Australian man charged with murder after girl found dead in suitcase in Thailand

An Australian man has been charged with murder after the body of a 17-year-old girl was found in a suitcase in Thailand, local and Australian media report.

Police in the coastal city of Pattaya said they had found the teenager "stuffed" in the bag, which had been discarded near a railway track, in the early hours of Saturday.

Thai police said they arrested Simon Peter Carman at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport in connection with the death as he was allegedly "preparing to flee the country"


Eleven killed after plane carrying skydivers crashes in eastern France

Eleven people have died after a civilian aircraft carrying skydivers crashed in the town of Tomblaine in eastern France, local authorities said.

The pilot and 10 passengers died in the incident, including five students and five instructors, according to local officials.

The plane, which was being used by a parachutist school, had taken off from Nancy-Essey airfield when it crashed, local media reported.

Police have urged the public to avoid the area around the airport in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department.

French transport minister Philippe


Two boys rescued from Venezuela earthquake rubble after days of being trapped

Columbia's National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) said Moises was buried under about 3m (9.8ft) of debris, and the rescue team spent six hours conducting "high-precision work" on Saturday to reach him.

Reuters reported that a rescuer was overheard on a walkie-talkie saying the young boy was found near his sister and mother, who had both died.

Hours later, Delcy Rodríguez posted a video on X, purportedly showing the rescue of the second 11


Uganda's leading media outlets shut down by army chief

The Daily Monitor said on X that the newspaper and its fellow outlets were ordered to close "in a crackdown during the wee hours of Sunday".

It did not give reasons for the crackdown, but covered the story on its website .

It said staff had reported that "no-one was allowed to enter or leave the compound", while NTV Uganda and Spark TV viewers "were met with blank screens displaying the message 'video unavailable'."

The article pointed out that the Daily Monitor had also been raided


Bad Bunny: Latin star lights up London with history-making stadium show

In a stadium partly designed for the purpose of hosting NFL games, the show shared the symbolism of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show - widely interpreted as making a political statement, with a celebration of all the Americas united.

Yet he has said this world tour won't include dates in the US, telling i-D magazine he was worried his fans would be targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

While addressing the London crowd almost entirely in Spanish (after asking for permission at the


US launches strikes on Iran after second shipping attack

The US has conducted new strikes on Iran, following a drone attack on a Panama-flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday.

US Central Command (Centcom) said it hit multiple targets across Iran in direct response to "continued aggression" against commercial shipping.

In retaliation, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it has launched missiles and drones at US infrastructure in Kuwait and Bahrain, in a statement shared to state media.

It warned that violating the ceasefire is against the agreement signed between


These women said no to having kids - here's why

Chy, a 33-year-old account manager from the Midlands, has also found a community of like-minded women online. In real life, while her parents and close friends have been supportive of her being childfree, her wider family could not understand her decision.

"I come from an African background," she says, explaining that many of her relatives are from a culture where "women are supposed to have kids".

"Being someone with resistance to that idea was met with a lot of


Sort Your Life Out: The four most common cluttering mistakes and how to fix them

"For a lot of people, paperwork [is something] negative... it's bills, it's invoices, it's things you have to do," she explains.

"So when it's spread across the house - it's on the kitchen counter, it's on the side table, it's in your bedroom, it's in your handbag - [it feels] like 15 different piles of things that you have to deal with."

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I'm in therapy for my 14-hour-a-day phone addiction and I'm determined to beat it

In 2017, several people concerned about their tech and internet use banded together to create Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous (ITAA), a global fellowship inspired by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).

Jenny is one of their members. At the height of her phone addiction, she would not sleep for days. She would barely eat or drink, her dependency was so strong.

"I would lose chunks of my life," explains the 30-year-old, who doesn't want the BBC


117 dead dogs found at California 'no-kill' animal rescue - many with gunshot wounds

On Friday, the sheriff's office announced that the intact remains of 117 dogs were found in two excavated areas on the property, which is located in Fortuna, California - about 288 miles (463kms) north of San Francisco.

A search of the 50-acre (20,000m) facility also led investigators to an additional 21 dog skulls and hundreds of other bones. Six loose microchips were found in another dig location near where the remains were