Australian Miami resident Joseph Waks told the ABC that he had not been able to reach friends who lived in the building.

Country leaders defend LGBT rights after Hungary approved a law they say reinforces prejudice and homophobia.

“It should make us worry,” said evolutionary biologist David Enard. “What is going on right now might be going on for generations and generations.”

A new mutation of the coronavirus Delta variant has been in the headlines. What is it, where has it been found and is it reason for concern?

The fragments of a skull and a lower jaw with teeth are 120,000 to 140,000 years old and could force a rethink of parts of the human family tree.

Marian Lopez thought an earthquake might have hit their home of 22 years. Alfredo thought maybe something had exploded at the hotel next door.

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A researcher at Florida International University said the building was constructed on reclaimed wetlands and was determined to be unstable a year ago.

Gitanas Nauseda, Lithuania’s president, told reporters in Brussels the idea was like “trying to engage the bear to keep a pot of honey safe”.

Winston Marshall took a break from the band in March after sparking a social media storm by tweeting admiration for a book by right-wing writer-activist Andy Ngo.

Emperor Naruhito’s warning will embarrass the government and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), but it has come too late to cause a change of heart among organisers.

A wing of a 12-storey beachfront apartment building collapsed in a town outside Miami early on Thursday morning, with at least one person dead and 99 still unaccounted for, officials said.

The remains were found at a now-defunct Catholic residential school, just weeks after a similar discovery rocked the country.

The appeals court said Giuliani made false statements while trying to get courts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential race.

The Brazilian President says Indigenous people claim too much land and want to be “integrated”. Hundreds used their voices and arrows to show they don’t.

The last copies of the tabloid that captured Hong Kong’s celebrities, political scandals and business deals for 26 years left the presses just after midnight.

But Australia has been accused of throwing stones in glass houses after denying its citizens their rights to leave the country or come home.

Aquino, who served as president from 2010 to 2016, was the heir to a political legacy of a family that regarded as a bulwark against authoritarianism.

Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle are among the royal residences which would usually be open to visitors, adding a tidy sum to the royal coffers.

Ambulances trying to reach the wounded in the Ethiopian market town were turned back by soldiers but witnesses said bodies were strewn through the streets.

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In pointed questioning in Congress, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff launched into an impassioned defence of inquiry about US society and its racial dynamics.

Title suggested for Archie would not have sounded good in the US because it started with “dumb” and could even have led to bullying.

The data, which has been rediscovered by an American scientist, appears to show a previously missing stage in the evolution of the virus in humans.

The singer gave a long, emotional and sometimes profane speech, in which she condemned the legal arrangement and her father, who has controlled it for most of its existence.

McAfee had been in jail in Spain since October 6 when he was accused of tax evasion and failure to disclose income charges at Barcelona airport.

The billionaire investor said he was resigning as a trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and had donated half his wealth to philanthropy.

The court ruled that a public school wrongly suspended a student from cheerleading over a vulgar social media post she made after she didn’t qualify for the school team.

Russia said it used bombs and gunfire in “warning shots” to force a British Navy destroyer to leave waters it claims in the Black Sea, but the UK rejected that account.

The outgoing secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade gives her frank assessment on the rise of China - and the winding back of its clock on civil rights.

The newspaper had been raided twice by hundreds of Hong Kong police in the past 12 months, at least seven editors and executives have been arrested.

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More than 100 dead animals have washed ashore in Sri Lanka after the sinking of the X-Press Pearl last week. Hundreds more may have drifted out to sea.

One girl criticised a religion, then dozens piled on with death and rape threats.

COVID-19 has provided a blanket of security for an increasingly restrictive state.

The planned audience with the judge overseeing her strict, court-ordered conservatorship will almost certainly be conducted out of the earshot of media and fans,

US-Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi had gone to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, where he was abducted and killed.

The Prime Minister has responded angrily to China’s UN query about the deaths of indigenous Canadians.

Three nations put their faith, at least in part, in easily accessible Chinese-made vaccines. Now there are questions about how effective those vaccines are.

A semi-official Iranian news agency agency said the US move “demonstrates that calls for freedom of speech are lies”.

White House officials said the main reason the US will miss the 70 per cent target was that not enough younger American adults have received a jab.

Tse Chi Lop, who has been compared to Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, is fighting extradition to Australia, saying he would not get a fair trial.

The decision followed an assessment on Tuesday which determined that while the overall risk to public health in New Zealand currently remained low, there were still “several unknowns”.

The employer-led drive is expected to reach more than 13 million people, including suppliers and workers’ families, boosting the country’s slow vaccine rollout.

Not long ago, Abiy Ahmed, whose country voted in long-delayed parliamentary elections on Monday, was a shining hope for the country and continent.

The Philippines is currently battling the Delta variant and the President says another wave of infections would be disastrous for the country.

Authorities froze access to the firm’s core operating capital on national security grounds, an adviser said.

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A spokesperson said the couple purchased a “significant” number of domain names for a range of potential names they were considering.

WA appointed two pro-Beijing community leaders to a new paid advisory council before Premier Mark McGowan escalated his criticism of the Morrison government.