In the latest episode of Dua Lipa's podcast At Your Service, Monica Lewinsky, 49, spoke to the singer about her emotional recovery in the wake of her affair with former President Bill Clinton in 1998, an event that changed her life forever.

At least four people have been killed and 10 injured by a blast near a mosque in the Afghan capital which struck as worshippers were streaming out of afternoon prayers on Friday, a nearby hospital says.The explosion was the latest of a deadly series targeting Friday prayers at mosques in recent months, some of them claimed by the militant group Islamic State.

A mob of angry Russian reservists have been filmed yelling at a military officer. Watch it here.

Iranian counter-protesters have gathered across the country in a show of support for authorities after nearly a week of anti-government protests and unrest over the death of a young woman who was being held by the morality police.A few thousand people attended a rally in the capital Tehran, where they waved Iranian flags, and similar demonstrations were held in other cities.

At least seven people have been killed and more than 40 injured by a blast near a mosque in the Afghan capital which struck as worshippers were streaming out of afternoon prayers, police say.The explosion was the latest in a deadly series targeting Friday prayers at mosques in recent months, some of them claimed by the militant group Islamic State.

Donald Trump's bid to impede a criminal investigation into his possession of documents taken from the White House has begun to unravel, after courtroom setbacks including doubts expressed by judges about the former US president's claim that he declassified records seized at his Florida home.Trump has experienced disappointments on multiple fronts this week as his lawyers try to slow down the Justice Department investigation that kicked into high gear with an August 8 court-approved search of his

Russia has launched referendums in four occupied areas of Ukraine expected to be used by Moscow to justify annexation, but Kyiv says the voting is mandatory with residents threatened with punishment if they don't take part.The votes on whether the regions should become part of Russia began after Ukraine earlier this month recaptured large swathes of territory in a counteroffensive.

Australia have planned for a race into the unknown on the climactic last day of the world road cycling championships.As always, the worlds end with the men's elite road race and, despite some absentees, it has attracted a top-class field.

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev says any weapons in Moscow's arsenal, including strategic nuclear weapons, could be used to defend territories incorporated into Russia from Ukraine.Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said that referendums being organised by Russian-installed and separatist authorities in large swathes of Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory will take place, and that "there is no going back":"The Donbas (Donetsk and Luhansk) republics and other territ

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has called for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, as long as the state would be a peaceful one, in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly. It is the most courageous decision we can make," he said.

A decision to change testing processes in Queensland that means thousands of DNA samples are being re-tested did not reach the minister-in-charge at the time.Deputy Premier Steven Miles was health minister in 2018 when the threshold limits were changed at the state-run forensics lab.

The United Nations has found Australia's failure to protect Torres Strait Islanders against the impacts of climate change violated their right to enjoy their culture.The decision, by the UN's human rights committee, follows a 2019 complaint by eight Australian nationals and six of their children from four small, low-lying islands.

33-year-old Alexander Tung Cuu Le from Westminster was captured punching a flight attendant in video footage by a passenger on American Airlines flight 377 from San José del Cabo (SJD) to Los Angeles (LAX).

More than eight out of ten homes sold in NSW would qualify for a proposal allowing first home buyers to opt for an annual land tax over paying one-off stamp duty, the government says.About 84 per cent of homes sold fall under the $1.

Australia is at low risk of falling into a recession unless the government "really stuffs it up", Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says.Mr Dutton told reporters that both the US and the UK were likely facing recession but Australia was in a fundamentally better position, with unemployment at a five-decade low.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other opening fire overnight, breaking a fragile ceasefire agreement that had brought the worst fighting between the two ex-Soviet countries since 2020 to a close last week.In statements issued by both defence ministries on Friday morning, Baku and Yerevan each accused the other side of firing first in renewed clashes along their shared border.

8 earthquake has struck western Mexico, claiming the life of a woman in Mexico City who fell and hit her head as residents evacuated their homes during the country's second major temblor this week.The Mexico City government said the woman stumbled on the stairs of her home in the city's central Doctores neighbourhood as quake alarms rang out and buildings began to shake early on Thursday.

Britain's new finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng has unleashed historic tax cuts and huge increases in borrowing in an economic agenda that floored financial markets, with sterling and British government bonds in freefall.Kwarteng scrapped the country's top rate of income tax, cancelled a planned rise in corporate taxes and for the first time put a price tag on the spending plans of Prime Minister Liz Truss, who wants to double Britain's rate of economic growth.

Australia's Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has encouraged China to persuade Russia to end its conflict with Ukraine. Find out more.

Western Australia's troubled juvenile detention centre is facing "extraordinarily high" rates of compensation claims from burnt out staff, an inquiry has heard.The disability royal commission on Friday heard evidence from WA's inspector of custodial services, who reiterated his view Banksia Hill was run more like an adult prison than a centre for detaining children as young as 10.

Photo by Vlad Kutepov/Pexels, CC BYNoisy miners are complicated creatures. These Australian native honeyeaters live in large cooperative groups, use alarm calls to target specific predators, and sometimes help raise the young of other miners. But they’re perhaps best known for their aggressive and coordinated attacks on other birds – a behaviour known as “mobbing”. We conducted a study investigating some of the possible factors that influence mobbing. We were interested in whether access to huma