- Tuesday, 23 December 2025
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Bondi gunmen 'meticulously' planned attack for months, police allege
The suspected gunmen in the Bondi Beach attack threw explosives at the start of the deadly incident and had practised shooting weeks before, according to new court documents.
US suspends green card lottery scheme after Brown shooting
President Donald Trump has suspended the US green card lottery scheme in the wake of a mass shooting at Brown University last week in which two people were killed.
Trump urges Xi to free Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai
US President Donald Trump says he has asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping to "consider" releasing Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon who was earlier this week found guilty under the city's controversial national security law.
Father and son who killed 15 people at Bondi Beach named, as PM pushes for tougher gun laws
Two gunmen who killed 15 people at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday have been named in local media as Sajid Akram, 50, and his son Naveed, 24.
Four French men accused of A$10m Australia jewellery heist
Four French men purposely travelled to Australia's capital city to allegedly carry out a multi-million-dollar heist which included a Swiss-made "Smiley" watch worth A$5m ($3.3m, £2.5m), police say.
US seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, Trump says
US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said, marking a sharp escalation in Washington's pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro's government.
Indian couple trolled over skin colour after wedding video goes viral
Rishabh Rajput and Sonali Chouksey met in college 11 years ago, fell in love and married last month.
Dozens injured after magnitude 7.5 quake strikes northern Japan
At least 30 people were injured after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit north-eastern Japan on Monday night, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes.
India actor Dileep cleared in 2017 rape and abduction case of actress
A court in the southern Indian state of Kerala has acquitted Malayalam superstar Dileep in the case of abduction and rape of a leading actress.
Deadly border fighting breaks out between Pakistan and Taliban
Fresh deadly border clashes have broken out between Pakistan and Afghanistan's Taliban forces, with both sides accusing each other of breaking a fragile ceasefire.
Delhi records 200,000 acute respiratory illness cases amid toxic air
More than 200,000 cases of acute respiratory illnesses were recorded in six state-run hospitals in Delhi between 2022 and 2024 as the Indian capital struggled with rising pollution levels, the federal government has said.
Why 2026 will be a year like no other for India's Sun mission
It's a time of great turbulence. It sees the Sun transition from calm to stormy and is marked by a huge increase in the number of solar storms and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) - massive bubbles of fire that blow out of the Sun's outermost layer called corona.
Ninety dead in Indonesia floods as cyclone displaces thousands in Sri Lanka
At least 80 people have died and dozens more are still missing after devastating floods hit Indonesia this week.
US suspends immigration requests for Afghans after National Guard shooting
The US has suspended the processing of all immigration requests for Afghan nationals pending a review of "security and vetting protocols", the US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced.
Death toll in Hong Kong fire rises to 44 with 279 still missing, authorities say
At least 44 people have been killed in a major fire engulfing public housing apartments in Hong Kong's Tai Po district - more than 270 people are still not accounted for.
