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Sidney Poitier, who broke through racial barriers as the first Black winner of the best actor Oscar for his role in "Lilies of the Field", has died at age 94.

An Italian man working in publishing in London pleaded not guilty in Manhattan to charges he stole unpublished manuscripts of hundreds of authors by impersonating editors and agents, hoping to claim the authors' literary ideas as his own.

The French government has defended President Emmanuel Macron after he said he wanted to "piss off" the unvaccinated people in his country, prompting an outcry in some quarters.

New South Wales has recorded 34,994 new Covid-19 cases and six deaths as the number of people in hospital continues to rise.

While more transmissible than Delta, Omicron seems to induce less serious disease and could bring the end of the coronavirus pandemic, one of Denmark's top health officials says.

Tattoo parlours across the European Union were in crisis as a new rule came into force which effectively bans many of their most popular inks and which one artist described as like taking "taking the flour from a bakery."