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• Disposable barbecues temporarily banned in the UK

  14-08-2026 23:40 via smh.com.au
  
  Disposable barbecues are temporarily banned in parts of the UK, where wildfires have destroyed homes and threatened lives.
  
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• Luigi Mangione admits to killing healthcare executive in New York

  14-08-2026 23:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Luigi Mangione has admitted he did shoot a healthcare executive in Manhattan in 2024.
  
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• Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday, who resigned amid plagiarism row, found dead

  14-08-2026 23:19 via smh.com.au
  
  Jason Arday had resigned from Cambridge University earlier this month following the plagiarism accusations, which had rocked the world of academia.
  
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• ‘Swung wildly’: Second UK train derails in as many days amid heatwave

  14-08-2026 20:37 via smh.com.au
  
  A passenger train has derailed near London, the second derailment in two days after two people were seriously injured when another train came off the tracks on Thursday.
  
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• Luigi Mangione pleads guilty in federal case, admits killing insurance CEO

  14-08-2026 18:23 via smh.com.au
  
  Mangione told the court: “I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died”.
  
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• Luigi Mangione admits killing insurance CEO, asks to void state murder trial

  14-08-2026 18:23 via smh.com.au
  
  “I shot Mr Thompson in Manhattan, and he died,” Mangione told the court as he pleaded guilty to federal charges of stalking resulting in death. He is now seeking to dismiss a state murder trial.
  
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• Farage byelection win a hollow victory

  14-08-2026 11:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The UK Reform leader Nigel Farage went to the people who voted for him last time, and faced with voting for a man dressed as a rubbish bin, they stayed true.
  
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• Farage began a political farce. Binface missed his chance

  14-08-2026 07:37 via smh.com.au
  
  The Reform leader’s byelection win over the celebrated “man wearing a bin on his head” means little politically, and it wasn’t exactly comedy gold in the end either.
  
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• Passenger train derails and 11 people injured after carriages overturn in southern England

  14-08-2026 04:26 via smh.com.au
  
  Passenger train derails and 11 people injured after carriages overturn in southern England
  
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• What China really wants, according to Australia’s former ambassador

  14-08-2026 03:56 via smh.com.au
  
  Former diplomat Graham Fletcher offers a blunt analogy for how Beijing would like its relationship with Australia to pan out given half a chance.
  
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• Concerns grow over conditions aboard US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln

  14-08-2026 03:51 via smh.com.au
  
  Reports of food shortages and mental health issues during the carrier’s extended Middle East deployment have led to calls from leading Democrats for answers.
  
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