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King Charles III is said to be "deeply saddened" after police reported that a British relative of his sons' former nanny was among the victims of the New Orleans New Year's Day attack.

Wānaka's Luca Harrington has been crowned champion at the FIS Freeski Big Air World Cup in Klagenfurt, Austria.

Tomiko Itooka was born four months before the Ford Model T was launched in the United States.

An award-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post resigned after the paper rejected her cartoon showing the newspaper's billionaire owner groveling before Donald Trump.

Mourners began paying their respects to Jimmy Carter, as a carefully choreographed six-day farewell for America's longest-lived president got underway.

Edward Pettifer, whose family remains close to British royalty, was among 14 killed.

The world's richest man demanded new elections in Britain, promoted Germany's far-right, blasted the European Commission - and that's just the start.

The military government will release 5864 prisoners, including 180 foreigners, to mark the South-east Asian nation's independence day, state media says.

President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced on 10 January in the criminal case in which he was convicted on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, but is unlikely to face jail time or…

Matthew Livelsberger wrote in a letter that "Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence" and "fireworks and explosives" were best to get his point across.

Analysis - A US Army veteran who flew a black Islamic State flag on a truck that he rammed into New Year's revellers shows how the extremist group still retains the ability to inspire violence.

"I'm at a point in my career where I'm humble enough to know when to be done."

Thick smog is covering Vietnam's capital, caused by heavy taffic, trash burning and industrial activities.

South Australian police are looking for the body of a man who is believed to have been killed by a shark off the state's west coast.

Law enforcement officials reportedly identified the man inside the Tesla Cybertruck as Matthew Livelsberger, an active-duty US Army soldier.

The man, who has not been named publicly, was on active duty but on leave at the time of the incident.

The dig has found five tracks used by dinosaurs, including the nine-metre predator Megalosaurus.

The person in the Cybertruck was killed and seven injured in the blast which occurred hours after a man drove a ute into a crowd in New Orleans.

Authorities are reviewing videos Shamsud-Din Jabbar made as they try to figure out how he went from a millitary veteran to a suspect in a deadly rampage.

A gunman who killed 12 people, including two children, has died after being cornered, local police say.