A surfer has died in Australia after being attacked by a great white shark that was nearly three metre long.
The 60-year-old man was surfing at Kingscliff, near the south of Brisbane, on Sunday morning when the shark mauled his left leg.
Several other surfers and board-riders had fought the shark off before pulling him to the shore.
He was also rendered first-aid but died on the beach.
Beaches between Kingscliff and Cabarita will be closed for 24 hours.
Russian bomb kills 33 in street in east Ukraine stronghold
A Russian bomb attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed at least 33 people, authorities said on Thursday, describing it as a targeted strike on civilians in the key stronghold sought by Moscow.
Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature," the award-giving body said on Thursday.
One dead, two injured in Poland's second school attack in two days
A 15-year-old former student killed one person and injured two others at a Polish primary school on Thursday, police said, just a day after a 19-year-old wounded 10 people, including himself, in an attack at another school.
French school blockades persist after PM's unspecified promises
French teenagers blockaded some high schools and prepared to rally again on Thursday after the government promised to address their grievances about teacher shortages and dilapidated school buildings but gave no specific details.
Three killed in attacks on two Saudi airports
Three people were killed and several others injured in separate attacks targeting Abha International Airport and King Khalid International Airport in Saudi Arabia on October 6 and 7, according to the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA).
Venezuela's Maduro to face new charges over alleged torture of Americans
Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are expected to face new criminal charges in the United States over allegations that Americans detained in Venezuela were tortured, a US official said on Wednesday.
At least 32 killed in Ukraine, Zelenskyy condemns one of Russia's most 'vile strikes'
Russia pounded Ukraine with waves of missiles and drones in one of its most "vile strikes" on Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, killing at least 32 people, including children, and damaging industrial facilities and energy infrastructure.
Kagan and Soai win 2026 Nobel chemistry prize for single molecular mirror creation
Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving a long-standing riddle of how to form a single molecular mirror image, a discovery hugely important for pharmaceutical manufacturing, the award-giving body said on Wednesday.
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