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Milorad Zaric, 47, appears at Melbourne magistrates court on Sunday while withdrawing from drugs and alcohol, hearing is toldFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Melbourne man has been charged with murdering his neighbour after a woman was allegedly stabbed to death in front of three teenagers.Milorad Zaric, 47, appeared at Melbourne...

PM seeks to reassure Australians about the fate of their businesses under US Trump administrationFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese is seeking to reassure Australian exporters about the fate of their businesses under an incoming US Trump administration, insisting he is confident they will be spared tariffs of up to...

Karolyi trained multiple Olympic gold medalists and help turn the US into an international gymnastics powerBela Karolyi, the charismatic if polarizing gymnastics coach who turned young women into champions and the US into an international power, has died. He was 82.USA Gymnastics said Karolyi died Friday. No cause of death was given. Continue reading...

The two leaders also agreed humans, not artificial intelligence, should maintain control over nuclear weapons use in last meeting before Trump assumes US presidencyChinese leader Xi Jinping has said he is ready to work with the incoming US administration of Donald Trump as he met with outgoing president Joe Biden for what is expected to be the final time.“China is ready to work with...

PM silent on demands for envoy’s apology over past remarks calling Donald Trump ‘the most destructive president in history’ and ‘the village idiot’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese says Kevin Rudd will remain as Australia’s ambassador to Washington despite the apparent disquiet about Rudd’s past commentary on president-elect Donald Trump...

Isaac Levido and Michael Brooks warned ex-PM on 3 April voters ‘less likely to feel financially optimistic’Rishi Sunak’s top aides advised him not to call an early election, warning him that voters would be less likely to feel “financially optimistic” in the summer and that Conservatives would not be able to “hit Labour hard with both fists”.Isaac Levido, who directed the election campaign for...

Jose Zamora, 14, of Santa Clara had been spat on and hit on the back of the helmet by students, says Jose BautistaA teenage boy in Santa Clara, California, has taken his own life after being bullied by other students for being unhoused, his father said.Speaking to KTVU, Jose Bautista, the father of 14-year-old Jose Zamora, said his son died last Tuesday after being...

Person acquired clade Ib while traveling to east Africa and treated in California for mild illness, said health officialsUS health officials reported Saturday the first known case of a person infected with the new mpox strain in the country.The person acquired mpox while traveling to east Africa and was treated for a mild illness in San Mateo, California, according to health officials. The person...

Tokyo to also discuss growing military links between North Korea and Russia, Japan’s foreign ministry saidJapan’s foreign minister arrived in Kyiv on Saturday to discuss North Korea’s deepening military alliance with Russia, including the deployment of thousands of troops to support Moscow’s war in Ukraine.Takeshi Iwaya will meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha, to reaffirm Japan’s “strong support” for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion and...

Hardline nationalist Antonis Samaras ousted over persistent criticism of government policiesFormer Greek prime minister and lawmaker Antonis Samaras was expelled from the ruling New Democracy party over his persistent criticism of government policies.Samaras, 73, a hardline nationalist, had criticised Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ approach to negotiations with Turkey, which he has likened to appeasement. He also strongly disapproved of government policy that he...

Laura Helmuth, who had led the magazine since 2020, wrote an expletive-filled social media post on election nightThe editor in chief of Scientific American, the US’s oldest magazine, has announced her resignation after a series of online posts in which she called some Donald Trump supporters “fascists” and “bigoted”.In a post on Bluesky on Thursday, Laura Helmuth, who was originally appointed as the magazine’s...

Supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro wanted for role in 2023 storming of government buildingsArgentina has ordered the arrest of 61 Brazilian citizens for participating in the 2023 storming of government buildings in Brasília by supporters of the far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro, an Argentine source said on Saturday.Two people have been arrested so far who face prison sentences in Brazil, a judicial source...

Dozens of people remain trapped in underground shops after collapse of multi-storey building in Dar es SalaamRescuers were using their bare hands, drills and sledgehammers to reach dozens of people trapped under a building that collapsed in the centre of Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam.The multi-storey building in Kariakoo, the East African country’s busiest market, caved in as people were shopping, killing at...

After a man surrendered his rodents, the shelter is grappling with a rapidly multiplying mouse problemA New Hampshire animal shelter is grappling with how to handle nearly 1,000 mice that have been turned over in recent days, many of which are pregnant.Lisa Dennison, executive director of the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, called the situation “crippling” and said the...

A 21-year-old former student carried out the attack at a vocational college in the eastern city of Wuxi, police said, after failing exams and being frustrated with low internship payEight people were killed and 17 others injured when a 21-year-old former student went on a stabbing spree at a vocational college in China’s eastern city of Wuxi on Saturday evening, police said.The knife attack...

US and EU have called for investigation into alleged irregularities in pro-Russia ruling party’s election victoryThe head of Georgia’s election commission was splashed with paint as the body confirmed the ruling party’s victory in the parliamentary elections.David Kirtadze, a member of the former president Mikheil Saakashvili’s United National Movement (UNM), splashed black paint on the central election commission chair, Giorgi Kalandarishvili, on Saturday, resulting...

Best known as one half of D’Unbelievables, Kenny also starred in Father Ted and The Banshees of InisherinThe Irish prime minister has led tributes to the comedian and actor Jon Kenny, who has died at the age of 66.Kenny died on Friday evening in Galway Clinic, his wife, Margie, told the Limerick Leader on Saturday. Continue reading...

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said ‘the enemy’ carried out three air raids, including one near Haret HreikImages are coming through of Israel’s strike on Beirut this morning, showing a large plume of smoke rising above the city.An Iranian official met with Elon Musk, according to a US official, AP reports. Iran’s UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani met with Musk — a key Trump...

US president-elect says the war has ‘got to stop’ as German chancellor urges Putin to start talks with Kyiv in rare phone call. What we know on day 997Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Russia’s war against his country will “end sooner” than it otherwise would have once Donald Trump becomes US president next year.In a radio interview aired on Saturday, the Ukrainian president conceded that...

Confidential report comes in the wake of Senate inquiry which highlighted ‘deficiencies in branch closure processes’ across regional areasGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian banks would have to meet a minimum level of service in regional areas or contribute funding to bolster the number of branches and ATMs offered by other institutions, in a proposal put forward by Treasury.According...

Connor Brackin, 24, reportedly quit job after alleged killing of animals whose wellbeing he was sent to check onA sheriff’s deputy from the US state of Tennessee is facing criminal charges and reportedly quit his job after he fatally shot seven dogs whose wellbeing he had been sent to check on.Connor Brackin, 24, was on duty for the McNairy county sheriff’s office on 4...

Shock waves triggered by archbishop’s resignation are culmination of years of simmering rage among churchgoers and survivors of abuseAs the faithful give thanks to God in England’s 16,500 parish churches on Sunday, beneath the comforting ritual of prayers and hymns will run a strong undercurrent of shame, anger, sadness and dread.The Church of England is facing its biggest crisis in modern times, and there...

Rocky Leanders, then 15, was beaten with wooden paddle by Smyth at camp where boys were made to swim nakedWhen John Smyth gave a presentation at their school about his Christian holiday camps in 1993, Rocky Leanders and his school friends were “blown away”.“This is Zimbabwe in the early 90s; the technology wasn’t great. These guys set up a projector with colour videos of...

Anthony Albanese meets with leaders of Peru and Indonesia as middle nations seek to diversify trade away from the USThe prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has hailed “inclusive trade and investment” at a major Asia-Pacific economic forum in Peru where leaders are attempting to push against the protectionist policies favoured by US president-elect Donald Trump.Speaking at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) leaders summit, which...