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An image released by Australian Federal Police of some of the 52 packages labelled as green tea, which turned out to contain methamphetamine Photo: Australian Federal Police A New Zealand woman has been arrested at Sydney Airport after she was caught trying to smuggle 52kg of methamphetamine into Australia. The woman, 23, had been on a flight from Singapore on Monday. She was arrested at Sydney Airport with a New South Wales woman after border officials found 52 packages in luggage labelled as Chinese tea. The packages contained about 1kg of a white substance; initial testing indicated a positive result for methamphetamine. Both women were charged with importing a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug. They appeared in the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney on 29 October and...

By Jack Kim for Reuters People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a train station in Seoul. Photo: AFP / Jung Yeon-Je Korea fired a suspected long-range ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, a day after Seoul reported the North was making preparations to test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile. The launch, at a sharply raised angle, was from an area near the North's capital, Pyongyang, at 7.10am (local time), the Joint Chiefs said in a statement. It did not confirm whether the missile had dropped. "It is believed the North Korea ballistic missile is a long-range ballistic missile fired at a high angle," the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in ...

England's test cricket captain Ben Stokes. Photo: PHOTOSPORT England's test cricket captain Ben Stokes said his house was burgled by a masked gang while his wife and children were at home. Stokes was in Pakistan at the time with the England team. APPEAL On the evening of Thursday 17th October a number of masked people burgled my home in the Castle Eden area in the North East. They escaped with jewellery, other valuables and a good deal of personal items. Many of those items have real sentimental value for me and my…— Ben Stokes (@benstokes38) October 30, 2024 The New Zealand-born player posted on social media pictures of the missing items, which included the OBE he received in 2020. "By far the worst thing about this crime is that it was carried out while my wife and two young child...