Christina Kukola

Police in the state of New South Wales say around 1,000 people were at an event celebrating the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah when the attack took place.

They say one of the suspects is among the dead and a second is in critical condition.

More than two dozen people, including two police officers, are in hospitals across Sydney.

New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon says the investigation into the incident will be extensive.

Police are also investigating a possible third suspect and suspected improvised explosive devices found in a vehicle near the beach.

For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukola in Melbourne.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hailed the ban as a reform that will change the lives of parents and children and reverberate around the world.

Facebook, TikTok and X are among 10 platforms required to bar children under 16 from holding social media accounts.

But 14-year-old Elliot Swan from Melbourne says he's not confident it will work.

Digital rights activists have launched a challenge to the ban in Australia's highest court, which is expected to be heard next year.

For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukola in Melbourne.

New Zealand police say search teams have recovered the bodies of the two men who died on Aoraki Mount Cook on Monday evening local time.

Police are yet to publicly identify the American citizen who's reported to have died together with his mountain guide, who's said to be a French national.

Two other climbers who were with them were rescued by helicopter.

Authorities say a coroner will investigate the deaths, which come nearly a year after three climbers from the US and Canada went missing on the same mountain.

They were declared dead, but their bodies were never found.

For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukola in Melbourne, Australia.

The video shows the woman taking the wombat from its mother on a dark roadside and running away towards someone laughing. An online petition called for her to be deported. Officials confirmed that the woman, known online as Sam Jones, left Australia voluntarily as a review into a possible breach of her visa conditions was ongoing. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned her actions.

The video shows the woman taking the wombat from its mother on a dark roadside and running away towards someone laughing. An online petition called for her to be deported. Officials confirmed that the woman, known online as Sam Jones, left Australia voluntarily as a review into a possible breach of her visa conditions was ongoing. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned her actions.

Jones returned the baby marsupial moments after taking it. She has since apologised. For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukola in Melbourne, Australia.