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Shoba RaoHead of Digital

Shoba Rao is Head of Digital at News Corp’s National News Network. With more than 20 years experience, she leads a team to help produce national and world stories across all metro and regional titles.

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North America

US President Donald Trump is greeted as he steps off Marine One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on March 14, 2025. Trump is spending the weekend at his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Trump’s proposed travel ban to target 43 nations

US President Donald Trump is understood to be considering introducing a new travel ban, which would target citizens of up to 43 countries. See which nations are on the list.

UpdatedEurope

(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 26, 2022 Pope Francis holds a general audience at the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. - The deadline for submitting nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize was January 31, 2022 and the name of the winner will be announced in early October. Among the announced candidates are the civil disobedience movement in Myanmar but also the Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg, British conservationist David Attenborough, Pope Francis or the Belarusian opponent Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. (Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)

Pope shows ‘good response’ to treatment

Pope Francis has issued thanks for the “miracle of tenderness” during his more than three-week battle with pneumonia in hospital.

North America

Elon Musk departs after a closed-door meeting with the Senate Republican Steering Committee at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 5, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

‘Troublemaker’: Trump slaps down reporter on alleged Musk clash

Donald Trump has slapped down a reporter after a claim emerged of billionaire Elon Musk clashing with another key member of his administration at the White House. See the video.

World

A Toronto police vehicle drives past piles of snow by a main road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on February 22, 2025. The City of Toronto states that snow removal may take up to three weeks after Toronto is blanketed with heavy snow from back-to-back winter storms. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Mass shooting at Toronto pub leaves 12 injured

A mass shooting at a pub in Toronto, Canada, has left 12 people injured after three men opened fire on patrons sitting inside.

ExplainerHealth

UNITED STATES - CIRCA 2000: Actor Gene Hackman with wife Betsy Arakawa at the United Celebral Palsy of New York City's 15th annual Champagne Stakes at Etoile restaurant on E. 56th St. (Photo by Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

How Hantavirus infection killed Gene Hackman’s wife

Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, tragically died from a Hantavirus infection. These are the symptoms and how you can protect yourself.

UpdatedMiddle East

BEIRUT, LEBANON - FEBRUARY 23: Israeli fighter jets fly overhead during the funerals for former Hezbollah leaders, Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, at the Sports City Stadium on February 23, 2025 in Beirut, Lebanon. Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Beirut to attend the funeral of Hezbollah's former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital. Nasrallah founded and led the Shi'ite Muslim group for 30 years, through decades of conflict with Israel and became one of the most prominent Arab figures in generations. (Photo by Daniel Carde/Getty Images)

Israel fighter jets taunt Hezbollah at funeral

Mourners at the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah shouted “death to Israel” as Israeli fighter jets did a fly-over. Watch the video.

Asia

TOPSHOT - This handout illustration image obtained February 27, 2020 courtesy of the National Institutes of Health taken with a scanning electron microscope shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow)—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the US, emerging from the surface of cells (blue/pink) cultured in the lab. - President Donald Trump has played down fears of a major coronavirus outbreak in the United States, even as infections ricochet around the world, prompting a ban on pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. China is no longer the only breeding ground for the deadly virus as countries fret over possible contagion coming from other hotbeds of infection, including Iran, South Korea and Italy. There are now more daily cases being recorded outside China than inside the country, where the virus first emerged in December, according to the World Health Organization. (Photo by Handout / National Institutes of Health / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Covid-like bat virus found in Chinese lab

A new coronavirus in bats that could spread from animal-to-human one day has been discovered in China.

UpdatedWorld

The coffins of the four Israeli hostages sit on stage during the handing them over to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on February 20, 2025. Hamas handed over on February 20 coffins believed to contain the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including those of the Bibas family who became symbols of the ordeal that has gripped Israel since the Gaza war began. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

‘Pay full price’: Israel’s stern threat after cruel Hamas act

Benjamin Netanyahu says Hamas has violated the Gaza ceasefire deal for returning the bodies of the youngest hostages, Kfir and Ariel, without their mother Shiri.

World

Indonesian police are investigating after an Australian tourist allegedly started a fight outside Bali beach club Finns on February 11 2025

Aussie man detained after being grilled on ‘heated’ Bali brawl

Bali police have said one Australian is their main suspect from a shocking melee outside a beach club, where a group of five men claim they were attacked by at least 15 security guards.

UpdatedUnited States

The conservative US influencer who claims to have given birth to Elon Musk’s 13th child went public about their child because he “ghosted” her on Valentine’s Day, an acquaintance claims.

‘Real reason’ why influencer went public with Musk’s secret baby

A former acquaintance of Ashley St. Clair, the right-wing influencer who claims to have a secret child with Elon Musk, has shed more light on the scandal.

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