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Evergrande was once China's leading property developer, propelled by rapid urbanisation and rising living standards

AFP breaks it down

What property giant Evergrande's sentence means for China's economy

Convicted Australian mushroom killer Erin Patterson, seen in this sketch by artist Anita Lester, has launched an appeal and watched proceedings from her maximum-security prison

'Mushroom murders'

Australian prosecutors demand life in prison for mushroom killer

Kyiv's mayor said the Russian attacks had killed 12 people in the capital

Russian strikes kill 12 in Kyiv, surrounding region

The Australian Football League (AFL) is in the spotlight over another scandal

Alcohol-fuelled

Fallout far-reaching for Australian Rules after latest scandal

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (right) with the US ambassador to India Sergio Gor in New Delhi in May 2026

'Factually incorrect remarks'

US India ambassador's Kashmir remarks rile Pakistan; envoy summoned

Overheated tourists are enjoying a break from the scorching heat by rafting on the Eternal City's Tiber River

'Different view'

Rafts on Rome's Tiber River cool down overheated tourists

An undated photograph of the Maurel and Prom building used to detain enslaved people, in Saint-Louis, Senegal

Quietly disappearing from view

In Senegal's Saint-Louis, traces of slave-trading past fade away

People gather around the wreckage of a car used by the aid group World Central Kitchen, that was hit by an Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 2, 2024

Israel's ambassador summoned

Australia says relations with Israel 'difficult' after aid worker death

Little penguins in Australia are at risk from H5N1 avian influenza

Unprecedented effort

Australia races to shield little penguins from H5N1 bird flu

Arsenal defender Riccardo Calafiori celebrates scoring against Manchester City

Targets Arsenal dynasty

Arsenal can become world's best club: Arteta

Technology has completely transformed the war and the role of soldiers

Future of warfare

'People, not robots': Ukraine's soldiers justify human role amid drone revolution

The Total Culzean platform in the North Sea, about 45 miles (70 kilometres) east of the Aberdeen, pictured on Scotland's northeast coast in April 2019

Labour Party divided

North Sea drilling tests UK govt climate pledge

Moscow destroyed the popular Pochaina market in a major attack last month

'Trying to survive'

Kyiv's desperate vendors persevere outside obliterated flea market

Salem Muhanna, who manages the Al Qarara Seed Bank with support from the ICRC, displays white cowpea seeds at the bank, in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip

Preserving agricultural heritage

'Ray of hope': Gaza seed bank rebuilds after wartime destruction

Britain's Prince Harry, his wife Meghan and their two children are returning to the UK, six years after they stepped down as working royals and moved to North America

'Extraordinary development'

Prince Harry and Meghan moving back to UK: British press

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho beings his second stint in charge of the club on Saturday at Espanyol in La Liga

Veteran Portuguese coach

Mourinho begins second Real Madrid reign with Barca in his sights

Iranian former chief of the Revolutionary Guards Mohsen Rezaei is seen as being part of a reactionary old guard

Readying for long-term confrontation with US

'More confrontational': Iran's new hardline security leadership

People arrive by boat across the Mamore river at the Bolivia-Brazil border in the Amazon jungle, a new battleground in the Latin American drug trade

New battleground

Brazilian narco violence spills over into tranquil Bolivia

Hind Rajab had made the emergency call after her family's car came under fire

Criminal investigation ordered

Israel army admits firing on car in death of five-year-old Hind Rajab

Donald Trump defended planning to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un at the same time as the US president wages a war with Iran

War nears sixth month

Trump vows 'tremendous' economic costs on Iran partners

White House aide Natalie Harp is a near-constant presence at President Donald Trump's side

Trump's devoted 'human printer' in media glare

Israel's security minister Itamar Ben Gvir has repeatedly angered European countries with his remarks on Gaza

Germany, France, UN condemn far-right Israeli minister's 'inhumane' Gaza remarks

Witold Banka, President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), said his organization would not be naive about Russian athlete doping concerns

WADA pledges vigilance on Russian athletes ahead of 2028 Olympics

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory telescope was launched in 2004, and was originally designed for a two-year mission

$30 million assignment

NASA satellite rescue mission fails

Ecuador's intelligence chief Michele Sensi-Contugi and his wife were among those killed in the Kenya crash

Ecuador intel chief, five Americans killed in Kenya helicopter crash

Khuliso Mudau reacts after South Africa lost to Canada in a 2026 World Cup second-round match

Mudau injury mars Mamelodi Sundowns victory

An election campaign billboard in Tel Aviv by the Likud Party of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depicts Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem, with Hebrew text reading "They want Netanyahu to lose."

Bombs base in Syria

As election looms, Netanyahu puts Turkey in Israel's crosshairs

View of dry soil at La Concepcion reservoir, near Honduras's capital Tegucigalpa, which has been placed under red alert for El Nino fueled drought

Livestock dying

Honduras places 80% of country on El Nino drought alert

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