskyy said Putin 'does not read Truth Social', urged Washington to enforce the agreement and warned that Ukraine would respond if Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure continue.
US President Donald Trump has claimed that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to halt attacks on each other's energy infrastructure, a proposal that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he supports but is awaiting details from the American side. Zelenskyy also proposed a 60-day full ceasefire as a condition for holding elections in Ukraine.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said it is "clear" that Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum, becoming the first UK leader to publicly acknowledge the Kremlin's involvement. In an interview with The Rest Is Politics podcast, Burnham said he asked the question upon entering Downing Street and received confirmation. He warned voters in France and Germany that similar Russian-backed disinformation efforts are targeting their politics.
Donald Trump has called for Ukraine to get "a new president" and announced an "energy ceasefire" between Russia and Ukraine that Volodymyr Zelenskyy said was "news to me", as tensions between Washington and Kyiv over the US president's Russian diesel deal escalate weeks before the US midterm elections.
Israeli authorities have installed three iron gates across a 200-metre stretch of Hebron's Old City, part of a tightening web of restrictions that residents say is turning their neighbourhood into a ghost town, according to an Al Jazeera report. The gates, erected in recent days, block vehicle access and pedestrian routes, adding to 89 checkpoints and 925 movement obstacles across the West Bank, with a heavy concentration in the Israeli-controlled H2 sector of Hebron.
Remnants of Hurricane Isaias were pushing north through the southern Appalachians and mid-Atlantic on Sunday, with heavy rain now the primary hazard, even as roughly 356,000 customers remained without power along the Gulf Coast. At least four deaths have been linked to the storm, the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2026 season, which made landfall in Florida on Friday as a Category 2 hurricane.
Court documents have revealed that The Australian's Shadow of Doubt podcast delayed by 10 months the Victorian sex offence trial of William "Rob" Gilfillan, a former physical education teacher already serving a 48-year jail term for abusing his daughter.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation has promised to push Australia's net overseas migration below zero for three years, a policy economists say the country has never attempted by design. The party says its plan would cut rents, but the economists behind the research it relies on warn of significant costs to exports and government revenue.
Ethiopia and Eritrea have accused each other of aggression in letters to the UN Security Council, raising fears of a fresh conflict in the Horn of Africa as fighting intensifies in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.
Attacks around the strategic Strait of Hormuz have escalated again as mediated attempts to end the US-Israel war on Iran remain deadlocked, with Iran warning oil tankers against ignoring its security rules and the US continuing to enforce a naval blockade of Iran's ports.
The Greens will demand a private right for Australians to sue big tech companies over online harm as one of three tests for backing the government's Digital Duty of Care laws, which are due to be introduced to federal parliament this week. Labor is simultaneously preparing to drop a ministerial power to designate new categories of harm, which critics said gave Communications Minister Anika Wells too much authority.
Fifty-two maternity wards across the United States have closed since a federal bill overhauling Medicaid was announced in July 2025, and experts expect further closures as the changes take full effect in the new year. Analysis by the non-profit Protect Our Care found a further eight wards have announced upcoming closures, with hospitals in Virginia and Georgia citing the federal policy changes directly.
Official development finance to Southeast Asia fell by nearly 10 percent to $US26 billion in 2024, the lowest level in a decade, according to new research from the Lowy Institute. The latest Southeast Asia Aid Map shows that Japan, China and the United States all reduced funding, with deeper cuts from Washington expected to hit future flows.
People smugglers continue to profit from transporting migrants across the English Channel, with asylum seekers in northern France describing them as highly adaptable and determined, even as the UK prepares to scrap its 'one in, one out' migration deal with France.
Air strikes have resumed on Yemen's capital Sanaa after the internationally recognised government announced a new military offensive, Operation Dawn of Yemen, to oust Houthi forces who have held the city since 2014. At least one child has been killed and seven civilians wounded in attacks that residents say have revived fears of the devastating Saudi-led bombing campaign that began a decade ago.