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The death of Liam Payne, who rose to fame as a singer for one of the best-selling boy bands of all time, One Direction, has left his friends and fans in shock. Local media reported he died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Argentina. "I am in shock right now. Liam was always so kind to me," American singer Charlie Puth said on Instagram. "He was one of the first major artists I got to work with. I cannot believe he is gone." Paris Hilton wrote on X she was upset hearing the news of his Payne's death. "Sending love and condolences to his family & loved ones. RIP my friend." American singer Corbyn Besson, of band Why Don't We, wrote on X that he looked up to One Direction as a young artist. "You really never know when it's your time to go. remind your friends/family that y...

By Daniel Ziffer, ABC News Industrial designer Liam Hooper has found more job opportunities in Melbourne. Photo: ABC News / Patrick Stone Australia and New Zealand are neighbours, friends and sporting competitors. But they've had vastly different fortunes in the past few years. Staring at a third recession in just two years, Kiwis are moving across the ditch to Australia in substantial numbers, seeking a sunnier economic climate. "The cost of living was just getting out of control," said Alex Cashmore, who moved to Melbourne this year. Alex Cashmore and his wife Taya moved across the ditch this year. Photo: Supplied He and wife Taya bought a house in Auckland as prices peaked in 2021 and just before the official cash rate skyrocketed from 0.25 percent to a peak of 5.5 percent. ...

By Dan Heching, Manuela Castro, Mauricio Torres and Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Liam Payne performs at the Hugo label show in the Halle during Berlin Fashion Week on 3 July, 2019. Photo: AFP / DPA Liam Payne, a former member of boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the window of a hotel in Buenos Aires, according to police there. He was 31. Payne's death occurred on Wednesday at a hotel on Costa Rica Street in the Palermo neighbourhood, according to a statement from police provided to CNN. Buenos Aires police said that personnel from the 14B police station went to the hotel on Wednesday afternoon after receiving a 911 call about an aggressive man who was possibly under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The police's statement did not identify that person as Payne. Payne was see...

By Gregory Krieg and Kate Sullivan, CNN Donald Trump. File photo Photo: AFP Donald Trump has declared himself the "father of IVF", a fertility treatment that has come under threat following the US Supreme Court's 2022 decision to overturn Roe v Wade. It is unclear what precisely the former president meant when he made the comment at a Fox News town hall in battleground Georgia that was billed as focusing on women's issues and had an all-female audience. But he has repeatedly returned to the issue - talking up his support for IVF - on the campaign trail, where he has given a long series of confusing or contradictory answers about his stance on abortion. "We really are the party for IVF," Trump told moderator and Fox News host Harris Faulkner on "The Faulkner Focus." "We want fertilisa...

By Chelsea Bailey and Amanda Musa, CNN Erik Menendez, left, and his brother Lyle listen during a pre-trial hearing on 29 December 1992. Photo: AFP / VINCE BUCCI As the Los Angeles County district attorney weighs new evidence that could see Lyle and Erik Menendez released from prison after more than 30 years, nearly two dozen of their relatives are expected to speak on their behalf at a news conference. In 1996, the Menendez brothers were convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty, in their Beverly Hills home. Although they have never denied killing their parents, both men maintained during their trial that they acted in self-defence and suffered years of physical and sexual abuse from their father. Atto...

Liam Payne at the BRIT Awards in London in 2019. Photo: AFP / TOLGA AKMEN By Dan Heching and Manuela Castro, CNN Liam Payne, a former member of boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, according to police there. He was 31. More to come... - CNN Source link

United States President Jimmy Carter holds a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on 4 August 1980. Photo: AFP / File Fifteen days after turning 100, former US president Jimmy Carter cast his vote in the US election, fulfilling an earlier declared wish to live long enough to back Kamala Harris in the poll. The former Democratic leader "voted by mail," according to the Carter Center, the non-profit he founded after he left the White House in 1981 to pursue his vision of world diplomacy. The centenarian - who left office under a cloud of unpopularity, but has seen his star rise ever since - took advantage of early voting in his home state of Georgia, where he is receiving hospice care. Carter had told his family earlier this year that living long enough t...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a press conference on 14 October 2024, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, after Canada expelled six top Indian diplomats, including the country's ambassador. Photo: AFP / DAVE CHAN Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says India made "a horrific mistake" by thinking it could interfere as aggressively as it allegedly did in Canada's sovereignty. Trudeau made the remark two days after Canada kicked out six Indian diplomats, linking them to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada and alleging a broader effort to target Indian dissidents in the country. The Canadian leader's comments were the strongest he has made in a year-long dispute that plunged bilateral relations to a new low. "The Indian government made a horrific mistake in thinki...

By Michelle Nichols, Reuters The UN has long complained of obstacles to getting aid into Gaza. Photo: BASHAR TALEB/AFP The United States is watching to ensure that Israel's actions on the ground show that it does not have a "policy of starvation" in the northern Gaza Strip, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the Security Council. She told the 15-member council that such a policy would be "horrific and unacceptable and would have implications under international law and US law." "The Government of Israel has said that this is not their policy, that food and other essential supplies will not be cut off, and we will be watching to see that Israel's actions on the ground match this statement," Thomas-Greenfield said, in a ratcheting up of the US posture toward its longt...

Dame Jacinda Ardern at Windsor Castle, west of London. Photo: ANDREW MATTHEWS/Pool/AFP Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was officially made a Dame in a ceremony in the UK. She was appointed a Dame Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours for her services to the state, a few months after her shock resignation as prime minister. Last week it was announced she would formally receive her damehood from Prince William at a ceremony in Windsor Castle in London. In a social media post, Prince William and wife Kate called her a friend, an extraordinary advocate, and now a Dame Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the State. "It was a privilege to present you with this deserved award at Windsor today!" he wrote In a vi...