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By Laura Chung, AFP King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrive to attend a Sunday morning service at St Thomas' Anglican Church in Sydney on 20 October. Photo: Dean Lewins / POOL / AFP King Charles III attended church Sunday as he began an Australian tour in earnest, giving antipodean admirers the first glimpse of their reigning monarch. The 75-year-old sovereign arrived in Sydney late on Friday evening, but had kept a low profile as he balances cancer recovery with royal duties. His first official public appearance was a Sunday morning service at St Thomas' Anglican Church in northern Sydney, a stone edifice built as a place of worship for British colonial settlers. A number of prominent British colonists are buried in the church's graveyard nearby, including Edward Wollstonecraft - ...

Photo: AFP / Andri Tambunan At least seven people were killed after part of a boat dock collapsed, sending at least 20 into the Atlantic waters off the coast of the US state of Georgia. US Coast Guard ships were searching Saturday night for missing people. The accident, which also caused multiple injuries, happened during a celebration of Sapelo Island's tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants, authorities said. A gangway that was crowded with people waiting for a ferryboat collapsed late Saturday afternoon local time on the Georgia barrier island about 97 km south of Savannah, said Tyler Jones, a spokesperson for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, which runs the ferry. "We and multiple agencies are searching for survivors," Jones said. Coast Guard helicopters ...

Philip G. Zimbardo was behind the controversial "Stanford Prison Experiment". File image. Photo: UnSplash/ Matthew Ansley Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial "Stanford Prison Experiment" that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91. Stanford University announced Friday that Zimbardo died 14 October at his home in San Francisco. A cause of death was not provided. In the 1971 prison study, Zimbardo and a team of graduate students recruited college-aged males to spend two weeks in a mock prison in the basement of a building on the Stanford campus. The study was ended after six days as the students playing guards became psychologically abusive and those playing prisoners became anxious, emotionally depressed and en...

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris greets supporters after speaking during a campaign rally at Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA / AFP By Andrea Shalal, Steve Holland and Trevor Hunnicutt for Reuters Republican Donald Trump escalated his verbal attacks on Democrat Kamala Harris on Saturday local time as the vice president turned to celebrities to generate enthusiasm for her campaign, with both candidates for US president courting early voters. Harris and Trump are essentially tied in the most competitive states and many Americans are voting early by mail or in person, with just 17 days until the 5 November election. On Saturday, Harris rallied supporters at a get-out-the-vote event in Detroit, Michigan, for the city...

By Danielle Broadway and Catarina Demony, Reuters British singer-songwriter Liam Payne (right) and then-partner Cheryl pose on the red carpet on arrival for the BRIT Awards 2018 in London on 21 February, 2018. Photo: AFP / Tolga Akmen Liam Payne's former partner, pop singer Cheryl, has joined an outpouring of grief over the death of the One Direction band member, calling for restraint in coverage to protect his family during an "indescribably painful time". Payne, who shot to global fame with boy band One Direction, died at age 31 after falling from a third-floor hotel room balcony in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, triggering tributes from fans around the world. Cheryl Tweedy, more commonly known by just her first name, was in a relationship with Payne between 2016 and 2018 and she used ...