UK abuse claims against Kevin Spacey settled out of court
A UK civil suit against actor Kevin Spacey has been settled out of court. (Reuters: Susannah Ireland)
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Police are investigating a school official who was found in possession of live ammunition at a school in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, the Ansan Sangnok Police Station said Wednesday.
· Lim Jae-seong
New details emerge about New Mexico US Air Force base shooting that left 1 dead, 1 injured
The shooting at a New Mexico Air Force Base on Tuesday left a military veteran dead and an active duty service member injured, authorities said in an update.
· Zoe Hussain
Woman who was sexually abused by her parents for 14 years says she was devastated by The Australian’s podcast
Abuse survivor tells news.com.au that her mental health suffered after being contacted by journalist Richard Guilliatt
· Amanda Meade
Hong Kong businessman Jason Poon, 5 others arrested in HK$6 million fraud case
Source says police intelligence suggests surgical mask manufacturer allegedly defrauded HSBC via SME Financing Guarantee Scheme
· Jess Ma
Philippine police thwart Roblox-linked school shooting plot by 7 teens
The case involving radicalised students in Laguna province highlights the urgent cyber safety and parental vigilance against online threats
· Alan Robles
Man jailed for role in $15m drug syndicate bringing meth to Australia
Police intercepted 52kg of methamphetamine on a plane at Monto Airport. (Supplied: Australian Federal Police)
· Nikki Sorbello
Series of failures contributed to Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades, probe hears
Firefighters work to extinguish a fire which broke out Wednesday at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong’s New Territories, on Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei, File)
· Kanis Leung
Light aircraft crashes at Broome's Town Beach
The plane crashed at Broome's Town Beach, police say. (ABC Kimberley: Andrew Seabourne)
‘Criminal’ or ‘kids throwing snowballs’? How a viral snow fight provoked Mamdani’s schism with NYPD
Though two men were arrested for allegedly pelting officers with snow, the mayor waved off the incident
· Niamh Rowe
Three Palestinian women killed during Iranian missile attack in West Bank
Palestinians killed from rocket fragments in occupied West Bank
· David D. Lee
Rapper Afroman wins defamation lawsuit against Ohio police over house raid
Afroman, whose real name is Joseph Foreman, poses for a portrait in New York, Aug. 22, 2001. (AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin, File)
· Maryclaire Dale
Dem Illinois Senate candidate Raja Krishnamoorthi slammed for selling $13 water while preaching ‘affordability’ in campaign
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., is facing online mockery after his Senate campaign’s election night watch party charged customers exorbitant prices for water, despite claiming to champion affordability issues.
· Fox News
Democrats storm out of Justice Department leaders' briefing on the Epstein files
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday stormed out of a closed-door briefing on the Jeffrey Epstein files by Justice Department leaders, and said they would push to force Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions under oath about the case that has plagued the Trump administration.
· Agence France-Presse
Tim Picton’s alleged killer remains on bail despite returning positive blood alcohol reading
The man accused of killing high-profile Labor strategist Tim Picton in a coward-punch attack has avoided being sent back to prison to await trial after police prosecutors abandoned a move to revoke his bail.
· Hamish Hastie
Two tugboat crew members dead after ‘confined space incident’ in Alaskan waters, Coast Guard says
Two crew members of a tugboat were killed and two others were injured in what the Coast Guard described Wednesday as a “confined space incident” aboard a barge moored in southeast Alaska last weekend.
· Associated Press
Husband to fight charges over crash with train that killed wife
Topic:Road Accidents and Incidents
· Kate Forrester
Doctors missed Gia’s UTI after childbirth. The Vietnamese Australian woman’s death was preventable, coroner finds
Gia Lam should have been offered interpreter by medical team at Fairfield hospital, coroner’s court finds
· Natasha May
Repeat creep, 30, allegedly attempted to rape 84-year-old in NYC park bathroom
A 30-year-old Manhattan man was arrested for allegedly attempting to rape an 84-year-old woman at a Lower East Side Park — one week after trying to kiss a stranger in the same neighborhood, authorities said.
· Georgett Roberts, Fenix Suriel, Caitlin McCormack
Driver who killed young motorcyclist was on the phone, judge says
Elizabeth Meg Krainz previously pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving. (ABC News: Eva Blandis)
· Eva Blandis
Murdered influencer may have been buried alive in suitcase after texting pals about ‘creep in stairwell’
An Austrian influencer whose was stuffed in a suitcase and then buried may have been alive and fighting for life when her sick killer tried to hide the remains, police said.
· Alex Oliveira
Transport group accuses police of harassment
MANILA, Philippines — A transport group leading a strike in Metro Manila on Thursday accused police officers of allegedly harassing its members, as protests against high fuel taxes disrupted traffic in several areas.
· Franco Jose C. Baroña
Runaway truck wheel hits bus driver on expressway; Driver brings bus to safety, dies
A bus driver was killed Tuesday after a wheel detached from a cargo truck and crashed through the windshield of a bus on a highway in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province.
· Park Jun-hee
Cold case murder of Iowa realtor found shot at open house cracked 15 years later
The mysterious death of an Iowa realtor who was shot twice at an open house 15 years ago has finally been solved, authorities said.
· Zoe Hussain
Strikes hit world's largest natural gas field in Iran, and Tehran retaliates with more attacks
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel killed Iran's intelligence minister as it kept up its campaign against the Islamic Republic’s top leadership and reportedly attacked an Iranian offshore natural gas field Wednesday, as the war escalated pressure on the region’s economic lifeblood: energy.
· Yonhap
Hong Kong apartment fires: hearings to begin into Wang Fuk blaze that killed 168 people
Independent committee to investigate safety standards and whether building practices contributed to worst residential fires in decades
· Agence France-Presse
US appeals court pauses investors' efforts to trace Argentine assets
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A U.S. Appeals court temporarily paused efforts by investors to identify Argentina’s assets in the United States in order to collect on a $16 billion judgment in a case about the 2012 nationalization of the South American country’s largest energy company.
· Clara Preve
Public hearings begin on who is responsible for deadly Tai Po fire tragedy
Judge-led committee hears first evidence in probe into failures and accountability over Wang Fuk Court blaze that killed at least 168
· SCMP Reporters
Bondi lifeguard-turned-police officer makes dramatic surf rescue at Byron Bay
Topic:Accidents and Emergency Incidents
· Lachie Mcleod
Who in the Iranian leadership has been killed?
US and Israeli strikes on Iran have killed several senior political and military figures as the two countries push for regime change.
· Henry Zwartz
Foreign worker killed in central Israel after Iran missile launch — medics
JERUSALEM — A man was killed in central Israel after the latest round of Iranian missile fire, medics said Thursday, bringing the death toll in the country from the ongoing war to 15.
· Agence France-Presse
Vandal destroys $240K worth of sculptures at Seattle museum, tries to stab security guard with shard of glass
A man was arrested for allegedly causing nearly $250,000 in “catastrophic damage” to a famed Washington state museum and trying to stab a security guard with a shard of glass, according to authorities and reports.
· Zoe Hussain
Alan Jones seeks complainant’s email address in sex abuse case
Lawyers for accused sex offender Alan Jones have asked a court to hand over the email address of one of the young men who accused the former broadcaster of indecency during an Opera House performance.
· Perry Duffin
Broome corner store and cafe charged with illegally selling alcohol
WA Police issued infringement notices against two workers at Cable Beach General Store and Cafe. (ABC Kimberley: Andrew Seabourne)
· Dunja Karagic
Last meal revealed for Florida death row inmate executed for grisly 2008 murder, rape of married mom
The Florida death row killer executed Tuesday night for the grisly rape and murder of a married mom reportedly devoured a modest spread of sweet and savory comfort foods for his final meal.
· Anna Young
Rapper Mystikal pleads guilty to raping a woman in Louisiana
The rapper Mystikal, who received multiple Grammy nominations in the early 2000s, pleaded guilty Tuesday to raping a woman at his Louisiana home nearly four years ago, according to court records.
· Associated Press
‘19 Kids and Counting’ star Joseph Garrett Duggar arrested, accused of molesting 9-year-old girl
“19 Kids and Counting” star Joseph Garrett Duggar was arrested and accused of molesting a 9-year-old girl in Florida on Wednesday.
· Vanessa Serna
At least eight killed as Brazilian police carry out lethal favela raid
At least eight people have been killed during a police raid on a neighbourhood in the centre of Rio de Janeiro, continuing a trend of deadly operations in poor favela communities.
· Al Jazeera Staff
Car thefts nearly double in three years, as crime continues to rise
Crime in Victoria is at its highest rate since 2016, driven largely by theft, but police analysis suggests some types of offending are beginning to stabilise after several years of sharp increases.
· Angus Delaney
Armed madman in purple Ferrari with pet duck sends newspaper deranged messages during police standoff
San Francisco’s streets have seen their fair share of oddities — but a gun-toting man with a pet duck riding in the backseat of a purple Ferrari may take the cake.
· Bianca Heyward
The incarceration of Indigenous people is at the worst rate on record
The ongoing effects of colonisation have been detailed in the latest Closing the Gap data, showing failures at multiple levels by all states and territories. Credit: AAPIMAGE
· Nitvaustralia
'Not surprising at all': Israel's tactics in Lebanon and a threat to 'finish the job'
The UN human rights office has raised concerns that Israeli attacks on residential buildings in Lebanon may be considered a war crime. Source: Getty / Houssam Shbaro/ Anadolu
· Sbsaustralia
Seoul raises terror alert as it prepares to host BTS comeback concert
Thousands of police prepare to deploy to South Korea’s capital ahead of K-pop’s most anticipated comeback
· Raphael Rashid
Ex-principal suspended for offensive Charlie Kirk comments now headed to prison on child porn charges
A former Oregon high school principal who had already been sidelined over controversial comments about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk is now headed to prison in a child sex abuse images case.
· Fox News
Youth offenders driving property crime in Victoria, crime stats show
The Crime Statistics Agency has released Victorian figures for the 2025 calendar year. (ABC News: Danielle Bonica)
Why a plan to slash California gas prices by more than $1 is already dead
An aggressive plan to suspend multiple gas taxes and fees to save California drivers more than $1 a gallon is already dead, as a vote deadlocked Wednesday in a Democratic-led committee on the environment.
· Josh Koehn
Glamour rock couple charged over Sydney drug syndicate
More than a decade ago, rock and roll frontman Azaria Byrne would have counted himself lucky. A day after he handed the keys of a Bali villa to a woman he claimed to have barely known in 2014, police swooped on the luxury digs. By then, though, Byrne had already touched down in Sydney.
· Riley Walter
Suspicious fire destroys Toowoomba PCYC building
Police were still at the scene at 6am today. (ABC Southern Qld: Grace Nakamura)
· Grace Nakamura
Thugs hurled vile anti-Semitic slurs at Jewish diners, police reveal —but DA says no hate crime charges
Three suspects in an unprovoked beatdown hurled antisemitic slurs before brutally assaulting two elderly Jews outside a San Jose restaurant, according to an internal police report that calls the attack a “hate crime.”
· Ben Chapman