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A throwback photograph of Alex Warren as a child has offered a glimpse of the future musician before he found fame, with the image showing him smiling for the camera. Warren was posting videos on YouTube at the age of 10, long before he appeared on stage performing to audiences. He later became a co-founder and member of The Hype House, and received a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist in 2026. The childhood image has prompted fans to look back at the early years of a performer whose career has since taken him far beyond his first online videos.

Viking’s Champions League adventure has taken the Norwegian club from a humiliating second-tier defeat in front of 274 spectators to a historic draw with Bayern Munich in Stavanger. The 3-3 result against the Bundesliga champions marked the biggest night in the club’s history. Chief executive Eirik Bjorno said the most significant lesson was that Viking could “actually compete” and cope with the speed of elite European football. Viking struck first from a corner, a moment Bjorno remembered as the point when the team’s preparations for “wave after wave” of Bayern attacks suddenly changed. For sporting director Erik Nevland, the defining…

A 22-year-old learner driver has been fined $6,077 after Queensland Police allegedly found four teenagers travelling unrestrained in the back of a moving Hyundai iLoad in Ipswich. Officers said they saw a teenage girl waving a red flag from the vehicle as it travelled along Redbank Plains Road at about 10.30pm on October 14. When police stopped the van, they allegedly discovered three further teenagers, all aged 14, travelling without restraints in the rear. Body-worn camera footage captured an officer reacting to the discovery by saying: “This is crazy. Absolutely crazy.” The driver, a woman from Redbank Plains, was allegedly…

Alberta has voted to remain part of Canada in the province’s first-ever referendum on separation.

US-Ukraine relations have deteriorated further after Donald Trump said Volodymyr Zelenskyy should consider appointing someone else to negotiate on Kyiv’s behalf in talks aimed at ending Russia’s war. The US president told reporters outside the White House that his Ukrainian counterpart should have reached a settlement “a long time ago” and criticised him for not accepting his advice. “Maybe it’s time for Zelenskyy to get somebody else to negotiate,” Mr Trump said. His remarks came as Mr Zelenskyy told US senators that weapons deliveries and intelligence-sharing had been restricted, with some arms shipments delayed by the Pentagon. “We also know…

The Billy Evans shower scene in the documentary You Can See Everything was filmed after he volunteered to shower in front of the production team, co-director Lance Oppenheim has said. Evans, the partner of Elizabeth Holmes, is shown returning home after a gym session before stripping and entering the shower. The film then pans up his fully naked body before he emerges with a towel around his waist and nearly encounters filmmaker Nathan Fielder outside the bathroom. Lance Oppenheim explains the Billy Evans shower scene Oppenheim said the production spent a month filming inside Holmes’s house, working for up to…

Community members and first responders have gathered in the Oakland and Berkeley Hills to honour those killed in the 1991 East Bay Hills Firestorm, as the region marks the 35th anniversary of the disaster. The wildfire tore through neighbourhoods on October 20, 1991, after strong winds rekindled embers from an earlier blaze near the Caldecott Tunnel. It killed 25 people and destroyed more than 3,000 homes across Oakland and Berkeley. A commemoration was held at Gateway Garden, near the junction of Hiller Drive, Caldecott Lane and Tunnel Road. Speakers included Oakland Fire Department chief Damon Covington, former Oakland mayor Libby…

Wangaratta has been left struggling to comprehend the alleged attack on independent MP Helen Haines, who police say was deliberately struck by a four-wheel-drive outside her electorate office in broad daylight. By Tuesday morning, Chris Wernert had arrived on Murphy Street wearing an orange T-shirt bearing the words: “Wangaratta, this is not us.” Mr Wernert supports One Nation and did not vote for Ms Haines, but said political differences had become irrelevant after the 65-year-old former nurse and midwife was allegedly run down outside her office. “No matter what side of politics you’re on – I will be a One…

An Australian member of parliament has lost a leg after a car reversed to hit her a second time.

Voters in Alberta have rejected a proposal to begin the process that could eventually lead to the province leaving Canada, in a result that handed Prime Minister Mark Carney and supporters of Canadian unity a decisive victory. With more than one million ballots counted, about 76% backed remaining part of Canada, while 23% supported starting the legal process towards a future separation vote. The Alberta independence referendum was not itself a vote on independence. Instead, residents were being asked whether to begin a process that could have led to a second ballot on separation. More than 1.35 million Albertans, or…