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Melbourne has been named the world’s friendliest city in the Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards, beating destinations including Seoul, Amsterdam and Lisbon. Victoria’s capital received a score of 98.52 in the annual rankings, narrowly ahead of Portugal’s Porto on 98.33. The awards attracted about 300,000 responses from people around the world. The publication said the cities recognised were those offering “the warmest hospitality”, with locals willing to help visitors who were struggling with a menu or finding their way around an unfamiliar transport system. Melbourne’s result was attributed to its coffee culture, arts scene and welcoming residents, alongside its…

Emma Stone, Zendaya and Ana de Armas led the celebrity arrivals at the Louis Vuitton Paris Fashion Week show, which brought the French fashion schedule to a close on Tuesday. Held at the Louvre’s Cour Carrée, the presentation was the final major catwalk event of Fashion Week after shows in New York, London and Milan before the schedule reached Paris. Stone, 37, made a striking entrance in a cobalt-blue skirt suit worn without a bra. She completed the look with black heels, a black Louis Vuitton bag and a long silver chain necklace. Zendaya took a more relaxed approach, pairing…

Japan’s real wages rose for an eighth consecutive month in August, marking the latest in a sustained run of gains. The increase in real wages was recorded during August, continuing the consecutive monthly rise in Japan.

A former Cornell University fraternity member has claimed he was sexually assaulted during an alleged incident for which he and six others were accused of raping a woman at the Chi Phi house. Matthew Ingalls made the allegation in a February 2025 email to Cornell’s Title IX office, saying the university had failed to recognise him as a sexual assault survivor or explain his rights under its sexual misconduct procedures. In the email, seen in documents obtained by ABC News, Ingalls wrote that he was “sodomized by her while [he] was incapacitated”. He also accused Cornell of gender discrimination over…

Donald Trump is due in San Antonio on Wednesday for a rally with Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton, as the party mounts an intensive effort to protect its position in Texas ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The event at Freeman Coliseum is expected to begin at 4.30pm, with the president scheduled to speak at 6pm. Doors are due to open at 2.30pm and tickets are required. Mr Paxton, Texas’s attorney general, is running against Democratic nominee James Talarico for the Senate seat held by Republican John Cornyn. Republican congressional candidate Carlos De La Cruz is also due to address…

Oscar-winning actor Eva Marie Saint has died aged 102 at her home in Los Angeles, her family representative Jeff Sanderson has confirmed. Saint won the Academy Award for her first film, On the Waterfront, in which she played the love interest of Marlon Brando’s troubled dockworker, Terry Malloy. She later starred opposite Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller North by Northwest. Her acceptance speech for the 1954 film was made while she was pregnant with her first child. Accepting the Oscar from Frank Sinatra, she said: “I think I may have the baby right here.” Her son, Darrell, was born…

Power cuts in Venezuela have become more frequent and prolonged, disrupting essential services and fuelling growing anger among residents, including kidney patients whose dialysis treatment has been interrupted. Onasis Munoz, 34, was undergoing one of the three weekly sessions he needs at a clinic in Valencia, Carabobo state, when the dialysis machine stopped and the lights went out. The treatment filters waste and excess fluid from his blood, replacing work his failing kidneys can no longer perform. Munoz said outages that once occurred every few days had become daily in recent months, lasting about seven hours. The clinic’s emergency batteries…

Japan manufacturers’ mood has risen to its highest level in almost five years, while sentiment in the services sector has weakened, according to a Reuters poll. The contrasting readings point to a divergence between Japan’s manufacturing and service industries, with factory-sector confidence strengthening as services-sector sentiment slumped. The poll measured business sentiment among Japanese manufacturers and service companies, highlighting a near five-year high for manufacturers alongside a decline among service-sector respondents.

Aaron Paul has sold his Los Angeles estate for $7.495 million, more than a year after putting the property on the market for around $10 million. The actor’s former home is the Seyler House, a storied estate situated just below Griffith Park. The property was eventually sold after its asking price was reduced to $8.2 million in January. The 4,026-square-foot house has four bedrooms and four bathrooms, along with a swimming pool, cold plunge, fire pit and outdoor fireplace. Its grounds also include a koi pond, a garden dining patio and an amphitheatre. Paul and his family no longer needed…

A man has been arrested after allegedly assaulting a security guard in Dallas’s Deep Ellum district, biting him and spitting blood at two police officers, according to court documents. Terrance Vidale, 41, was detained on Sunday, October 4, after officers were called to the 2900 block of Main Street at about 6.20pm. They found the security guard injured on the pavement and Vidale walking in the road, where witnesses said he had been behaving erratically. Police allege the confrontation began after the guard told Vidale to leave the street. The arrest affidavit states that Vidale pretended to throw a purple-coloured…