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The Australian and international news stories you need to know today, Monday October 25.

'Troubling practices' during Rust filming.

Alec Baldwin has been seen consoling the family of the cinematographer who was killed on the set of his movie as more reports emerged of troubling practices during the filming of Rust.

A distraught Baldwin was photographed outside a hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Saturday embracing and talking with Matt Hutchins, the husband of Halyna Hutchins, and their nine-year-old son.

Baldwin, 63, on Friday said he was shocked and heartbroken at the death of Hutchins.

Representatives did not immediately say which performances he is canceling and which he will carry out from home.

Sheeran's official website lists no performances before April, but he is scheduled as the musical guest on November 6's Saturday Night Live.

The four-time Grammy winner's new studio album is called "=" which is pronounced "Equals".

Around the world.

- Queen Elizabeth is back at work after spending a night in hospital for the first time in years last week, for what Buckingham Palace termed "preliminary investigations". 

- Olympic runner Agnes Tirop, a rising star in Kenya's highly competitive athletics scene, was buried on Saturday at a funeral attended by over 1,000 mourners after she was found stabbed in her home on October 13. Police have arrested her husband.

- Sweden and Pakistan have warned that Afghanistan is on the brink of collapse and an "economic freefall" thanks to the abrupt end of billions of dollars in assistance in August. 

- With AAP

Feature image: Mostafa Bassim Adly/Anadolu Agency/Getty/AAP Image/Mick Tsikas/Instagram @teddysphotos.

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