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Megan Palin is an award-winning Australian journalist and US Correspondent based in New York. She has covered stories ranging from the 2020 US presidential election and the coronavirus pandemic to the Harvey Weinstein trial and the Lindt Cafe siege Inquest. Megan was highly commended as Journalist of the Year at the national Mumbrella Publish Awards for leading investigations into Australian Federal Police suicides; human trafficking in the US; and for an expose on a serial rapist. She also won a News Feature Writer of the Year award and was a national finalist for Outstanding News reporting.

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Aussie, 26, fighting for life after plunge

Angus Catt’s family is appealing for help after a tragic fall in South Korea left him “unlikely to make it home to Australia”.

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‘Dead’ woman found alive in body bag

The woman, falsely presumed dead, had early onset dementia, anxiety and depression and had been in hospice care since late December.

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The spy balloon. Picture: Channel 9

China’s bizarre excuse for ‘spy balloon’

A Chinese spy balloon hovering over the US is really a civilian airship that was blown off course by strong winds, according to China.

Petrol giant savaged over $56 billion profit

Shell has been accused of “enjoying the windfalls of war” after it made record profits while Aussies suffered at the petrol pump.

TOPSHOT - Snow geese take off from a field in Ruthsburg, Maryland, on January 25, 2023. - A new strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza â commonly called bird flu â has killed around 1,600 snow geese in two separate areas of Colorado since November, according to state wildlife officials. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Fears killer virus could spark new pandemic

There are fears that a deadly bird flu outbreak sweeping the globe is the kind of “spillover event” that could spark a human epidemic.

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RowVaughn Wells stops in front of the casket of her son Tyre Nichols at the start of his funeral service at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis, Tennessee, on February 1, 2023. - Nichols, 29, was stopped on January 7, 2023, for what the Memphis Police Department said was reckless driving. After a chase ensued, "police brutalized him to the point of being unrecognizable," family attorneys Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci said in a statement. Nichols was taken to hospital in critical condition, according to police, where he died on January 10, 2023. (Photo by POOL / AFP)

VP Harris condemns ‘violent act’ as Tyre Nichols laid to rest

There were tears and anger at the funeral of police beating victim Tyre Nichols, with US Vice President Kamala Harris leading calls for change.

(FILES) In this file handout image courtesy of the US Navy taken on August 27, 2021 the AI Arleigh-burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100) transits the Taiwan Strait during a routine transit. - The United States on September 2, 2022 announced a new $1.1 billion package of arms to Taiwan, vowing to keep boosting the island's defenses as tensions soar with Beijing. The sale comes a month after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defiantly visited the self-governing democracy, prompting mainland China to launch a show of force that could be a trial run for a future invasion. (Photo by US NAVY / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / US Navy" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Invasion alert as China crosses line

Taiwan has scrambled fighter jets, put its navy on alert and activated missile systems in response to nearby operations by 34 Chinese military aircraft and nine warships.

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Tyre Nichols was beaten by a group of officers during a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee

VP Harris to attend Tyre Nichols funeral

US Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Memphis for the funeral of Tyre Nichols, highlighting the political impact from his death following a brutal police beating.

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TOPSHOT - (COMBO/FILES) This combination of file photographs created on January 25, 2023, shows(TOP L/BOTTOM R): A British Challenger tank from the fourth royal armoured brigade holding position near Skopje airport on March 27, 1999, a French Leclerc tank of the 501th Tank Regiment based in Mourmelon-le-Grand, takes part in a drill on a shooting field in Suippes, north-eastern France, on December 6, 2018, a Polish German Leopard tank manouvers as troops from Poland, US, France and Sweden take part in the DEFENDER-Europe 22 military exercise, in Nowogard, Poland on May 19, 2022, and a US Abrams tank is guided into position as troops from Poland, US, France and Sweden take part in the DEFENDER-Europe 22 military exercise, in Nowogrod, Poland on May 19, 2022. - Berlin on January 25, 2023, approved the delivery of powerful German-made Leopard tanks to help Ukraine repel Russia's invasion, after weeks of pressure from Kyiv and many allies. Germany will provide a company of 14 Leopard 2 A6 tanks from the Bundeswehr stocks, government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said in a statement. (Photo by AFP)

Russia enters new stage of ‘war against NATO and the West’

Russian President Vladimir Putin is escalating his Ukraine war up to a ‘different stage’ against Europe, the UK and the US in response to western battle tank supplies.

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A heartbroken newlywed has written a heartbreaking last letter to her late husband. Picture: Instagram

Pregnant newlywed’s note to dead husband

A heartbroken newlywed has written a heartbreaking last letter to her late husband after he unexpectedly died in his sleep.

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