Saturday 14 November Updated 5:05 pm
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Entertainment
A crew member on Netflix’s Dept. Q has died at the Edinburgh studio where season 2 had just finished filming
A man working on the Netflix detective drama Dept. Q died after being seriously injured at FirstStage Studios in Leith, Edinburgh, on Thursday afternoon. Police say the death is not being treated as suspicious, and Britain's workplace safety regulator is involved. Filming…
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World
Yemen’s government is digging tunnels around its own capital as the Houthis take the hills above Aden
Houthi fighters have pushed through a district on Aden's doorstep and seized hilltops overlooking the city that Yemen's internationally recognised government uses as its capital. Military officials say they have been ordered to build sandbag positions and tunnels west and north of…
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Sports
The Socceroos beat the Asian champions 3-0 in their own stadium, and had the game won by the 40th minute
Riley McGree, Tete Yengi and Nestory Irankunda scored in the first 40 minutes as the Socceroos beat Qatar 3-0 in a friendly in Doha, Australia's first win since the 2026 World Cup. Tony Popovic used the second half to give four players…
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Moving now
Breaking, developing and followed stories, updated as they unfold.
Across the desks
Australia
- A woman and a child escaped the house as a man was shot dead on a Keysbrook orchard property, and police found a man known to him in a parked car
- Weipa passes 39 straight days above 36C, and at the tip of Cape York the taps go off every night
- Albanese will watch Australia and the Philippines sign a defence deal in Manila on Sunday, a year after they promised it
World
- Yemen’s government is digging tunnels around its own capital as the Houthis take the hills above Aden
- Twenty-five sailors have died around Hormuz since February, the UN says, and October was the worst month yet for attacks on ships
- The preacher who called himself the “appointed son of God” is a step closer to a US courtroom, five days before Trump lands in Manila
Politics
- The Quad’s leaders are expected to sit down together for the first time in two years, and Trump will give them a few hours in Manila before Shenzhen
- NSW has never run a long-day childcare centre. Minns says Labor will open 100 of them on school grounds if it wins in March
- A camera warming up for Albanese’s clean energy pitch caught him and Bowen joking about phones and genitals
Business
- Americans bought homes at the slowest pace in 16 years last month, and prices still went up
- Wall Street has its best week since August while Nvidia has its worst run since 2012, and both of AI’s big tests arrive within days
- Jensen Huang has quit Nvidia. The Senate now wants him under oath by 3 December, and the Commerce Secretary with him
Entertainment
- A crew member on Netflix’s Dept. Q has died at the Edinburgh studio where season 2 had just finished filming
- IDK’s first Shady Records single puts Eminem on a J Dilla beat, and Proof’s son drives Dilla’s Escalade in the video
- Australia dreamed up a Eurovision for Asia nearly a decade ago. Tonight it finally goes live in Bangkok, without Australia on stage
Lifestyle
- Tourists who lodge from 28 November will have to leave Australia to apply for any other visa, even if they fall in love here
- Quit a GLP-1 drug with type 2 diabetes and the rate of heart attack, stroke or death doubled in an 80,000-patient study. The catch is why
- Every homebirth needs two midwives. From 1 January, most second midwives will not be allowed to attend
Sport
- The Socceroos beat the Asian champions 3-0 in their own stadium, and had the game won by the 40th minute
- Warner says Cummins threw Khawaja under the bus. The captain of the underarm ball says Australian cricket is eating itself
- Police close the Swans case without charges. The club says nobody should celebrate, and three women are still heading to court
Science & tech
- Starship is in orbit, but the booster SpaceX meant to catch ended in flames in the Gulf of Mexico
- Nonprofits ask a San Francisco court to freeze AI where it is, using a law written for unfair business
- It shrinks its own gut, never lands and flies for 11 days straight: the bird that crossed the Pacific from Alaska to Tasmania