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Chester zoo has successfully hatched one of Africa’s rarest species of duck for the first time. It said the successful breeding of four maccoa ducklings formed part of growing efforts to safeguard Africa’s most threatened species. The maccoa population in the wild is estimated to be 5,000, and recent surveys found only 14 in Kenya…

The ABC is investigating “serious allegations” that its defence correspondent Andrew Greene filed a story about a German ship builder without disclosing that he had traveled to Germany courtesy of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, which is hoping to win Australian navy contracts. Media Watch revealed that Greene filed a story for ABC radio’s The World Today…

Football tourism is usually seen at Premier League stadiums such as Old Trafford, Anfield and the Emirates, so fans of Harborough Town, who compete in the seventh tier of the football pyramid, were stunned when 100 Spaniards arrived at Bowden Park to watch them take on St Ives Town. The Spanish fans, who turned up…

The superyacht belonging to the late tech tycoon Mike Lynch has been moved to a town in Sicily where British and Italian investigators will examine its sinking. Lynch and his daughter Hannah, 18, were among seven people who died when the Bayesian sank off the Italian coast on 19 August 2024. Salvage teams said on…

The federal opposition leader, Peter Dutton, says Donald Trump “got it wrong” when he attacked Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “dictator” who could soon lose his country. Anthony Albanese, meanwhile, did not directly rebuke the US president on Thursday but stressed Australia stood with Ukraine in the war against Russia. Labor and the Coalition both backed…