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Australian Senator Lydia Thorpe approaches King Charles in Canberra. Photo: Screenshot / Twitter Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe shouted anti-colonial slogans at King Charles during his visit to the Australian parliament on Monday, shocking assembled lawmakers and other dignitaries. "Give us our land back! Give us what you stole from us!" Thorpe screamed in an almost minute-long diatribe, after the 75-year-old king's speech. "This is not your land, you are not my king," the independent lawmaker said, decrying what she described as a "genocide" of Indigenous Australians by European settlers. Australia was a British colony for more than 100 years, during which time thousands of Aboriginal Australians were killed and entire communities displaced. The country gained de facto independence in...

By Sara Smart and Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Fans of former One Direction singer Liam Payne gather with balloons and flowers beside the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens, adjacent to Hyde Park for a memorial. Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP London's Hyde Park was one of the several sites around the world this weekend for an outpouring of love, grief and recollection in honour of Liam Payne, the former One Direction boy band member who tragically fell to his death at a hotel in Buenos Aires last week at the age of 31. Crowds gathered near the park's Peter Pan statue, where they placed handwritten letters, teddy bears, balloons, photos and flowers, according to photos shared from the memorial. The scene created what looked like a scrapbook of both the singer's life and the fans whose lives he ...

Cher, Mary J. Blige and Ozzy Osbourne were among this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Photo: AFP Cher, Mary J. Blige and Ozzy Osbourne were among this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, formally introduced on Saturday at a concert gala. Kool & the Gang, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, A Tribe Called Quest, and Peter Frampton were also among the 2024 class of honourees, artists honoured at the ceremony held in Cleveland, Ohio. Big Mama Thornton, Alexis Korner and John Mayall received special honours for "musical influence," Jimmy Buffett, MC5, Dionne Warwick and Norman Whitfield received awards for "musical excellence." Suzanne de Passe, a trailblazer for women executives in the music business, who was big in Motown, won the night's award for non-performing indus...

By Francesca Street, CNN Prague, a city as famous for its beer as its historic architecture, is set to ban late-night bar crawls, seeking to end its reputation as a party destination. The Czech capital of Prague. Photo: Julius Silver, Pixabay The Czech capital is the latest European tourism hot spot pushing back on crowds, amid concerns about the impact on locals' quality of life. Prague's deputy mayor, Jiri Pospisil, said the city wants to discourage tourists who come "for a short time only to get drunk" in favor of "a more cultured, wealthier tourist," according to the AFP news agency. Over the past two decades, partly thanks to the boom in budget airlines, Prague has become a go-to destination for bachelor and bachelorette parties, particularly from the UK. The news, announced on ...

By Alexander Smith Team New Zealand celebrate winning the final race as they claim the 37th America's Cup. Photo: America's Cup/ Ricardo Pinto No sooner had New Zealand crossed the finish line to win the 37th America's Cup off Barcelona at the weekend than the focus moved to what the next one will look like The beaten British, who had not competed in the final for some 60 years and have never won the event, immediately handed New Zealand a notice to become the "challenger of record", meaning they will now negotiate key aspects of the 38th America's Cup. Grant Dalton, an America's Cup veteran who has now led what some say is the "complete team" to three consecutive wins, joked when accepting the trophy that the last time he did so he was back at his desk the next morning plotting the ...

Photo: Facebook Dunedin Airport has gone viral and made global headlines after introducing a three minute time limit on hugs. The time limit in the airport's free drop-off zone was about improving traffic flow and safety around the terminal. Anyone wanting a longer farewell would have to find a spot in the carpark. Dunedin Airport chief executive Dan De Bono spoke to RNZ's Checkpoint programme earlier this month and confessed he was "a hugger". They were trying to have a bit of fun with the announcement, he said. "It's caused quite a stir, we've got quite a bit of conversation going." CNN included it in its weekly travel newsletter under the headline "Catch flights, not feelings". The New York Post went with the "inhumane" angle, while the Times of India said the "quirky rule" had "spar...