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Fourth interest rate hike looms even as analysts predict house prices could fall 10%
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Fourth interest rate hike looms even as analysts predict house prices could fall 10%

Cotality data reveals property prices are now falling in more than 90% of Australian suburbs, while economists expect market downturn to continueGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe prospect of the steepest property market downturn in history will not stop the Reserve Bank from delivering a fourth interest rate hike as it battles to bring inflation back under control, eco...

House prices head for historic 10% drop as fourth interest rate hike looms
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House prices head for historic 10% drop as fourth interest rate hike looms

Cotality data reveals property prices are now falling in more than 90% of Australian suburbs, while analysts expect market downturn to continueGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe prospect of the steepest property market downturn in history will not stop the Reserve Bank from delivering a fourth interest rate hike as it battles to bring inflation back under control, econo...

Macquarie University swaps in-person psychology classes with AI chatbot for two subjects
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Macquarie University swaps in-person psychology classes with AI chatbot for two subjects

University’s move is part of trend that critics within academia say will lead to further staff cuts and the loss of ‘everything that makes the job worth doing’An Australian university has swapped in-person classes with an AI chatbot, online quizzes and optional online tutorials in two subjects as institutions give the technology more teaching responsibilities.Macquarie University’s “Virtual Peer” ...

Inside knowledge or ‘making stuff up’? Charles Perrottet’s advice to Jean Nassif put under microscope by Icac
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Inside knowledge or ‘making stuff up’? Charles Perrottet’s advice to Jean Nassif put under microscope by Icac

Brother of former treasurer and premier faces questions about texts that appear to indicate he was aware of fast-tracking policy before it was announcedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDid the former premier’s brother, Charles Perrottet, have prior knowledge of a Covid-era New South Wales government policy to introduce a fast track to approve major developments?Did he tak...

Burnham promises to bring ‘substantial change’ as he gives first Commons address as prime minister – UK politics live

Burnham promises to bring ‘substantial change’ as he gives first Commons address as prime minister – UK politics live

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PM also pays tribute to Keir Starmer after his predecessor quit parliament, saying he gave Labour a platform ‘and we will use it well’My colleague Richard Partington, the Guardian’s senior economics correspondent, grew up, like Andy Burnham, in the Warrington suburb of Culcheth. He has been home to find out what people there are saying about the new PM.Yesterday, Kemi Badenoch announced a reshuffl...

New system for screening mail-in ballots risks denying entire batches, says whistleblower

New system for screening mail-in ballots risks denying entire batches, says whistleblower

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US senator says that project, a key part of Trump’s voting restrictions, is ‘perilously rushed and potentially unlawful’A new system to screen millions of mail-in ballots for this November’s US midterm elections was thrown together so hastily, and tested so little, that a single scanning glitch could see entire batches of ballots turned away, a whistleblower has told Congress.The project – a key p...

‘Start being serious’: Canada’s Carney hits back at US officials as tariff talks stall – live

‘Start being serious’: Canada’s Carney hits back at US officials as tariff talks stall – live

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PM Mark Carney responds to US officials who blame Canada for trade war; Jamieson Greer says trade tension with Canada is ‘more their emergency than ours’Sign up for the US Breaking News emailDemocratic senator Chuck Schumer is introducing a bill that would reverse Donald Trump’s most recent tariffs, among them the new %50 duty on Canadian goods, MS Now reported.While the Senate minority leader’s p...

Judge tells jury in Lindsay Clancy trial to keep deliberating after deadlock

Judge tells jury in Lindsay Clancy trial to keep deliberating after deadlock

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Clancy does not deny strangling her three children but says postpartum psychosis led to her actionsThe judge has told the jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial to keep deliberating after it said it was unable to come to a unanimous decision in the controversial case of the mother who killed her three children.Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse in Massachusetts, does not deny strangling her child...

Burnham gives first Commons address as PM after Starmer quits parliament – UK politics live

Burnham gives first Commons address as PM after Starmer quits parliament – UK politics live

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Prime minister starts statement to MPs with tribute to his predecessor, saying he gave Labour a platform ‘and we will use it well’My colleague Richard Partington, the Guardian’s senior economics correspondent, grew up, like Andy Burnham, in the Warrington suburb of Culcheth. He has been home to find out what people there are saying about the new PM.Yesterday, Kemi Badenoch announced a reshuffle, r...

Norway’s new king swears oath of allegiance with daughter at his side

Norway’s new king swears oath of allegiance with daughter at his side

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Haakon VIII promises to uphold 1814 constitution but his queen misses ceremony because of post-surgery ‘complications’King Haakon VIII swore an oath of allegiance before Norway’s parliament on Tuesday in the first major stage in the passing of the crown since the death of his father after 35 years on the throne.Wearing a ceremonial uniform, Haakon, who became king when Harald V died on Friday, pro...

Dyson launches £420 toothbrush that films ‘live cleaning footage’ inside your mouth

Dyson launches £420 toothbrush that films ‘live cleaning footage’ inside your mouth

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James Dyson says ‘complete dental system’ will also include toothpaste and mouth rinse that each cost £8.50It is the live stream you never wanted to see but may find impossible to resist: rolling footage beamed live from inside your mouth while you are cleaning your teeth.Dyson, the home appliance maker that made its name inventing bagless vacuums and bladeless fans, has turned its attention to or...

Oklahoma man charged with murder after two die in marijuana facility blast

Oklahoma man charged with murder after two die in marijuana facility blast

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Authorities have charged Ryan Bassham after the deadly explosion at the marijuana extraction facility he ownsAn Oklahoma man has been charged with murder after a large explosion at a marijuana extraction facility that killed two of his employees and damaged surrounding businesses, prosecutors said on Monday.Ryan Bassham, 35, turned himself in this weekend after being charged with two counts of fir...

Oklahoma man charged with murder after 2 killed in explosion at marijuana extraction facility

Oklahoma man charged with murder after 2 killed in explosion at marijuana extraction facility

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Authorities have charged Ryan Bassham after the deadly explosion at the marijuana extraction facility he ownsAn Oklahoma man has been charged with murder after a large explosion at a marijuana extraction facility that killed two of his employees and damaged surrounding businesses, prosecutors said Monday.Ryan Bassham, 35, turned himself in this weekend after being charged with two counts of first-...

UK long-term borrowing costs could halve chancellor’s budget headroom

UK long-term borrowing costs could halve chancellor’s budget headroom

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Yield on 30-year gilts highest since 1998 as rout triggered by global factors underlines tricky backdrop John Healey facesBusiness live – latest updatesThe chancellor’s headroom against Labour’s fiscal rules could be almost halved at his first budget if the current global bond sell-off persists into the autumn, economists say.The UK’s long-term borrowing costs jumped to their highest level since e...

Burnham to give first Commons address as PM after Starmer quits parliament – UK politics live

Burnham to give first Commons address as PM after Starmer quits parliament – UK politics live

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Prime minister will tell MPs he wants to ‘unlock positivity’ after his predecessor stepped down as an MP, triggering a north London byelectionMy colleague Richard Partington, the Guardian’s senior economics correspondent, grew up, like Andy Burnham, in the Warrington suburb of Culcheth. He has been home to find out what people there are saying about the new PM.Yesterday, Kemi Badenoch announced a ...

Autistic boy who took replica knife to school has exclusion quashed by high court

Autistic boy who took replica knife to school has exclusion quashed by high court

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Boy’s mother says she hopes case will help others, as judge says exclusion should be ‘a tool of last resort’The mother of a 10-year-old autistic boy who had his permanent exclusion from a primary school quashed by the high court has said she hopes the ruling helps other children.The boy, who cannot be named, was permanently excluded from his primary school, part of the Lift academy chain, after co...

High winds during El Niño could be deadly for England’s stressed trees, say experts

High winds during El Niño could be deadly for England’s stressed trees, say experts

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Head of tree collections at Kew ‘very worried about this autumn’ as hot, dry summer has caused brittlenessHigh winds associated with El Niño could cause widespread mortality among tree species already weakened by a prolonged period of extreme heat and drought, experts have warned.This summer much of Europe has been scorched by a series of record-breaking climate crisis-induced heatwaves. The impac...

MapQuest app reaches No 1 on US Apple list after defying Trump’s Lake Ontario order

MapQuest app reaches No 1 on US Apple list after defying Trump’s Lake Ontario order

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Navigating app surpasses Google and Apple Maps on top-downloaded US chart after posting ‘we’re not changing it’A pioneering online mapping app that defied Donald Trump by refusing to rename Lake Ontario has become the most in-demand navigation tool in the US.MapQuest, which was openly dismissive of the president’s 27 August executive order directing federal agencies to refer to the smallest of the...

Raise the Colours member denies murder of man in Staffordshire

Raise the Colours member denies murder of man in Staffordshire

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Billy Allison, 36, pleads not guilty over Matthew O’Gara’s death following alleged assault in LichfieldA man accused of murdering a businessman after an alleged assault outside a bar in Staffordshire has pleaded not guilty.Billy Allison, 36, a member of the flag-raising group Raise the Colours, appeared at Stafford crown court on Tuesday and entered not guilty pleas to the murder of Matthew O’Gara...

Alleged Charlie Kirk killer faces ruling on standing trial and death penalty

Alleged Charlie Kirk killer faces ruling on standing trial and death penalty

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Tyler Robinson has not yet entered a plea, but should a judge find probable cause, an arraignment could followSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailNearly a year after Charlie Kirk was shot dead at a Utah university, a judge on Tuesday is expected to rule ⁠on whether the Utah ⁠man accused of ​killing the conservative activist will stand trial and whether he should face the death penalty...

Alleged Charlie Kirk killer faces judgment on standing trial and death penalty

Alleged Charlie Kirk killer faces judgment on standing trial and death penalty

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Tyler Robinson has not yet entered a plea, but should a judge find probable cause, an arraignment could followSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailNearly a year after Charlie Kirk was shot dead at a Utah university, a judge on Tuesday is expected to rule ⁠on whether the Utah ⁠man accused of ​killing the conservative activist will stand trial and whether he should face the death penalty...

Summer of 2026 was UK’s hottest on record, Met Office says

Summer of 2026 was UK’s hottest on record, Met Office says

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Meteorologists say average mean temperature of 16.5C was made 130 times more likely by climate crisisThis year’s summer was the UK’s hottest on record, according to provisional Met Office data, with the season’s mean temperature made 130 times more likely as a result of the climate crisis.The summer saw record-breaking and back-to-back heatwaves scorch much of Europe. In England, temperatures peak...

Los Angeles villa that was hub for German exiles fleeing Nazis reopens after narrow wildfire escape

Los Angeles villa that was hub for German exiles fleeing Nazis reopens after narrow wildfire escape

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Spectacular Villa Aurora, which was nearly destroyed in last year’s fires, leading the recovery as Pacific Palisades emerges from a dark chapterA hillside villa that served as a cultural hub for German writers and artists fleeing the Nazis and narrowly escaped destruction in last year’s Los Angeles wildfires reopened its doors to the public this weekend, marking the latest milestone in the city’s ...

Gaps in NHS end-of-life care ‘denying ill children chance to die at home’

Gaps in NHS end-of-life care ‘denying ill children chance to die at home’

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Campaigners say some care boards in England flouting their legal duty, resulting in ‘cruel’ postcode lotterySeriously ill children are being denied the chance to die at home because the NHS in many parts of England is flouting its legal duty to provide the care needed to make that happen, critics say.The widespread failure to provide at-home end-of-life care is forcing children who want to die at ...

Tropical Storm Edouard strengthens as it bears down on Texas and Louisiana

Tropical Storm Edouard strengthens as it bears down on Texas and Louisiana

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First big storm of season could reach hurricane force and is expected to bring potentially heavy rains and floodingTropical Storm Edouard headed toward the US Gulf coast early on Tuesday and was expected to strengthen significantly – possibly reaching hurricane force – before bringing potentially heavy rains and flooding into parts of Texas and Louisiana.The storm was upgraded on Monday night from...

US trade official downplays Canada trade war: ‘It’s more their emergency than ours’ – live

US trade official downplays Canada trade war: ‘It’s more their emergency than ours’ – live

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‘There are no negotiations happening on trade right now,’ Jamieson Greer told PoliticoSign up for the US Breaking News emailUS Trade Representative Jamieson Greer downplayed the potentially disastrous impact of a trade war with Canada, telling Politico: “It’s more their emergency than ours.”“There are no negotiations happening on trade right now,” Green also told the website. Continue reading...

German police investigating reported explosives at Brandenburg power substation – Europe live

German police investigating reported explosives at Brandenburg power substation – Europe live

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Police are investigating explosives found in Turnow-Preilack, near the coal-fired Jänschwalde power plantOver in Brussels, the European Commission is just starting its first midday briefing of the autumn.It opens with an announcement that Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will receive Nato’s Mark Rutte tomorrow. This comes amid growing scrutiny of Russia’s activities on the eastern flank. ...

US public libraries at ‘breaking point’ amid ideological attacks, report finds

US public libraries at ‘breaking point’ amid ideological attacks, report finds

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PEN America study details verbal and physical threats to librarians, funding cuts and proliferation of book bansPublic libraries in the US are “at breaking point” because of an onslaught of political interference, harassment and ideological censorship, a new report published on Tuesday said.Book bans, cancelled story hours, attacks on librarians, funding cuts and the undoing of libraries’ independ...

Echoes of cold war as US accused of meddling in another Brazilian election

Echoes of cold war as US accused of meddling in another Brazilian election

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Claims that Trump and Rubio are trying to influence result have parallels with CIA intervention 64 years agoThe year was 1962 and the Kennedy administration was desperate to swing Brazil’s congressional elections against its leftwing president, João Goulart, as a way of countering the supposed communist threat sweeping a region the US considered its back yard.Historians say that in the lead-up to ...