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Peter Dutton has defended the government's plan to transfer Australians from the Chinese city at the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus to Christmas Island.

Moments before basketball great Kobe Bryant, his daughter and the seven others perished in a helicopter crash, the pilot had tried to climb out of layer of clouds, but the aircraft then banked sharply and lurched toward the ground.

The presidents of Israel and Poland have called for greater efforts to combat anti-Semitism as the world marked 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.

Kobe Bryant, one of basketball's all-time greatest players has died in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles, along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven others on board.