Morning mail: ACT lockdown, Kandahar captured, a ‘sexy Miss Marple’

Friday: Canberra cases grow as the Taliban capture Afghanistan's second-largest city. Plus: a binge-worthy classic Australian crime drama

Good morning. The ACT is in lockdown. The US and UK are sending troops to help with emergency evacuations as the Taliban advance towards Kabul. And a leaked IPCC report warns that global greenhouse emissions must peak in the next four years.

Canberra entered a snap week-long lockdown late yesterday with four Covid cases - the territory's first locally transmitted cases in more than a year. As the outbreak threatens to spread into their accommodation, students at the Australian National University have been told to isolate. And the ACT chief minister, Andrew Barr, suggested federal parliament's next scheduled sittings may need to be postponed.