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A surfer who went missing off the coast of South Australia is believed to have died in a shark attack, authorities have said.Lance Appleby, 28, was in the sea at popular surfing site Granites beach, near the coastal town of Streaky Bay, on Thursday evening when witnesses reported seeing him being attacked. One witness went into the sea on a jet ski to retrieve the surfboard Mr Appleby was using […]

The man who drove a pick-up truck into people celebrating the New Year in New Orleans is believed to have acted alone, according to the FBI - as new information was revealed about the two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) recovered near the scene.There is also "no definitive link" between the attack and the Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas, said FBI deputy assistant director Christopher Raia.Shamsud-Din Jabbar's rented truck rammed into […]

The man who authorities believe died in the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside one of Donald Trump's hotels was an active-duty army soldier who served in the special forces, US officials have said.Speaking at a news conference, Las Vegas sheriffs and FBI officials said the identity of the driver had not yet been officially confirmed through DNA, but evidence pointed towards it being Matthew Livelsberger, 37, of Colorado Springs in […]

An Islamic State flag attached to the pickup truck used to kill and injure dozens of people in New Orleans is a grim reminder of the persistent threat posed by Islamist extremism.Investigators are rushing to understand why Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, the US citizen and army veteran who is suspected of carrying out the atrocity in the early hours of New Year's Day, appears to have been inspired by the terrorist […]

Hundreds of grieving relatives of people killed in the fated Jeju Air plane crash visited the site on New Year's Day to pay respect to their loved ones.South Korea's transport ministry said authorities have finished formally identifying the 179 victims of the country's worst air disaster. Investigators have also extracted the data from the aircraft's cockpit voice recorder and will convert it into an audio file, which is hoped will […]

Two children are among 10 people killed after a gunman opened fire in western Montenegro following a bar brawl, police and a government official said.Montenegro's interior minister Danilo Saranovic said four people were wounded in the attack in the town of Cetinje. Police identified the suspect as 45-year-old Aleksandar Martinovic and released a mugshot of him while he was on the run.Mr Saranovic later said that the gunman had died […]

Russian gas supplies to European Union states via Ukraine have been halted, shutting down Moscow's oldest gas route to the continent.The five-year gas transit deal between Russia and Ukraine ended in the early hours of 1 January. The move was expected after Kyiv repeatedly said it would not extend the agreement amid the ongoing war. "We stopped the transit of Russian gas," Ukraine's energy minister German Galushchenko said in a […]

At least 10 people have been killed after a vehicle struck a crowd celebrating the New Year in New Orleans.At least another 35 people have been injured in the incident, which took place on the corner of the popular Bourbon Street, in the French Quarter of the city on Wednesday morning.The FBI said it was investigating the attack as an "act of terrorism".Anne Kirkpatrick, superintendent of the New Orleans Police […]

Young women living under oppressive Taliban rule in Afghanistan have dared to share their hopes and fears for 2025, which range from an end to "gender apartheid", to simply going for a walk in the park.The five women in their twenties have all had their studies or careers interrupted since the Taliban seized control in 2021 and aggressively cracked down on women's rights. "My wish for 2025, is to have […]