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News Desk Paris: Flights started to gradually resume on Saturday following a major worldwide IT outage that severely disrupted media outlets, banks, and airlines. An antivirus software upgrade caused the disruption which resulted in the…

AFP/APP Port Moresby: More than 670 people are believed to have died after a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, a UN official told AFP on Sunday as aid workers and villagers braved perilous conditions in their search for survivors.…

AFP/APP Washington: The massive coral bleaching episode signaled by US authorities last month is expanding and deepening in reefs around the globe, scientists warned Thursday. Amid record ocean temperatures, coral bleaching has been…

AFP/APP Sydney: Tech bad boy Elon Musk on Tuesday vowed to challenge demands that his social media platform X take down videos of a recent Sydney church stabbing.  Australia's Federal Court on Monday gave the platform 24 hours to…

AFP/APP  Washington: Donald Trump has turned being a victim into a central plank of his campaign, an electoral strategy that will be put to the test Monday in Manhattan during the first ever criminal trial of a former US president.…

AFP/APP Melbourne:  Storms packing powerful winds toppled trees, killed one person, and knocked out power to 174,000 homes and businesses in eastern Australia, officials said Wednesday. The wild weather hit large swathes of Victoria…

AFP/APP London: Britain's King Charles III on Saturday expressed his "heartfelt thanks" to well-wishers in his first statement since his shock announcement that he has cancer. Buckingham Palace said Monday that Charles had begun…

AFP/APP Sydney: A shark mauled a woman swimmer in the first attack in Sydney Harbour in 15 years, officials said Tuesday, sending her to the hospital with a "serious" leg injury. The predator struck Monday evening as the woman swam off a…

AFP/APP Sydney: A shark mauled a woman swimmer in the first attack in Sydney Harbour in 15 years, officials said Tuesday, sending her to the hospital with a "serious" leg injury. The predator struck Monday evening as the woman swam off a…

AA/APP Ankara: A severe cyclone flanked by torrential rains is likely to hit Queensland, Australia, on Thursday, the Met Department said. It warned that a Coral Sea storm could become powerful enough to be declared a cyclone by Tuesday,…