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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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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 "AFP PHOTO /NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH/NIAID-RML/HANDOUT " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

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.

UpdatedWorld

Trump says Musk will uncover billions in ‘government fraud’

Donald Trump has backed Elon Musk amid mounting criticism, saying the billionaire has been “a great help” in rooting out government “waste”.

UpdatedWorld

(FILES) (COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 07, 2024 shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) attends a meeting with US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 25, 2024, and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (R) attends a town hall meeting moderated by Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders at the Dort Financial Center in Flint, Michigan, on September 17, 2024. Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump will discuss the future of the Gaza ceasefire on February 4, 2024 as the Israeli prime minister becomes the first foreign leader to visit the White House since the US president's return to power. Netanyahu is in Washington for talks with the new Trump administration on a second, longer-term phase of Israel's fragile truce with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which has not yet been finalized. (Photo by Jim WATSON and JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP)

‘Potential to change everything’: Israel hails Trump’s Gaza plan

Benjamin Netanyahu has praised Donald Trump’s plan to move Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip, as Israel troops withdrew from the corridor that split Gaza in two amid a fragile ceasefire.

UpdatedUnited States

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - FEBRUARY 03: A wing of American Airlines flight 5342 is lifted from the Potomac River during recovery efforts on February 03, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. An American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas collided midair with a military Black Hawk helicopter while on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on January 29, 2025 outside of Washington, DC. According to reports, there were no survivors among the 67 people onboard both aircraft. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Big breakthrough in DC plane crash investigation

Crash investigators have found a major discrepancy which could explain the horror crash between a military chopper and passenger jet in Washington DC.

UpdatedWorld

Valentina Guzman Murillo age 11 and her mother Lizeth Murillo Ozuna 31 of Mexico died in the plane crash in Philadelphia

Hospital had ‘send-off’ for brave girl before plane crash

Valentina Guzman Murillo finally finished lifesaving treatment at a Philadelphia hospital, so staff gave her a special farewell. Minutes later, she and her mum were killed.

UpdatedWorld

Displaced Palestinians gather with their belongings near a roadblock on Salah al-Din Street, as they wait to return to their homes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinians begin return to Gaza; Trump’s radical plan

Displaced Palestinians have begun returning to northern Gaza, as two of Donald Trump’s key Middle East allies have reacted to his proposal to ‘clean out’ Gaza. Follow updates.

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