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People lined the streets of Madrid to catch a glimpse of Pope Leo XIV on Saturday, June 6, the first day of his Apostolic Journey to Spain. Footage from Madrid City Council shows Pope Leo waving to crowds of people from the popemobile. The visit will also see Pope Leo travel to Barcelona and the Canary Islands before departing Spain on June 12, according to the Vatican. Credit: Madrid City Council via Storyful

Jane Caro’s new book about schools funding ignores the real question: why families increasingly choose private schools over public education.

Netflix and its rivals sold us a future free from ads and rigid weekly episode releases. A decade later, those old irritations are back — this time behind a paywall.

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From a UNESCO World Heritage town to classic Vietnamese coffee, food markets and mountains, here’s 10 unmissable highlights of this versatile destination.

No matter how low they are on the ladder or how bleak their prospects, fans flock to clashes between Essendon and Carlton. But which club is really No. 1 since the turn of the century? See the data and have your say.

In 2016, my family and I went on a family holiday to the Australian Open to watch early rounds of this world-class competition and attend the tournament’s family day. That family-friendly event was a genius idea, but there was a distraction we hadn’t counted on: Netflix.

Australian authorities made one of the biggest bug busts-ever after seizing over 100,000 cockroaches from a commercial breeder. The species poses a risk to the native environment and could s…

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has described the concept of a capital gains tax in his own country as "a wrecking ball" during an exclusive interview with Sky News.“Capital gains tax for New Zealand would’ve just put a wrecking ball through our economy,” Mr Luxon told Sky News Australia.“We’ve come out of a tax, spend more, borrow more Labour government, it's really done some real fiscal damage to New Zealand, it tripled our debt.“My job is to make sure I build a really good proposition for people at home in New Zealand to understand, this is a place if I work hard, I can get ahead.”

Russia says Ukraine has carried out what it describes as an unprecedented attack on and around St Petersburg.Authorities report one person has been killed and an oil depot has been set on fire in the city.Russian air defences are said to have intercepted more than 140 drones over the Leningrad region.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukrainian forces targeted Russian arsenals and a naval base.