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News from the ABC Australia

Hundreds of former inmates potentially exposed to HIV and hepatitis C in prison
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

A Queensland Health communique has revealed hundreds of former prisoners were potentially exposed to HIV and hepatitis C after an inmate shared injecting equipment in prison.  

Trump Tower developer ran business that collapsed owing $28 million
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

The businessman behind a proposed Trump Tower on the Gold Coast ran a development business that collapsed owing $28 million.

UK backs release of 'arrogant' ex-prince Andrew's trade envoy documents
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested last week on suspicion of misconduct in public office amid claims he shared confidential government information with Jeffrey Epstein.

'I just burst into tears': 400yo viola found after a five-year search
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

The instrument is believed to be one of the finest tenor violas in existence and the only surviving example of its kind.

Husband recounts brutal attack on his wife in cold case murder
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

A jury has watched hospital footage of Irma Palasics's husband describing the night she was killed in 1999, as two men stand trial over her death.

Finding a new home brings 'peace' to refugees from war-torn nation
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Churches and families rally around Congolese refugee arrivals in a NSW town known as a welcome zone for those fleeing crisis.

SA Labor's stamp duty policy appears at odds with former treasurer's view
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

SA Labor has announced a plan to abolish stamp duty for those aged over 60 and planning to downsize at the party's election campaign launch, in what seems to be a major policy shift from the position detailed by the state's former treasurer.

Mayor in Melbourne's west suspended over demeaning Facebook post
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Wyndham City Council mayor Josh Gilligan has been stood down for a month after an investigation found a social media post about a former mayor was belittling and demeaning.

A quarter century has passed but Bradman will 'always be 99.94 not out'
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Sir Donald Bradman was a towering figure in Australian cricket and culture, and some of the game's commentators have paused to reflect on his ongoing significance to the sport 25 years after his death.

Antisemitism royal commission facing 'limitations'
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

The antisemitism royal commission is underway, but it faces some real tests in delivering justice to those impacted in the wake of the Bondi terror attack.

The uneven roads that lead to the Women's Asian Cup — from the intriguing North Korea, to favourite Japan
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

The Women's Asian Cup in Australia provides a chance for the Matildas and visiting nations to create history, bring attention to their countries like never before, and seek respect and investment. But each have had varied paths to get here. 

'ISIS bride' was 14 when she married a terrorist, sister says
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

The sister of an Australian woman who married an Islamic State fighter has revealed how her sister was "groomed" into travelling to a war zone in Syria, where she is now stuck.

Broken leg and missed opportunity is driving Anagnostiadis forward
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Armed with a strengthened determination to succeed on the race track, Aiva Anagnostiadis is ready to put her injury woes in the rear-view mirror.

After four years of war, countries are seeing Russia as a 'spent force'
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

For the first time since its invasion, Russia has lost troops faster than it can replace them. It's one of many grim milestones of a bloody war in Ukraine that has now been going for four years.

Could one surgeon undo decades of advocacy for endometriosis?
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Endometriosis sufferers have been left "sick" and reeling over the findings of a months-long ABC investigation into a Melbourne gynaecologist.

What to know about new passport requirements for British dual citizens starting today
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Your guide to the dual citizen entry requirements for the UK that are coming into effect today.

'You wanna be gay?' Sydney teens bashed on camera in IS-inspired attacks
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

An ABC investigation has obtained distressing videos and victims' accounts of IS sympathisers hunting and bashing gay and bisexual boys on camera in Sydney.

'Things will be very complicated' without antibiotic, salmon industry warns
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Tasmania's salmon industry is arguing the case to keep using an antibiotic being used to combat bacterial infection in fish stocks, as a possible ban on the drug's usage looms because of it being found in "non-target" species.

Travel quiz: Can you win our race around the world?
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Which European city is home to the Rijksmuseum? And which dance style is Argentina best known for?

Pastry stall sells 650kg of knafeh in first three days of Ramadan
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attended the opening night of the Ramadan night market in Melbourne's Dandenong, which organisers hope will attract at least a million people over the course of the holy month.



News from the BBC World Service

Mandelson's lawyers say he was arrested over 'baseless' claim he was a flight risk
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

The peer's lawyers say there is no truth in the suggestion he was planning to leave the UK.

Andrew 'rude and arrogant', minister says as MPs back release of trade role files
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

The former prince travelled the globe as the UK's trade representative between 2001 and 2011.

Russian soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops executed on commanders' orders
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Four men expose the horror and brutality of conditions in the Ukraine war, with two saying they saw soldiers being shot for refusing orders.

BBC edited a second racial slur out of Bafta ceremony
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

The BBC's chief content officer Kate Phillips says a slur that aired was the result of a genuine error.

Man 'caused wife's death by controlling her', jury told
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Christopher Trybus denies the manslaughter of his wife Tarryn Baird who took her own life in 2017.

GPs told to guarantee same-day appointments for urgent cases
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

New contract will require patients in England to be given immediate appointment if needed.

'I wanted to save her life' - the moment twin sisters learned they were identical
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

The surprise discovery meant Grace Leggett could not be a stem cell donor for her sister Caitlin.

UK temperatures expected to reach 18C after rainy start to 2026
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

How high will temperatures reach and how long will stay mild? Darren Bett has the details.

Nancy Guthrie's family offers $1m reward to bring home missing mother
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Fighting back tears, the missing woman's NBC host daughter says they accept she may be dead.

Driver admits causing death of mother pushing pram
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Rebecca Ableman was struck on the head by crane equipment dangling from a lorry, a court hears.

Phillipson defends student loan change and says average repayments will rise by £8 a month
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Some graduates in England say "punishing" student loan repayments have led them to cut their hours at work.

Reform by-election activist suspended over posts
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Adam Mitula, who has been campaigning ahead of the Gorton and Denton by-election, made the posts on X.

Ukraine remembers its dead as war enters a fifth year
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Events were held across Ukraine to mark four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

'Anyone who runs is shot': Watch Russian soldiers describe killings of troops who refuse orders
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

The men, who are on the run, told of the horrors they witnessed on the Russian side of the front lines in Ukraine.

Bowen: Why Ukraine remains defiant and does not feel close to defeat
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

This month marks four gruelling years since the full‑scale invasion began and a genuine ceasefire still feels far from assured

Why it's going wrong for Aston Martin ahead of the new Formula 1 season
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

The combination of Adrian Newey, Honda and Fernando Alonso was highly promising but Aston Martin are in trouble. Andrew Benson explains why.

Trump to address a changed America at vital moment for his presidency
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Few of Donald Trump’s speeches to Congress have had as much riding on them as the one on Tuesday night.

'Snoop Dogg performed private gig in our canteen'
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

The US rapper performed back to back classics, ahead of attending his first Swansea City game.

Rose Wylie: The 91-year-old art world rebel in her prime
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

The artist is the first female British painter to have a show in the main galleries of the Royal Academy.

I don't want him going abroad to die, says mum of son's assisted dying wish
Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026

Shelley Herniman was against Noah's wish for an assisted death but his suffering changed her mind.



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