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This blog is now closedJacinta Allan resigns as Victorian premier before leadership challenge by Ben CarrollWho is Ben Carroll?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastACTU president says now is the ‘right time’ to leaveMichele O’Neil, the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said it’s the “right time” to leave after she announced her departure alongside ACTU secr...
Emmanuel Macron warns that ‘we have to hold out’ as fires burn near city; Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sanchez warns of ‘difficult hours’ aheadFrance and Spain race to contain huge wildfires before fresh heatwave beginsThe return of searing temperatures, from today in France and tomorrow in Spain, will complicate efforts to fight massive wildfires raging in the Bordeaux region and a number of site...
Cockroach Janta party says government has broken promise, with detentions in Delhi, Assam, West Bengal and BiharIndia’s youth-led “Cockroach” movement, whose nationwide protests forced the resignation of the education minister, has accused the government of backtracking on its promise not to act against student protesters and has threatened to restart demonstrations.The Cockroach Janta party (CJP)...
Follow updates liveJacinta Allan resigns as Victorian premier before leadership challenge by Ben CarrollWho is Ben Carroll?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastACTU president says now is the ‘right time’ to leaveMichele O’Neil, the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said it’s the “right time” to leave after she announced her departure alongside ACTU secretar...
TUC leader says lender’s ‘bonanza’ quarterly profits of £3.3bn mean it ‘can easily afford to pay more tax’Business live – latest updatesBarclays has increased its banker bonus pool by nearly 30%after a rise in second-quarter profits that has fuelled calls for a tax raid on UK lenders to help fund Andy Burnham’s spending plans.Fresh corporate filings released on Tuesday showed the bank put £1.3bn t...
Follow updates liveJacinta Allan resigns as Victorian premier before leadership challenge by Ben CarrollWho is Ben Carroll?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastACTU president says now is the ‘right time’ to leaveMichele O’Neil, the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said it’s the “right time” to leave after she announced her departure alongside ACTU secretar...
Federal opposition leader, who is not accused of wrongdoing, says he won’t provide ‘running commentary on matters before commission’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal opposition leader has been named as a potential donor to a conservative Liberal group now being investigated by the New South Wales corruption ...
Federal opposition leader, who is not accused of wrongdoing, says he won’t provide ‘running commentary on matters before commission’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal opposition leader has been named as a potential donor to a conservative Liberal group now being investigated by the New South Wales corruption ...
Chief executive, Frank Calabria, apologises and advises customers to look out for suspicious activity amid heightened scam risk Origin Energy has admitted it was warned of the hack that accessed 900,000 current and former customers’ personal data three weeks before it first made the data breach public.Australia’s largest energy retailer said a “significant” proportion of the 900,000 had been forme...
Jacinta Allan steps down from top job before expected spill, saying her deputy has her ‘unqualified support’Live updates: Jacinta Allan quits as premier of VictoriaWho is Ben Carroll?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBen Carroll has been sworn in as the premier of Victoria following Jacinta Allan’s resignation, with his first act as leader to announce a sweeping royal comm...
Suffolk police ceded investigation into James Loubeau to the US military, leading to court martial acquittalA US airman accused of a “spree” of rapes and sexual assaults in England, drugging some women and breaking into the homes of others, was able to avoid British justice after local police handed over part of the case to the American military.Two British women went to Suffolk police in August 2...
Funding crisis could lead to an exodus that would be a blow for British science and national growthOn a chilly day in December 1945, Bernard Lovell, a physicist at the University of Manchester, struck out for the Cheshire countryside to study cosmic rays, the streams of high-energy particles that crisscross the universe. Peering at the signals from his army surplus radar, he made an unexpected dis...
Average 25% increase for letters such as marketing, bills and medical appointment notices from 5 OctoberRoyal Mail will increase the price of its wholesale postal service by as much as a third, in a multimillion-pound blow to the NHS and other large organisations.The postal company has warned customers who use its wholesale postal service for mail including marketing letters, household bills and m...
Nostalgic foods like toad-in-the-hole also in demand at Waitrose as people pivot towards familiarity amid climatic and political upheavalForget a crisp salad and glass of chilled rosé. Enervated Britons are seemingly more likely to crave a rich cottage pie and a robust red in heatwaves.In a trend termed “reverse comfort eating”, Waitrose’s cottage pie sales have soared 110% in the last month and S...
Follow updates liveJacinta Allan resigns as Victorian premier before leadership challenge by Ben CarrollWho is Ben Carroll?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastACTU president says now is the ‘right time’ to leaveMichele O’Neil, the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said it’s the “right time” to leave after she announced her departure alongside ACTU secretar...
Follow updates liveJacinta Allan resigns as Victorian premier before leadership challenge by Ben CarrollWho is Ben Carroll?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastACTU president says now is the ‘right time’ to leaveMichele O’Neil, the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said it’s the “right time” to leave after she announced her departure alongside ACTU secretar...
Follow updates liveJacinta Allan resigns as Victorian premier before leadership challenge by Ben CarrollWho is Ben Carroll?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastACTU president says now is the ‘right time’ to leaveMichele O’Neil, the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said it’s the “right time” to leave after she announced her departure alongside ACTU secretar...
Unions say basic needs still not being met a year after regulator told operators to improve facilitiesTrain drivers are considering strike action over a lack of toilets, with unions saying basic needs are still not addressed a year after the rail regulator told operators to provide more facilities and breaks.Aslef said it was “putting the industry on notice”. The train drivers’ union added that co...
In normal times the Mashala shelter founder takes in strays, but in wartime, he is the only lifeline for animals in the areaDuring Israel’s 2006 war against Hezbollah, Houssein Hamze woke up one night to the sound of barking. Alarmed, he got up to check on the dog – his first rescue pet. Moments later, a bomb dropped next to his home and a piece of shrapnel landed right where he had been sleeping....
From Afghanistan to Taiwan, unprecedented deluge highlights devastating impact of climate breakdown“It rained for 10 days and 10 nights, non-stop – I’d never seen anything like it,” says Anar Gul, a construction worker who lives in the remote district of Dur Baba in eastern Afghanistan.The houses in his village are built from stone and mud, which makes them extremely vulnerable to heavy rains. Aft...
Follow updates liveJacinta Allan resigns as Victorian premier before leadership challenge by Ben CarrollWho is Ben Carroll?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastACTU president says now is the ‘right time’ to leaveMichele O’Neil, the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said it’s the “right time” to leave after she announced her departure alongside ACTU secretar...
Michael O’Hara also tells corruption watchdog he was wrong to support young Liberals alleged to have solicited illegal donations, saying ‘I made a mistake’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA witness who allegedly made prohibited donations to young New South Wales Liberal powerbrokers who planned to move the party to the...
Carroll, who was elected to parliament in 2012 and says he has always been ambitious, has been sworn in as premier after Jacinta Allan resignedLIVE: Jacinta Allan resigns as premier of VictoriaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIn 2023, when then-public transport minister Ben Carroll failed in his surprising bid to secure the leadership of the Victorian Labor party, he told...
Follow updates liveJacinta Allan resigns as Victorian premier before leadership challenge by Ben CarrollWho is Ben Carroll?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastACTU president says now is the ‘right time’ to leaveMichele O’Neil, the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said it’s the “right time” to leave after she announced her departure alongside ACTU secretar...
Working Dog team behind the 1997 film reuniting to write ‘new, fully updated’ version for the stage, which will premiere in Melbourne in 2027An announcement that deserves to go straight to the pool room: the beloved Australian comedy The Castle is set to become a play, written by the team behind the original film.Working Dog’s Rob Sitch, Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro and Jane Kennedy will write and ...
Allan stepped down from top job before expected spill, saying her deputy has her ‘unqualified support’Live updates: Jacinta Allan quits as premier of VictoriaWho is Ben Carroll?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBen Carroll has been sworn in as the premier of Victoria, after Jacinta Allan resigned and a surprise rival for the Labor leadership emerged after a tumultuous 48 h...
Follow updates liveJacinta Allan resigns as Victorian premier before leadership challenge by Ben CarrollWho is Ben Carroll?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastACTU president says now is the ‘right time’ to leaveMichele O’Neil, the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said it’s the “right time” to leave after she announced her departure alongside ACTU secretar...
Premier stepped down from top job before expected spill, saying her deputy has her ‘unqualified support’Live updates: Jacinta Allan quits as premier of VictoriaWho is Ben Carroll?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBen Carroll will become the next premier of Victoria, after Jacinta Allan resigned and a surprise rival for the Labor leadership emerged after a tumultuous 48 hou...
Follow updates liveJacinta Allan resigns as Victorian premier before leadership challenge by Ben CarrollWho is Ben Carroll?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastACTU president says now is the ‘right time’ to leaveMichele O’Neil, the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said it’s the “right time” to leave after she announced her departure alongside ACTU secretar...
This blog has now closed.Sign up for the Breaking News US emailDonald Trump said today that he had paused US strikes on Iran to give diplomacy another chance, but he was ready for “strong military action” if diplomacy fails.Washington was in “very deep talks with Iran”, the president told Axios, but, he added: “If they don’t work out, we will be go back to very strong military action.”I am ...
