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Twelve people have been killed and at least 11 others, including two police officers, injured in a shooting at Bondi Beach on Sunday.

Footage captured by an eyewitness shows a man grappling with an alleged gunman, before wrestling the weapon off him.

In a press conference, the New South Wales Police Premier Chris Minns said that one of the gunmen had been killed and another was in custody.

The BBC's Katy Watson was in the courtroom as Erin Patterson was sentenced to life.

Veteran MP Bob Katter, 80, said he had previously punched people for mentioning his Lebanese heritage.

Thirty-four teams from all over the world are competing to win the 2025 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge.

Video shows the aircraft flying over the golf course before crash landing, as the pilot and passenger escaped without major injuries.

Amateur astronomers captured the moment it streaked over Victoria on CCTV and dashboard cameras.

Footage of police interviewing convicted triple-murderer Erin Patterson has been released by the Victorian Supreme Court.

Parts of New South Wales were blanketed with the heaviest snow in 20 years.

US actor and wrestler John Cena fought the final fight of his 16 match retirement tournament in Washington on Saturday night, bringing to a close an illustrious 24-year career that saw him become one of wrestling's biggest and most recognisable stars.

The 48-year-old announced his retirement back in July 2024, telling fans at the time that his "body hurts" and is "screaming to close the chapter".

It has been confirmed however that he will remain a part of the WWE family, after he signed a five-year deal to be an ambassador.

Fans gave Cena a standing ovation at the end of Saturday's match and he left the ring, for the final time, to thunderous applause.

The barge that wrecked in 1918, famous for a dramatic rescue, is now shifting closer to the falls as recent movements carry it further from its original resting spot.

A university professor and his students spent three years removing trash from the city's Peter Street Basin, now they're swimming in it.

Republican Matt Van Epps won, but his margin of victory was less than half of what it was just over a year ago for President Trump in the same district.

A man was hoisted to safety and uninjured after his truck partly skated off an icy bridge road in the US

The tree, named "Silver Belle", was hand-selected from the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada.

Thirteen other people were also safely lowered to the ground after a power outage hit the Sunburst Ski Area in the US state of Wisconsin.

Five men have been arrested in Germany suspected of being involved in a plot to drive a vehicle into people at a Christmas market.

Three Moroccans, an Egyptian and a Syrian were detained on Friday over the plan to target a market in the southern Bavarian state.

Authorities said they suspected an "Islamist motive".

Prosecutors said the Egyptian - a 56-year-old - was alleged to have "called for a vehicle attack... with the aim of killing or injuring as many people as possible".

The Moroccans allegedly agreed to carry out the attack.

Officials in Germany have been on high alert after previous attacks at Christmas markets, including in Magdeburg last December that killed six people.

Authorities did not say when the planned attack was supposed to take place or which market was the target, though said they believed it to be one in the Dingolfing-Landau area, north east of Munich.

German newspaper Bild reported the Egyptian man was an imam at a mosque in the area.

Police said the Moroccan men - aged 30, 28 and 22 - were arrested accused of having agreed to commit murder, while the Syrian man, a 37-year-old, was accused of encouraging the suspects "in their decision to commit the crime".

The five suspects appeared before a magistrate on Saturday and remain in custody.

Rumours of a major prisoner release from Belarus had been swirling for a couple of days.

But no one would reveal the names on the list, or the exact number, until everyone was safely out, finally free.

In total,123 political prisoners have been released, including some of the best-known names among Belarusian opposition politicians, human rights activists and journalists.

Maria Kolesnikova, the protest leader with a famous red-lipsticked smile, was on the release list.

A video of her jumping for joy and hugging other former prisoners, overjoyed to be reunited, was soon flying around social media.

Then came another, on a bus out of Belarus, where she thanked everyone who'd helped bring this moment about.

"It's a feeling of incredible happiness to see those who are dear to me, to hug them and realise we are all free," Masha, as she's best known, told the camera, her lips already painted red again.

The first sunset of her freedom was a thing of great beauty, she said.

"But I also think of those who are not yet free and I await the moment when we can all embrace, when all are free."

Out too is Viktor Babaryka, a banker who tried to run for president in 2020 but was locked up before the elections even began.

Victor Wembanyama and San Antonio progress to the NBA Cup championship game after beating the defending NBA champions.

Victor Wembanyama delivered 15 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter in his return from a calf injury, and the San Antonio Spurs earned a spot in the NBA Cup final with a 111-109 upset of the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night in Las Vegas.

Devin Vassell scored 23 points, and De’Aaron Fox and Stephon Castle added 22 apiece as San Antonio handed the Thunder just their second loss in 26 games this season. Th

e Spurs will play the New York Knicks in Tuesday night’s NBA Cup final. The

Knicks beat the Orlando Magic 132-120 earlier on Saturday in the other semifinal. Shai

Gilgeous-Alexander scored 29 points for the Thunder, who had their franchise-record 16-game winning streak halted. Okla

homa City had not lost since November 5 at Portland. Wemb

anyama returned after a 12-game absence and was limited to 20 minutes. He c

ollected nine rebounds, and San Antonio outscored the Thunder by 21 when Wembanyama was on the floor. Jale

n Williams had 17 points, seven rebounds and four steals, and Chet Holmgren added 17 points for Oklahoma City. Alex

It’s been 30 years since the Bosnia war ended, but the conflict still shapes the country today. Ma

ny key terms, from ‘sniper safaris’ to ethnic cleansing, mark its legacy. Al Jaz

eera’s Alma Milisic explains the ones you should know.

Renewed border clashes between Cambodia and Thailand entered a second week after Bangkok denied US President Donald Trump’s claim that a truce had been agreed to halt the deadly fighting. Th

ai-Cambodia fighting continues despite US ceasefire claim

A manhunt is under way after two students were killed and nine other people were injured in a mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

The gunman opened fire in a classroom at around 16:00 local time (21:00 GMT) on Saturday, in a building where exams were taking place.

The university, one of the oldest and most prestigious in the US, was placed into lockdown as police searched for the gunman, who remains at large.

Students in parts of the campus are continuing to be told to shelter in place until police can escort them out of the area.

Officials from Rhode Island Hospital said most of the injured are in a "critical but stable" condition.

The identities of those killed or injured have not yet been released by officials.

"This is a day that we hoped never would come to our community.

It is deeply devastating for all of us," said Brown University President Christina Paxson in a statement.

Police have released limited information about the male suspect, including an identity or motive.

It is not known if he has links to the university.

A Royal Thai Navy spokesman says its military launched an operation to reclaim border ‘territories’ in Trat province. Thai

land’s military has launched a new offensive against Cambodia to “reclaim sovereign territory”, spurning mediation efforts, including that of United States President Donald Trump. Violence b

etween the two Southeast Asian nations continued on Sunday, a day after Phnom Penh announced that it was shutting all of its crossings with Thailand, its northern neighbour. The confli

ct stems from a long-running dispute over the colonial-era demarcation of their 800km (500-mile) shared border. Fighting h

as left at least 25 soldiers and civilians dead, and displaced over half a million people on both sides. The newspa

per Matichon Online quoted a Royal Thai Navy spokesman, Rear Admiral Parach Rattanachaiyapan, as saying that its forces “launched a military operation to reclaim Thai sovereign territory” in an area of the coastal province of Trat. “The operation

began in the early morning hours with heavy clashes, conducted under the principles of self-defence according to international law and the preservation of national sovereignty,” Rattanachaiyapan told the Thai newspaper. The Thai military

said it has “successfully controlled and reclaimed the area, expelling all opposing forces”. The public television

channel Thai PBS also reported that the country’s military “planted the Thai national flag” after “driving out all opposing forces” in the area. Thailand’s TV 3 Morning News quo

ted the military as saying that, as of early Sunday, the country’s “army, Navy and Air Force are continuing with [their] operations” along the border. There were no immediate reports on casua

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UN secretary general António Guterres says ‘unjustifiable’ attack on base in city of Kadugli ‘could be war crime’ A drone s

trike has hit a United Nations peacekeeping logistics base in war-torn Sudan, killing six peacekeepers, the UN secretary general António Guterres has said. Eight othe

r peacekeepers were wounded in the strike on Saturday in the city of Kadugli in the central region of Kordofan. All the vi

ctims are Bangladeshi nationals, serving in the UN interim security force for Abyei (Unisfa). “Attacks t

argeting United Nations peacekeepers may constitute war crimes under international law,” said Guterres, who called for those responsible for the “unjustifiable” attack to be held accountable. The Sudanese milit

ary blamed the attack on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a notorious paramilitary group that has been at war with the army for control of the country for more than two years. There was no immed

iate comment from the RSF. The attack “clearl

y reveals the subversive approach of the rebel militia and those behind it”, the military said. It posted a video on s

ocial media showing plumes of dense black smoke over what it said was the UN facility. The oil-rich Abyei is

a disputed region between Sudan and South Sudan, and the UN mission has been deployed there since 2011, when South Sudan gained its independence from Sudan. Guterres also called f

Belarus has freed 123 prisoners, including prominent opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova, after the US agreed to lift sanctions on the country.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski is also among those who have been released following talks in Minsk with US President Donald Trump's special envoy for Belarus, John Coale.

The US has agreed to lift sanctions on potash, a key ingredient in fertiliser and an important export for Belarus, which is a close ally of Russia.

Coale said: "As relations between the two countries normalise, more and more sanctions will be lifted."

Belarus' president, Alexander Lukashenko, is not recognised as president by the EU.

Kolesnikova has been in prison since 2020, much of the time in isolation.

Speaking after her release, she described "a feeling of unbelievable happiness" at being able to see and hug people "dear to me".

She said: "It's a huge happiness to see the first sunset of my freedom, such amazing beauty.

"But also we think of those who are not yet free.

I wait for the moment when we can all hug each other, when all are free."