The family of allegedly murdered woman Susan Goodwin have reflected on the "difficult" 23 years they endured before her remains were found.

SA Police said yesterday they are very confident they found 39-year-old Susan's remains and have since charged a man with murder.

Susan disappeared in 2002 and, until yesterday, her body had never been found.

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Major crime detectives discovered human remains while digging up a backyard in Port Lincoln in the state's Eyre Peninsula.

Police then arrested and charged a 64-year-old man from Port Lincoln with murder.

He is expected to appear in Port Lincoln Magistrates Court today.

Both of Susan's parents have died but police spoke to her partner and sister yesterday.

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Susan's family thanked police for their exhaustive search for her remains and said they now have the answers "we've been looking for after such a long time".

"We'd also like to give a heartfelt thank you to the people who have been on this journey with us over the years, both in friendship and through investigations – your ongoing support, care and pursuit of the truth have meant more than these few words can say," the family said in a statement.

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"You've helped carry us through some of the hardest moments and we are incredibly grateful for that.

"Now begins a very personal journey for us as we try to come to terms with what's happened; laying Sue to rest once this is over so that she can be at peace with family that has gone before her and finding some sense of peace and acceptance within ourselves."

The family asked for privacy following an "emotional and difficult time".

"We're dealing with a lot and we ask for privacy and space so that we can look after our mental health and support each other," the statement ended.

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Susan was reported missing on Friday, July 18, 2002, from her home on Moonta Crescent at Port Lincoln.

She was last seen around lunchtime that day, after shopping at Coles and Woolworths in Port Lincoln.

Police previously offered a $200,000 reward for any information which led to a conviction or discovery of Susan's remains.

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Chinese state media has labelled Australia's attempt at smoothing trade barriers between the countries as "two-faced" and accused the government of attempting to "butter bread on both sides" in a piercing editorial.

English-language newspaper China Daily published an opinion piece warning Canberra over simultaneously pursuing stronger trade relations with China while strengthening security ties with the United States.

"Australia should confront the stark contradiction between its economic interests and its security alignment, as the latter only escalates regional tensions and undermines stability," the editorial reads.

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"While benefiting from trade with China, Australia continues to try and sustain the AUKUS arrangement, a US-led mechanism targeting China, and lend support to the Philippines in the South China Sea.

"Such behaviour exposes Australia's implicit calculations to butter both sides of its bread at the same time."

The newspaper claimed China would "under no circumstances tolerate such infringements on its core interests".

"Its two-faced policy toward China is not sustainable in the long run," the article stated.

The editorial, which has no byline, plainly stated that China "poses no threat to Australia".

It then urged the government to develop a "rational perception" of China, which captures its key role as a major trading partner and one that promotes peace in the Asia-Pacific region.

The writer finished by claiming the Albanese government knows what to do to keep relations stable.

The blunt message from Chinese media comes as Australian government officials spend time in China in a bid to court local tourism and investment.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan is visiting four cities, including Beijing, to cement a warmer relationship with one of Victoria's key trading partners.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also made a five-day visit to China in July, a seemingly successful trip which provoked a glowing editorial in Chinese newspaper Global Times.

The writer heaped praise on Albanese for having wisdom in "seeking harmony without uniformity" during his meeting with Chinese leaders.

The same publication previously heaped praise on Albanese for achieving a "turnaround" in Chinese-Australia relations.

The PM is also expected to meet with US President Donald Trump next week in New York as he heads to the UN General Assembly.

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Hours after Ben and Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield resigned from the ice cream company he founded nearly five decades ago, his former business partner, Ben Cohen, revealed to CNN why Jerry felt he had to leave.

"Jerry has a really big heart, and this conflict with Unilever was really kind of tearing him apart. So he felt like he had no choice to resign," Cohen told CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich.

"Jerry's kind of sad that it's come to this, but part of him is feeling a sense of relief that he's no longer in this intense conflict."

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Earlier Wednesday, Greenfield shared on social media that he was quitting the ice cream company, accusing parent company Unilever of curtailing Ben and Jerry's ability to speak out on social and political causes, which is synonymous with the brand's identity.

The conflict between the co-founders and Unilever has erupted into public view over the past several years, resulting in lawsuits and publicly posted letters.

British-based Unilever bought Ben and Jerry's ice cream for US$326 million ($490 million) in 2000 but allowed the company to operate independently and continue its social mission without interference from its new parent company.

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Cohen and Greenfield remained at the company, which they founded in 1978, but not in operational roles. Instead, they focused on the company's social missions.

But Cohen told CNN that as management at Unilever turned over, no one who signed the deal with Ben and Jerry's remains, and the conglomerate started to disrespect the terms of its unique arrangement with the ice cream maker. Tensions boiled over in recent years as Ben and Jerry's opted to pull its operations from Israel, a decision that was overruled by Unilever.

Since then, the company and its parent have feuded, mostly over politically focused social media posts that Cohen said Unilever opposed – and threatened to fire people over.

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Speaking out on political issues, ranging from President Donald Trump to Israel and the Gaza Strip, angered Unilever, which fired the company's chief executive earlier this year.

Ultimately, Greenfield had enough. But Cohen said he chose to stay to continue to fight for the company's independence.

"I'm glad that we're both standing up for the values of Ben and Jerry's," Cohen told CNN.

"I think that I can be most helpful from the inside and and Jerry's going try to be helpful from the outside."

Despite Greenfield's exit, Cohen said he is committed to the independent board that helps control the brand and will work to convince its parent company to sell the brand to a group of investors committed to Ben and Jerry's social mission.

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Ben and Jerry's is currently being spun off from Unilever into a new company called The Magnum Ice Cream Company, which expects to be publicly traded in November.

The Magnum Ice Cream Company in a statement said it disagrees with Greenfield's and Cohen's perspective, and said it has tried to work with the brand's co-founders.

"We remain committed to Ben and Jerry's unique three-part mission – product, economic and social – and remain focused on carrying forward the legacy of peace, love, and ice cream of this iconic, much-loved brand," a Magnum spokesperson said in a statement.

Politics is profit

A major factor in Cohen's remaining at the company is to keep intact Ben & Jerry's three-part mission: a social mission to support justice and equality, along with a product and financial mission. He says all three are core to the brand – and claims it's good for business.

"When we came up with that three part mission, we deliberately wrote it horizontally to make the statement that they are all equally as important," he said.

"As the company acts on its social values and as it produces great ice cream, it ends up making a good profit."

Unilever, which doesn't break out Ben and Jerry's sales separately, said in its 2024 annual earnings report that its ice cream division rose 3.7 per cent from the year before.

Cohen doesn't regret maintaining its political and social stances, saying that Ben and Jerry's products have a small portion of the market so "we don't have to appeal to everybody."

"The reality is that businesses are incredibly political," he said.

"The average business, (are) using their money to influence elections, and they're using their money and their lobbyists to influence legislation."

He added: "The only difference is that Ben and Jerry's political aspects are overt, where we let people know what we think, whereas other businesses are covert."

Even with Greenfield leaving the company, the "spirit of Jerry will always be at Ben and Jerry's," Cohen said. And their friendship, which reaches back to junior high when they were the "two, slowest, fattest kids" in their class, will endure.

"I was a failure as a potter. Nobody would buy my pottery. Jerry was a med school reject, and we got together when we were 26 and said, 'Let's try starting a little business. Maybe that'll work.' We ended up starting this homemade ice cream shop in an old gas station in Burlington, Vermont, on an investment of US$8000 ($12,027) and we had no plans to be anything larger than that," Cohen said.

"It's been an amazing ride. It's been an amazing adventure, an amazing odyssey. There's been good times, there's been bad times, there's been challenging times, and we've been through them all together, Jerry and myself, and it's just built a stronger bond between us."

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FBI Director Kash Patel this week became the first prominent Justice Department official to testify under oath since the Donald Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files blew up in its face.

While Epstein was an occasional subplot during Patel's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, it was a huge focus of his appearance in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.

The hearing got very heated at times as Democrats decided to go with a scorched-earth approach and Patel responded in kind, leading to several shouting matches.

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After one Democrat said that the courts had called "bullsh*t" on the administration's strategy to try and get grand jury testimony unsealed, Patel ultimately responded, "I'm going to borrow your terminology and call bullsh*t on your entire career in Congress because you've been a disgrace to the American people."

At another point, Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington pressed Patel repeatedly on whether he had ever met with Epstein's victims. The director again didn't answer directly, eventually saying, "Any insinuation by you or any people on your side that I am not manhunting child predators and sex traffickers, just look at the stats."

Here's what to know from Patel's testimony on Epstein:

Patel was repeatedly evasive on Trump

The director was repeatedly evasive when the subject turned to President Donald Trump's proximity to the files.

Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell of California asked Patel no fewer than nine times whether he had told Attorney General Pam Bondi that Trump's name appeared in the Epstein files. Each time Patel declined to directly answer the question.

He instead said there had been many conversations about the files and noted the administration has released some documents with Trump's name in them. He later criticised Swalwell for not focusing more on crime in his home state. But he never answered the question.

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The question of how Trump was informed he was in the files is a significant one. Trump initially falsely denied he was told he was in the files, but we later learned Bondi had told him in May that he was. It was around this time that the administration began downplaying what the files might reveal.

In another exchange, Democratic Representative Ted Lieu of California asked Patel whether Prince Andrew's and Trump's names were on an Epstein client list. The Department of Justice has said there is no client list, but instead of citing that denial, Patel instead responded that the FBI had already released an index of names.

Vouched for Trump on one key point

But Patel was willing to address Trump's proximity to Epstein in another way – in a way beneficial to the president.

When Lieu asked him if there were any "photos of Trump with girls of an uncertain age," Patel responded, "No."

But when pressed on how he knew that, Patel suggested it wasn't from his own review.

"Because that information would have been brought to light by multiple administrations and FBI investigators over the course of the last 20 years," Patel said.

Trump has likewise argued that if there was anything bad in the files that the Biden administration would have used it against him.

In fact, it's not normal for administrations or the FBI to release derogatory information about people who haven't been charged with crimes. As a counterpoint, Lieu noted that we only recently learned about the alleged birthday letter Trump wrote Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003.

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Patel was cautious when asked about other Epstein trafficking victims

The big question most people have about Epstein is whether there is any evidence he trafficked girls or women to other men.

A few answers Patel gave on that subject are worth reflecting on.

He seemed to suggest it was possible Epstein had done so, but that he couldn't say so definitively because there was no credible evidence of it and/or because of the terms of a non-prosecution agreement Epstein reached with US attorney Alex Acosta in the late 2000s.

On Tuesday, he said there was "no credible information" Epstein had trafficked victims to other men.

But he caveated that by saying it was based on "the information that we have." He also made a point to cite how that non-prosecution agreement limited the investigation and what he was "able to speak to publicly."

On Wednesday, Patel was asked a similar question. He emphasised that he wasn't ruling out the possibility.

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"Let me make something crystal clear: I never said Jeffrey Epstein didn't traffic other people, other women, and there are not other victims," Patel said. "This is the investigation we were given from 2006, '07, and '08, and the search warrants from 2006, '07, and '08. That's what we're working with."

Later in the hearing, Republican Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky noted that Epstein's victims have alleged Epstein trafficked victims to at least 20 men.

Ultimately, Patel suggested the information was deemed not credible enough by prosecutors and suggested he wouldn't share it.

"We are also not in the habit of releasing incredible information," Patel said. "That's not what we do, but multiple authorities have looked at the entirety of what we have."

Answers like these emphasise how difficult it could be to satisfy those who want full disclosure and suspect there's more that lies beneath the surface. And, of course, Patel was once among those who alleged a massive coverup.

Democrats are going big on this issue

One thing Wednesday's hearing made abundantly clear: Democrats intend to push this issue long and hard.

One of the dilemmas in these hearings is there are often many subjects lawmakers want to ask about, and you only get these top officials testifying every once in a while. Patel's much-criticised handling of the manhunt for Charlie Kirk's assassin last week could have been fodder, too.

But after Senate Democrats largely glossed over the Epstein issue on Tuesday, House Democrats focused on it intently. Virtually all of them asked about it, and they seemed to have a plan to touch on many different facets of the issue.

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Polling suggests Republican voters are more critical of the administration's handling of the Epstein files than any other issue, with large numbers of them believing the government is still hiding key information. And the House of Representatives is also a central battleground, given it's where Massie's threat of a discharge petition is forcing GOP leaders' and the administration's hand in turning over documents.

(That discharge petition could reach the crucial 218-vote threshold next week to force the release of the files, after a special election in Arizona that the Democrat is expected to win.)

Their focus on pressing Patel over and over again led to a number of tense scenes in which Patel responded by insulting the lawmakers. That might appeal to Trump, who likes his officials to be combative in their testimony. But there's a real question about whether that's what the American people want to see, especially given how skeptical they've been of the administration's handling of this subject.

A particularly flippant moment

And one moment stands out on that front. It came when Patel, rather remarkably, decided to commit to an investigation in real time.

Democratic Representative Jared Moskowitz of Florida noted that Trump has denied the legitimacy of the Epstein birthday letter signed in Trump's name. But the letter was turned over by Epstein's estate.

So Moskowitz asked if the FBI would investigate Epstein's estate for furnishing an allegedly "fake document with the president's signature" linking Trump to Epstein.

Moskowitz and many others are obviously skeptical of Trump's denials, given Trump's false claims about the birthday letter. So the idea was to demonstrate that even the FBI didn't take Trump's denials seriously.

Patel at first downplayed the idea, saying, "On what basis?"

Moskowitz repeated that Trump was basically claiming Epstein's estate released a fake document that made Trump look bad.

And quickly, Patel suddenly agreed to investigate.

"Sure, I'll do it," he said.

That Patel so quickly relented – however seriously he intends to actually investigate – spoke to how much pressure has been brought to bear.

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More than 150 guests attended the banquet in honour of US President Donald Trump's second state visit to the UK, from royals to billionaires.

Photos from the lavish event show a room dripping in gold and members of the British monarchy rubbing shoulders with key figures in the Trump administration.

But who landed the best seats in the house? Here's a breakdown of some of the biggest names on the guest list.

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President Trump was sat in the centre of the 47m long banquet table, flanked by King Charles III and Catherine, the Princess of Wales.

Trump's nameplate reportedly read "President of the United States of America" in all capital letters.

In keeping with tradition, spouses were seated apart at the expansive table.

First Lady Melania Trump was in the chair across from the commander-in-chief.

On her left side was Camilla, Queen Consort, who sat opposite the Princess of Wales.

Prince William sat to Melania's right and across from his father.

Next to him was Paula Reynolds, who is chair of National Grid, a British multinational electricity and gas utility company.

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Other guests who nabbed seats near the centre of the table included US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

He was seated on the King's left hand side.

Lady Victoria Starmer, wife of British Prime Minister Kier Starmer, sat to the left of Rubio.

Her husband was seated elsewhere.

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Trump's son-in-law Michael Boulos was given a prime position on the Princess of Wales' right hand side.

Boulos is married to Tiffany Trump, the US President's fourth child and only child with second wife Marla Maples.

Tiffany was sitting a few seats away from her husband, next to Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Cook was one of many noteworthy tech guests, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who was seated further down the long banquet table.

Altman has a reported net worth of $US2.2 billion ($3.3 billion), while Cook's net worth is said to be around $US2.5 billion.

Another exceedingly wealthy attendee was media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who is believed to be worth more than $US23.7 billion.

Murdoch, 94, attended the banquet with his wife Elena Zhukova, 68, a retired Russian molecular biologist. She is the billionaire's fifth wife.

Murdoch's wealth was outdone by the chief executive of the Blackstone investment group Stephen Schwarzman, who is worth a reported $US54.3 billion.

Other important American guests included Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who was escorted in by Dame Katherine Grainger, and White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.

US Ambassador to the UK Warren Stephen also attended the banquet and was escorted inside by Anne, The Princess Royal.

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Key British political guests included Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy.

A total of 160 guests attended the lavish banquet and dined on a menu of quail egg salad, chicken ballotine and vanilla ice cream bombe.

The drinks menu included a 1945 vintage port – a nod to Trump having been the 45th US president – and a more than 100 year old 1912 cognac.

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Three police officers have been killed and two injured in a shooting in the southern part of Pennsylvania, US police say.

The shooting erupted in the area of North Codorus Township, about 185km west of Philadelphia, not far from the Maryland line, authorities said.

“The grief will be unbearable but we will bear it,” Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris said at a news conference.

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“We will not rest until we conduct a full, fair and competent investigation into this matter.”

York Hospital said it was treating two people in serious condition and had enhanced security protocols are in place.

“We grieve for the loss of life of three precious souls who served this county, served this commonwealth, served this country,” Governor Josh Shapiro said.

"This kind of violence is not OK, we need to do better as a society.”

Attorney General Pamela Bondi called the violence against police “a scourge on our society".

She said federal agents were on the scene to support local officers.

“Please send prayers to the officers and those involved in the shooting in York County,” Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Austin Davis said in a social media post.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said he was also on the scene. Sunday said on social media he urges “all residents to follow the instructions of local law enforcement” and he is “praying for all involved”.

A local school district issued a shelter-in-place order, though it said schools and students were not involved in the shooting.

The order was lifted later in the afternoon.

The district said in a statement that authorities “advised us to hold students and staff in our buildings as a precaution while several area roads are closed”.

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The medical response unfolded on a rural road in south-central Pennsylvania that winds through an agricultural area with a barn and farm fields.

Police have not provided any details about who was involved in the shooting.

Officers were keeping people well back from the scene in the area’s rolling farmland, with some 30 police vehicles blocking off roads bordered by a barn, a goat farm and soybean and corn fields.

“Pennsylvania State Police, Northern Regional Police and numerous emergency responders are at the scene. The York County Commissioners are monitoring the situation closely and praying for all those involved," the county said in a statement.

An officer in the area was killed in February, when a man armed with a pistol and zip ties entered a hospital’s intensive care unit and took staff members hostage before a shootout that left both the suspect and an officer dead.

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Melissa initially blamed her irritating symptoms on stress from her divorce.

The mum from Bathurst in NSW, then aged 30, was suffering from back pain and morning nausea and, as a single mother of two young children, she was programmed to ignore it.

"At 3am, I started to feel sick, I just thought I had gastro," Melissa told 9news.com.au. 

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"To be honest, I'd been in my job three months, so I didn't want my employer thinking I was having a long weekend, so I'd gone to the doctor to get a doctor's certificate."

Visiting her GP that day may have been what saved Melissa's life.

She was taken to the hospital for some blood tests after feeling light-headed, and by 2pm that afternoon, she had an unexpected diagnosis.

Melissa's pain was caused by a solid pseudo-papillary mass, a rare pancreatic tumour.

"It was the size of a large grapefruit, so it had sort of started to crush other organs, opposed to reaching out like other cancers do to the organs, so it wasn't spreading," Melissa explained.

The tumour was located at the head of her pancreas.

Her doctor said if it was sitting anywhere else, she would have had "two and a half weeks to live".

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US President Donald Trump received a royal reception at Windsor Castle on Wednesday, but beyond the castle walls there were many who did not welcome his unprecedented second state visit.

Thousands of people marched through central London to protest his trip, which includes a lavish banquet in his honour hosted by King Charles III and a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Carrying banners reading "No to the racism, no to Trump," about 3000 people headed down Regent Street on their way to Parliament.

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Some carried small versions of the giant Trump baby blimp, an orange-tinted caricature of the blond-quaffed leader in a diaper, that made a big impression during his first visit in June 2019.

Others carried signs reading "No to Trump, no to fascism" and "Dump Trump."

The crowd booed a counter protester who held a sign that read "We Love Trump".

The number of people participating in the march was much smaller than six years ago, when Trump visited London during his first term.

This visit almost entirely avoids the capital by holding royal ceremonies at Windsor, a historic town about 32 kilometres to the west, and at Chequers, the prime minister's country estate where Trump will meet with Starmer on Thursday.

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Trump and first lady Melania took a helicopter to Windsor Castle, where they were greeted warmly by the king and enjoyed a horse-drawn carriage ride through the royal estate's massive grounds as military bands played the national anthems of the US and UK.

Dozens of protesters took to the streets of Windsor chanting "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Donald Trump has got to go" and "Donald Trump's not welcome here."

"I don't think it's right that we're having Trump come for the second state visit due to his horrible rhetoric, policies and actions toward women and people of color," Grace Nathew said.

On a street lined with British and American flags, the group held signs that said, "Trump your politics stink" and "Go away. You are polluting Windsor."

Police said they arrested four people Tuesday over a stunt that saw an image of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected on a tower at Windsor Castle, a reminder of the president's relationship with the disgraced financier.

London's police force deployed 1600 officers as they expected members of about 50 different groups to protest.

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The days of people lining up around the block outside Apple stores are long gone, with online shopping now the simplest and fastest way to get access to the latest phones, so there's not likely to be too many people queuing up this Friday when Apple's 2025 range of iPhones go on sale.

For the first time in around four years, there's a fresh look to one of the iPhones being released and that is the all-new iPhone Air.

I've been testing all four of the new iPhones, but have spent most of the time with the iPhone Air as it is certainly attracting the most attention and questions from observers of the latest Apple News.

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Key questions I've picked up have been around the iPhone Air being eSIM-only, a first for Australia; its thin profile and how that affects battery life; and the camera – will a single lens cut it?

An eSIM-only iPhone

A radical change from Apple with the iPhone Air being eSIM only – this means you can't take the little plastic SIM card from your current phone and put it into your new iPhone Air.

There's some people very worried about how that will work, I'm here to tell you – relax.

On your current iPhone, you can simply enter the settings and "Convert to eSIM" your current number.

This then will transfer easily when you switch to your new phone.

Additionally, when you sign into a new iPhone with your Apple ID, it will offer you the option to convert any of your phone numbers from other phones to an eSIM – it really is a very simple process, not something to get concerned about.

Just be sure you have details of your telco account login as that will be required for most conversions.

Super thin iPhone Air's battery life

How on earth can the battery life be any good when the iPhone Air is basically half the thickness of a traditional iPhone?

Apple's own numbers give the Air a better battery life than last year's iPhone 16, and just shy of the new iPhone 17.

My four full days of usage have demonstrated this is certainly an "all-day" battery.

In normal use, I've been getting 16-17 hours before I drop below 20%.

No, it's nothing like what you get on the Pro models – but it is by far more than enough when compared to other models in the range.

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Does a single-lens cut it on the iPhone Air?

This may be the issue.

Apple executives are quoted talking about seeing this as a single camera as being misleading.

Yes, it can do 3-4 "focal lengths" but it's really just taking a crop from the exceptional 48MP camera to do that.

And, there's no 0.5 ultra-wide.

I suspect Apple has missed the popularity of that lens.

A younger owner is using 0.5 a lot, it's omission from the affordable 16e iPhone meant my kids didn't want to use it long term.

And I would suggest the Air will suffer the same fate.

The only saving grace would be the outstanding – and I really mean that – outstanding selfie camera.

It's an 18MP camera, with a square sensor – this allows Apple to introduce Centre Stage which allows the iPhone to expand to a wider view when other people come into the picture, and offer both portrait and landscape shots without twisting the phone on its side.

That selfie camera is on the entire 2025 lineup, and should not be missed as a core and attractive feature of this range

The premium iPhone 17 Pro

All the lenses on the Pro model 17's are now 48MP fusion cameras.

This means excellent detail, high-quality photos – no matter the lens you choose.

An 8x zoom is shown on the screen when in the camera, but it's again, more of a crop in on the 4x optical lens.

The 17 Pro is down to 4x optical from the iPhone 16 Pro's 5x zoom – but the extra quality likely makes up for that.

My testing of that zoom level shows a distinct improvement in quality of images when zoomed, and there's no question the zoom on videos is also excellent.

However, there's still some artefacts on zoomed videos, which take away the sharpness – I can see more content being made with the zoom, but more work to be done to make it genuinely impressive.

Both Pro phones are big, and heavy, but not more so than last year, just way more so than the iPhone Air which I've been favouring.

My pick of the bunch – the entry-level iPhone 17

Apple has pulled a real swifty with the entry-level iPhone 17.

It's the same price as last year's iPhone 16 at $1399 but it's double the storage with 256GB being the lowest capacity.

Plus, it has an outstanding screen with 120Hz refresh rate down to 1Hz.

And it has the new A19 chip, and both rear cameras are 48Megapixels, while the front-camera is that impressive centre stage selfie camera.

There's no doubt in my mind that the entry level iPhone 17 is the best value iPhone released in many many years, and if you had to pick just one from the four released this year – no question the iPhone 17 offers the best bang-for-your-buck.

I can't imagine any owner being anything but happy with their iPhone 17.

The only reason not to love it is the lack of a 4x zoom or similar as you'd get on the Pro. That's it.

iPhone 17 availability

The entire iPhone lineup for 2025 goes on sale this Friday at Apple, retail stores and telcos across Australia.

Christian Brueckner, the German man who remains a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann in Portugal, has been released from prison on after serving a sentence on other charges, German police said.

German prosecutors first named Christian Brueckner a suspect in 2020, when he was already serving the sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman in part of Portugal's Algarve region where McCann went missing.

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He will be electronically tagged, must declare a place of residence and cannot leave without permission.

Brueckner's lawyer denies any connection with the McCann case.

Brueckner has convictions for child abuse and drug trafficking in addition to the rape of the woman, who has since died.

Police in Britain, Germany and Portugal, who have identified Brueckner as their main suspect, have long sought evidence to link him conclusively to the case.

Portuguese and German police spent four days digging for evidence in the Algarve in June.

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British police said on Monday Brueckner, who is detained in a prison in Sehnde in northern Germany, declined their request for an interview in connection with the disappearance.

They said they would continue to pursue any viable lines of enquiry.

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McCann, then aged three, disappeared from her bedroom in a holiday resort as her parents dined metres away.

Brueckner, 49, lived in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, where, according to court documents seen by Reuters he burgled hotels and holiday flats.

McCann's parents continue to campaign for their daughter, who would now be 22, to be found and issue a statement each year on the anniversary of her disappearance.

"We love her dearly and miss her beyond words," they wrote on their website.