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Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, Toowoomba and Lismore forecast to receive worst of wild weather, BoM saysFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLithgow hospital briefly lost power on Wednesday as “dangerous” thunderstorms continued to rumble across eastern Australia, with giant hail and flash flooding on the cards for several areas according to...

Smyth enjoyed ‘opulent lifestyle’ in Cape Town after he was barred from Zimbabwe, where he abused boys at summer campsThe evangelical Christian barrister John Smyth abused as many as 130 boys and young men in the UK, Zimbabwe and possibly other African countries but an independent review has said there remains little concrete information on his time in South Africa.The review into the Anglican...

Commuters can access round-the-clock trains from Thursday but light rail services will be limited on Friday and Saturday due to industrial actionFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesPassengers on Sydney trains will be able to access 24-hour transport from Thursday to Sunday, at the same time as they are being warned to expect delays due to industrial action on New South Wales’...

High court rules Aboriginal woman Joanne Willmot can pursue damages for abuse allegedly suffered in state care more than 60 years agoFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe high court has ruled an Aboriginal woman can pursue damages on some allegations of historical sexual and physical abuse while in state care in...

This blog is now closedNurse at rest home where Clare Nowland was tasered had ‘never seen anything like that’, court hearsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe treasurer, Jim Chalmers will today announce funding of $900m for states and territories through a new national productivity fund to boost competition and productivity across the economy.Launching the plan in a speech to...

It took authorities more than a day to release details of the incident, in which a man drove his car into a crowd, killing 35 peopleIn the hours since a 63-year-old man rammed his car into a sports centre in Zhuhai, killing 35 people and severely injuring 43 others, questions have swirled on Chinese social media about why it took authorities so long to...

Sen Const Kristian White’s manslaughter trial also told 95-year-old displayed behaviour consistent with moderate to severe dementiaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA nurse who witnessed a police officer pulling a Taser on a 95-year-old nursing home resident said she had “never seen anything like that” and at first thought it was...

Musk and ex-presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to head up Department of Government Efficiency (Doge)Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, Donald Trump said on Tuesday.Despite the name, the department will not be a government agency. Trump said in a statement that Musk and Ramaswamy will work from outside government to offer the White...

Questions raised over influence after 1,261 business and industry delegates registered for biodiversity summit in ColombiaRecord numbers of business representatives and lobbyists had access to the UN’s latest biodiversity talks, analysis shows.In total 1,261 business and industry delegates registered for Cop16 in Cali, Colombia, which ended in disarray and without significant progress on a number of key issues including nature funding, monitoring biodiversity loss...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Normal People by Sally Rooney, and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, among books pulled Florida’s department of education has released a list of more than 700 books that were “removed or discontinued” from schools across the state after changes to a state law last year that allows parents and residents to challenge the content of library books.This year’s list, which has...

This blog has now closed. Elon Musk handpicked by Trump to carry out slash-and-burn cuts planTrump picks Huckabee as Israel envoy and taps Fox News host for PentagonTrump’s cabinet picks and likely contenders so farJoe Biden is meeting with two foreign leaders at the White House today.At 11.15am, he will speak with Israel’s president Isaac Herzog, then with Indonesia’s president, Prabowo Subianto, at 2pm....

World’s richest man has been an enthusiastic cost-cutter – but he may find the public sector an entirely different beastDonald Trump, president-elect of the US, announced on Tuesday that he has selected Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency, with plans to reduce bureaucracy in the federal government by roughly a third.Musk had pushed for...

Opponents say closing Great Highway to cars will increase traffic as supporters argue it will mitigate coastal erosionCalifornians have voted to close part of a nearly century-old highway in San Francisco to cars, transforming a two-mile section into a park for pedestrians and cyclists.On election day, city residents voted to approve Proposition K, extending the ban on vehicles on a portion of the Upper...

Killing of Antônio Vinicius Lopes Gritzbach, 38, former First Capital Command member, spawns number of theoriesPolice investigating a brazen murder at the arrivals area of Brazil’s main airport are pursuing at least three lines of inquiry in their attempt to track down the killers – and the possible masterminds of the shocking crime.Antônio Vinicius Lopes Gritzbach, 38, was leaving São Paulo international airport on...

British Columbia teen had no underlying health conditions and had been exposed to dogs, cats and reptiles, officials sayA teenager is in critical condition in a British Columbia children’s hospital, in what is believed to be Canada’s first human case of bird flu.“This was a healthy teenager prior to this, so no underlying conditions,” said the provincial health officer Bonnie Henry in a news...

Move by US authorities comes after plane was shot at on Monday, injuring attendant and forcing airport shutdownThe US Federal Aviation Administration has banned civilian flights into Haiti for 30 days after a jetliner was shot at on approach to Port-au-Prince.Bullets hit the Spirit Airlines plane when it was about to land on Monday, injuring a flight attendant and forcing the airport to shut...

Immigration minister Marc Miller’s comments come as country braces for migrant rise when Trump takes officeUS politics – live updatesCanada’s immigration minister has said “not everyone is welcome” in the country as officials brace for an increase of migrants when Donald Trump returns to the White House with a pledge to carry out mass deportations.The minister’s warning, seven years after Justin Trudeau promised that...

Investigation into country’s largest cocaine bust reveals cash in home of former head of anti-money laundering Spain has arrested one of its top police officers after €20m (£17m) was found hidden in the walls of his house, as part of an investigation into the country’s largest-ever cocaine bust.Óscar Sánchez Gil was until recently the head of the fraud and anti-money laundering division of Spain’s...

No reason given for departure of Nadhmi al-Nasr, longtime CEO of $500bn project launched by Mohammed bin SalmanNadhmi al-Nasr, the longtime chief executive of the $500bn Saudi development project Neom launched by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has departed, according to a Neom statement issued on Tuesday that did not give a reason for the departure.Prince Mohammed has poured hundreds of billions of dollars...

Parliament votes to express ‘deepest regret’ over more than a century of ‘Norwegianisation’ of minoritiesThe Norwegian parliament has apologised unreservedly to minority groups and Indigenous people for more than a century of historical injustices committed against them as part of its “Norwegianisation” policy.The forced assimilation policy – which included state-run boarding schools that banned minority languages and the forced relocation of whole villages –...

This live blog is closed.Images sent over the news wires show smoke billowing over Beirut after Israeli strikes on the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital.Lebanese media is reporting that two people have been killed and six wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Hermel, which is in the north-east of the country near the border with Syria. Continue reading...

US may soon impose sanctions as organisations say Israel has failed to help relieve dire humanitarian situationA coalition of international aid organisations have accused Israel of ignoring a US ultimatum that threatened sanctions if Israel did not implement a series of measures to counter the acute humanitarian crisis in Gaza.The 30-day ultimatum– due to expire on Tuesday or Wednesday – was delivered on 13...

Antisemitism, hooliganism and anger over Gaza war all factors in trouble that broke out last week, report saysThe violence that erupted in Amsterdam last week was sparked by “a toxic cocktail” of hooliganism and antisemitism, according to a detailed report published by the city’s mayor.The city remains gripped by high tensions days after violence flared around a football match last Thursday between Ajax and...

King Felipe VI reportedly plans to revisit Valencia amid alerts for heavy rain, high waves and strong windsPeople in flood-hit Spain stacked sandbags and braced for new storms on Tuesday as the political repercussions from last month’s deadly climate disaster rumbled on.Amid fresh weather warnings, local media reported that King Felipe VI would soon return to the site of the flash floods, after he...