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You can normally only sign up for free trials once, but there are lots of them to work your way through, especially when it comes to music, audiobooks and TV and film streaming.For example, Spotify Premium offers a month free (normally £11.99 a month), Apple TV+ a week free (normally …

Like many Venezuelans of his generation, Franco José Caraballo Tiapa is a man of many tattoos.There is one of a rose, one of a lion, and another – on the left side of the 26-year-old’s neck – of a razor blade that represents his work as a barber.Two other tattoos …

Donald Trump’s White House has described the Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador as “heinous monsters” and terrorists who “rape, maim and murder for sport”.But relatives of Francisco Javier García Casique, a 24-year-old from the city of Maracay, say he was a hairdresser, not a crook.“He …

New South Wales authorities are calling for the public’s help as it investigates the suspected poisoning and mass deaths of more than 200 little corellas across multiple Newcastle suburbs.The NSW Environment Protection Authority said it was interrogating pesticide misuse as the possible cause of the “serious incident”, based on its …

Fossil fish so exquisitely preserved that scientists have been able to reconstruct their final days from up to 16m years ago have been discovered in central New South Wales.Several fossils of small freshwater fish, embedded in an iron-rich mineral called goethite at the McGraths Flat fossil site near Gulgong, have …

An investigation into Romanian mercenaries in DRC reveals how a disorganised operation with untrained recruits became a deadly ‘circus’

Four days after she arrived I thought: this is it. I bought an engagement ring

Economic uncertainty and polarisation are a potent cocktail that extremist politicians such as Cǎlin Georgescu thrive on

As ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred crossed the coast , authorities remain concerned about heavy rainfall and the potential for flooding.It is expected to make landfall in Queensland on Saturday as a tropical low.According to the Bureau of Meteorology, over the years, at least 20 cyclones have approached within 300km of south-east …

More than 3,000 critically endangered Baw Baw frogs have been released in Victoria’s east as part of a record-breaking conservation breeding program.Zoos Victoria’s reintroduction of 3,000 tiny froglets and 40 adult frogs into the high-altitude forests of the Baw Baw plateau, about 120km east of Melbourne, was the largest in …

Cassia and Ashley felt ‘dehumanized’ at the Re-Creation Retreat in Arizona, one of the many teen rehab facilities across the US.

One of the world’s largest worms might escape notice, if not for the loud gurgling noises that can be heard coming from underground as the species burrows and squelches through its moist clay.The giant Gippsland earthworm, a purple and pink colossus that lives in a small, wet patch about 100km …

In a high emissions future, the world’s strongest ocean current could slow down by 20% by 2050, further accelerating Antarctic ice sheet melting and sea level rise, an Australian-led study has found.The Antarctic Circumpolar Current – a clockwise current more than four times stronger than the Gulf Stream that links …

In early January, the Australian author Helen Garner decided to cut back an unruly bush in her garden. Garner lives in a Melbourne suburb in the adjoining house to her daughter, son-in-law, three grandchildren, some chickens and a dog. The family were away at the beach for the holidays and …

For the 41-year-old brothers, returning to their Damascus flat is bittersweet.

In both real life and on film, New York City has often been a city linked with public scandals, corruption and high drama.But even Hollywood scriptwriters, so often keen on using the Big Apple as a backdrop, would have been hard-pushed to describe the astonishing events that have played out …

‘I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” It’s been more than 25 years since Julia Roberts delivered that famous line to Hugh Grant in a travel bookshop at the end of Notting Hill. But romantic moments in bookshops are not just …

Fires that have razed 90,000 hectares of Tasmanian wilderness, including parts of the famous Overland walking track, could burn for weeks as firefighters battle to contain blazes in remote terrain.By late on Friday, more than 20 fires – which were sparked by dry lightning strikes on 3 February – had …

Animal welfare experts and advocates have questioned whether an Australian-led study that non-fatally strangled rats as part of research into the impact of intimate partner violence in humans should have been approved.They argue that, despite gaining necessary ethical approvals, the study’s use of animals lacked justification given the potentially severe …

Critically endangered plains-wanderers have been found living in Melbourne’s west for the first time in more than 30 years.Notoriously elusive and difficult to spot, the rare birds were detected on two pockets of remnant grassland by Zoos Victoria, with the help of AI.The zoo installed 35 audio recorders, called song …

There’s something magical about holding a physical print of a moment you’ve captured. I first experienced this feeling as a teenager, when my aunt gave me a film camera for my 16th birthday.

Humpback whale song is structured in a similar way to human language – with shorter sounds used far more often than more complex ones – a structure which helps infants quickly learn how to communicate from their elders in both species.Across languages and whale song, some words, or word-like elements, …