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A controlled operation intended to contain a massive bushfire in eastern Australia has caused damage to up to 20 buildings, including homes, and cut off major roads, authorities say.
Firefighters had tried to use a process called backburning to tackle the Gospers Mountain blaze in New South Wales ahead of a potentially record-breaking heatwave.
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Write comment (98 Comments)Around 54,000 people were evacuated from an Italian city as experts worked to defuse a British Second World War bomb, authorities have said.
The evacuation in the southern Italian city of Brindisi on Sunday saw more than 60% of the city's residents forced to vacate a "red zone" in a radius of 1,617 metres (5,305ft) from where the bomb was found.
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Write comment (100 Comments)Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg has been taken to task by a German railway company after tweeting a photo of herself sitting on the floor of a train surrounded by bags.
The 16-year-old drew sympathy after posting that she was travelling on "overcrowded trains" on her way home from the UN climate change conference in Madrid.
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Write comment (94 Comments)Four people have been arrested after a British businessman was shot dead on holiday in Argentina.
Matthew Gibbard, 50, a businessman from Northamptonshire, was named as the victim after a shooting involving a robbery gang in Buenos Aires.
During the robbery outside a luxury hotel, a second British man - his 28-year-old stepson Stefan Zone - was
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Within days of her body being found on Prestwick Beach, Scottish authorities ruled that Annie Borjesson had killed herself.
It is a verdict long dismissed by the family of the 30-year-old Swede, who say she had no history of self harm or mental illness and left no note - and that there was therefore no case for suicide.
But her postmortem concluded
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