2 October 2020
Increasingly aggressive campaigns for and against New Caledonia's French rule have pushed the coronavirus pandemic out of voters' minds as the Pacific nation stages another independence referendum.
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2 Oct: Get set to be dazzled by the big beautiful glow of mysterious Mars this weekend as it puts on a show with the first of two mini-moons this year.... more
2 Oct: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will have to wait until early next year to find out if he will be extradited to the United States to face charges including espionage, after his hearing finished at a London court on Thursday.... more
2 Oct: American model and television personality Chrissy Teigen, wife of singer John Legend, says they are in "shock" and "deep pain" after complications in her pregnancy led to the loss of their baby.... more
1 Oct: Cardinal George Pell arrives back in Rome for the first time since 2017 when he was accused of child sexual abuse charges that he was later acquitted of.... more
1 Oct: When UK mother Claire Hastie recovered from COVID-19, she figured her life would return to normal. But after months of crushing fatigue, she formed a Facebook group. The group now has 22,000 members as people join the community looking for support and hel... more
1 Oct: Wesley Barnes stayed at a Thailand beach resort and posted a bad review online about it. Almost three months later he was arrested for defamation and put in jail.... more
1 Oct: The Greenland ice sheet is now melting faster than any time in the last 12,000 years, and it is set to increase that rate nearly six-fold by the end of the century under the worst-case emissions scenario, research finds.... more
1 Oct: Security contacts linked to the US discussed plans to kidnap or even poison Julian Assange as part of an elaborate spying operation during the latter part of his seven-year stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy, a London court hears.... more
30 Sep: It was a debate that has been dubbed the worst in modern American political history. Here's what happened when US President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden faced off for the first time.... more
