10 December 2019
New Zealand police say they do not believe they will find any more survivors after a devastating volcanic eruption engulfed tourists on the country's White Island.
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10 Dec: A geology expert says there was "very little warning" of a volcano eruption on White Island, despite New Zealand authorities upgrading the volcanic alert level less than a month ago.... more
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9 Dec: Malaysian Government figure Anwar Ibrahim remains determined to become the country's eighth prime minister, despite allegations from a former staffer of sexual assault emerging late last week.... more
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9 Dec: More than 63 children in Samoa have died from measles. After a mass vaccination campaign, authorities are hopeful the spread of the highly contagious virus has been contained, but remain on edge. How did it come to this?... more
9 Dec: A 10-year resident of Hong Kong, domestic worker Yuli Riswati, is deported after expressing her sympathy for the pro-democracy movement and reporting on the protests in her spare time.... more
9 Dec: An artist causes a ruckus in the art world after he grabs a prized banana that had been taped to a wall and sold for $US120,000 and eats it in what he declares his own performance art.... more
9 Dec: Survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence say too many men in UK politics have been accused of mistreating women. Their solution? Take their seats in Britain's Parliament.... more
8 Dec: India is a video-journalist's dream but air pollution is off the scale and nothing ever goes to plan, so you need to embrace the Indian concept of 'jugaad', writes South Asia correspondent Siobhan Heanue, returning home after three years based in New Delh... more
