Two women say hospitals violated emergency care laws by denying treatment for life-threatening conditionTwo Texas women who were denied abortion care for life-threatening ectopic pregnancies have filed complaints with the Biden administration calling for investigations into the hospitals for violating federal law.An ectopic pregnancy is a dangerous condition in which the fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tube instead of the uterus. It has no chance of developing into a healthy pregnancy. Continue reading...

Chancellor looks at handing income from tunnel tolls to investors in UK's largest infrastructure project

Following Vienna terror plot, Swift fans will not be able to gather outside and sing along as they have done previouslyTaylor Swift fans congregating en masse to sing along outside open-air venues has become almost as much of a part of the Eras tour as friendship bracelets and surprise acoustic songs.But amid tightened security after a suspected terror plot at a Swift concert in Vienna, Wembley Stadium has announced it will move any fans who gather outside the London venue this week. Continue reading...

Film-maker who directed films starring Li, Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh and later worked as a Hollywood fight coordinator, died during the Covid pandemic two years agoCelebrated Hong Kong martial arts actor and director Corey Yuen died two years ago during the Covid pandemic, it has been reported.The Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers confirmed Yuen's death following a social media post by action star Jackie Chan naming Yuen (also known as Yuen Kwai) among a list of late disciples of China Drama Academy head Yu Jim-yuen, who died in 1997. Continue reading...

Collectors snap up 5, 10, 20 and 50 notes bearing king's head for 11 times monetary value, with one 10 note fetching 17,000A special auction of some of the first banknotes to roll off the presses bearing King Charles III's face have raised more than 900,000 for charity, more than 11 times their monetary value.Over the summer, Spink & Sons held four specialist auctions of the newly designed 5, 10, 20 and 50 notes, with the proceeds destined for 10 selected charities. Continue reading...

Spanish police make arrest after being notified that export licence had expired and work is found to be a copySpanish police have arrested a man whose alleged plan to sell a fake Leonardo da Vinci painting in Italy for 1.3m was thwarted when the work caught the eye of French customs officers.Although the man had an export licence for the work, which was purported to be a Leonardo portrait of the Italian aristocrat and military commander Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, the licence had expired, prompting customs officers at the Modane border post to contact Spanish police. Continue reading...

Father of one of Nottingham attack victims says there is a need to step back and see what is safe for the public'The government has told the families of the Nottingham attack victims it will slow down mental health care reforms in the wake of a damning report on the treatment that Valdo Calocane received in the years before the killings.Dr Sanjoy Kumar, the father of Grace O'Malley-Kumar, one of three people killed in the attacks, said the health secretary had told the family that mental health reforms would be slowed down. Continue reading...

Nautilus Aviation says man, who died after chopper crashed into DoubleTree by Hilton hotel, was not authorised to fly' the company's helicopters

Airstrikes have killed children born from IVF, while shelling of fertility clinic's lab has shattered other families' dreamsIt took surgery and five years of IVF treatment for Amal to fall pregnant for the first and only time. That struggle against infertility lasted almost as long as her son Khaled's short life. He was just seven years old when on 17 October an Israeli airstrike on Rafah, one of the first of the war, hit the family home.Khaled was killed and Amal was plunged into a grief heightened by memories of her long battle to become a mother. Sometimes she struggles to keep going. Death, in all its finality, seems less daunting than the relentless pain of living without Khaled," she said. He was the most precious thing in my life." Continue reading...

Lawyers express concern over Labor's proposed reforms to prevent specified human sources' suing government or police

The magenta, amethyst and ruby aurora australis was spotted from Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and New Zealand's South Island

Jacinta Allan says age of criminal responsibility won't be raised to 14 amid concern about youth crime

Graham James Kay, who was imprisoned for sexually assaulting eight women, argued he feared for his safetyA man dubbed the north shore rapist has failed in a legal bid to keep his identity secret after repeatedly committing predatory acts towards women over several decades.Graham James Kay had an order prohibiting the publication of his name revoked by the New South Wales supreme court on Tuesday despite the 72-year-old arguing he feared for his safety. Continue reading...

Labor minister tells ABC's Q+A that he is not convinced that complete prohibition works'

Pair allegedly acted for wealthy Chinese woman who financed bogus Los Angeles raid to settle business dispute, US attorney's office says

Linda Reynolds suing former staffer over a series of social media posts WA senator believes damaged her reputation

Council set to decide whether to end contracts with operators Lime and Neuron on Tuesday night

The Train family believed they were fighting alongside Jesus' by shooting police, extremism expert testifies

Claim by Kyiv comes as Russian official admits Ukraine has seized 28 settlements during attack on border regionUkraine's top commander says his forces have captured 1,000 sq km (386 square miles) of Russia's bordering Kursk region, while Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has vowed a worthy response" to the attack and ordered his troops to dislodge the enemy from our territories".With Russia still struggling to repel the surprise assault a week after it began, Ukraine's top commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, briefed President Volodymyr Zelenskiy by video link and said the advance into Russian territory was ongoing. Continue reading...

Bridget Phillipson says she is determined to reduce attainment gap as teenagers anticipate A-level resultsThe education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has warned of massive" inequality in England's education system, as students brace themselves for this week's A-level results.After 14 years of Conservative government, Phillipson said educational inequalities were baked in", citing regional disparities in results and attainment gaps between children at state and private schools. Continue reading...

CQC finds risk he presented to public was not managed well' before he killed three people in Nottingham last yearA series of errors and misjudgments" in Valdo Calocane's mental health care led to him being discharged, despite repeatedly not taking medication and showing signs of aggression, months before he killed three people in Nottingham, a report says.A review by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) of the treatment that Calocane received from Nottinghamshire healthcare NHS foundation trust over two years between May 2020 and September 2022 found that the risk he presented to the public was not managed well". Continue reading...

Clarion case among several severe maladministration' examples highlighted by housing ombudsmanThe UK's biggest housing association has been fined after a watchdog found that its failure to carry out repairs to a child's bedroom window for four years left the home mouldy and caused serious illness in the family that lived there.Clarion housing association showed no urgency" to fix the window, instead leaving it boarded up, despite repeated complaints from the tenant who said the mould caused his asthma to flare up and affected his son's mental health. Continue reading...

US says it has prepared for significant attacks by Iran or proxies as Tehran stresses right to respond to assassinationsIran has insisted on its right to an appropriate and deterrent response" against Israel as the White House said it had prepared for what could be significant attacks by Iran or its proxies as soon as this week.The comments come as the US announced it had ordered the deployment of the USS Georgia, a nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine, to the Middle East, amid mounting concern over the determination by Iran and its proxies to retaliate for Israel's assassination of Hamas's political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran. Iran's acting foreign minister, Ali Bagheri Kani, made the comments to his Chinese counterpart on Monday, according to state media. Continue reading...

Shootings take place in two separate incidents', according to armed wing of group, which did not identify victimsThe armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas has said its militants shot and killed an Israeli hostage and wounded two others, both women, in two separate incidents" in Gaza.Palestinian militants seized 251 hostages during their 7 October attack on Israel that triggered the ongoing war, 111 of whom are still being held in Gaza, although the Israeli military says 39 are dead. Continue reading...

Exclusive: MPs leaving platform or scaling back use over its deterioration' under Elon Musk's ownershipLabour MPs have begun quitting X in alarm over the platform, with one saying Elon Musk had turned it into a megaphone for foreign adversaries and far-right fringe groups".Over the weekend, newly elected MPs took to WhatsApp groups to raise growing concerns about the role X played in the spread of misinformation amid the far-right-led riots in parts of England and Northern Ireland. Continue reading...

The Pulitzer prize-shortlisted novelist behind books including There There and Wandering Stars will pen a manuscript that won't be published until 2114The next book by Native American author Tommy Orange will not be read for 90 years.The author of There There and Wandering Stars has been selected as the 11th writer to contribute to the Future Library project, which each year invites an author to produce a manuscript to be stored under lock and key until 2114. Continue reading...

Witness describes mentally disturbed' suspect behind attack, as girl, 11, and woman, 34, taken to hospitalA shop security guard has described how he overpowered a knifeman as he stabbed an 11-year-old girl and her mother, 34, in a horrific" and apparently random attack in London's busy Leicester Square in front of shocked workers and tourists.The woman and her daughter were taken to hospital by paramedics after a man, not thought to have been known to them, was disarmed and pinned to the ground while police rushed to the scene. Continue reading...

Curtis and Arthur probably adopted abandoned egg, curator says, in Paignton zoo's first successful same-sex hatchingA pair of same-sex flamingos has successfully hatched an egg at a zoo in Devon, staff say.The chick is one of several new additions from Chilean flamingo couples at Paignton zoo, marking the zoo's first successful hatching of the species since 2018. Continue reading...

Hannah Jacobs, who had dairy allergy, died within hours of ordering drink that was meant to be made with soyaA 13-year-old girl with a severe dairy allergy suffered an immediate reaction" after a sip of a Costa Coffee hot chocolate that should have been made with soya, an inquest has heard.Hannah Jacobs, of Barking, east London, was allergic to dairy products and had opted for complete avoidance" since she was a toddler. She died within hours of having the takeaway drink that her mother, Abimbola Duyile, had ordered on 8 February 2022. Continue reading...

While thousands have had to flee their homes, there is widespread feeling that the attack is a justified form of defenceLast Tuesday, Oksana and her family could not escape fast enough. Though they did not know it, Ukrainian regular forces had entered Russia for the first time, and Moscow's military wasted little time in hitting back, bombing their village around seven miles from the border.It was 9am and the first glide bomb hit the village," she said, and its ferocity - very scary, much bigger" than ordinary shelling - was such that they immediately knew they had to escape. Our neighbour drove his children first and then came back and picked me and my sister and family," the mother of two explained. Continue reading...

Boy and another 12-year-old among string of offenders pleading guilty in courts across EnglandA 12-year-old boy has admitted to participating in two separate incidents of disorder in Manchester after he was caught throwing a missile at a police van and kicking the front window of a vape shop.The boy was one of two 12-year-olds who became the youngest to be convicted of criminal offences relating to the nationwide disorder earlier this month. Continue reading...

Minister James Murray says decision aimed at protecting jobs and investment after concerns raised by industryThe Treasury has sought to defuse a bitter row with the North Sea oil and gas industry by promising to keep investment reliefs on low-carbon projects, aiming to protect jobs and soften the expansion of the energy windfall tax.The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said last month that she would expand the levy on energy industry profits as part of her plan to plug a 22bn hole" in the public finances that Labour said had been left by the previous Conservative government. Continue reading...

Unite, Unison and GMB suspend industrial action in Scotland to consult members on improved' dealThe strikes by refuse and recycling workers due to disrupt the Edinburgh festivals this week have been called off, after a new pay offer was made.Edinburgh faced a repeat of the strikes during the festival in 2022, with mounds of uncollected bin bags, overflowing recycling bins and unsightly food-covered pavements. Continue reading...

Dail members call for investigation after far-right leader gave false country of birth to Canada's immigration officersIrish parliamentarians have called on their government to investigate how an Irish passport was obtained by Tommy Robinson, who has been accused of inciting riots from abroad.The Luton-born far-right leader travels on an Irish passport in his real name - Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - and was believed to have qualified for it via his mother, an Irish immigrant to Britain. Continue reading...

Certificate lowered from 18 to 15 after 1980s classic is deemed relatively discreet in terms of gore and injury detail'The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has defended its decision to change the certificate of horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street from an 18 to a 15, saying that its audience research showed strong support for older content to be reclassified in line with modern standards".The classic 1980s horror, featuring the malevolent, razor-gloved Freddy Krueger who stalks and murders teenagers in their dreams, was given an 18 certificate on its first UK release in 1985, a designation confirmed on a subsequent cinema release in 2013 and a series of home entertainment releases. However, after a new application from its studio Warner Bros, the certificate was changed to a 15 on 1 August, ahead of a home entertainment reissue in September. Continue reading...

Tory leadership hopeful and former home secretary says government has shown poor early decision making'Phillip Inman and Graeme Wearden report:The UK should not be seduced" into thinking the battle to calm inflation is over despite price rises easing to the Bank of England's target, according to an interest rate setter at the central bank. Continue reading...

John O'Brien received 15% of former client's estate after encouraging her to sign will he drafted months before her death, Vcat finds

Witnesses say more than 200 people were killed in artillery and drone attack that targeted civilians fleeing fightingMany dozens of Rohingya people, including children, were killed in an artillery and drone attack that targeted civilians as they tried to flee Myanmar last week.Civilians were trying to escape violence in Maungdaw town, Rakhine state, by crossing the Naf River into Bangladesh when they were targeted last Monday. Videos shared on social media, which appeared to have been taken in the aftermath of the attack, showed bodies and bags strewn across the ground. Continue reading...

Family pays tribute to Courtney Mitchell, who was found seriously injured and later died in hospitalA man has been charged with murder after a woman was found seriously injured at a property in Ipswich and later died in hospital.Courtney Mitchell, 26, was discovered by Suffolk police at an address in Burrell Road shortly after 7pm on 6 August. Continue reading...

Eighty-eight soldiers had been seconded in the battle to contain blazes with firefighting effortsAFP reports from Penteli:Thick smoke from burning trees filled a small square in Penteli where local resident Mariana Papathanasi said they could only pray that their houses would be saved.There is still a strong fire. Some houses were burned after midnight and we are trying to protect our local restaurant," the 49-year-old supermarket employee told AFP. Continue reading...

Airport says ETA scheme introduced by Conservatives is devastating' for competitiveness

Billionaire built business from bicycle components empire that takes in UK hotels

Bear, which was eating granola bars that come as part of class's emergency earthquake kit, was safely removedA California school teacher got a shock when she discovered a bear had broken into her classroom to eat the granola bars that come with the class's emergency earthquake kits.Local TV station KGET reported that Elaine Salmon of Peak to Peak charter school in Pine Mountain Club, about 90 miles north of Los Angeles, was in the school main office printing out paperwork when the bear launched its daring raid. Continue reading...

More than 670 firefighters working to control blaze that has formed 12-mile front on outskirts of Athens Europe live - latest updatesFirefighters are battling to contain a massive blaze moving like lightning" on the outskirts of Athens, with authorities evacuating people from towns, villages and hospitals as flames rip through trees, homes and cars.Propelled by gale-force winds, the wildfire had formed a 12-mile (20km) front by Monday despite superhuman" efforts by forest commandos and volunteers overnight. Continue reading...

Medics demand better safety measures as civic volunteer' arrested after attack on female trainee doctor in KolkataDoctors at government hospitals in several Indian states have gone on strike in a protest after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata on Friday.The 31-year-old woman was attacked at the state-run RG Kar medical college, where she was a resident doctor, after she went to rest in a seminar room following dinner with colleagues. Her brutalised body was found with multiple injuries and an autopsy confirmed sexual assault and homicide. Continue reading...

Chair of Hunting Kind says he has built legal case to obtain same protection as Roma and LGBTQ+ peopleA pro-foxhunting group says it has prepared a legal case to try to prove that hunters are an ethnic minority whose hunts should be protected under equality laws.Ed Swales, the chair of Hunting Kind, claims he has been advised by a leading human rights lawyer that hunters unequivocally qualify for legal protection under the UK Equality Act 2010. Continue reading...

April Jones tells Perth court she started counselling Reynolds after reports of Brittany Higgins' accusations senator mishandled her rape complaint

Sarah Hanson-Young wrote to Meta demanding to know if social media giant was test-running a news ban

Nathaniel, Stacey and Gareth Train shared paranoid delusions' and did not intend to be captured alive, inquiry into Queensland shootings told