Surfing champion dies aged 24 in AustraliaSurfing champion dies aged 24 in Australia

Poeti Norac, one of the rising stars of surfing, has died in Australia aged 24, the French Surfing Federation has confirmed.

Norac, from the Vendee region in France, died last weekend, but the cause of death has not been confirmed.

The surfer, who had moved to Queensland's Sunshine Coast a few months ago, had enjoyed 10 victories in the Coupe du

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The deadly coronavirus outbreak in China could have spread from bats to humans through the illegal traffic of pangolins - the world's only scaly mammals which are prized in Asia for food and medicine.

The pangolin is one of Asia's most trafficked mammals, although protected by international law, because its meat is considered a delicacy in

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Antarctica has experienced its highest temperature on record, with a research station provisionally recording 18.3C (64.9F).

The reading beats the previous record on the Earth's southernmost continent of 17.5C (63.5F) in March 2015 by 0.8C, according to the Argentine station Esperanza, which collected the data.

The tweet reporting the news from

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'Largest facilitator of child pornography sites' extradited from Ireland'Largest facilitator of child pornography sites' extradited from Ireland

A man once described by the FBI as the world's largest facilitator of child pornography websites is facing up to 30 years in jail following his extradition from Ireland.

Eric Eoin Marques has admitted operating a web hosting service that allowed users to anonymously access hundreds of thousands of images and videos depicting the rape and torture of

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The Maldives' police chief has issued a public apology after officers "badly handled" an incident where a bikini-clad tourist was arrested.

A video circulating on social media shows a woman with a British accent being detained by at least three officers on the island on Maafushi, in the Kaafu atoll.

The officers can be seen trying to wrap a towel

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The chief executive of Credit Suisse has stepped down following a spying scandal.

The Zurich-based bank said it had accepted Tidjane Thiam's resignation, amid a growing controversy over an illicit surveillance operation.

However, the board of Switzerland's second-biggest bank has given its backing to its embattled chairman Urs Rohner, who had also

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