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Family and friends are due to gather on Thursday to say goodbye to Lily Hooper, the 18-year-old bushwalker whose death during a solo hike in New South Wales prompted an eight-day search through some of the region’s most difficult terrain. The teenager from Oakdale disappeared after setting out for Nattai National Park on August 12. Her car was later found near the start of the Bonnum Pic Walking Trail, leading to a major operation involving NSW Police, the State Emergency Service, the Rural Fire Service, Fire and Rescue NSW and other specialist teams. Almost 100 Australian Defence Force personnel and…

Donald Trump has welcomed Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s return to Britain, while saying he believed the couple had treated the Royal Family with “great disrespect” after stepping down from official duties. Speaking to reporters at the White House, the US president said he was “happy” the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had left their home in Montecito, California, for an extended stay in the UK. “I was not a fan,” Mr Trump said, before praising his relationships with the late Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles. “I thought they treated the Royal Family with great disrespect. I didn’t like…

The Japanese yen strengthened sharply against the US dollar on Wednesday, September 2, as traders weighed the prospect of further interest rate rises by the Bank of Japan and possible official efforts to curb the currency’s weakness. The yen climbed as high as 155.21 to the dollar before giving back some of its gains. It was last up 0.79 per cent at 158.92, having earlier traded as weakly as 160.39. The move came after the currency had retraced about half of the gains made following a rare joint intervention by the United States and Japan at the end of July.…

Tim Curry’s cause of death has been confirmed as coronary artery disease, according to a report from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health obtained by People. The Rocky Horror Picture Show star died aged 80 on 25 August, with his previous stroke and kidney cancer listed as contributing conditions. The report stated that those conditions were separate from the coronary artery disease that caused his death. Curry died peacefully at his home in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, according to a statement from his longtime manager and friend, Marcia Hurwitz. No cause of death had been given when his…

More than three million WordPress websites may remain exposed to takeover attacks because of a high-severity flaw in the All-in-One WP Migration and Backup plugin, security researchers have warned. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2026-19949, affects versions up to and including 7.109 of the plugin, which is used to back up, transfer and restore websites, including their databases, themes, media and other extensions. Researchers at Wordfence, the security division of Defiant, said the bug could allow an unauthenticated attacker to plant malicious data on a site and ultimately execute code with sufficient privileges to take complete control of it. The flaw…

Chelsea Women secured their place in the league phase of the Women’s Champions League with a 1-0 victory over Real Sociedad in San Sebastian. Keira Walsh’s second-half strike settled a subdued second leg and completed a 6-2 aggregate success for Sonia Bompastor’s side, who had won the opening match 5-2 at Plough Lane last week. The result means Chelsea will be involved in Friday’s league-phase draw in Nyon, with the first matches in the next stage scheduled for 22 and 23 September. Bompastor made four changes to the team selected for the first leg, bringing Lucy Bronze, Kadeisha Buchanan, Lexi…

A fire near Perimeter Mall in Dunwoody sent a huge plume of black smoke over the Atlanta area on Wednesday, 2 September, before firefighters brought the flames under control. One employee was injured and taken to hospital, according to local fire officials. The blaze broke out outside a restaurant at the shopping centre, with firefighters preventing it from spreading into the building. Officials said the fire started in a pile of rubbish behind The Cheesecake Factory. Other reports indicated that the flames may have been near the P.F. Chang’s restaurant, although the precise location was not immediately confirmed. A substantial…

Residents of Strath Creek, north of Melbourne, have begun placing dead kangaroos and wombats along a remote road in an attempt to deter visitors drawn to a viral lookout and “magic tree” from trespassing, camping and leaving rubbish behind. The Hangs Tree, a large dead stringybark on an organic farm, and the nearby Milky Way Point lookout have attracted hundreds of tourists after photographs and videos of the sites spread across social media. The two locations lie along the same narrow, one-way dirt road overlooking the valleys of central Victoria, about 100 kilometres north of Melbourne and close to the…

Two moderate Democrats have triggered a backlash within their party after helping Republicans push a package of legislation through the US House of Representatives in a razor-thin procedural vote. Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington crossed party lines on Tuesday, September 1, to support a Republican rule setting the terms for debate on several GOP-backed measures. The rule passed by 210 votes to 208, with the two Democrats joining 207 Republicans and an independent in backing it. The move allowed the House to consider a resolution condemning socialism, alongside measures relating to elections, environmental regulation and…

Donald Trump has proposed freezing base and locality pay for most US civilian federal employees in 2027, despite warnings from unions that the decision could deepen staff shortages and damage the government’s ability to deliver essential services. The plan would affect workers including air traffic controllers, IRS auditors and food safety inspectors. In a letter sent to House Speaker Mike Johnson on August 26, the president said pay for civilian employees covered by the General Schedule and certain other systems would remain at 2026 levels. Trump argued that the freeze was necessary to protect public finances. Without the alternative pay…