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In the laneways of Ubud, three older Chinese women are laughing as they take photos of a friend posing under a cascade of tropical flowers. They are retired friends from Nanjing, and were frequent travellers before the pandemic.

“Bali has good people and good scenery. It’s cold in Nanjing now, …

Elon Musk may be riding high in the US with Donald Trump just weeks away from taking office, but fortunes of his electric carmaker, Tesla, are fading in Australia.

Australian sales dropped again in November, contributing to the brand’s first annual decline.

Tesla registered 2,540 sales in November, according to …

Ronan O’Gara enjoyed plenty of wet and wild rugby nights during his playing days with Munster and this sodden contest would have stirred some fond memories. There was more than a hint of old-school Irish dog in the way his La Rochelle side took an early forward grip on a …

The Australian government’s support for a UN resolution calling for an end to Israel’s occupation of Gaza is to blame for a widely condemned arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue, the Jewish state’s prime minister says.

“It is impossible to separate the reprehensible arson attack from the federal government’s extreme …

Three former chairmen of the Rugby Football Union have called for the mass resignations of the union’s current hierarchy in the wake of the row over record financial losses and the salary and bonuses paid out to its top executives.

In a year when the union has reported an annual …

Israel

Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, called the billionaire tech entrepreneur earlier this week to ask for his help in convincing Donald Trump to pursue a deal, …

Protests are planned in the Netherlands in response to a motion accepted by the Dutch parliament to “keep records on cultural and religious norms and values of Dutch people with a migration background”.

A public

petition

It was a reset designed to invigorate Keir Starmer’s premiership after flagging opinion polls, a scandal over the transport secretary and worries about the economy.

The

prime minister gave a speech

The EU executive has struck a deeply controversial trade deal with four South American countries, overriding objections from France and triggering an immediate call for protest from European farmers.

Ursula von der Leyen, the European commission president, flew to Montevideo to sign what she called a “historic agreement” with the …

From the spot where Helen Julius spread her arms across the peeling, sun-flecked green paint of the pavilion’s bench seats, Eden Park’s Outer Oval in Auckland was almost picturesque.

There were the white-clad cricketers – Auckland batting, Canterbury in the field – and a bank of agapanthus just beginning to …