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Actor, who allegedly punched one Delta attendant, bit another and tried to open plane door, was charged for two separate assaults after the plane landedThe actor Selma Blair was arrested on Sunday at John F Kennedy airport in New York after she allegedly attacked two flight attendants on a Delta Air Lines flight, and separately charged with two counts of assault for allegedly kicking a police officer and a nurse after landing.Blair's arrest happened at about 11pm, after Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials said they responded to a call about a physically abusive passenger aboard Delta Air Lines flight 938 which was parked at the gate" at JFK after arriving from Los Angeles. Continue reading...

High valuations and debt put sector in danger, while fund also warns on government borrowing and cyber-attacksThe threat of an AI share price crash rippling out across global markets is putting world financial stability at risk, the International Monetary fund has warned.In its twice-yearly Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF highlighted the sky-high valuations for AI companies along with their increasing debt pile as one reason that risks in the system are elevated". Continue reading...

National park officials took the precautionary measure to limit tourist access after heavy rain caused the Iguazu River to flow at six times the normal rateHeavy rainfall fuelled by a supersized El Nino weather pattern briefly forced Argentinian authorities to close tourist access to the famed Iguazu Falls, amid fears that rapidly rising water levels would cause the river to burst its banks.National park officials took the precautionary measure on Monday when the Iguazu River's flow exceeded 12,000 cubic metres per second - more than six times its average rate. Continue reading...

Media adviser who married federal One Nation MP in 2023 confirms she has started working part-time for the party's state executive

Defence also cross-examines witness over postmortem examinations of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies

IMF's World Economic Outlook shows how a worsening Middle East crisis could affect global growth and inflation

World Economic Outlook says states' oil stocks are low and budgets are overstretched, as it upgrades UK GDP growth forecast for 2026

Police treating death as homicide. Whear was last seen in mid-February buying orange juice and putting $50 credit on her phone in Murwillumbah

Surge in EHCP applications poses risk to public finances and may lead to deteriorating levels of supportCouncils are warning of potentially catastrophic" debts, which are forecast to reach a record 10bn over the next 18 months, as a result of rapid growth in demand for special educational needs and disability (Send) support in English schools.Although the government recently cleared more than 5bn in historic council Send debts, a surge in requests has led to authorities predicting they will have re-accrued that debt figure by April, and doubled it by 2028. Continue reading...

Inmate advocacy group attacks watchdog's gutless retreat' on Wacol youth remand centre

Leftist former leader accused of involvement in shooting of three Europeans in Santa Cruz and torture of two othersBolivia's attorney general has announced an investigation into leftist former president Evo Morales, alleging his involvement in the murder and torture of European citizens in 2009.Seventeen years ago, police raided a hotel in the city of Santa Cruz, shooting dead Eduardo Rozsa Flores, a Bolivian-Croatian, Michael Dwyer, an Irishman, and Arpad Magyarosi, a Hungarian-Romanian. Continue reading...

A history of tech giant legal challenges and US political criticism shows there's no easy solution for the eSafety commissioner

Mitte, who played Walter White Jr on acclaimed show, had cerebral palsy and advocated for disability representationThe Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte died on Monday aged 34, his representatives confirmed.Mitte died in Brownsville, Texas. No cause of death was given. Continue reading...

Plans for a new theatre for world's longest-running soap in Digbeth scrapped as part of cost-cutting measuresThe BBC is set to stop recording The Archers in Birmingham for the first time in the show's 75-year history, after scrapping plans for a radio drama theatre that was to be the new home of the world's longest-running soap opera.A pledge to move recordings to the so-called Tea Factory, the BBC's new Birmingham hub in Digbeth, has become the latest victim of the corporation's 500m cuts plan. Continue reading...

PM hails next month's reset' summit as first step to closer ties, but tensions over trade may prove problematicAndy Burnham has promised a serious dialogue" over the UK's future place in Europe, saying the existing relationship is not good enough" as he framed next month's Brussels summit as a possible first step to EU membership.The prime minister said Britain must take a clear-eyed rational look" at its long-term relationship with the bloc to boost economic growth and control immigration, which needed to go beyond Labour's existing red lines. Continue reading...

Home secretary also expands police support with immediate effect' for high-profile public figures not currently MPsSecurity arrangements for high-profile public figures including politicians and members of the royal family are to be urgently reviewed after the killing of Ann Widdecombe, the home secretary has said.Shabana Mahmood said former MPs, party leaders who are not MPs, peers, former members of devolved parliaments and party spokespeople will also be offered police support. Continue reading...

Luca Olmetto was trapped roughly 10 metres below ground in the Gorroppeddu cave in the Urzulei mountain rangeA 31-year-old man has been pulled alive from a cave on the Italian island of Sardinia after being trapped roughly 10 metres below ground for 26 hours following a rockslide.In a huge and complex operation, rescuers worked non-stop after Luca Olmetto became trapped in the Gorroppeddu cave in the rugged Urzulei mountain range in central-eastern Sardinia on Sunday afternoon. Continue reading...

The prime minister tells MPs the next summit with the EU will be held on 20 NovemberBurnham to urge MPs to embrace closer ties with EUZia Yusuf, Reform UK's home affairs spokesperson, is speaking now. He started his speech with an account of a 73-year-old woman dying in North Wales after having to wait 23 hours for an ambulance, and he sought to link this to immigration.He said:The Royal College of Emergency Medicine estimates that 15,000 people across Britain died last year due to excess wait times for emergency treatment. That's 300 people a week, 300 lives destroyed, 300 families devastated.And that number has increased tenfold over the last decade. This is a moral outrage, and it is a direct result of decisions made by Tory and Labour governments.I don't think that's because he wants to have a fight over the European Union. I think that's because he knows what we're talking about today impacts hard in what is known as the red wall. Continue reading...

Bosses of Citroen owner and French carmaker also urge UK government to consider limiting imports from ChinaStellantis and Renault have backed the UK car industry for inclusion in proposed rules to protect EU industry, but urged the British government to consider limiting imports of Chinese cars.Emanuele Cappellano, who leads Stellantis's European brands including Fiat, Citroen, Opel and Vauxhall, and Francois Provost, the chief executive of France's Renault, said the UK should effectively be counted as one of the EU's 27 member states for the purposes of the proposed Made in Europe" legislation. Continue reading...

UK to bring further sanctions against Tehran and IRGC after assessment Iran was likely to have coordinated incidentAndy Burnham said Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were almost certainly" behind threats to RAF Fairford, the firmest attribution of responsibility made so far by the UK after an incident late last month.The prime minister told MPs the UK would bring further sanctions against Tehran and the IRGC in the aftermath of an ambiguous episode that, despite over a fortnight of police investigation, has yet to lead to anybody being charged. Continue reading...

Hundreds of Intermarche shops and Cooperative U outlets in France hit, with fears Dutch chains also affectedHackers have forced the temperature of many French supermarket fridges up to 50C overnight, in an unprecedented" cyber-attack affecting several hundred stores across the country, with fires and food losses reported.The Paris prosecutor's office said on Monday the large-scale attack was affecting connected refrigerators in several major food retailers across France". Reported damage included food losses and fires", it added. Continue reading...

Zelenskyy had proposed a 60-day total ceasefire to allow Ukraine to hold presidential elections

Prime minister has reopened the debate over whether Russia sought to influence the 2016 referendumAndy Burnham unexpectedly reopened an old Brexit debate when he said he had been told after becoming prime minister that Russia had interfered in the 2016 EU referendum.It was a contentious issue in the second half of the previous decade, but one that had largely been forgotten about as the UK finally adjusted to the reality of leaving the EU. Now Burnham's comments have given the topic a fresh impetus. Continue reading...

Energy minister says fear has no place in the Saudi lexicon' as paramilitary group again breaches stretched defences

The revelation comes after the four-hour film's Venice premiere drew a string of criticisms and insults from the founder of SpaceXAIAlex Gibney, director of the new four-hour documentary about Elon Musk, said that Universal, owners of the film's international distribution rights wavered" over releasing the film outside North America.Gibney was speaking to the New York Times as the film opened in the US (where it is being released by the independent distributor Bleecker Street), and appeared to confirm a story in the Hollywood Reporter that Universal, which had acquired the international rights to the film in 2023, had got cold feet. Asked by the New York Times, Did Universal Pictures waver in setting up its international release plans?" Gibney replied: Yes." Continue reading...

Gibney, 78, has faced justice for abusing athletes in the 1970s and 80s after decades of effort to track and extradite himMore than half a century after he started sexually abusing children, and enjoyed prestige as Ireland's Olympic swimming coach before fleeing to the United States, George Gibney has faced justice.The 78-year-old was sentenced to 15 and a half years in prison at the central criminal court in Dublin on Monday for abusing four young female athletes in the 1970s and 1980s. Continue reading...

Fragile coalition suffers another blow as labour minister and co-leader of SPD Barbel Bas leaves both postsGermany's labour minister and co-leader of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), Barbel Bas, has quit both posts, citing the death of her stepdaughter and subsequent political attacks against her, in a stinging blow to the fragile coalition government.After my stepdaughter's death, I realised that I need time to come to terms with my grief," Bas said in a statement posted on Facebook, without giving further details. Continue reading...

A businessman wanted in the US for allegedly bribing top Venezuelan officials has been taken into custodyA businessman wanted for years in the US for allegedly paying bribes to top Venezuelan officials in exchange for lucrative state contracts in Venezuela has been taken into custody.Alvaro Pulido was indicted in Miami federal court in 2019 and again in 2021 as part of an investigation into his longtime business partner, Alex Saab, a one-time ally of ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the state department had been offering a reward of up to $10m for information leading to his arrest. Continue reading...

Israeli PM calls for criminal investigation into soldiers and officers interviewed in Guardian-produced documentaryThe Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has ordered the country's attorney general and the head of the Shin Bet security service to reveal the identities of soldiers and officers interviewed in the investigative documentary NAZA and prosecute them for causing harm to Israel's diplomatic and security interests".The award-winning documentary, directed by the Oscar-winning film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by the Guardian, details Israel's mass killing of civilians in Gaza. The film is in cinemas, including in the UK and the US, and will be shown in more than 50 countries. Continue reading...

Inquest hears paediatricians pleaded with child safety for action to protect the eight-year-old from her parents and other Toowoomba sect members

Brussels uses WTO rules to quickly impose quota, which will halve Chinese market share to 3%

Bethany Antonia wore a T-shirt with the slogan Protect the Dolls' in rehearsals, but the words were edited out on Saturday's showThe BBC has defended its decision to edit out a transgender rights slogan from a T-shirt worn by a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing, stating it was standard practice to avoid overt branding or slogans".The actor Bethany Antonia was filmed wearing the T-shirt, which bore the slogan Protect the Dolls", during rehearsals before her live performance on Saturday night. Continue reading...

Gwinnett county is home to many immigrants and other newcomers, and how it votes could be decisive for CongressJohanna Park might just be an ambassador for Gwinnett county, Georgia, one of the 10 most ethnically diverse counties in the United States.Park owns Cafe Amico at Suwanee Town Center, one of her three Italian coffee shops in the area just north of Atlanta. She was born in Korea and lived much of her life in Argentina and Peru. She's been in Gwinnett for more than 20 years, part of an early wave of Korean immigration that's built Korean American car dealerships, banks, insurance agencies, supermarkets and restaurants like her own. It's also a population that's increasing in influence and not just numbers. Continue reading...

Descendant of 19-century artist demands removal of Marc Chagall's 1960s canvases that cover original frescoIn 1962, the then French culture minister, Andre Malraux, reportedly bored by the ballet he was watching at Paris's opera house, raised his eyes to the classical ceiling and determined it needed a makeover.In his ennui, Malraux decided his friend and artist Marc Chagall, sitting next to him at the Palais Garnier at the time, was the man for the job and commissioned him to make a new ceiling. Continue reading...

MEP Raphael Glucksmann issues call after becoming social democrat candidate for 2027 presidential electionThe European lawmaker Raphael Glucksmann has urged the French centre left to wage an existential battle" to prevent Marine Le Pen's far right winning the 2027 presidential election after he was chosen as the social democrat candidate for the presidency.We've got to rid our hearts of the spirit of defeat," Glucksmann, the founder of the small party Place Publique, said on Monday morning after his decisive win in a centre-left primary race held by the Socialist party. Continue reading...

Survivors had criticised outrageous' appointment of Laura Johnson to 150,000 job with Barnet GroupA housing director who oversaw cost cutting at Grenfell Tower before the fatal fire has left a 150,000-a-year senior council housing role after a backlash from bereaved families and survivors.Laura Johnson was the director of housing at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) at the time of the 2017 Grenfell fire which killed 72 people, and was criticised in the subsequent inquiry for her role in budget-cutting decisions prior to the blaze. Continue reading...

Opinion piece by head of union Michael Slezak sparks disagreement with new ABC director of news, Simon Robinson

The carnival is over for use of Australian band's song they say was played without permission at conservative conference

Exclusive: Finds suggest account in medieval folklore of a camp near Frenni Fawr hill was rooted in realityMagnus Maximus, the Roman emperor who ruled Britain in the fourth century, led his troops against the Picts and Scots, but a theory that he also established a military camp near Frenni Fawr hill in Wales has so far been based on folklore.Now fourth-century coins, among other finds at a newly identified Roman fort in Pembrokeshire, suggest the medieval tale was rooted in reality, to the excitement of archaeologists. Continue reading...

Former student says nothing untoward happened to her during stays but tells NSW parliamentary inquiry culture of Redeemer Baptist School left much to untangle' as an adult

Online appeal and detective work by local historian help to return keepsake to couple's son after it had been stolenWhen Andrew Bedford discovered an old wedding album dumped outside his city centre cafe in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, he considered chucking it into a nearby wheelie bin.But when he opened the album, the vintage photographs of the happy couple on their wedding day in 1957 seemed too precious to throw away. Continue reading...

Calls for planned fuel duty rise to be scrapped as analysis finds average fuel bill could hit 1,965, up from 1,294Millions of British van drivers face a combined 2.5bn cost to cover the rising price of diesel this year, according to figures, fuelling calls for the government to scrap its planned fuel duty rise.The owners of diesel vans and pickups can expect to collectively spend almost 8.5bn at the pump this year, according to analysis for the Guardian, after diesel prices climbed to record highs due to a global fuel shortage caused by disruption to refineries in the Middle East and Russia. Continue reading...

Council car parks have switched away from ticket machines to cut costs, leading to extra fees for usersDrivers are unwittingly paying up to 40% more to park as more councils switch to app-only payments and force customers to pick up the tab.Many councils across England have removed pay and display machines and replaced them with app payments, including a number in London. Most local authorities encourage drivers to pay by app to beat queues, while apps are often the only way to pay when ticket machines are out of order. However, many car park signs fail to mention that app payments may incur an additional service fee. Continue reading...

India's opposition parties and supporters of the cockroach' youth movement have been demonstrating against a controversial revision of election voter listsAuthorities in India's capital closed six metro stations and warned of traffic disruptions on Monday, as opposition parties planned to march to the supreme court in protest against a controversial revision of voter lists that has sparked days of unrest in Delhi.Opposition parties and supporters of the cockroach" youth movement have taken to the streets almost daily this month to demand the resignation of chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over the revision that critics say benefits prime minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata party (BJP). Continue reading...

Penny Wong welcomes Iraqi government's decision to allow engineer to leave Baghdad but Pether's team criticise timing of media statement

Thinktank's influential pre-budget report urges key decisions to be made now and not put off until next yearJohn Healey has been warned by Britain's leading tax and spending experts that his budget risks being a work of fiction" unless he sets out plans to cover 35bn in spending pressures.As the war in the Middle East rattles the public finances, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the damage from higher inflation meant the chancellor would need to either top up funds for his current government spending plans or impose deep real-terms cuts by the end of the decade. Continue reading...

Mark Rowley says inclusivity is crucial for the force and he refuses to be blown off course' by critics

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The 36-year-old victim had withdrawn cash to give to some young people when he was allegedly stabbed, according to police