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The man who fatally stabbed six people at a Sydney shopping centre appears to have been targeting women, police have said.Joel Cauchi, 40, has been identified by police as the man who took a knife from his backpack at Westfield shopping centre in Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon and killed five women and a male security guard.He was only stopped after being shot dead by police Inspector Amy Scott, who […]

This was an ambitious Iranian attack on Israel in several respects.It was ambitious in the numbers involved - 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles and 110 ballistic missiles - 331 in all, according to the Israel Defence Forces.And it was ambitious in being a multi-directional attack, targeting the Israeli homeland from 180 degrees - from Iran itself, from Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, and even from the other end […]

One person has died and seven others injured after a cable car collapsed in Turkey, authorities have said.The incident happened in the country's Antalya Konyaalti district when a pod hit a post, sending passengers plummeting to the mountainside below, officials said. Image: The broken shell of the cable car carriage. Pic: AP/IHA Image: Pic: AP/IHA Image: A crane reaches to rescue stranded cable car passengers. Pic: AP/IHA After the mechanism […]

The Sydney stabbings attacker who killed six people has been named by police.New South Wales Police (NSW) said on Sunday that Joel Cauchi, 40, was responsible for the attack on Saturday afternoon at a busy Sydney shopping centre before he was fatally shot by a police officer. Cauchi, who police said suffered from unspecified mental health issues, launched the knife attack at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction.Investigators are […]

There have been several moments in the last six months when the feeling of acute geopolitical anxiety from the Middle East could be felt in Washington DC.In the hours after the Hamas attacks of 7 October there was a profound sense of "what now?"Since then, there have been a few anxious inflection points.Follow live: Iran attackBut without question this moment - right now - is the most dangerous yet, by […]

Australians have witnessed the "humanity and heroism" of their fellow citizens, the country's prime minister has said.Anthony Albanese said emergency services and "everyday people" could "never have imagined" they would face a lone knifeman in a shopping centre in Sydney.Five of the six people killed were women.A further eight victims - including a nine-month-old baby - were taken to hospital with stab wounds, police said.A lifeguard, Andrew Reid, told Sky […]

Six people have been killed and several are in a critical condition, including a baby, after stabbings at a shopping centre near Bondi Beach in Sydney.Police said the attacker, believed to be a 40-year-old man, acted alone and was shot dead by an officer who confronted him on her own.Authorities said the suspect is known to them and his attack is not thought to be terror-related.Hundreds of people were evacuated […]

Israel remains braced for an attack from Iran as the US moves "additional assets" to the Middle East.Joe Biden said he expects an attack "sooner, rather than later" and simply told Tehran "don't", with warnings growing of retaliation for the killing last week of a senior officer in Iran's embassy in Syria.The White House said the threat of an imminent attack on Israel is real and viable, while at least […]

For years through childhood and early adulthood, Raven van Dorst felt different. The response evoked in others was always 'too': too loud, too wild, too aggressive, too messy.It wasn't until a visit to a doctor, aged in their early 20s, that it all fell into place. Having struggled to fit in as a little girl, then a young woman, the medic confirmed van Dorst had been born intersex, with aspects […]