After nine weeks, the jury has retired to consider its verdict: whether Erin Patterson is guilty or not guilty of murder and attempted murder.

Rachael Brown and Stephen Stockwell talk about what happens next.

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In Erin Patterson’s final days in the stand, she faced questions about some of the evidence given by previous witnesses in her triple murder trial.

Investigative reporter Rachael Brown talks through Erin’s response.

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Russia has been launching near-daily drone and missile attacks against Ukraine in recent months, but their intensity has increased in recent weeks as talks to end the war yielded few results.

US President Donald Trump has been attempting to broker a peace between the two sides, but negotiations have so far yielded little progress, though prisoner exchanges have been agreed.

Strikes in Kyiv overnight on Monday lit up the night sky with fires in residential areas and damaged the entrance to a metro station bomb shelter.

At least 34 people including four children were wounded in the attacks on Kyiv, the emergencies service said.

From midnight until almost dawn, the city shook with explosions and rattling machine gun fire from anti-aircraft units aiming at the drones.

Ukraine's air force said it had downed 339 of 352 drones and 15 of 16 missiles launched by Russia in the attack on four Ukrainian regions.

Rescue workers pulled bodies from the rubble of an apartment block in Kyiv's busy Shevchenkivskyi district, less than a kilometre from the US embassy.

At least nine people died in the district, the interior ministry said.

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The jury at Sean "Diddy" Combs's sex trafficking trial has reached a verdict on four of the five counts the music mogul faces, according to the New York judge overseeing the case.

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The US envoy to the Ukraine War, Keith Kellogg, has accused Russia of trying to "stall" peace negotiations and called for an immediate ceasefire.

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Parts of the New South Wales Central and South coasts are being lashed by a vigorous coastal low weather system, described by meteorologists as a bomb cyclone, that is causing damaging winds and heavy rainfall.

Emergency warnings remain in place for multiple regions due to a continued risk of flash flooding, with some suburbs receiving up to 130 millimetres of rain through the night. More than 35,000 homes and businesses remain without power.

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