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The leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult, Paul Mackenzie, has been found guilty of murdering 191 people, all but one of them children. Our correspondent explains. Australian MP Helen Haines is critically ill in hospital in Melbourne after being hit by a car in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says may have been a deliberate attack. We have the latest. Researchers inspecting an object that some thought could have been the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane on a remote Pacific island say it is likely to be washed up trees. We speak to three people who have investigated mysteries of their own. People in the province of Alberta head to the polls on Monday to decide whether to hold a binding referendum at a later date on separating from Canada. Our chief international correspondent explains. Presenter: Rahul Tandon. (Photo: Self-proclaimed pastor and ex-cult leader Paul Mackenzie (R) speaks to his lawyer (L) during a court session of his murder trial judgment at the Mombasa Law Courts, in Mombasa, Kenya, 19 October 2026. Credit: STRINGER/EPA)