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Labour leader accused of stoking unnecessary row by firing shadow minister over interviews from picket linesKeir Starmer has been accused of making a “severe mistake” and stoking an unnecessary row by firing a shadow transport minister over his comments on rail strikes.The former shadow chancellor John McDonnell told the Labour leader to “come off the fence” and stop alienating voters. He claimed there were unprecedented levels of anger at the lack of solidarity with workers taking industrial action. Continue reading...

Tobias Friedrich Moran remanded in custody over the death of 25-year-old schoolteacher in Lismore in 2005

Culture secretary and Liz Truss backer says Tory MPs made ‘huge mistake’ removing prime minister

Decision by attorney general Mark Dreyfus guarantees a dozen Aboriginal non-citizens at risk of deportation will be able to stay in Australia

Gomeroi man’s family tells inquest they felt disrespected throughout search process after he went missing in a Moree river in 2021

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak must stop focusing on economic growth amid global heating crisis, warns co-leader Adrian RamsayThe two candidates to be the UK’s next prime minister must commit to much tougher environmental targets and policies, the Green party has warned, as concerns over the climate, pollution and biodiversity have been largely absent from the leadership debates.Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, and Rishi Sunak, a former chancellor of the exchequer, have both confirmed their commitment to the UK’s legally binding target of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, but have given little indication of how they would meet the goal. Continue reading...

Inclusive promotion urges women to ‘toast a summer for all, without stereotypes’Spain’s equality ministry has launched a creative summer campaign encouraging women of all shapes and sizes to hit the beach, with the slogan: “Summer is ours too.”The colourful campaign’s promotional photo features five women of different body types, ages and ethnicities enjoying a day in the sun. “Summer is ours too,” it says. “Enjoy it how, where and with whomever you want.” The campaign also features a woman who has had a mastectomy topless. Continue reading...

Tigrinya speakers say they face beatings, detention and privation, and blame UN for ‘abandoning’ them, despite right to be in EthiopiaEritrean refugees in Ethiopia say they are being targeted for arbitrary arrest and forcible relocation to war-torn parts of the country, despite having UN permission to remain in Ethiopia.Government security officers are accused of rounding up, abusing and unlawfully detaining refugees who have legal status, as well as Eritreans who have foreign citizenship. Continue reading...

Yang Huiyan, a majority shareholder in Chinese property giant Country Garden, saw net worth plunge to $11.3bn in a yearAsia’s wealthiest woman has lost more than half her fortune over the past year as the crisis engulfing China’s real estate sector continues to worsen, a billionaire index showed on Thursday.Yang Huiyan, a majority shareholder in China’s biggest property developer Country Garden, saw her net worth plunge by more than 52% to $11.3bn from $23.7bn a year ago, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Continue reading...

Customs checks and border queues cited as leading barriers, as only 29% of firms say sales increased in Q2Britain’s exporters have seen their overseas trade stagnate over the past year despite strong growth in domestic demand for their products and booming export markets, according to a survey.The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said that a survey of 2,600 exporters found a quarter had suffered a fall in exports and another 46% reported no change. Continue reading...

Installation on remains of Roman structure in Northumberland is part of wall’s 1,900th anniversary celebrations“It is a little-known fact that the Romans invented bouncy castles,” a father tells his young, dubious daughter as they spot in the distance what could be a wildly colourful inflatable house in the remains of a fort on Hadrian’s Wall.When the family have made their 15-minute way up from the car park to the fort, they will realise the structure is neither bouncy, nor a castle. Continue reading...

More than 30% have no access to free menstrual products at school or college, despite government schemesAlmost a third of girls and young women in the UK cannot access free period products at their school or college, despite government schemes being in place for several years, research suggests.Some 32% of girls and young women said they could not access free menstrual products at their school or college because they were unavailable, according to a survey commissioned by Girlguiding. Continue reading...

Legend claims Saint Columba never came up with cross for Tory island so artist Sarah Lewtas fulfils pledgeIt is more than a thousand years late, and made of cardboard rather than stone, but the residents of Ireland’s remotest inhabited island have finally got their cross.The 6.5-metre sculpture reached Tory island, a windswept rock nine miles off Ireland’s north-west coast, on Wednesday, arguably restoring the tainted honour of a patron saint. Continue reading...

Guardian Australia brings together all the latest on daily new Covid-19 cases, as well as stats, charts and live state by state data from NSW, Victoria, Queensland, SA, WA, Tasmania, ACT and NT. We bring together the latest numbers on the vaccine rollout and fourth dose booster vaccination rates.

Managing director says Parramatta Square relocation to be complete by early 2024 and will put ABC at ‘centre of a dynamic, purpose-built precinct’

Ukraine confirms seizure of Vuhlehirska power plant in Donetsk but calls it a ‘tiny tactical advantage’

The bodies of two mountaineers, Eakin and Canadian man Richard Cartier, found on the world’s second-highest mountain in Pakistan

Guidelines for who should get immunised have also been updated ahead of newer vaccines being made available in Australia

Investment NSW CEO Amy Brown to be recalled while Labor presses Liberal deputy Stuart Ayres to appear

Defense department’s Ely Ratner says such incidents represent ‘one of the most significant threats to peace and stability in the region’

Police fired teargas in a bid to stop crowds who entered parliament waving flags, taking photographs, chanting and cheeringHundreds of supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr danced and sang in parliament after storming Baghdad’s high-security Green Zone in protest at a rival bloc’s nomination for prime minister.Police fired barrages of teargas in a bid to stop the protesters from breaching the gates of the heavily fortified Green Zone, but the crowds surged forward and entered parliament. Continue reading...

Industrial action will see rubbish bins go uncollected on Spring, Flinders, Victoria and Spencer streets

Parliament ratifies powers that allow the military to detain people, limit public gatherings and search private propertyTwo activists who helped lead mass demonstrations that toppled Sri Lanka’s president have been arrested, police said, as parliament extended tough emergency laws imposed to restore order.Then acting-president Ranil Wickremesinghe had declared a state of emergency on 17 July. It allows for the military to be given powers to detain people, limit public gatherings and search private property. The emergency ordinance would have lapsed on Wednesday if it had not been ratified by parliament. Continue reading...

Dow, who appeared in hundreds of episodes, helped shape the image of the mid-20th-century teenagerTony Dow, who as Wally Cleaver on the sitcom Leave It to Beaver helped create the popular and lasting image of the American teenager of the 1950s and 60s, died Wednesday. He was 77.Frank Bilotta, who represented Dow in his work as a sculptor, confirmed his death in an email to the Associated Press. Continue reading...

Deborah Glass says she’s ‘not prepared to spend further public resources on these matters’

Amendment would include duty for employers to provide reasonable adjustments for menopausal employeesMPs have called for menopause to be a protected characteristic and for a special ambassador to keep women in the workplace, after a report showed the UK is currently “haemorrhaging talent”.Employers’ lack of support for menopausal symptoms is pushing “highly skilled and experienced” women out of work, according to the cross-party women and equalities committee. Continue reading...

War in Ukraine, lockdowns in China and chip shortages among factors slowing recovery in sector already hit by CovidThe UK car industry has said it will not be able to produce a million vehicles a year until 2025, two years later than expected, after the global sector was hit by a string of crises.Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Covid-19 lockdowns in China and continued shortages of computer chips have all combined to stall the recovery in car-making, leaving manufacturers unable to supply enough cars to willing buyers. Continue reading...

Government says extra day off if Lionesses achieve football glory against Germany this Sunday would come with costsThe country should get an extra bank holiday if the England women’s football team win in the Euro final, Keir Starmer has said.The Labour leader reportedly backs a “day of celebration” if the Lionesses claim victory at a sold-out Wembley Stadium on Sunday. It comes after they beat Sweden, the highest-ranked team in the Uefa Women’s Euro 2022 competition, 4-0 in the semi-final on Tuesday. Continue reading...

Offer also seeks return of US executive Paul Whelan and is a reversal of previous US policy resisting such dealsThe Biden administration has offered a deal to Russia aimed at bringing home WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, ex-US marine Paul Whelan, the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Wednesday.In a sharp reversal of previous policy, Blinken also said he expects to speak with his Kremlin counterpart for the first time since before Russia invaded Ukraine. Continue reading...

Tory leadership hopefuls set out plans to tackle violence against women and girls, as Labour’s Stella Creasy welcomes Truss U-turn

Extension is to enable parents of boy, 12, to make application to European court of human rightsThe parents of a 12-year-old boy, who doctors have said is showing “no signs of life”, have been granted a further 24 hours to appeal against a decision to end his life support treatment.The extension is to enable Archie Battersbee’s parents to make an application to the European court of human rights (ECHR) but they said their preferred option is to take the case to the United Nations convention on the rights of people with disabilities (UNCRPD). Continue reading...

Aslef members voted for action in August, while the RMT chief, Mick Lynch, called for a general strikeUnions warned the UK could face a general strike this year as rail workers voted for fresh action set to deepen a summer of industrial unrest.The vote for further transport strikes came as Keir Starmer sacked shadow transport minister Sam Tarry who conducted broadcast interviews alongside striking RMT workers at Euston station - a move that is likely to fuel divisions between Labour and trade unions. Continue reading...

Labour MP removed from role as shadow transport minister after ignoring warning not to join picket lines

Treasurer will use state of the economy speech to trim 2021-22 growth to 3.75% and provide new inflation, wage and unemployment forecasts

Sunwater says documents confidential after right-to-information request reveals dealings with mining giant

Analysis: Inflation optimists look to falling global supply chain pressures but spiking energy prices suggest we haven’t reached a plateau yet

Former Liberal MP Andrew Olexander says he is ‘angered’ and ‘disappointed’ with party

Labour leader fires Sam Tarry from frontbench; Aslef announces drivers will strike again over pay

Latest updates: thinktank says plan would not help poorest least able to cope with rise in costsLiz Truss, the foreign secretary and frontrunner in the Tory leadership contest, has said she would order the police to cut homicide, serious violence and neighbourhood crime by 20% from 2019 levels by the end of this parliament. Danny Shaw, the former BBC home affairs correspondent, says such a generalised target is unrealistic.This is from ITV’s Anushka Asthana, who has dug out what Rishi Sunak said in the Commons in February when he explained why he was opposed to calls (from Labour, and some Tory MPs too) for a cut in VAT on fuel bills. Continue reading...

Panel awards Allison Bailey payout in row over trans rights but rejects her claim against StonewallA barrister who tweeted criticism of the LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall’s position on trans rights was unlawfully discriminated against and victimised as a result of her views, an employment tribunal has found.Allison Bailey, a founder of the gender-critical group LGB Alliance, sued Garden Court Chambers (GCC) and Stonewall, claiming that the latter had instructed or induced discrimination by her chambers. Continue reading...

Shadow transport minister defies leader and says he is ‘on side of members not establishment’Keir Starmer is under pressure over his stance on Labour MPs joining picket lines after a shadow minister defied orders not to join the striking workers, saying he was “on the side of the members not the establishment”.The Labour leader is now facing a dilemma over whether to sack the shadow transport minister Sam Tarry, who joined rail workers outside Euston station in London. Continue reading...

‘Landmark moment for open justice’ comes after long campaign by BBC, ITN and SkyThe Old Bailey will be opened up to cameras on Thursday as sentencing remarks from a crown court case in England and Wales are broadcast for the first time.The move, which comes after a change in the law, is intended to help the public get a better understanding of how sentencing decisions are taken. Previously, proceedings have only been broadcast at the supreme court (since its 2009 inauguration) and the court of appeal (since 2009). Continue reading...

Exclusive: Equalities committee chair Caroline Nokes joins international outcry after UK dilutes commitment to women’s rights without consultationA senior Conservative MP has asked the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, to explain why the UK government appeared to perform a “sudden backtracking on women’s rights” after commitments to abortion and sexual health rights were removed from an official multi-nation statement on gender equality.Caroline Nokes, who chairs the women and equalities select committee, has written to Truss, who is also the minister for women and equalities and a Tory leadership contender, asking why the key phrases relating to reproductive rights were deleted. Continue reading...

Travel disrupted for millions amid worsening row with rail firms over jobs, pay, pensions and conditions

Footballer and campaigner says he ‘jumped at chance’ to edit comic, with 20p from each sale donated to free books schemeMarcus Rashford has guest-edited a special edition of the Beano, as well as appearing on the comic’s front cover.The special edition of the comic comes after the publication of the England and Manchester United footballer’s book You Can Do It: How to Find Your Team and Make a Difference, which was written with Carl Anka. Continue reading...

Officials say the Line will be 200 metres wide, 100 miles long and the world’s most livable city ‘by far’A futuristic Saudi megacity is to feature two skyscrapers extending across a swathe of desert and mountain terrain, according to the latest disclosures on the project by the kingdom’s de facto ruler.The parallel structures of mirror-encased skyscrapers extending more than 100 miles, known collectively as The Line, form the heart of the Red Sea megacity Neom, a plank of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s effort to diversify the Gulf state’s oil-dependent economy. Continue reading...

Price jumps by fifth to £1.19 with immediate effect and other increases will follow as costs soarMcDonald’s has announced a supersized price increase, putting up the price of a cheeseburger by a fifth to £1.19 with immediate effect.The chain blamed its first cheeseburger price hike in 14 years on soaring costs and said other big price increases were on the horizon. Continue reading...

Thomas Gottstein steps down in latest high-level departure and will be replaced by Ulrich KörnerThe chief executive of Credit Suisse has resigned after a tumultuous two-year tenure during which the Swiss lender was beset by a string of scandals and financial losses.The bank confirmed on Wednesday that Thomas Gottstein was stepping down and would be replaced by the head of its asset management division, Ulrich Körner, in an a move intended to solidify the bank’s strategic shift away from investment banking. Continue reading...

Brad Beddoes tells inquest he thought there were only two people in the car and told relative the investigation was ‘completed’