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The indigenous leader who welcomed the King to Canberra has called on him to apologise for colonial wrongs.Aunty Serena Williams from the Ngunnawal people, performed a "Welcome to Country" and smoking ceremony as the King arrived in the Australian capital. She said: "We all have roles and responsibilities, and I have roles and responsibilities to my people. And I think an apology would be beautiful."When asked if that meant the King himself should say sorry, she replied, "Yes. Because we have to acknowledge our past." Image: King Charles and Queen Camilla lay a wreath at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Pic: Brook Mitchell/Pool Photo via AP Her comments came before a senator shouted at the King after his speech to p...

Moldova's president has accused "criminal groups" of undermining a referendum on European Union membership.The EU referendum asked voters to choose whether to enshrine in the country's constitution a path toward the EU. After around 95% of votes were counted, approximately 52% voted no, while 47% voted yes.However, ballots cast among the country's large ex-pat population are still being counted."Criminal groups, working together with foreign forces hostile to our national interests, have attacked our country with tens of millions of euros, lies and propaganda, using the most disgraceful means to keep our citizens and our nation trapped in uncertainty and instability," said president Maia Sandu. Image: President Sandu casts her vote. Pic: AP ...

Explosions have erupted in the Lebanese capital Beirut after Israel threatened "imminent strikes" on Hezbollah's financial sites.The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said on Sunday evening it was planning to attack a "large number" of locations used by the group's al Qard al Hassan unit, which is used to pay its operatives and help buy arms.The first warnings affected southern Beirut and the eastern Bekaa valley but according to a senior Israeli intelligence official, strikes are likely "all over Lebanon". One was seen near the city's Rafic Al Hariri International Airport.IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari warned civilians: "Anyone who will be near the sites used to finance Hezbollah's terrorist activity is required to stay away from them immediately." Image: ...

Thousands of people have taken part in protests against tourism in holiday resorts across the Canary Islands.There were simultaneous demonstrations in Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and El Hierro on Sunday calling for a change in the tourism model for the Spanish islands. In the Playa de las Americas in Tenerife, a resort popular with British holidaymakers, protesters appeared on the beach while tourists were sunbathing and chanted: "This beach is ours."At least 8,000 people took part in the protests under the slogan Canary Islands has a limit, the Spanish government said. Image: Thousands of protesters took part. Pic: Reuters Activists say local people are being priced out of the housing market ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla have signed a historic bible on their trip to Australia, over four decades after the monarch signed the same book with Princess Diana.The King is on his first foreign trip since his cancer diagnosis and took a day of rest before beginning his tour on Sunday. Attending a church in a north Sydney suburb, the King signed a bible brought over with the First Fleet.However, it wasn't the first time the King had done so and his signature was visible, alongside Princess Diana's, from a trip the couple took in 1983.Other royals, seemingly including Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, and Prince William and the Princess of Wales, had also signed the page. Image: King Charles III turns the hourglass he gifted the parliament....

Elon Musk has promised to give away $1m a day until the US election to someone who signs his online petition.The Tesla boss is backing America PAC, a political group he set up to support Donald Trump's bid for the White House. He posted on X: "Every day, from now through Nov 5, @America PAC will be giving away $1M to someone in swing states who signed our petition to support free speech & the right to bear arms!"We want to make sure that everyone in swing states hears about this and I suspect this will ensure they do."The first $1m (£767,000) has already apparently been awarded to a man named John Dreher during a campaign event in Pennsylvania on Saturday. X This content is provided by X, which may be using cookies and other tech...

Missile strikes on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown have injured 17 people, as Russian forces in the east are reportedly storming a town as they push to gain control of the whole of the Donbas.A police officer and a rescue worker were among those wounded in the strikes on the central city of Kryvyi Rih. Regional governor Serhiy Lysak said the attack damaged 15 apartment buildings, stores, a cafe, a church, office spaces, a bank branch and a gas pipeline.Elsewhere, around 10 drones were destroyed near the capital, Kyiv, while one civilian was killed and 11 injured when the town of Shotska came under attack from guided bombs and drones.Russia denies that it targets civilians but has regularly fired missiles and drones at towns and cities far behind the front lines. ...

Liam Payne fans have gathered for a vigil in his memory in London's Hyde Park.Hundreds of people stood in silence to remember Payne at the park's Peter Pan statue on Sunday.They brought pictures of the star and his former One Direction bandmates, alongside flowers, balloons, and handwritten notes. Image: Crowds gather around the Peter Pan statue in Hyde Park on Sunday Image: One Direction lyrics in a frame in Hyde Park Image: Liam Payne fans lay tributes to him in London's Hyde Park Read moreWhat we know about singer's death so farGrief as details emerge of s...

Islamist terrorism may get a "further boost" from recent unrest in the Middle East, including the killing of the leader of Hamas, a former head of MI6 has warned.Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the 7 October attack, was killed by Israeli troops following a chance encounter this week, after years of being hunted. A former British intelligence chief said that his death along with anger around the unresolved "Palestinian question" and the violence people in Gaza see "every day" could fuel possible terror attacks beyond the Middle East.Middle East latest Image: Thousands of Jordanians protest in memory of killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar Pic: AP Sir John Sawers, who led the Secret Intelligence Service in Britain for five years,...

Authorities in Cuba have suffered a third major setback to restoring power, leaving millions in the dark.The country's national grid crashed around midday Friday after the Antonio Guiteras power plant, the island's largest, shut down, causing the biggest blackout in at least two years. Despite the best efforts of authorities, the grid collapsed again on Saturday morning. Image: People cooked soup over an open fire this weekend in Havana, amid the blackouts. Pic: AP Image: Residents line up to buy bread during the massive blackout over the weekend. Pic: AP Image: Residents were left in the dark after the ini...