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By Daniel Ziffer, ABC News Industrial designer Liam Hooper has found more job opportunities in Melbourne. Photo: ABC News / Patrick Stone Australia and New Zealand are neighbours, friends and sporting competitors. But they've had vastly different fortunes in the past few years. Staring at a third recession in just two years, Kiwis are moving across the ditch to Australia in substantial numbers, seeking a sunnier economic climate. "The cost of living was just getting out of control," said Alex Cashmore, who moved to Melbourne this year. Alex Cashmore and his wife Taya moved across the ditch this year. Photo: Supplied He and wife Taya bought a house in Auckland as prices peaked in 2021 and just before the official cash rate skyrocketed from 0.25 percent to a peak of 5.5 percent. ...

By Dan Heching, Manuela Castro, Mauricio Torres and Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Liam Payne performs at the Hugo label show in the Halle during Berlin Fashion Week on 3 July, 2019. Photo: AFP / DPA Liam Payne, a former member of boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the window of a hotel in Buenos Aires, according to police there. He was 31. Payne's death occurred on Wednesday at a hotel on Costa Rica Street in the Palermo neighbourhood, according to a statement from police provided to CNN. Buenos Aires police said that personnel from the 14B police station went to the hotel on Wednesday afternoon after receiving a 911 call about an aggressive man who was possibly under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The police's statement did not identify that person as Payne. Payne was see...

By Gregory Krieg and Kate Sullivan, CNN Donald Trump. File photo Photo: AFP Donald Trump has declared himself the "father of IVF", a fertility treatment that has come under threat following the US Supreme Court's 2022 decision to overturn Roe v Wade. It is unclear what precisely the former president meant when he made the comment at a Fox News town hall in battleground Georgia that was billed as focusing on women's issues and had an all-female audience. But he has repeatedly returned to the issue - talking up his support for IVF - on the campaign trail, where he has given a long series of confusing or contradictory answers about his stance on abortion. "We really are the party for IVF," Trump told moderator and Fox News host Harris Faulkner on "The Faulkner Focus." "We want fertilisa...

By Chelsea Bailey and Amanda Musa, CNN Erik Menendez, left, and his brother Lyle listen during a pre-trial hearing on 29 December 1992. Photo: AFP / VINCE BUCCI As the Los Angeles County district attorney weighs new evidence that could see Lyle and Erik Menendez released from prison after more than 30 years, nearly two dozen of their relatives are expected to speak on their behalf at a news conference. In 1996, the Menendez brothers were convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty, in their Beverly Hills home. Although they have never denied killing their parents, both men maintained during their trial that they acted in self-defence and suffered years of physical and sexual abuse from their father. Atto...

Liam Payne at the BRIT Awards in London in 2019. Photo: AFP / TOLGA AKMEN By Dan Heching and Manuela Castro, CNN Liam Payne, a former member of boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, according to police there. He was 31. More to come... - CNN Source link