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Finnish authorities have detained a Russia-linked ship as they investigate whether it damaged a Baltic Sea power cable and several data cables, according to police and news media reports, in the latest incident involving disruption of key infrastructure.

Two Sydney to Hobart sailors on separate yachts have died at sea amid wild weather conditions that forced line honours favourite Master Lock Comanche to withdraw among mass retirements.

The race will go on as the fleet continues its passage to Constitution Dock, with the first boats expected to arrive later on Friday or early Saturday morning.

Twenty-nine people have survived after a passenger plane operated by Azerbaijan Airlines burst into flames as it crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after veering hundreds of miles off its planned route.

The flight was carrying 62 passengers and five crew members with 38 killed in the crash, according to Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister, Kanat Bozumbayev.

Ukraine's north-eastern city of Kharkiv has been targeted in missile strikes that injured at least six people early on Christmas Day, the city's mayor said. Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said it appeared Russian forces were launching missiles at energy infrastructure in Kharkiv. Further south, one person was killed and 17 others injured in separate strikes launched in the Dnipro region, according to local authorities.

Josh Smith of the Australian Naturist Federation believes younger people aren't getting into the nude scene, apart from those large events, because they have busier lives or fear being judged.

Retired priest Guy Norman Hartcher was arrested in Pendle Hill and charged with child sex offences on Monday. Police allege the 77-year-old tried to meet with a teenage boy after sharing "sexually explicit photographs" and child abuse material.

A volcano erupted in the central Philippines on Monday, sending a huge ash column high into the sky as the government ordered the evacuation of surrounding villages.

Liliana Goodson travelled to Australia in 2023 to attend clown school with the gold-plated pistol, worth about $3,000, in her luggage

Pride in Protest has consistently campaigned for the exclusion of NSW Police from the parade citing a culture of homophobia within the force and an adversarial attitude towards unsolved gay hate deaths.

Australia has voted in favour of a UN resolution demanding Israel rapidly end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The vote represents a shift in a longstanding position. Australia abstained on similar resolutions at previous meetings of the General Assembly.