8 October 2026
Gloucester-Hartpury sign Australia tight-head prop Bridie O'Gorman for the 2026-27 Premiership Women's Rugby season.
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8 October 2026
Following its rare acquisition of a hit BBC comedy, Apple TV has now bought the six-part crime mini-series "Dustfall" from Australia's ABC network.
8 October 2026
Over the past four years, Salvadoran authorities have used a state of emergency to arrest more than 90,000 people on suspicion of gang activity, putting many of them in maximum security prisons.
8 October 2026
Australia's Department of Home Affairs has announced when the invitation round for the Skilled Independent visa will be held, urging applicants to be prepared.
8 October 2026
Ousted Venezuelan president and Cilia Flores have been in jail in New York since early January The deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted for alleged conspiracy to commit torture, according to Manhattan federal court papers unsealed on Thursday. The superseding indictment was unsealed shortly before Flores appeared at court in her ongoing push for pre-trial release – which was denied by Judge Alvin Hellerstein. Maduro and Flores have been held in a New York City jail since early January.
8 October 2026
Government forces’ attack raises risk of internal conflict in Ethiopia that could trigger regional war Eritrean troops who crossed into Ethiopia’s Tigray region have come under drone attack from government forces, raising the risk that renewed internal conflict in Ethiopia could trigger an all-out regional war between the neighbouring countries. Military vehicles carrying soldiers drove across Eritrea’s southern border into Tigray on Wednesday, reaching the town of Adigrat 25 miles (40km) south, according to civilian witnesses, a militia commander and the conflict monitoring group Acled.
8 October 2026
Figure is highest ever recorded for species and confirms one of Indian Ocean’s greatest conservation success stories A survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has revealed that the once endangered species is thriving. A population of Aldabra giant tortoises lives on an island in Seychelles called Aldabra Atoll.
8 October 2026
U. S. authorities charged the former Venezuelan president with conspiring to torture his fellow citizens as well as Americans. That adds to drugs and weapons charges against him. (Image credit: Ariana Cubillos)
