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Australia has increased the minimum savings requirement for student and guardian student visas, the Department of Home Affairs has said.International students wishing to obtain an Australian visa must have at least AUD29,710 ($19,641) in savings. The previous requirement was AUD24,505 ($16,200). The decision came into effect from May…

Dozens of students walked out of Duke University's commencement ceremony on Sunday as actor and comedian Jerry Seinfeld was about to give his address, according to videos posted on social media.In a video posted on X, people were seen waving Palestinian flags and filing out of the crowd of graduates at the North Carolina university's football…

Roger Corman, who for decades dominated the world of B movies as the producer or director of countless proudly low-budget horror, science fiction and crime films, died on Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 98. His death was confirmed in a statement by his family posted late Saturday on his official Instagram page.Mr. Corman…

Eurovision lost almost a quarter of its UK viewers compared with last year’s Liverpool extravaganza, amid a row over Israel’s participation.Saturday night’s grand final on the BBC was watched by an average of 7.64 million people, peaking at 8.46 million, according to official figures provided by the agency Digital i. Britain’s entry, Olly…

A zoo in China is receiving mixed feedback for dying the fur of dogs to look like pandas in a new exhibit.The Taizhou Zoo in Jiangsu, China dyed two chow chows dogs and advertised them as "panda dogs" in the exhibit that opened on May 1.The zoo lacked the the qualifications to get actual pandas, the bear species endemic to China, and settled for…

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem recently stoked several controversies around her newly-launched book 'No Looking Back', in which she has made several unverified claims, including meetings with several world leaders such as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. According to the passage of her…

12 May 2024, 13:12 BSTUpdated 48 minutes agoTo play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browserVideo caption, Watch: Russian apartments collapse after explosionRussia is blaming a Ukrainian strike after an entire section of an apartment building collapsed following an explosion in Belgorod. CCTV from the scene shows a…

Russian forces continued their advance across northeastern Ukraine on Sunday, seizing a number of small settlements along the border and forcing Ukrainian troops to retreat from some positions, according to the Russian and Ukrainian militaries, as well as aid workers.Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday that its troops had captured four more…

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be received Monday in Ankara by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the latest sign of warming relations between the NATO neighbours.After decades of tensions, occasionally broken by brief periods of reconciliation, the day-long visit follows a trip by Erdogan to Greece in December and…

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces were battling Palestinian militants across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, including in parts of the devastated north that the military said it had cleared months ago, where Hamas has exploited a security vacuum to regroup.Israel has portrayed the southern Gaza city of…