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Noel Gallagher (left) Andy Bell (centre) and Liam Gallagher, members of the British rock band Oasis hold a photocall in Hong Kong on 25 February, 2006. Photo: MIKE CLARKE/AFP Britpop icons Oasis are reforming for the first time since 2009, with feuding brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher calling a truce to get the band back together. Oasis will headline a series of live concerts in the UK and Ireland next year. It's official! After 15 years of refuting any suggestion they might reform, Oasis have reunited to headline a series of live shows. After teasing fans earlier this week, Liam and Noel Gallagher have confirmed they would bury the hatchet to perform a run of concerts across the UK and Ireland in 2025. What are Oasis's reunion dates? The band will play four shows each at London's Wem...

By James Mackenzie, for Reuters Freed Israeli hostage Kaid Alkadi talking on the phone after arriving for a checkup at the Soroka Medical Centre in Beersheva. Photo: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE/AFP Israeli special forces have recovered an Israeli hostage from a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip in "a complex rescue operation", the military said, more than 10 months after he was abducted by Hamas-led gunmen on 7 October. It said 52-year-old Qaid Farhan Alkadi, a member of the Bedouin community in southern Israel, had been transferred to hospital and his condition was stable. Military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Alkadi had been rescued in an underground tunnel but gave no details of the operation, citing the security of the remaining hostages and Israeli forces. Pr...

Jetstar says the flight was cancelled due to an engineering issue on the same day that the global CrowdStrike outage took place. Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon By Kristy Sexton-McGrath, ABC national tourism reporter, and Jessica Haynes, ABC What was meant to be a dream holiday in Japan for Cassandra Nichterlein and her young family turned into a costly nightmare when their return flight was cancelled. Nichterlein, her husband and their three children - all under six years of age - were ready to return to Sydney after a 10-day break in Osaka. But the family's plans unravelled soon after arriving at the airport on 19 July. "There was a sign on the check-in counter telling us the flight had been cancelled due to mechanical failure," Nichterlein said. "That's pretty much where the explanations ...

US prosecutors obtained a new indictment in the 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP US prosecutors obtained a new indictment in the 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump on Tuesday, following a US Supreme Court ruling that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution. The new indictment dropped allegations that Trump sought to pressure the US Justice Department in his bid to overturn his election defeat, an apparent effort to keep the prosecution alive after the high court found that Trump could not be prosecuted for that conduct. - Reuters Source link

New Zealander captain James Cutfield declined to respond to Italian prosecutors' questions. Photo: VesselFinder The captain of the luxury yacht owned by the family of British tech magnate Mike Lynch that sank off Sicily last week declined to respond to prosecutors during questioning on Tuesday, one of his lawyers said. James Cutfield, a 51-year old New Zealand national, was put under investigation on Monday by Italian prosecutors. "The captain exercised his right to remain silent for two fundamental reasons," lawyer Giovanni Rizzuti told reporters. "First, he's very worn out. Second, we were appointed only on Monday and for a thorough and correct defence case we need to acquire a set of data that at the moment we don't have." Lynch and six other people were killed when the British-flagg...