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Foreign secretary defeats Rishi Sunak, winning 57.4% of Tory members’ votes to former chancellor’s 42.6%

Court dismisses opposition’s challenge against August’s vote that alleged fraud and voter suppressionKenya’s supreme court has confirmed William Ruto as winner of the country’s disputed national vote, ending weeks of political uncertainty after the opposition – and election officials – questioned the count.Ruto was announced winner on 15 August amid a divide within the electoral commission over the declared outcome, which showed that the vice-president had gained 50.5% of the vote, beating the longtime opposition leader Raila Odinga and narrowly avoiding a run-off. Continue reading...

Strike could lead to sharp rise in region’s unwieldy boar population, which is estimated at 250,000Catalonia’s hunters have hung up their guns to protest against new regulations, in a move that could lead to an exponential rise in the region’s already unwieldy wild boar population.The wild boar hunting season began on Sunday and runs until in March but Catalonia’s 33,000 hunters have objected to a new rule that said they must use GPS coordinates to notify the authorities in advance about where they plan to hunt, otherwise they could lose their insurance. Continue reading...

British carmaker hopes money will allow it to reduce debt payments and invest in new electric modelsAston Martin shares have slumped 10% after the British sports carmaker revealed that it would give a deep discount on a £576m rights issue as it tries to reduce its big debt pile.The luxury carmaker on Monday revealed that investors would be able to buy more shares at 103p a share, a steep 78% discount to the 480p closing price on Friday. Its shares were down by 10.3% at 430.9p early on Monday afternoon. Continue reading...

Zelenskiy claims progress in Ukraine’s counter-offensive; IAEA inspectors to remain at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant until at least Monday

Grimshaw says decision is hers alone and she’s ‘not being shoved out the door by the boys club because I’m too old’

Greens senator David Shoebridge says grant impacts ‘independence’ of governor general’s office and Scott Morrison should have rejected requests for support

Ruling by Russia’s media regulator comes less than year after its editor won Nobel peace prize

From cancelling student loan debt to raising minimum wage, different strategies aim to reduce effects of soaring pricesThe Covid pandemic, soaring food and fuel prices, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have dealt a triple blow to people around the world. Here is a look at what governments are doing to try to help citizens and companies weather the cost of living crisis. Continue reading...

Shyam Kumar was unfairly sacked by CQC after raising patient safety concerns, Manchester tribunal findsA hospital inspector who was sacked by the health regulator after raising concerns about patient safety, inadequate inspections and bullying, has won an employment tribunal against his dismissal.Manchester employment tribunal found that the orthopaedic surgeon Shyam Kumar was unfairly sacked as a part-time special adviser by the Care Quality Commission. Continue reading...

A US judge has dismissed Spencer Elden’s claim that an image of him as a naked baby on the 1991 album constituted child sexual abuseSpencer Elden, who appeared on the cover of Nirvana’s 1991 album Nevermind as a baby, has lost his lawsuit claiming that the image constituted child sexual abuse.In the suit Elden claimed that the album cover, which depicts him at four months old and was taken by a family friend, had caused him “permanent harm” and a lifelong loss of income-earning capacity”. Continue reading...

News Corp columnist framed himself as among a minority of white men who could no longer voice their opinion

Karl-Peter Griesemann’s Cessna 551 crashed near Latvia after flying across Europe with no radio contactA private jet that crashed into the Baltic Sea off Latvia after flying halfway across Europe from Spain without responding to controllers’ calls belonged to the German businessman Karl-Peter Griesemann, his company, Quick Air, has said.The jet, an Austria-registered Cessna 551, left Jerez in southern Spain on Sunday afternoon, turning at Paris and Cologne before flying straight out to the Baltic Sea, where it spiralled into the water east of Gotland, flight tracking data showed. Continue reading...

Temperatures nearing record of 52.2C set in Mecca, California, in 1950

Former Bovis Homes snaps up smaller rival after campaign by two US activist investorsTwo of the UK’s largest housebuilders are to merge after Vistry Group agreed a £1.3bn cash and shares deal to take over smaller rival Countryside.The deal would represent a victory for two US activist investors in Countryside, Browning West and Inclusive Capital Partners, which have been pushing for a sale of the company. Continue reading...

Former prime minister says he does not want to engage with those ‘having a big crack at me’ in first TV interview since revelations

Detectives, arson unit are investigating after blaze at heritage Northwood home took 50 firefighters to extinguish

Billionaire appeals against Kensington’s ruling that he installed windows without permissionRichard Caring, the billionaire nightclub and restaurant entrepreneur, is refusing to remove three “incongruous and dominant” windows from his £40m house in South Kensington despite the council issuing an “enforcement notice” ordering him to do so.Caring, 74, who owns the celebrity hotspot restaurants the Ivy and Sexy Fish as well as the private members’ club Annabel’s, has launched an appeal against the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s ruling that the windows were installed “without planning permission” and “fail to preserve the character and appearance” of the conservation area. Continue reading...

‘We hope you accept our invitation and listen to what we have to say’, said one community leader

The truck was responding to an emergency when the crash occurred in Haymarket, leading to traffic and light rail delays

With a hearing expected later in the year, the outcome could have far-reaching consequences for revenue raising from electric vehicles, lawyers say

Family of 23-year-old raise alarm after the experienced skier failed to return to his car in NSW Snowy mountains on Sunday

Party weighs up foreign secretary’s vulnerabilities as it hones tactics to defeat her in No 10If, as widely assumed, Liz Truss takes over from Boris Johnson, it will not just be the nation having to adjust. Labour must adapt at speed from an ideologically flexible prime minister happy to improvise, to one with a much clearer idea of what she wants.One thing is certain – Keir Starmer and his team will not underestimate an opponent they largely view as talented and hard-working. Continue reading...

Independent MP for Fowler says her community was ‘neglected and abandoned by the major parties’ as she spoke of her family’s arrival in Australia as refugees

Government likely to block some of the expected amendments by influential peers at committee stageThe government’s flagship energy bill will come before the House of Lords for a series of potential amendments on Monday that campaigners say could help protect the poorest households from the worst of soaring energy bills.The bill is to enter its committee stage, at which influential peers are expected to advocate crucial changes to the legislation that if accepted could help to reduce costs for consumers. Continue reading...

New Economics Foundation sets out proposals for government to pay for gas and electricity use up to a limit

State subsidies for No 10 and No 11 mean she will be insulated from soaring energy costs for householdsLiz Truss will pay no more than £2,000 in total for all her energy bills in Downing Street this winter because of state subsidies, Labour has calculated.If Truss, as widely expected, is elected as Conservative leader and prime minister on Monday, she is expected to move into the four-bedroom flat above 11 Downing Street, the larger of the two official residences. Continue reading...

Devolution deal for joint mayor of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire criticised for excluding neighbouring countyLeaders in Leicestershire have expressed anger at the region being excluded from a first of its kind devolution deal for the east Midlands, saying it will be “relegated to the second division”.On Tuesday, plans for a groundbreaking devolution deal between Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire were announced, which would see the areas grouped as a Mayoral Combined County Authority (MCCA), led by one mayor, and which would receive £1.14bn funding over 30 years. Continue reading...

Ten people were killed and at least 15 wounded in series of stabbings in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan on Sunday

Exclusive: People who took out insurance with collapsed insurer at 1 April 2020 to receive payout equal to original promised amount

With 96% of the ballots counted, the rejection camp has 62% and the approve team accept defeat in bid to replace Pinochet-era settlementChileans have voted comprehensively against a new, progressive constitution that had been drafted to replace the 1980 document written under Gen Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.With 96% of the votes counted in Sunday’s plebiscite, the rejection camp had 61.9% support compared with 38.1% for approval amid what appeared to be a heavy turnout with long lines at polling states. Voting was mandatory. Continue reading...

Police extend search for two suspects over three provinces after attacks at 13 different locations

Ousted leader’s estranged brother has won a court case allowing villa, considered a symbol of democracy in Myanmar, to be soldThe future of the lakeside villa in which Aung San Suu Kyi spent 15 years under house arrest is feared to be in jeopardy, after a court ruled in favour of her estranged brother, allowing the property to be sold.The colonial-style house at 54-56 University Avenue, which stands besides Yangon’s Inya Lake, is – for many in Myanmar – a symbol of the country’s struggle for democracy. Continue reading...

Deaths confirmed by Siskiyou sheriff on Sunday as high temperatures add to challenge for firefightersTwo people have died in a wildfire that ripped through a Northern California town, a local official has said, as firefighters in the far north of the state on Sunday battled blazes that forced evacuations and destroyed dozens of homes.“There’s no easy way of putting it,” said Siskiyou county sheriff Jeremiah LaRue as he shared the news of the fatalities on Sunday afternoon during a community meeting held at an elementary school north of the rural community of Weed. He did not immediately provide names or other details including age or gender of the two people who died. Continue reading...

Fighter jets scrambled to make contact ‘saw no one’ in plane carrying family of three from Spain to CologneA private jet carrying four people that was due to land in Germany but which continued to fly across Europe as air traffic controllers tried unsuccessfully to make contact crashed off the Latvian coast, authorities said.The jet “was flying between Spain and Cologne but when it changed course, air traffic controllers were not able to make contact”, the Latvian civil aviation agency said in a statement. Continue reading...

Party warns of further income squeeze as analysis suggests five-day cost is more than weekly food shopLabour has warned that families with young children face another potential income squeeze this autumn after data suggested the cost of after-school clubs had risen one-and-a-half times faster than consumer inflation since 2010.Citing analysis that says families using after-school provision five days a week are spending £800 a year more than in 2010, Labour called for ministers to do more to address what it said was another significant cost of living pressure. Continue reading...

Tennis-playing publishing force also represented Ken Kesey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Amiri BarakaSterling Lord, a literary agent who among other triumphs worked for years to find a publisher for Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, has died. He had just turned 102.Lord died on Saturday in a nursing home in Ocala, Florida, according to his daughter, Rebecca Lord. Continue reading...

Visitors in London for birthday trip were in bed when Adam Lockwood waved to them on way to top of 72-floor landmarkA couple staying on the 40th floor of the Shard have spoken about spotting a barefoot climber ascending the London skyscraper on Sunday morning.Paul Curphey spotted Adam Lockwood scaling the 72-floor building, which hosts flats, a hotel and offices, at 6am when they saw him waving and climbing past Curphey and his partner Treasaidh’s window. Continue reading...

Man aged 34 held on suspicion of murder after fatal shooting of nine-year-old in Dovecot area of LiverpoolThree men have been arrested over the killing of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, Merseyside police have said.The force said earlier on Sunday that a 34-year-old man from Liverpool had been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. Continue reading...

A Guardian investigation reveals the firm has been accused of ‘gross negligence’ that allegedly led to gang rape, murder and mistaken solitary confinement in its US facilitiesThe US private prisons operator likely to take over Australia’s offshore processing regime on Nauru has previously been accused of “gross negligence” and “egregious” security failures that allegedly led to the gang-rape of a woman in detention, the murder of two retirees by escaped prisoners, and the months-long solitary confinement of a US citizen wrongfully held in immigration detention.The Department of Home Affairs is finalising negotiations with the US-based Management and Training Corporation, which the department has announced as its preferred tenderer to provide “facilities, garrison, transferee arrivals and reception services” for Australia’s offshore regime on Nauru from next month. No contracts have yet been signed. Continue reading...

Matt Bach has written to UN subcommittee about the ‘systematic’ isolation of youth detainees he says contravenes international law​​Get our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastVictorian Liberal MP Matt Bach has written to the United Nations subcommittee on the prevention of torture, urging them to investigate the “systematic” use of isolation in the state’s youth justice facilities during an upcoming visit.The subcommittee is set to visit Australia from 16-27 October to inspect places of detention and examine the treatment of detainees. Continue reading...

Fears grow of energy rationing in Europe over shutdown of Nord Stream 1 because of ‘fault’Analysts are expecting gas prices to surge to record highs this week after Russia shut down a key pipeline to Europe.At the same time, a growing number of UK manufacturers have warned that they are already cutting production or making job cuts as a direct result of “out of control” energy bills. Continue reading...

Downing Street’s ‘chief mouser’ has apparently thrown his collar in the ring to replace Boris JohnsonTwitter users were delighted to see billboards across London announcing that Larry the cat, No 10’s “chief mouser”, has thrown his collar into the ring to become the country’s next prime minister.Either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will be declared as the new leader of the Conservative party on Monday, but the campaign team behind Larry4Leader has gone to extra lengths to ensure the tabby’s stance is known. Continue reading...

Lisa Cash, 18, and twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley, eight, killed in incident at house in Tallaght as man in his 20s arrestedIrish police have named the three young siblings who died after a violent incident at a house in Dublin.They said that Lisa Cash, 18, and eight-year-old twins Chelsea and Christy Cawley died at a property in the Rossfield estate in Tallaght. Police were called there at about 12.30am on Sunday. Continue reading...

18-year-old also in critical condition after disturbance in Bow but police cast doubt on reports of armed throngsA 17-year-old boy has been stabbed to death and another teenager is in hospital after a brawl in east London.Police were called to Bow just after midnight on Sunday to reports of a disturbance involving about 100 people, some armed with machetes. Continue reading...

Ivan Safronov could be handed record sentence after being tried on secret evidence behind closed doorsMoments before the journalist Ivan Safronov was told he would be facing 24 years in prison, a Russian prosecutor offered him a deal.Sign a confession, she said during a final courtroom break, and she would recommend a 12-year sentence instead. Safronov answered immediately. Continue reading...

Change to registration process will pave way for thousands of staff trained overseas to come to UK, says governmentMinisters will introduce legislation as soon as parliament returns on Monday to tackle the NHS’s worsening staffing crisis by making it easier for overseas nurses and dentists to work in the UK.The move is part of a drive by the health secretary, Steve Barclay, to increase overseas recruitment to help plug workforce gaps in health and social care. Continue reading...

Zelenskiy urges EU to prepare fresh sanctions; Russia hits multiple residential targets in Mykolaiv

Denys Shmyhal’s comments on visit to Berlin show easing of tensions over response to Russian invasion