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NSW police officer has pleaded not guilty to murdering his ex and Luke Davies in a Sydney terrace in February 2024

Commissioner said Shenzhen Qingcheng, the app maker behind the HeyCyan app in the smartglasses, failed to respond to her inquiries

Ruling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows we cannot continue to dig up coal ... and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us', group says

Entertainer alleges complaint made about in-kind' donations over Victorian fundraisers, where he has been railing against Labor

Anthony Albanese fondly recalls the passionate environmental advocate keeping an infant flying fox under his desk as he presented the news

Ellison admits good relationship' with administration in remarks to reporters about newly merged media companyDavid Ellison, the chief executive of the newly formed media conglomerate Skydance, denied that he has politicized" the company despite the close connection he has forged with Donald Trump's White House over the 20 months of his administration.We have a good relationship with this administration," Ellison acknowledged to reporters at a Tuesday press briefing focused on the now-consummated merger of Paramount Skydance and CNN parent company Warner Bros Discovery. Continue reading...

Australian adults again able to access the world's most popular porn site after parent company introduces age checking via Apple devices

The prisoner received two doses of pentobarbital as authorities tried to put her to death on 30 SeptemberChrista Pike, a Tennessee prisoner who survived the state's attempt to execute her, is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital, her attorneys said on Tuesday.Pike, 50, survived two doses of pentobarbital, a sedative, as Tennessee officials attempted to put her to death last Wednesday in a case that shocked many in America and created headlines around the world. She was set to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. Continue reading...

World Health Organization detects no sign of further outbreak since Darya Shipilova died last weekThe World Health Organization has said the risk of an epidemic in Russia is low after the sudden death of a lab technician who worked at a plague research institute in Siberia.Darya Shipilova, who was 28, died last week, two days after falling ill. Russian media reports suggested she may have become infected after an accident at her workplace, where dangerous pathogens are kept and studied. Continue reading...

Government report finds the country could be hit with more frequent and intense heatwaves, as well as damaging storms and cyclonesNew Zealand could be hit with more frequent and intense heatwaves and catastrophic glacier melts in the near future, as greenhouse gas levels hit record highs, a new report about the nation's climate has revealed.Released on Wednesday, the Our Atmosphere and Climate 2026 report shows New Zealand is experiencing mounting climate pressures, which will have wide-reaching implications for the environment, native species and communities. Continue reading...

Service to be tested in Spain and Portugal this year, with a UK rollout if successful, as pre-loved markets boomIkea is to test an online version of its buy-back service where the retailer offers vouchers for unwanted secondhand furniture.The service will be tested in Spain and Portugal before the end of December and will be launched in the UK if it proves successful. Ikea already offers buy-back in stores, including in the UK. The online version will extend it to a much wider audience, with Ikea predicting pre-owned goods are likely to grab 16% of the UK homewares market by next year Continue reading...

Manager who removed Macdonald announces she will replace the late James Valentine from March

Landmark roles were in 50s classics directed by Elia Kazan and Alfred Hitchcock, before going on to play Superman's adoptive mother in later lifeEva Marie Saint, one of the last survivors of Hollywood's golden age of the 1940s and 50s, has died aged 102. Her screen work spanned six decades: Saint made her screen debut opposite Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, starred in Alfred Hitchcock's celebrated thriller North by Northwest, and in one of her last screen appearances played Superman's adoptive mother Martha Kent in the 2006 superhero film Superman Returns.A family spokesman said on Tuesday that Saint had died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles. Continue reading...

President floats idea as voter anger over rising costs threatens Republican hopes in November midtermsDonald Trump said on Tuesday his administration was considering suspending the federal gasoline tax, a sign the president is noticing voter anger over fuel costs a month before the midterm elections.We're thinking about that," Trump said when asked whether the tax should be suspended. Continue reading...

Leader also says party is not out of the woods' and she would rather have another election than form coalition with ReformKemi Badenoch has denied she compared a new air defence system proposed by the Conservative party to Israel's Iron Dome, despite using the term in her press release and a newspaper article.The Tory leader said the party's proposed Britannia Shield" would not be comparable to the missile defence system in Israel, which is primarily designed to counter short-range attacks. Continue reading...

White House denies the allegations as false' and says first amendment does not protect violent rioting'

Jaafar Ashtiyeh was covering violence against olive farmers when settlers set upon him with the butts of their riflesArmed Israeli settlers beat a photographer in the presence of Israeli soldiers, hospitalising him, as he covered worsening settler violence against olive farmers in the occupied West Bank.Jaafar Ashtiyeh, a 58-year-old veteran photographer for Agence France-Presse in Palestine, was assaulted by a group of settlers, who beat him with the butts of their rifles, despite him being marked as press. He was assaulted in view of about a dozen armed Israeli soldiers. Continue reading...

Relations have soured between the two countries over a number of issues since 2023, but Hillel Newman says a reset' is possible

Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customersJohn Healey is considering a major intervention to cut energy bills for poorer households at this month's budget, after ministers became alarmed at forecasts which show bills rising by hundreds of pounds in January.The chancellor is working on plans to spend more than 1bn to help energy consumers, the bulk of which is likely to go towards increasing the discount given to households on certain benefits. Continue reading...

School trustees appoint Sally Yates to review policies as university grapples with fallout from alleged frat gang rapeA former high-ranking Department of Justice official will look at how Cornell handles sexual misconduct complaints, university trustees announced on Tuesday as they tried to address an outpouring of anger over allegations of a 2024 gang rape at a fraternity house.Sally Yates, who was a deputy attorney general in the Obama administration, will spearhead the review, the trustees said. The assessment is to include how the Ivy League university investigates reports of sexual assault and sexual harassment, how the disciplinary process works, the adequacy of campus police responses, and more. Continue reading...

Letter from more than 40 signatories says university has backed away from promised thorough review of events before deathSenior Cambridge academics have criticised the university's plans to investigate Prof Jason Arday's death as inadequate, and said those responsible for serious failures of leadership" should face consequences.In a letter to Chris Smith, Cambridge's chancellor, the academics said it is not yet clear" how the proposed review will answer difficult questions about the university's involvement in the events leading up to Arday's death, including its handling of the criticism Arday suffered after his appointment as professor of sociology of education in 2023. Continue reading...

Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan had 15 children, aged between two months to 13 years, removed from their homeA California couple has been arrested on child abuse charges following an investigation into a surrogacy scheme involving at least 21 kids, police said on Tuesday.Silvia Zhang and her husband, Guojun Xuan are expected to face conspiracy to commit child abuse charges, according to the Los Angeles county sheriff's department. Continue reading...

Minister says they could not see parties cooperating, while official says coalition should be formally ruled outSenior Labour party figures said it was very unlikely their party would cooperate with the Greens in the future after they adopted a policy treating Zionism as a form of racism.One Labour minister said they could not foresee how the two parties could work together, while a government official said Labour should formally rule out a future coalition or other arrangement. Continue reading...

Counter-terrorism police say 22-year-old detained in London on suspicion of terrorism offencesA seventh man has been arrested in London on suspicion of terrorism offences as part of the investigation related to threats to RAF Fairford, police have said.The 22-year-old British national was arrested in Westminster, central London, on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts under section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006, counter-terrorism police said. Continue reading...

Shares in fashion company fall nearly 10% after its app systems are accessed by unidentified third party'Asos is investigating unauthorised access to its app system after shoppers received a notification claiming hackers had fully compromised" its data.The online fashion retailer said basic personal information including name and contact details might have been accessed by an unidentified third party but it did not believe payment card records or passwords had been compromised. Continue reading...

Mostafa Sepahvand, Farhad Javadi Manesh and Shapoor Qalehali Khani Noori did not dispute they surveilled targetsThree alleged Iranian spies carried out surveillance and reconnaissance to target journalists in the UK as part of a plan to commit serious violence", a court heard on Tuesday.Mostafa Sepahvand, 41, Farhad Javadi Manesh, 46, and Shapoor Qalehali Khani Noori, 57, are charged with offences under the National Security Act. Continue reading...

The war with Iran is reshaping America ahead of the midterms - how will it affect US voters at the polls? Guardian political and foreign correspondents answered your questions

Trio and 17-year-old boy convicted of rape after they persuaded girl to travel into Bristol alone and got her drunkThree men who raped a 17-year-old girl before escaping from the UK to France in the back of a lorry have been sentenced to a total of 33 years in detention.Mehrab Safi, 21, Salman Habibkheil and Awal Ahmadzai, both 19, and a 17-year-old boy plied the girl with alcohol after she had been persuaded to travel into Bristol alone, and all four raped her at a house in the city. Continue reading...

The Conservative party leader said the party would halve employer national insurance on jobs worked by young peopleAsked if she will propose tax cuts in her speech tomorrow, Badenoch tells McCann that she will have to wait until her speech tomorrow at 11.15am.(This is getting confusing. On BBC Breakdfast, Badenoch told Jon Kay the speech was at 12pm.)It's not going to be exactly like the Iron Dome. We haven't called it an Iron Dome. Continue reading...

Journalists are calling for an urgent amendment to the Special Operations Bill, which boosts police search and seizure powersJournalists in Trinidad and Tobago have called for an urgent amendment to a sweeping new bill that boosts police powers of search and seizure, which they argue threatens the country's much-vaunted freedom of the press.The government says the Special Operations Bill 2026, passed on 24 September, is designed to tackle alarmingly high crime and murder rates in the Caribbean nation. Continue reading...

Unprecedented protests that began in low-income banlieue are turning ugly, with investigations under way into police brutality

Tobias Rausch secures role of president in Saxony-Anhalt after AfD's election breakthrough

All deceased persons should be treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their financial circumstances,' authorities say after Guardian Australia investigation

Angus Taylor's drastic cuts to graduate visas aim to end a citizenship pathway, but universities body says changes will make Australia less competitive

Martha Louise and Durek Verrett launch defamation lawsuit in Los Angeles, claiming coordinated series of devastating public attacks'The Norwegian princess Martha Louise and her husband, the American businessman Durek Verrett, are suing several former members of their inner circle for defamation over what they described as a calculated betrayal of trust".Court documents filed in Los Angeles on 14 September claim the former friends and colleagues took private access once afforded to them and weaponised it". The accused include former intimate partners, trusted business associates, a family member". Continue reading...

August Hanning served as president of federal intelligence service from 1998 to 2005A former head of Germany's foreign intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of treason and spying on behalf of an overseas intelligence agency, prosecutors said.August Hanning, 80, was head of the federal intelligence service (BND) - which operates outside Germany to gather information across the fields of political, economic, and military intelligence - between 1998 and 2005. Continue reading...

She must decide by the end of the week whether to seek further review of federal charges over a confrontation with ICE agents at Delaney HallA US congresswoman who just gave birth to a baby girl faces a deadline this week on whether to seek a rehearing of a federal case against her by the Trump administration after an oversight visit to an immigration detention facility.LaMonica McIver, 40, represents New Jersey's 10th congressional district. She gave birth to her second child last Thursday - a rarity for a sitting member of Congress. She is only the 15th member of Congress to give birth while serving and part of a small subset of congresswomen who have school-age children. Continue reading...

Experts say president is vulnerable amid discontent over rising prices - and the US public has ample cause for complaintIn Donald Trump's telling, he's a model of incorruptible self-sacrifice.I'm the only president that donated his salary," he told a group of cheering supporters at a Hispanic heritage month celebration in the White House last week, before conceding that George Washington - a very wealthy person" - might have beaten him to the punch. Continue reading...

Police say body found by trail bike riders at remote farm in Terragon is badly decomposed, sparking search of missing persons records

For-profit water corporations, federal cuts and climate crisis are supercharging water rate hikes', study co-author saysUS households are paying 62% more for drinking water than they did a decade ago - outpacing inflation, grocery prices and household incomes, according to a new study.Food & Water Watch, a Washington DC-based non-profit, analyzed 2025 billing data from the 500 largest community water systems in the US, which together serve about 155 million people, or 45% of the country's population. The analysis compared current rates with data from a similar Food & Water Watch survey conducted in 2015. The study does not include wastewater or storm water charges, which are often billed separately from drinking water service. Continue reading...

Labour could pay price for disappearance of parks and playgrounds around Euston stationWhen HS2 construction began around London's Euston station in 2017 and people living nearby watched parks and playgrounds give way to diggers and rubble, they were promised that the lost green space would be replaced. They have to give it all back," said Dorothea Hackman. But they are destroying it - so there's nothing to give back."As the dust from the political party conference season begins to settle, disappearing green spaces and housing developments have become central issues in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection. On Thursday, Labour and the Green party will contest the seismic seat vacated by the former prime minster Keir Starmer. Continue reading...

Excluive: Weapon is one of hundreds of items to be sold as part of the influential late director's personal archiveThe axe wielded by Jack Nicholson as he delivered his chillingly manic line Here's Johnny!" in the 1980 horror movie The Shining is to go on sale.Nicholson's character, Jack Torrance, uses the axe to hack out an opening in a locked door protecting his terrified wife Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall. It is also the murder weapon in the killing of Scatman Crothers' character, Dick Hallorann. One of cinema's most famous axes could be yours for a list price of between 30,000 and 50,000. Continue reading...

Health minister says 28 contacts identified after death of citizen who arrived from DRC on SaturdayKenya has recorded its first confirmed Ebola case, a Kenyan citizen who had been living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and arrived in Nairobi on Saturday, the health minister, Aden Duale, has said.The patient has since died, and 28 contacts have been identified so far including family members and health workers, Duale told a press conference. Continue reading...

Four members of disgraced ex-president Jair Bolsonaro's family have been elected to office, most notably his wife and son Flavio, who won the first round of voting to be Brazil's new presidentThe weekend's elections in Brazil not only put Jair Bolsonaro's eldest son, Flavio Bolsonaro, in the lead in the presidential race, but also underscored how far the former president has come in building a political dynasty.As his far-right senator son heads into a runoff against the leftist incumbent, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a sweeping far-right victory in congressional races also secured seats for Jair Bolsonaro's wife, two of his sons and one of his brothers. Continue reading...

Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable textIt has been called the world's most mysterious manuscript: a medieval set of pages filled with botanical drawings, astronomical diagrams, pictures of nude women and indecipherable text. Claimed at various times to be a book in a lost language, a musical score, an instruction manual or just an elaborate hoax, the so-called Voynich manuscript's true meaning has defied cryptographers and codebreakers for centuries.Now, new research offers an explanation for why a scholarly consensus over this enduring puzzle has been so hard to come by: not only because its truth is so profoundly mysterious - but because everyone has been reading its pages in the wrong order. Continue reading...

Australian defence force identifies soldier killed in a vehicle rollover near Darwin as Corporal Brendan Hannam

Former Duke of York is attempting to quash search warrants that led to his arrest in FebruaryAndrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been warned not to use the king's private money to fund his legal action against Thames Valley police.The former Duke of York is attempting to quash search warrants that led to his arrest, with a private high court hearing due to take place on Thursday. Continue reading...

The country's 85-medal haul included athletes who trained with limited money and borrowed equipment. Plus, the Mumbai performer turning everyday absurdities into comedyIn a country where cricket eclipses every other sport, the recently concluded Asian Games offered a much-needed reminder of India's breadth of sporting talent. In this edition of the games, in Japan, India won 85 medals: 21 golds, 27 silver and 37 bronze medals. I admit I did not know many of the players competing, or even some of the sports they play before putting this piece together. Learning about the stories, I wonder why not.There were individual breakthroughs, records broken and history made. There were also hard-fought team victories, including the Indian women's hockey team gold medal after a 44-year wait. Continue reading...

Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movementDuring their relationship, Lisa's ex-partner was controlling. He kept her at home where he was emotionally and physically abusive towards her, including once attacking her with a machete.These days, he runs protests outside houses of multiple occupancy that he claims are housing asylum seekers. He coordinates groups of men to patrol the streets of his town, claiming to protect women but often using these patrols to profile and target men of colour. Continue reading...

In today's newsletter: The party has voted to define Zionism as racist and back a single Palestinian state. But what does the policy mean, why has it caused alarm among Jewish members, and how will it impact the future of the Greens?Good morning.The Green party of England and Wales is in turmoil. Following a vote to adopt a policy that equates Zionism with racism, and calls for Israel to be replaced by a single Palestinian state with equal rights for all", some Jewish members say they are considering whether they are welcome in the party.RAF Fairford | No 10 has insisted the Gloucestershire base is secure a day after the US air force suddenly withdrew a dozen B-1 bombers that had been stationed there amid security concerns about a possible threat from Iran.Donald Trump | Donald Trump's approval ratings reached a record low on Monday, according to new opinion polls. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Trump's approval rating at a record-low 32%.Brazilian elections | Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, is poised to win the Brazilian presidency, after a shock first-round victory.Jeffrey Archer | Jeffrey Archer, the bestselling author and former MP whose political career ended in disgrace when he was imprisoned for perjury, has died at the age of 86.Cancer | Cases of seven types of cancer have risen sharply among younger people in England, major new research has found, prompting warnings that lifestyle choices are costing thousands of lives each year. Continue reading...