Nepal floods: children as young as 11 among Australian tour group missing after flash flooding pred 19 urami in 42 minutami Nepali tour operator fears 15 Australians who had been on a trek near the border with China have died after devastating floodNepal flash flood live updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Nepali tour operator says he fears that 15 Australians trekking with his company in a valley ravaged by flash flooding have died.Sagar Pandey, the founder and chief executive of Himalayan Glacier Trekking, said he had lost all contact with his tour group of 47 people, which included 15 Australians. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Police investigate death of teenage girl two days after alleged ‘sexual choking’ act in Sydney pred 20 urami in 9 minutami Paramedics called to northern beaches home on Sunday evening before 16-year-old dies in hospital on Tuesday night after sexual strangulation actFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNew South Wales police are investigating the death of a 16-year-old girl after a suspected sexual strangulation act.Police said emergency services were called to a home in Elanora Heights in Sydney’s northern beaches on Sunday evening in response to a welfare concern report. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Busy Philipps reveals brain tumour diagnosis: ‘I’m grateful to be alive’ pred 20 urami in 31 minutami Actor says she had the ‘weirdest six months of my life’, after being diagnosed days after her Dawson’s Creek co-star James Van Der Beek died of cancerBusy Philipps has revealed she had a brain tumour removed, which was diagnosed shortly after her Dawson’s Creek co-star James Van Der Beek died from bowel cancer.The 47-year-old, born Elizabeth Philipps, starred in the hit US teen drama as Audrey Liddell opposite Van Der Beek, who died in February aged 48 after being diagnosed with bowel cancer. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Key witness in Meta trial says terms of settlement insufficient to halt apps’ harms to teenagers pred 21 urami in 4 minutami Exclusive: Arturo Béjar, an ex-Facebook employee and whistleblower, said outcome ‘is not an all clear to say the product is safe’Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram in settlementThe star witness in the US government’s landmark trial against Meta believes that a multibillion-dollar settlement reached on Wednesday does not go far enough to stop the social media giant’s harms to young users.“The limitations that are in the agreement are the equivalent of saying: ‘Well you can smoke as many cigarettes as you can in two hours a day,’” said whistleblower and ex-Facebook employee Arturo Béjar. “It doesn’t make the cigarettes any safer.” Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Queensland woman gave birth to twins with different parents after surrogacy coincides with natural pregnancy pred 21 urami in 28 minutami Both children were born on same day in November 2025 in situation so rare it had not been contemplated by state surrogacy lawsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Queensland woman gave birth to twin children with separate sets of biological parents last year, in what is believed to be an Australian first situation so rare it had not been contemplated by state surrogacy laws.The woman, anonymised in a court judgment, conceived an unplanned natural pregnancy about the same time as she received an IVF embryo transfer under a surrogacy arrangement with another couple. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
