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Four never-before-heard demos will be sold at auction along with documents rescued by former PA to the star’s managerIn the 54 years since Jimi Hendrix’s death, every part of his archive has been mined for fresh material. Recordings of long-forgotten gigs, obscure B-sides and abandoned demos have all been released.But it appears that not everything the American rock guitarist, singer and composer recorded has...

Boosting growth and investment while averting austerity is a tough ask, but options are available for the chancellor, writes the research director of the Resolution Foundation• Labour MPs urge Reeves to spend tens of billions more on ailing public servicesThe chancellor has said she wants to avoid a “return to austerity”. She’s also said she’ll deliver a pro-investment, pro-growth budget. Those are laudable goals,...

State premier announces free state primary school lunches at campaign launch after revealing plan for state-owned health clinicsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPremier Steven Miles has promised free school lunches for every Queensland primary school student, just one day before polls open in the state election campaign.The Labor leader made the...

This blog is now closedSteven Miles bats away accusations of pinching policies from Greens ahead of Queensland polls openingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCoalition would consider mirroring US action on TikTok due to ‘foreign interference risk’, says PatersonPaterson has implied that the Coalition would consider taking similar action to the US on TikTok.TikTok will pose a national security risk...

The tradie turned ultra marathoner has run 1,300km in ten daysBrockmann, 25, has raised $1.3m for people experiencing homelessnessAs night closed in on Nedd Brockmann’s quest to run 1,000 miles (1,609.3km) in 10 days, the loneliness of Australia’s favourite long-distance runner could be felt by every member of a 1000-strong crowd who crowded into Sydney Olympic Park on Sunday to cheer him home.The former...

Opposition home affairs spokesman says ceasefire in Lebanon and Gaza can only happen when Hezbollah and Hamas are ‘degraded’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has accused the Coalition of shifting positions on the US alliance and Middle East ceasefires for political reasons, after it appeared to...

Fifteenth century explorer’s true origins revealed after DNA analysis from samples buried in Seville CathedralThe centuries-old mystery over Christopher Columbus’s nationality has been revealed by scientists in a Spanish TV documentary after using DNA analysis.The 15th explorer was Jewish and from Spain, according to Columbus DNA: His True Origin, a programme broadcast on national broadcaster RTVE on Saturday to mark Spain celebrating its national...

Frustration grows with chancellor locked away in Treasury and facing competing challenges for her historic speech• Labour MPs urge Reeves to spend tens of billions more on ailing public services• Tax wealth and value public assets: how Reeves can solve her biggest budget challengesOn Saturday Keir Starmer and his government had been in office for 100 difficult days. Far-right riots, rows between top officials...

About 70 colleagues have written to chancellor ahead of budget pleading for her to commit to rewriting fiscal rules• How Labour promises have left Rachel Reeves with a giant budget headache• Tax wealth and value public assets: how Reeves can solve her biggest budget challengesScores of Labour MPs are pleading with Rachel Reeves to embrace spending tens of billions more on ailing public services...

British scientists have developed simple ways for those in danger areas to make complex medical equipment quicklyTwo shattering events played a critical role in British scientists’ efforts to develop technology that could transform the treatment of people who suffer traumatic injuries in wars or disasters.The first was the blast that devastated Beirut on 4 August 2020, when a vast store of ammonium nitrate exploded...

Deputy opposition leader says she’s heartened community members made it clear racism has no place in her electorateFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPolice have been required to break up a group of white supremacists demonstrating in a small town on the New South Wales-Victoria border.About 50 people were demonstrating in Corowa,...

Russian foreign minister says final declaration not adopted because of attempts by US, Japan, South Korea, Australia and NZ ‘to turn it into a purely political statement’Russia and China blocked a proposed consensus statement for the East Asia Summit drafted by south-east Asian countries, mainly over objections to language on the contested South China Sea, a US official said on Saturday.A draft statement arrived...

This blog has now closed. You can read all our coverage of the Israel-Gaza war here and Israel’s invasion of Lebanon here.Images on the newswires show Palestinians fleeing areas in the northern Gaza Strip after a fresh Israeli evacuation order:In a separate post on X to the one we reported on earlier (see 9.38am BST), Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee reiterated an earlier call...

A popular Facebook group posts videos of animals seen a half-mile from a well-populated Anchorage neighborhoodMillions of people worldwide tuned in for a remote Alaska national park’s “Fat Bear Week” celebration this month, as captivating livestream camera footage caught the chubby predators chomping on salmon and fattening up for the winter.But in the vast state known for its abundant wildlife, the magical and sometimes...

The Republican and Democratic presidential candidates are campaigning with election day just over three weeks away. This blog is now closed.Our latest polling shows Harris and Trump are neck-and-neck, with Trump gaining ground on Harris in crucial swing states.Robert Tait reports: “the Guardian’s 10-day polling average tracker showed the vice-president and Democratic nominee with a two-point nationwide lead, 48% to 46%, over her Republican...

More than 1.5 million people still without power as damaged communities confront lengthy rebuildingThousands of people who fled the onrushing Hurricane Milton are facing fuel shortages, debris and long traffic jams as they return to damaged Florida communities that are confronted with lengthy rebuilds.Millions of people were urged to evacuate before Milton, which slammed into western Florida on Wednesday as a category 3 hurricane,...

Rights group in Caracas says at least 40 people affected, as Maduro government continues clampdown on oppositionThe Venezuelan government has cancelled the passports of dozens of journalists and activists since President Nicolás Maduro claimed a re-election victory, part of what rights groups said is an intensifying campaign of repression against the authoritarian president’s opponents, the Financial Times has reported.At least 40 people, mostly journalists...

Jenny Donnelly, leader of anti-trans Don’t Mess With Our Kids, bills first pre-election event as rallying call for mothersTens of thousands of Christians poured onto the National Mall on Saturday to atone, pray and take a stand for America – which, in their view, has been poisoned by secularism and must be ruled instead by a Christian god.Summoned to Washington DC by the multilevel...

The PM has backed transport secretary Louise Haigh after she called ferry firm a ‘rogue operator’, threatening investment summit• Gaby Hinsliff: It’s been 100 first days of woe but Keir Starmer should take heart, Tony Blair’s weren’t a picnic eitherKeir Starmer expressed his full confidence on Saturday in the transport secretary, Louise Haigh, after an explosive cabinet row cast fresh doubt over his Downing...

Release of vice-president’s medical history highlights questions around Trump’s physical and mental fitnessKamala Harris on Saturday released a report on her health and medical history, which found that “she possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the presidency” if voters elect her in November.A senior aide to Harris, 59, said the vice-president’s advisers viewed the publication of the...

Roughly 400,000 people trapped in latest offensive with most of territory under evacuation ordersAt least 22 people have been killed in airstrikes in northern Gaza, with Israeli forces stepping up their campaign on the besieged Palestinian territory even as fighting in the new war in Lebanon escalates.On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) renewed its evacuation orders for Palestinians still living in the decimated...

Shooting incident in Kurram district between rival tribes follows attack on coalmine in south-west Pakistan At least 11 people have been killed in tribal clashes in the north-west of Pakistan, a local official has said.Tensions rose in Kurram district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, after two people were critically injured in a shooting incident between rival tribes. It was not immediately clear what caused the shooting....

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni among those admiring Berlinguer as new film and exhibitions celebrate his role as a unifierEnrico Berlinguer was a giant of the Italian left in the 1970s and 80s, coming close to leading the Communist party into government through a “historic compromise” with the country’s Christian Democrats, and championing “Eurocommunism”, a liberal, anti-Stalinist version of Marxism that briefly swept the continent.But...

French navy helicopter winched woman from the sea, but she was later pronounced deadA woman has died after going overboard from a passenger ship off the Channel Islands.The French coastguard said it received a distress message saying a woman in her 20s had gone overboard north of Les Casquets rocks, west of Alderney, shortly after midnight on Saturday. The woman went overboard from the...