A woman, believed to be mother-of-two Emma Lovell, has died after being stabbed in the chest in a scuffle with intruders at her home north of Brisbane.
Angela Lansbury, the big-eyed, scene-stealing British actor who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals Mame and Gypsy and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series Murder, She Wrote, has died aged 96.
Iranian authorities have confirmed that three people were killed during popular unrest over the death of a young woman in police custody but sought to deflect blame from security forces by saying the protester killings were "suspicious".
Australia's prime minister and other political leaders have honoured Queen Elizabeth II, laying wreaths at Parliament House as mourning continues around the country.
Leaders from around Australia have reacted to news that Queen Elizabeth II died peacefully at Balmoral Palace in Scotland after more than seven decades on the throne.
Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, the country's figurehead and a towering presence on the world stage for seven decades, has died peacefully at her home in Scotland aged 96.
Mourners have marked the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana's death in Paris, laying flowers and leaving messages on the bridge above the underpass where she was killed in a car crash.
