Six new wētā species found in New Zealand, as their habitat slowly disappears
Global heating speeding up their decline as terrain of newly discovered alpine species disappears Six new alpine species of New Zealand’s most unusual and beloved...
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Shanghai discharges over 11,000 Covid patients as lockdown nears third week
Chinese city’s authorities say they have secured food and other essentials for residents after complaints about deliveries More than 11,000 recovered Covid-19 patients were discharged...
Caroline Kennedy praises Australia’s bipartisan foreign policy despite PM’s claims on Labor and China
Nominee as US ambassador says there’s a lot more to the Aukus deal than just submarines as she faces US Senate foreign relations committee hearing...
US arrests Japanese yakuza leader over alleged missiles-for-heroin plot
Takeshi Ebisawa accused of planning to purchase surface-to-air missiles for rebel groups in Myanmar and distribute drugs in US US authorities have arrested a leader...
Desperation amid food shortages in Shanghai as Covid lockdown bites
Lockdown had been due to end on Tuesday, leaving residents unprepared to be indefinitely housebound Stories of desperation are emerging in Shanghai as the city...
Boy, 14, missing in Malaysia diving trip believed to have died
Adrian Chesters, a Briton who was rescued on Saturday, says his son Nathen died while they were adrift The 14-year-old son of a British man...
Two divers from UK and France found adrift off Malaysia but boy, 14, still missing
Three divers and their instructor had been unable to find their boat after surfacing A British man and a French woman were rescued in Malaysia...
Ex-Goldman banker Roger Ng found guilty in billion-dollar 1MDB scandal
Ng, 49, found guilty of helping to embezzle money earmarked for development in one of biggest frauds in financial history The former Goldman Sachs executive...
North Korea would ‘annihilate’ South if provoked, warns Kim Jong-un’s sister
Warning points to a rise in tensions on the peninsula after the North conducted its first intercontinental ballistic missile test in five years The influential...
Australia anxious to show it didn’t ‘drop the ball’ on Pacific after China and Solomon Islands deal
Canberra must walk a delicate line when responding to challenges presented by Beijing and Solomons’ security agreement Get our free news app; get our morning...
