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Climate change minister’s effort to convince Ankara to drop out underlines push for ‘Pacific Cop’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe climate change minister, Chris Bowen, made a whistle-stop visit to Turkey on Friday night in an attempt to reach a deal for Australia to host tens of thousands of people at a major UN climate summit in 2026.Bowen visited...

Schools ordered to close in Delhi and Punjab province as neighbouring countries battle dangerous air pollutionIndia’s capital, Delhi, has ordered all primary schools to cease in-person classes until further notice because of an air pollution crisis that has also prompted Pakistan’s Punjab province to declare a health emergency and ban construction, shut schools for another week and move universities online.Delhi and the surrounding metropolitan...

Latest UK GDP growth report shows UK grew by just 0.1% in July-September, a slowdown on the first half of the yearFew expected Britain to boom but the GDP figures will worry the TreasuryBank of England governor says Brexit has undermined UK economyLuke Bartholomew, deputy chief economist at investment group abrdn, also points the finger at the budget: “The economy was always going to...

UK economy at near-standstill as uncertainty over the budget and high interest rates weighed on consumer spendingMy colleague Heather Stewart has this analysis of today’s GDP figures:Few could have expected Labour to kickstart an economic renaissance from day one, despite its “mission” to deliver the highest sustained growth in the G7.Today’s disappointing figures underline the scale of the challenge facing our economy after years...

Lebanon’s state-run national news agency said the Ghobeiry area ‘witnessed heavy gunfire’ from Israeli forcesLebanon’s state-run National News Agency has reported a “heavy strike” carried out with two missiles fired by an “enemy aircraft” in the neighbourhood of Bourj al-Barajneh in Beirut’s southern suburbs. The Israeli military says it has identified several buildings in the suburbs of Ghobeiry (see opening summary for more details)...

Summer slowdown raises questions of whether Reeves’s bleak outlook in the run-up to the budget hindered growthBusiness live – latest updatesIt was hardly surprising that the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, declared herself “not satisfied” with the news that GDP expanded by a measly 0.1% in the three months to September.Few could have expected Labour to kickstart an economic renaissance from day one, despite its “mission”...

Blow to Rachel Reeves as first quarter under Labour shows services and manufacturing struggled in run-up to budgetBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK economy slowed to a near-standstill in the third quarter as uncertainty surrounding Labour’s first budget and high interest rates weighed on business and consumer spending.In a blow to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, as she attempts push the UK to the top...

Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility accuses Australian oil giant of misleading and false claims in closing argumentsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSantos misled investors by positioning itself as a “clean fuels company” with a credible net zero plan, the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) has alleged in closing remarks to a world-first greenwashing case.Noel Hutley SC, representing ACCR,...

Presenter says it ‘makes sense for someone else to take the helm’ at show as BBC looks to make changesGary Lineker has said it is the “right time” for him to leave Match of the Day after presenting the BBC football programme for more than two decades.Speaking on his podcast, The Rest is Football, the 63-year-old said his time on the show had been...

Speaking from his jail cell, the former superstar cricketer had told the Guardian he would be willing to engage with army leadershipPakistan’s military has no intention of entering into negotiations or cutting a deal with incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan, senior military sources told the Guardian, after Khan said he would be willing to engage with the army leadership from his jail cell.Khan,...

Liliana Goodson is ‘capable of rehabilitation’ after being caught travelling from US to Australia with firearm, lawyer says Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA woman who “deeply regrets” packing a gun in her bag before she flew to Australia will face sentencing in December following further delays in her court case.Liliana Goodson admitted illegally importing an unauthorised illegal firearm...

State’s housing pattern book, launching in 2025, seeks to cut red tape and reduce development application times with pre-approved designsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFive winning terrace and apartment designs will be pre-approved in a new NSW government “pattern book” in a bid to fast-track housing development in the state.The designs were selected from more than 200 in the...

This blog is now closedClare Nowland manslaughter trial: Kristian White said ‘I’ve had a look and, supposedly, we aren’t meant to tase elderly people’, court hearsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWatt says issue of reconciliation not closed in Australia despite voice referendumWrapping up the interview, Murray Watt was also asked about the haka performed in New Zealand parliament yesterday...

Agency hopes tens of thousands of people will log details of their flatulence on an app to help researchers better understand gut healthFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHeather knew she farted a lot but didn’t know just how often until she began to track her daily output.“I always thought that I...

Higher education regulator says sector needs to take ‘take bold action’ and consider mergers or cost sharingEngland’s universities face financial turmoil with nearly three in four expected to be in the red next year, according to gloomy forecasts from the higher education regulator.The Office for Students (OfS) said the sector would have to take “bold and transformative action” to compensate for a £3.4bn drop...

New analysis on the cost of decarbonising Australia’s power grid runs closely to the national market operator’s own – but you wouldn’t know it from the headlinesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFriday’s front page in Murdoch media’s the Daily Telegraph, declaring a “$500B GREEN HOLE”, could mark the opening salvo of...

Jewish and Muslim communities speak of heightened fears as questions linger about events around football matchCarrying white signs scrawled with messages urging unity, they took turns laying white roses at the statue of Anne Frank, steps away from the home where she, her family and four other people had hidden from Nazi persecution.Days after Amsterdam was gripped by what officials described as “a toxic...

Dismay as president-elect picks Matt Gaetz as attorney general and Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr for key rolesFears that Donald Trump’s second presidency will be more extreme than his first have intensified amid a flurry of senior nominations that opponents have criticised as going from bad to worse.Dismay over some of the president-elect’s early picks escalated to outrage after the far-right Florida congressman Matt...

This blog is closed, thanks for following along. You can read more of our coverage below:Reaction: RFK Jr condemned as ‘clear and present danger’ after Trump nominationFull report: Trump nominates RFK Jr as health secretaryWho is RFK Jr and what might his top priorities be?An independent central bank is “fundamental” to getting good economic outcomes, a senior Federal Reserve official said on Thursday, reports...

Bynum says ‘we believed in a vision’ and victory is boost for party after longtime Democratic seat turned red in 2022Janelle Bynum will serve as Oregon’s first Black member of Congress after the Democrat flipped a US House seat from the Republicans.Bynum, a state representative who was backed and supported by national Democrats, ousted Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer. The win was a boost for Democrats...

Contact was reportedly at Trump-allied billionaire’s request and could be significant for dismal US-Iranian relationsElon Musk reportedly met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday, a day before Donald Trump named the SpaceX founder as one of the heads of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency.The meeting was a discussion of how to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States,...

Nominee for health secretary decried as ‘vaccine denier and tin foil hat conspiracy theorist … this is going to cost lives’Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F Kennedy Jr as US secretary of health and human services has prompted widespread criticisms towards Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist who has embraced a slew of other debunked health-related conspiracy theories.In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump claimed...

Investigators find prisoners at Fulton county jail, Georgia’s largest, tunneling through walls and violence uncheckedConditions in the Fulton county jail in Atlanta “violate the constitutional and statutory rights of people incarcerated”, a long-running federal investigation concluded on Thursday.“Killings, stabbings, and assaults are common in the Jail,” according to a Department of Justice report. Contraband is pervasive, lethal violence goes uninvestigated – and is sometimes...

Andrew Bailey callls for relations with EU to be rebuilt as Trump plans US tariffsThe Bank of England governor has urged ministers to “rebuild relations” with the EU, warning that Brexit has undermined the UK’s economy.Speaking at the Mansion House dinner in the City of London on Thursday evening, Andrew Bailey said he took no position on Brexit “per se”, but added: “I do...