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DAMASCUS, SYRIA - DECEMBER 31: People dressed as Santa Claus (Father Christmas) pose for a selfie while a man holding a weapon stands guard on New Year's Eve on December 31, 2024 in Damascus, Syria. Syria is transitioning after the fall of the Baath regime and the Assad family's rule, with a temporary administration now in place in Damascus and Aleppo. (Photo by Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

Syrians celebrate their first New Year no longer under dictator Assad's thumb

World 5 days ago By Gergana Krasteva

Toulon's prop Carl Hayman of New Zealand looks on during a press conference on June 4, 2015 at the Nouveau Stade in Bordeaux, southwestern France, ahead of the French Top 14 rugby union semi-final against Stade Francais on June 5. AFP PHOTO / NICOLAS TUCAT (Photo credit should read NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP via Getty Images)

Former All Black Carl Hayman threatened to post woman's nude photos online

World December 20, 2024 By Sam Corbishley

A woman in a sex shop

This European nation is the first country to give sex workers basic employment rights

World December 1, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva

What made this perfect circular forest that surrounds 8,261ft 'Mount Doom'?

World November 22, 2024 By Liam Coleman

Map shows what countries are the 'safest' if a nuclear strike happens, including Switzerland, Greenland, Chile, Bhutan, Iceland, Fiji and New Zealand

Map shows the world's safest countries to be in if WWIII breaks out

World November 25, 2024 By Brooke Davies

Rugby player, 24, mauled to death by great white shark while diving off coast of remote islands near New Zealand Jade Kahukore-Dixon

Rugby player, 24, mauled to death by shark while diving off boat in New Zealand

UK November 19, 2024 By Gethin Hicks

Robyn Malcom as Penny looking stressed in After The Party

New drama hailed as 'best show of the year' finally coming to UK TV

TV November 12, 2024 By Ruth Lawes

England captain Jamie George shuts down Joe Marler's controversial haka comments

Sport October 31, 2024 By Tom Olver

Woman in white top standing on bridge with London Eye in background

I moved to London from New Zealand — the UK's obsession with Quality Street baffles me

Food October 31, 2024 By Lillie Rohan

England star Joe Marler backtracks over 's***house' haka stance in grovelling apology

Sport November 1, 2024 By Liam Grace

Family, father and child hug at airport, travel and girl greeting man after flight, happiness and love with luggage at terminal. Happy, care and bond with trip, bag and welcome home with reunion

Heathrow Airport makes adorable announcement affecting all passengers

Travel October 28, 2024 By Jessica Hamilton

Mysterious UFO cloud.

Mystery 'UFO cloud' has reappeared at the same spot for more than 100 years

Tech October 23, 2024 By Jasper King

A sign at Dunedin Airport's drop-off zone telling people not to hug for longer than three minutes

Airport introduces limit on how long people can hug for

World October 21, 2024 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

Mum's chilling theory after children were spotted with fugitive dad in wilderness

World October 11, 2024 By Brooke Davies

King Charles III meets New Zealand's Black Ferns.

King Charles gets 'very healing' group hug with New Zealand women's rugby squad

UK September 12, 2024 By Jasper King

No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Amazon/Everett/Shutterstock (14210978d) CLARKSON'S FARM, Jeremy Clarkson, (Season 2, aired Feb. 10, 2023). photo: ?Amazon / Courtesy Everett Collection Everett Collection - 10 Feb 2023

90s TV icon 'set for major £1,000,000 comeback' in Clarkson's Farm style show

TV September 6, 2024 By Alistair McGeorge

Campervan on Road by Lake Hawea

Yet another holiday destination is hiking its tourist tax — nearly threefold

Travel September 4, 2024 By Eleanor Noyce

Flames coming out of a passenger plane engine.

Passenger plane catches fire just seconds before touching down

World September 2, 2024 By Noora Mykkanen

epa11572713 (FILE) - Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, right, with the Maori king Kiingi Tuheitia about to watch a display by 5 waka, maori canoes on the Waikato River at Turangawaewae Marae, Hamilton, New Zealand, 08 November 2015 (reissued 30 August 2024). New Zealand's M??ori King Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII died at the age of 69. EPA/DAVID ROWLAND / POOL AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT

King Charles 'profoundly' saddened by death of fellow Royal

World August 30, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

Charity accidentally gives out sweets laced with lethal amounts of meth WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ? A charity working with homeless people in Auckland, New Zealand unknowingly distributed candies filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine in its food parcels after the sweets were donated by a member of the public. Auckland City Mission on Wednesday said that staff had started to contact up to 400 people to track down parcels that could contain the sweets ? which were solid blocks of methamphetamine enclosed in candy wrappers. Three people were treated in hospital after consuming them, New Zealand authorities said, but were later discharged.

Charity accidentally hands out sweets with deadly amounts of class-A drug

World August 15, 2024 By Tom Sanders

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