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Nov 21, 2025 - World

Former journalist and first-term MP has vowed to take the fight on energy, infrastructure and housing to the Minns Labor governmentWho is Kellie Sloane, the new NSW Liberal leader – and can this first-term former journalist save the party?Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastKellie Sloane has vowed to take the fight to the Minns Labor government, focussing on families and cost of living, after she became the third woman to lead the New South Wales Liberals.The Liberal party room unanimously endorsed the former journalist and former non-profit CEO to to replace Mark Speakman as leader of the NSW opposition. Continue reading...

Nov 21, 2025 - World

Guy Gilboa-Dalal, an Israeli hostage released last month after more than two years in captivity, said in a television interview that he was sexually assaulted in captivity in Gaza.

Nov 21, 2025 - World

The 1940 painting of Kahlo asleep in bed has surpassed the record set by the $44.4m sale of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 in 2014A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m (£41.8m, A$84.7m) at a New York art auction, setting a new top sale price for a work by any female artist.El sueño (La cama), or The Dream (The Bed), which depicts Kahlo asleep in a bed with a smiling skeleton wrapped in dynamite on the canopy above her, sold on Thursday night at a Sotheby’s auction of surrealist art after four minutes of bidding. Continue reading...

Nov 21, 2025 - World

The Russian army claimed on Thursday to have again captured the Ukrainian city of Kupiansk, a key Kyiv bastion in the eastern Kharkiv region where Russia's soldiers have been steadily advancing.

Nov 21, 2025 - World

The BBC came under fire again Thursday in a new book about its bombshell interview with the late Princess Diana, 30 years after it was aired.