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Popular travel website Booking.com has warned customers that their personal information including booking details and names may have been accessed by an "unauthorised third party".

Booking.com is one of the largest digital travel companies globally, with more than 28 million accommodation listings worldwide.

The company sent emails to some of its Australian customers early this morning over what it described as "suspicious activity".

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"We're writing to inform you that unauthorised third parties may have been able to access certain booking information associated with your reservation," the email reads.

"We recently noticied suspicious activity affecting a number of reservations and we immediately took action to contain the issue."

The information accessed could include booking details and names, emails, addresses, phone numbers associated with the booking and "anything that you may have shared with the accommodation".

Booking.com has issued new PIN and reservation numbers to customers it believes have been affected by the data breach.

"The security of your personal information is our utmost priority," the Booking.com email said.

"We will continue to enhance and extend the robust security measures we have in place to secure your reservations with us."

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It also advised customers to take extra security precautions, such as installing antivirus software and being vigilant about clicking on any links sent from Booking.com or their accommodation provider.

Booking.com has been contacted for comment.

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Melbourne's iconic skipping girl sign has been temporarily replaced by a modern 'scrolling girl' in a campaign aimed at highlighting the detrimental impact of excessive screen time on today's youth.

For one week the 90-year-old neon sign affectionately known as 'Little Audrey' will be switched off at its Abbotsford location and swapped with an installation of a girl scrolling on a phone.

The Dairy Farmers campaign aims to encourage children to balance outdoor physical activity with screen time.

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"The fact that we've replaced a play-based childhood with a screen-based childhood has been a disaster for the psychological and physiological well-being of children across the western world," child and adolescent psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg said.

"What we've now got is this sedentary population of young people. It's terrible for their physiological wellbeing but also their psychological wellbeing and we're seeing that in record levels of depression, anxiety, self-harm and of course suicidal ideation.

"It's the biggest public health issue we face with young people today."

Teenagers aged between 13 and 17 are now spending more than three hours on screens, according to fresh research from YouGov.

Parents Adam and Olivia Stawksi said the scrolling girl sign provides a great message for their two boys, aged 12 and 14.

"It's tough for the kids now, but it's a great reminder to ensure the kids are still getting away from their devices when they can …and getting outside and being kids," Adam Stawksi said.

"We're struggling constantly just to find the right balance between having that social connection with their friends but then also being outdoors and being active and having a childhood," Olivia Stawksi said.

The parents admitted they notice a difference in their childrens' mood when they've used their screens.

"It's really hard to draw them away from their devices when they do finally get off, they're a different child really. Their demeanour changes, their attitude changes, they're very snappy," Adam Stawski said.

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"When they come in after playing with friends outside, they're a real joy to be around. It's chalk and cheese really."

Outside School Hours care providers Team Kids has also collaborated in the campaign by offering skipping challenges as part of a special 10 week program.

"Each week there's 7500 skipping ropes that are going to be out there in services and there's going to be challenges each week to improve things like their skip count [and] different tricks you can do with your skipping rope," Team Kids Founder Sam Hoath said.

Global skipping sensation Lauren Jumps hopes the initiative can encourage positive mental and physical health outcome for children.

"I was lucky to grow up in the 90s when we didn't have these distractions… Now I know as an adult how dangerous it is for me to scroll too long," she said.

"It's deeply concerning to think kids have access to that at such a young age.

"With skipping it's a total escape – like you can't be thinking about anything else when you're skipping, because otherwise you'll mess up."

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A rescue operation is under way after a teenager was reportedly swept off rocks and sucked into a notorious blowhole in Sydney's north.

Emergency services were called to the Warriewood blowhole about 1.15pm after a bystander heard screams for help and called Triple Zero.

9News understands the teenage boy was playing near the rocks at the blowhole when he was knocked into rocky waters below.

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Rescuers scaled a steep cliff to reach the boy, aged in his early teens, at the base of a cave below.

It's understood he's suffered multiple abrasions, including cuts to his legs and a head injury.

The boy is expected to be winched from the cave to the top of a cliff shortly.

More to come.

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About 20 diners were evacuated just before 10am as the fire spread.

A judge-alone trial has CCTV footage of a violent gang clash in Mount Maunganui on repeat.

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The head of Australia's Navy, Vice Admiral Mark Hammond, will take over as the next Chief of Defence as part of a major overhaul of the Defence Force's most senior roles.

It comes after two of Australia's most senior military leaders – current Chief of Defence Chief Admiral David Johnston and Chief of Army Lieutenant General Simon Stuart – announced their retirement.

Chief of Joint Capabilities Susan Coyle will be taking over as Chief of Army – the first woman to hold the position – while Rear Admiral Matthew Buckley will fill Hammond's shoes as Chief of the Navy.

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In accepting his position this morning, Vice Admiral Hammond said he was looking forward to his new role during "the challenging times ahead".

He also noted that his appointment reflected the "more amphibious" direction that the ADF was taking.

Australia's acquirement of nuclear-powered submarines over the next decade under AUKUS will form a key focus of his position, in a move the government hopes will secure national security as well as drive economic prosperity.

Hammond has been Chief of Navy since his appointment to the role in 2022.

He has served in the navy for the past 40 years, at first in frigates, and then in and later commanding submarines and the Australian Fleet.

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Hammond, Coyle and Buckley will commence in their new roles in July when the current Chief of the ADF, Admiral David Johnston, will step down after more than 48 years in the armed forces.

"The Australian Defence Force is tireless in its efforts to keep Australians safe – and I am so pleased to announce these new appointments," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

"From July we will have the first ever female Chief of Army in the Australian Army's 125-year history."

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When he was elected, US President Trump gushed about him being "the first American pope".

Now it appears that warmth has faded as Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV, who was elected last May, continued his criticism of the US President's war in the Middle East.

The American president launched an extraordinary spray on the pontiff after the Pope blasted Trump's Iran vow that "a whole civilisation will die tonight."

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While the Vatican has a tradition of diplomatic neutrality, the Pope said the US President's vow was "truly unacceptable", adding any attacks on civilian infrastructure violate international law.

"Today as we all know there was this threat against all the people of Iran. This is truly unacceptable," Leo said as he left his country house in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome.

Trump has now called the Pope "weak" and "terrible" and made confusing claims related to COVID, Venezuela and Barack Obama.

In a rant on his site, Trust Social, Trump said the pope was "weak on crime" and "terrible on social policy" before going on an incoherent rant which seemed to criticise the church over "arrests" during COVID involving social distancing.

"I like his brother Louis much better than I like him because Louis is MAGA," he said.

"We don't like a pope that says it's okay to have a nuclear weapon," he later told reporters."I don't like it. I'm not a big fan of Pope Leo."

He also said "I don't want a Pope who criticizes a president of the United States because I am doing exactly what I was elected in a LANDSLIDE to do."

Trump also brought up Venezuela, which the US attacked in January, in his remarkable post.

"I don't want a Pope who thinks it's OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon.

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"I don't want a Pope who thinks it's terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country," he said.

He also claimed Leo was only chosen because he was president.

"Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise.

"He wasn't on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump.

"If I wasn't in the White House, Leo wouldn't be in the Vatican."

He also claimed the Pope "meets with Obama Sympathizers like David Axelrod, a LOSER from the Left, who is one of those who wanted churchgoers and clerics to be arrested."

Axelrod was an adviser to Obama.

"We don't like a pope that says it's okay to have a nuclear weapon," Trump later told reporters.

"I don't like it. I'm not a big fan of Pope Leo."

Trump, who just days before provoked the ire of Catholics around the world by posting an AI-generated image of himself as the pope, was quick to congratulate Leo last year when he was chosen to lead the Catholic Church.

"It is such an honour to realise that he is the first American Pope," Trump, who is Christian but not Catholic said, on Truth Social.

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"What excitement, and what a Great Honour for our Country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment!"

Trump attended the funeral of Pope Francis.

The American pope has also recently urged Americans and other "people of good will"to contact their political leaders and congressional representatives to demand they reject war and work for peace.

He used his Easter appeal to plea for "peace and to reject war, especially a war which many people have said is an unjust war, which is continuing to escalate, and which is not resolving anything."

Leo has also publicly named Trump in saying he hoped the US president was truly "looking for an off-ramp."

Also last week Leo didn't cite Trump by name but in comments in English he urged people to contact their political leaders and congressional representatives "to ask them, tell them to work for peace and to reject war."

He said the message to political leaders should be: "Come back to the table, let's talk, let's look for solutions in a peaceful way and let's remember especially the innocent children, the elderly, sick, so many people who have already become or will become victims of this continued warfare."

The Vatican is particularly concerned about how the Iran conflict has spread to a renewed war in Lebanon between Israel and the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant Hezbollah group.

The Vatican fears for Christians in southern Lebanon.

The Pentagon has said reports of a meeting between senior Department of Defence officials and the Vatican's representative in the US are "highly exaggerated and distorted".

The Free Press reports the Pentagon summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre for a meeting with Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby.

At the January meeting, Pentagon officials reportedly criticised a speech made by Pope Leo XIV and told the cardinal the Vatican needed to get on board.

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