Morning Mail: WHO declares mpox emergency, mortgage payments soar, ‘jaw-dropping’ Stonehenge discovery

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the WHO, said the situation around the mpox outbreak was ‘very worrying’ and warranted the ‘highest level of alarm under international health law’. Photograph: Reuters

Good morning.

Amid higher interest rates and soaring living costs, new data shows how the percentage of income that Australian mortgage holders are spending on their loans has rocketed to levels not seen since before the 2008 global financial crisis.