Staff at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) will go on strike on Wednesday for the first time in 20 years, after rejecting a pay rise offer.

The 24-hour strike will begin at 11:00 local time (00:00 GMT) and is expected to disrupt live television and radio broadcasts.

It comes after 60% of

Hong Kong police can now demand phone or computer passwords from those who are suspected of breaching the wide-ranging National Security Law (NSL).

Those who refuse could face up to a year in jail and a fine of up to HK$100,000 ($12,700; £9,600), and individuals who provide "false or misleading

Two people have died after an Air Canada plane collided with a firefighting vehicle responding to a separate incident.

CBS News, the BBC US partner, reported a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation confirmed the deaths, as well as multiple injuries including two firefighters.

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop for the airport late on Sunday night and said there was a "high" likelihood it would be extended.

The plane was arriving from Montreal and had landed.

When Ruth Gonzalez decided to start taking the weight-loss medicine Zepbound last year, she first had to find a way to afford its roughly $350 (£260) monthly cost.

Gonzalez switched her mobile phone plan, dropped all but one of her streaming subscriptions, limited her grocery spending and cut out Starbucks.

The 56-year

Shares in Hybe, the company behind K-pop megastars BTS, have fallen sharply after a much lower number of fans attended their comeback concert than expected.

The free concert in Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul on Saturday saw all seven members - Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook - perform together for the first time since they went on hiatus in 202

The Earth's climate is further out of balance than at any time in recorded history, the UN's weather agency has warned.

The World Meteorological Organization says that our planet is gaining much more heat energy than it can release, driven by emissions of warming gases such as carbon dioxide.

This record "energy imbalance" heated the ocean to new heights last year and continued to melt our planet's ice caps.

And scientists fear that a natural warming phase called El Niñ

Major stock markets in Asia slumped on Monday after Washington and Tehran threatened to escalate hostilities, as the Iran war enters its fourth week.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index was almost 3.6% lower, while South Korea's Kospi fell by almost 6%.

US President Donald Trump warned on Saturday that he would "obliterate" Iranian power plants if Iran did not open the key Strait of Hormuz shipping route. Iran said it would

A controversial secularism law in Quebec is heading to Canada's Supreme Court - but the outcome will impact much more than religious expression in Canada, legal experts say.

The case has the potential to test national unity and the balance between courts and elected officials.

"This case is probably going to be the most important constitutional case in a generation," said Christine Van Geyn, executive director at the Canadian Constitution Foundation.

At the heart of the case is Bill

Germany is continuing to struggle with a shortage of skilled workers, as elderly staff retire, and there are not enough young candidates to fill their roles. To try to alleviate the problem the country is increasingly turning to workers from India.

For Handirk von Ungern-Sternberg, it started with an email that dropped into his inbox in February 2021. It had come from India