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At least 40 killed and hundreds missing after huge blaze at the Wang Fuk Court residential apartment complex in Tai Po district on Wednesday. Follow the latest updates live
Full report: Death toll in Hong Kong tower block fire rises to 36 with 279 reported missing
Bamboo scaffolding may be to blame for spread of Hong Kong tower block fire
The death toll has risen again to 44, fire officials say.
Officials said they are still having difficulties proceeding into the upper floors in some of the buildings in the residential complex as the fire continues.
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Pair aged in their 20s bitten near Crowdy Bay early on Thursday morning with woman dying at the scene
A woman has died following a shark attack on the New South Wales mid-north coast.
NSW police said the woman, aged in her 20s, was killed at a beach near Crowdy Bay on Thursday morning.
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Nine defeats in 12 games. A 75% loss rate since Eddie Nketiah scored a stoppage-time winner for Crystal Palace on 27 September and instigated a collapse that no one at Liverpool, no one in football in fact, could have seen coming. Unbelievable indeed. Arne Slot’s team are stuck in reverse.
PSV Eindhoven became the latest grateful recipients of woeful Liverpool defending and aimless attacking play to inflict a comprehensive and damaging Champions League defeat on the Anfield side. Liverpool have suffered three successive defeats by a three-goal margin and show no signs of conjuring the recovery that Slot desperately needs to prevent a crisis undermining his hold on the job. There were boos around Anfield as the final whistle sounded on another terrible defeat for the Premier League champions.
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