World News Hub

Attorney general warns women and children at risk of ‘harmful conduct’ from smartglasses users – as it happened

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

This blog is now closedFederal parliament is returning from winter break next week.Do you have a question you’d like to ask Guardian Australia’s team of political reporters in Canberra? Our political editor, Tom McIlroy, and the team will be answering readers’ questions on the Australian Politics podcast. Continue reading...

Australia news live: Attorney general warns women and children at risk of ‘harmful conduct’ from smartglasses users; Victoria puts chickens in lockdown due to bird flu

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

Follow today’s news liveFederal parliament is returning from winter break next week.Do you have a question you’d like to ask Guardian Australia’s team of political reporters in Canberra? Our political editor, Tom McIlroy, and the team will be answering readers’ questions on the Australian Politics podcast. Continue reading...

Rail passengers face second day of chaos across north-west England

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

Disruption after power failure at regional signalling centre likely to continue until noon with many crews and trains in wrong locationsBusiness live – latest updatesRail passengers are facing a second day of travel disruption across parts of north-west England, after a power failure hit the signalling centre controlling the railway in the region.The power failure, which occurred shortly before 2p...

Colombia on the brink: ELN guerrilla group prepares for return to war

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

As Abelardo de la Espriella takes office as president vowing a new military offensive, the country’s last leftwing rebels are getting ready to fight backAs the boat approached the riverbank, camouflaged figures watched from the tree line.Behind them, in the dim understory of the jungle, a commander of the National Liberation Army (ELN) sat with his rifle on his lap, amid the buzz and whine of inse...

Australia news live: Attorney general warns women and children at risk of ‘harmful conduct’ from smartglasses users; major delays at Sydney airport

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

Follow today’s news liveFederal parliament is returning from winter break next week.Do you have a question you’d like to ask Guardian Australia’s team of political reporters in Canberra? Our political editor, Tom McIlroy, and the team will be answering readers’ questions on the Australian Politics podcast. Continue reading...

Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

Exclusive: Neet crisis review to call for teachers to be asked to spot those at risk of leaving education jobless at 16What can Dublin teach us? Milburn goes on quest to learnPrimary schools in England should be required to identify children at risk of leaving education at 16 without finding a job, a government review is to recommend.Alan Milburn, who is leading a review into Britain’s crisis in y...

Meet the offenders cleaning canals in the West Midlands as an alternative to prison

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

With the debate over prison overcrowding and what to do about it raging, one initiative offers an alternative solutionAs the prison overcrowding crisis shows no sign of abating and the debate rages over early releases, an initiative in the West Midlands offers an alternative to custodial sentences.The Guardian was offered rare access to the project, under which, instead of being sent to prison, co...

Alan Jones trial: complainant wants to ‘humiliate’ broadcaster by revealing intimate details of alleged assaults, defence tells court

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

Barrister alleges ‘account of penis wiggling is an attempt to humiliate’ broadcaster who has pleaded not guilty to 22 charges of indecent assault and sexual touchingFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAlan Jones’s defence barrister has told a Sydney court one of the broadcaster’s alleged victims invented details of allege...

Extreme heat breaks temperature records in central and eastern Europe

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

Slovakia reaches new high of 42C as authorities in Poland forced to shut down Kozienice and Połaniec power plantsTemperature records have been broken in several countries across central and eastern Europe as the extreme weather that has caused wildfires and droughts across the continent continues.Countries including Slovakia, Austria and Hungary registered record temperatures. On Thursday, the Slo...

July’s heatwaves kept UK shoppers away from high street

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

Visits down 3.8% after 6.2% fall in June, with many choosing to buy online instead, research for retail body findsShoppers stayed away from UK high streets during last month’s heatwave temperatures, with many choosing to buy online instead as the mercury in some areas rose into the mid-30Cs.Trips to high streets were down by 3.8% year on year in July after a 6.2% fall in June, according to researc...

Australia news live: Attorney General warns women and children at risk of ‘harmful conduct’ from smartglasses users; major delays at Sydney airport

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

Follow today’s news liveFederal parliament is returning from winter break next week.Do you have a question you’d like to ask Guardian Australia’s team of political reporters in Canberra? Our political editor, Tom McIlroy, and the team will be answering readers’ questions on the Australian Politics podcast. Continue reading...

Trump unbound: the making of an imperial presidency – podcast

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

Donald Trump’s second term is unlike his first. The politicians who challenged him are gone. The lawyers who once pushed back now choose their battles. What remains is an imperial president with almost no internal checks, using executive power to reshape everything from the economy, immigration and even the presidency itself.Few journalists have covered Trump as closely as the New York Times journ...

Man dies after suspected dog attack at rural property in outer Sydney

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

Police say body of 23-year-old found at Eschol Park property with significant injuries, indicating he may have been attacked before deathFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA young man has died after a suspected dog attack at a rural property, as police begin an investigation.Authorities were alerted to the discovery of t...

Australia news live: airlines blame lack of traffic controllers for morning of cancellations and long delays at Sydney Airport

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

Follow today’s news liveFederal parliament is returning from winter break next week.Do you have a question you’d like to ask Guardian Australia’s team of political reporters in Canberra? Our political editor, Tom McIlroy, and the team will be answering readers’ questions on the Australian Politics podcast. Continue reading...

Justin Pearson and Brent Taylor win primaries for key Tennessee House seat

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

Nominees to face off in November in redistricted seat central to Trump’s bid to retain slim Republican majorityTennessee primary voters picked a pair of Memphis-area lawmakers to square off in a dramatically reconfigured US House seat central to Donald Trump’s plan to try to hold on to a slim Republican majority in the midterm congressional elections.Republicans chose state senator Brent Taylor, w...

Australia news live: Alan Jones complainant denies fabricating pigsty kiss; Royal Adelaide Show cancels poultry exhibits over bird flu fears

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

The cross-examination of the first alleged victim to give evidence in Jones’s indecent assault trial continues. Follow today’s news liveFederal parliament is returning from winter break next week.Do you have a question you’d like to ask Guardian Australia’s team of political reporters in Canberra? Our political editor, Tom McIlroy, and the team will be answering readers’ questions on the Australia...

ACLU blasts Trump’s new orders on birthright citizenship, saying they are doomed to fail in court– as it happened

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

This live blog is now closed.Trump signs new orders targeting birthright citizenshipSign up for the Breaking News US emailOne quick note on the contempt resolution: Senator Rand Paul may try to send it straight to the Department of Justice, since advancing it in the Senate would require 60 votes. Republicans hold just 53 seats, making it almost certain to fall short of that threshold.Republicans o...

Trump’s birthright citizenship attack the latest effort in obsessive campaign

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

For more than a decade, president has been fixated on trying to undermine a key constitutional right With a pair of executive orders on Thursday, Donald Trump has tried – once again – to undermine the guarantee of birthright citizenship, a right enshrined in the US constitution and reaffirmed by the supreme court just five weeks ago.The orders attempt to broaden the categories of children who woul...

Australia news live: Alan Jones complainant denies fabricating pigsty kiss; Atlassian shares soar after strong results

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

The cross-examination of the first alleged victim to give evidence in Jones’s indecent assault trial continues. Follow today’s news liveFederal parliament is returning from winter break next week.Do you have a question you’d like to ask Guardian Australia’s team of political reporters in Canberra? Our political editor, Tom McIlroy, and the team will be answering readers’ questions on the Australia...

Man dies after suspected dog attack at rural property in Sydney suburb

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

Police say body of 23-year-old found at Eschol Park property with significant injuries, indicating he may have been attacked before deathA young man has died after a suspected dog attack at a rural property, as police begin an investigation.Authorities were alerted to the discovery of the 23-year-old’s body at a rural property in Sydney’s southwest on Wednesday. Continue reading...

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

Ruling comes as part of second phase of landmark trial that found social media company enabled harm against usersA New Mexico court has ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay $567m for mental health harm to children from its platforms.Judge Bryan Biedscheid said the bulk of the money – $420m – would be used for treatment services for young people. The rest will go toward awareness an...

Trump administration plans overhaul of antipoverty program for children

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

While officials say proposed revisions to Head Start program will encourage more enrollment, advocates say it will undermine the programThe Trump administration has said it plans to overhaul Head Start, tossing out many of the regulations that are the hallmark of the early education program for the nation’s neediest children.Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversee...

Trump administration announces changes to Head Start in overhaul

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

While officials say proposed revisions will encourage more enrollment, advocates say it will undermine the programThe Trump administration has said it plans to overhaul Head Start, tossing out many of the regulations that are the hallmark of the early education program for the nation’s neediest children.Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the federally funded...

ACLU blasts Trump’s new orders on birthright citizenship, saying they are doomed to fail in court– live

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

President’s orders come month after supreme court struck down administration’s earlier attempt to place restrictions on birthright citizenship enshrined in US constitutionSign up for the Breaking News US emailOne quick note on the contempt resolution: Senator Rand Paul may try to send it straight to the Department of Justice, since advancing it in the Senate would require 60 votes. Republicans hol...

Judge approves $106m settlement over deadly 2019 Hard Rock Hotel collapse

The Guardian • 4 weeks ago

Settlement ends years-long legal battle over collapse of 18-story hotel that was under construction in New OrleansA judge approved a $106m settlement on Thursday that ends a years-long legal battle over the deadly 2019 collapse of a Hard Rock Hotel that was under construction in New Orleans.The 18-story hotel project partially collapsed in October 2019 , killing three people and damaging nearby pr...