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Australia still wants to make "great films" with the United States, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Tuesday, as new tariffs threaten the home of Hollywood hits like The Matrix, Elvis and Crocodile Dundee.

To many, Tatu City on the outskirts of Nairobi looks like a success.

Kosovo influencer Tringa Kadriu sees the slimming drug Ozempic as a chance to shed excess pounds -- and she is not the only one in her Balkan nation, where more than half the population is overweight.

Drones struck the airport and targeted an army base in Port Sudan on Tuesday, officials said, the third straight day the Sudanese army-aligned government's seat of power has come under attack.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney meets Donald Trump on Tuesday for the first time since he won reelection on a pledge to stand up to the US president's tariffs and threats to annex the United States' northern neighbor.

Dutch medical device maker Philips reported a net profit for the first time in three quarters Tuesday despite weak sales in China but warned of "intensified" uncertainties due to tariffs.

Drones struck the airport and targeted an army base in Port Sudan on Tuesday, officials said, the third straight day the Sudanese army-aligned government's seat of power has come under attack.

An Australian woman accused of murdering three people with a toxic mushroom-laced lunch rejected offers of help before serving the dish, the sole guest to survive the deadly meal told a court on Tuesday.

Aaron Gordon scored a last-gasp three-pointer and Nikola Jokic produced a 42-point masterpiece as the Denver Nuggets stunned the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder 121-119 in a dramatic NBA Western Conference semi-final series opener on Monday.

The excited little girl who first touched a plane two decades ago is now flying high as the face of India's fast-modernising military and its only woman Rafale fighter pilot.

Zhao Xintong's stunning World Snooker Championship triumph went viral back home on Tuesday with trailblazer Ding Junhui leading the tributes to China's latest sporting superstar.

Hype has been building on social media around the Catholic Church's secretive, centuries-old tradition of conclaves to elect a new pope, animating users from the White House on down.

Jannik Sinner will delight crowds at the Rome Open this week when the world number one makes his return to tennis, but the Italian's three-month doping ban has allowed other local rising stars to move into the limelight.

Ousmane Dembele and his fellow attacking players may have stolen most of the limelight on Paris Saint-Germain's run in this season's Champions League, but the form of goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma has been just as important in taking the French giants to the brink of the final.

The dollar rose in Asia on Tuesday fuelled by hopes for trade deals to avert Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, while equities mostly rose as investors await the Federal Reserve's latest policy decision.

Bangladesh hoped to celebrate progress towards eradicating tuberculosis this year, having already slashed the numbers dying from the preventable and curable disease by tens of thousands each year.

Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle may be one of the favourites to be named the next pope, but a Catholic Sister who has known him for half a century says she will never pray for it to happen.

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz is set to be sworn in as chancellor on Tuesday with a mission to revive the ailing economy and boost the diplomatic standing of the EU's most populous country.

Jalen Brunson scored 29 points as the New York Knicks overturned a 20-point deficit to stun the Boston Celtics 108-105 in overtime in their opening NBA Eastern Conference semi-final series clash on Monday.

Jannik Sinner is the star of the show at the upcoming Rome Open as the world number one and Italian tennis hero gears up for his return to the courts after a contested doping ban.

Renee Guette, 98, laughed as she looked at her computer screen in Texas. On the other end of the video call was 97-year-old Andree Dupont, living in France.

Martin Odegaard has urged Arsenal to "stick together" after their recent failures as they aim to defy the odds in Wednesday's decisive Champions League semi-final showdown with Paris Saint-Germain.

New Zealand's prime minister on Tuesday proposed banning children under 16 from social media, stressing the need to protect them from the perils of big tech platforms.

LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESS Newswire / May 6, 2025 / Movella Holdings Inc. (the "Company") today announced the completion of a restructuring transaction involving its wholly-owned subsidiary, Movella Inc. ("Movella"), and its existing secured lenders.

WHITE PLAINS, NY / ACCESS Newswire / May 6, 2025 / Loar Holdings Inc. (NYSE:LOAR), will report Q1 2025 earnings before the market opens on Tuesday, May 13, 2025.

LONDON, UK / ACCESS Newswire / May 6, 2025 / A new report released today by the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA) reveals widespread knowledge gaps, inequities in access, and critical systemic barriers impeding the global fight against hepatitis delta.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / May 6, 2025 / Camino Minerals Corporation (TSXV:COR)(OTC PINK:CAMZF) (WKN: A116E1) ("Camino" or the "Company") is pleased to announce exploration results at its Copper-Silver stratabound Los Chapitos copper project ("Los Chapitos" or the "Project"), including drilling and additional mapping, trenching, and sampling along both the La Estancia and Diva copper mineralized trends. The Company is targeting large-scale disseminated manto-type copper-silver mineralization to support resource delineation studies at Los Chapitos. Camino and its partner Nittetsu Mining Co., Ltd. ("Nittetsu") plan to commence the next phase of drilling in the second half of 2025. The Los Chapitos copper project is located near the coastal city of Chala in the department of Arequipa in Peru.

ANTWERPEN, BE / ACCESS Newswire / May 6, 2025 / OMP, a global leader in supply chain planning solutions, has achieved four second-highest scores across five Use Cases, evaluated in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Supply Chain Planning Solutions report. This report, a companion to the Gartner Magic Quadrant™, assesses the vendors of the SCP solutions evaluated in this research.

Rihanna loves to make an entrance at the Met Gala, and on her way to the event Monday, she revealed she is pregnant with her third child with rapper A$AP Rocky.

US President Donald Trump on Monday ordered new limitations on a form of biological research his administration says caused the Covid-19 pandemic through a lab leak in China.

Hollywood reacted Monday with skepticism to US President Donald Trump's announcement of 100 percent tariffs on foreign films, with movie insiders calling it a policy made up on the fly by a president who fails to understand how the industry works.

The first day of jury selection wrapped Monday in New York in the blockbuster federal sex trafficking trial of music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, who stands accused of years of harrowing abuse.