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Former England cricket captain to take place of Jim Bowen in revival of darts-themed gameshowAndrew Flintoff is to relaunch his television hosting career by fronting a one-off Christmas special of the gameshow Bullseye.It will be Flintoff’s first presenting role since he was airlifted from a serious car accident while filming Top Gear in December 2022. The crash left him with facial injuries and broken...

One year on, we speak to those who have lost more than 50 relatives and who call some ministers’ support for the Israeli government ‘shameful’Daughter of hostage held by Hamas describes her family’s pain and traumaIn September 2023, 45-year-old Mohammed Ghalayini travelled to Gaza from Manchester, where he had lived since 2004, to visit family. He was still there on 7 October when Hamas’s...

Deadliest mainland hurricane to strike US since Katrina caused widespread flooding and major power outagesHurricane Helene hit the Florida coastline last week as a category 4 hurricane with mean wind speeds of 140mph, making it the strongest hurricane on record to hit the Florida big bend region. It carried on northwards through several states in the south-eastern US, causing significant devastation. Two hundred people...

NSW police fired at two men in a car allegedly driven at them, while in Hillside, Victoria police shot a man allegedly armed with a knife at scene of stabbingFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThree men have been shot by police in two separate and unrelated incidents – with two fighting...

The former US president will campaign for Kamala Harris, starting in the crucial battleground state Pennsylvania that could decide the electionFormer president Barack Obama will crisscross the battleground states for Kamala Harris, with a kickoff in all-important Pennsylvania next week, according to a senior Harris campaign official.Obama will hold his first event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania next Thursday, the beginning of a blitz across the...

Party offered company bosses event with business secretary, but Ed Miliband says Jonathan Reynolds knew nothing of itUK politics live – latest updatesEd Miliband has urged his party to stop selling access to senior government ministers, after it emerged Labour had offered company bosses breakfast with the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, for up to £30,000.The energy secretary defended his cabinet colleague on Friday, saying...

Brian ‘Smash’ Chladil made the coments while speaking at the Australian Women in Music Awards conference on TuesdayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe co-founder of Oztix has apologised for saying women’s clothing at work can be a “distraction” to “pent-up” male colleagues who are away from their wives, while speaking at...

Police interested in speaking with women around the world they believe may have met alleged victim’s husband on dating appsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueensland police have cast a nationwide and international call to women linked to the husband of a woman who was found dead in suspicious circumstances near a...

Exclusive: Study suggests people more willing to reduce own carbon footprint if they see leaders doing the samePolitical leaders “walking the talk” on climate action by flying less or eating less meat could be a “crucial missing link” in fighting global heating, according to a study.Researchers found that people are significantly more willing to reduce their own carbon footprint if they see leaders doing...

Marty Thomas’s heroics on Indian Rocks Beach one of few uplifting stories after storm kills at least 200 peopleA man living in a Florida island city that was inundated with Hurricane Helene’s deadly storm surge reportedly used his surfboard to rescue about a dozen of his neighbors – as well as pets – from flooded homes.As told by WTVT, Marty Thomas’s heroics on Indian...

This blog is now closedAnti-corruption raid at Parliament House related to Department of Parliamentary Services, sources sayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA joint police statement warns “there will be no tolerance for illegal behaviour or violence on any day of the year” in the lead-up to protests planned for the 7 October anniversary.The statement comes from NSW police, Northern...

Freedom of information documents reveal mining magnate lobbying National Gallery chair over Vincent Namatjira portraitsBillionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart not only wanted two unflattering portraits of her removed from exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia; she wanted them “permanently disposed of”.According to emails released by the museum under freedom of information laws on Thursday, Rinehart sought the assistance of the NGA’s chair, Ryan...

Candidate passed over in 2022 when former Labor senator Kristina Keneally was parachuted into seat before losing to independent Dai LeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor has set up the electoral battle for Fowler that could have taken place in 2022, announcing Tu Le as its candidate to take on the...

Reports suggest strikes were targeting Hashem Safieddine, seen as most likely candidate to replace Hassan NasrallahMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe Israeli military launched a series of strikes on southern Beirut on Thursday night, in one of the most intense bombardments on the city since the campaign began last week as Hezbollah continued to attack northern Israel.The raids came as Israel also cut off...

Kenneth Newcombe, formerly CEO of C-Quest Capital, indicted over allegations of carbon credit manipulationA former carbon offsetting executive has been charged with fraud by US federal authorities, who allege that he helped to manipulate data from projects in rural Africa and Asia to fraudulently obtain carbon credits worth tens of millions of dollars.Kenneth Newcombe, former CEO of C-Quest Capital LLC and a leading figure...

Exclusive: Guardian analysis suggests foundation has reduced gambling group’s tax bill by as much as £140mA charity set up by the billionaire boss of Bet365, Denise Coates, may have saved her online gambling empire more in tax than the foundation has yet given to good causes, Guardian analysis suggests.The Coates family are among Britain’s biggest taxpayers, and contributed an estimated £376m to the exchequer...

Israeli former prime minister says in interview it is too late to significantly set back Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, and that a ‘massive’ attack on Iran’s oil facilities is likelyMiddle East crisis: live updatesIsrael is likely to mount a large-scale airstrike against Iran’s oil industry and possibly a symbolic attack on a military target related to its nuclear programme, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak...

Democratic vice-presidential candidate spoke virtually at advocacy group Emgage Action’s eventIn a final push to engage Muslim voters ahead of the election, Tim Walz called for the end of the war in Gaza and pledged that, if elected, the Harris administration would work “side by side” with Muslim Americans.The Democratic vice-presidential candidate joined Muslim advocacy group Emgage Action’s Million Muslim Votes: A Way Forward...

Republican and former Wyoming representative appeals to undecided voters in Ripon, Wisconsin, on ThursdayLiz Cheney, one of Donald Trump’s most prominent conservative critics, appealed to the millions of undecided Americans who could decide the outcome of the 2024 election, asking them to “reject the depraved cruelty” of the former president.A former representative from Wyoming, Cheney cast the stakes in November as nothing less than...

People of Nabatieh are told to leave, adding to mass displacement, and multiple airstrikes are heard in capitalThe Israeli military has ordered evacuations of a Lebanese city and other communities north of a UN-declared buffer zone, signalling that it may widen a ground operation launched earlier this week against Hezbollah.On Thursday, Israel told people to leave Nabatieh, a provincial capital in southern Lebanon, and...

Agreement to hand back UK’s last African colony follows 13 rounds of negotiations and international pressureThe UK has agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending years of bitter dispute over Britain’s last African colony.The agreement will allow a right of return for Chagossians, who the UK expelled from their homes in the 1960s and 1970s, in what has been described as...

Conclusion of search launched by 1993 picture puzzle book leaves chouetteurs with mixed emotionsSomewhere in France, a small statuette of a bird in flight has emerged from the soil in which it has lain buried for more than three decades. The quest for the golden owl, one of the world’s longest-running treasure hunts, appears finally to be over.“A potentially winning solution is being verified,”...

Horace Chang, deputy PM of country with highest homicide rate, praises US attorneys generals’ support for legislationJamaica’s deputy prime minister has welcomed a campaign by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, to push through new measures and legislation to tackle gun trafficking from the US to the Caribbean.Horace Chang, who is also Jamaica’s minister of security, praised a coalition of 14 US attorneys...

Regulator says advert by publisher of the Citizen newspaper ‘likely to harm national unity’ Tanzania has suspended the online operations of a top newspaper publisher after one of its publications ran an animated advert depicting the country’s president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, and referencing a spate of recent abductions and killings of dissidents.The advert, published on X and Instagram on Tuesday by the Citizen, an...