The first person charged with performing the Nazi salute in Victoria has been found guilty of the offence. Jacob Hersant, 25, stared straight ahead as a magistrate, Brett Sonnet, handed down his decision on Tuesday morning. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Hersant pleaded not guilty to performing the salute on 27 October…
A Dutch museum has recovered an artwork that looks like two empty beer cans after a staff member accidentally threw it in the rubbish bin thinking it was trash. The work, entitled All The Good Times We Spent Together by French artist Alexandre Lavet, appears on first glance to be two discarded and dented beer…
The risk of winter blackouts in Great Britain has tumbled to its lowest in four years even after the shutdown of the UK’s last coal plant, thanks to investments in low-carbon electricity sources. The National Energy System Operator (Neso) expects Britain’s winter power supplies to outstrip demand by almost 9% this year in its base…
Girls and young women are seeing more unwanted sexual images and suffering more cyberstalking online, but still don’t want to take a break from social media because of a fear of missing out, a survey for Girlguiding has found. “Fomo” is keeping more than half of 11- to 21-year-olds on apps such as TikTok, Snapchat…
Severe Covid infections can drive inflammation in the brain’s “control centre”, researchers say, leading to damage that may explain the long-term breathlessness, fatigue and anxiety some patients experience. High-resolution MRI scans of 30 people hospitalised with Covid early in the pandemic, before the introduction of vaccines, found signs of inflammation in the brainstem, a small…
An investigation has been launched after a 17-year-old boy died after a police chase. The teenage passenger was one of three males taken to hospital after the crash outside Central Middlesex hospital in Harrow, north-west London, at about 5.25am on Monday, the Metropolitan police said. A Ford Fiesta, with three male occupants, was being pursued…
For the first time in more than a century, salmon are swimming freely along the Klamath River and its tributaries, just days after the largest dam removal project in US history was completed. Researchers determined that Chinook salmon began migrating on 3 October into previously inaccessible habitat above the site of the former Iron Gate…
Mayors should be given major new powers, according to a report by the Starmerite thinktank Labour Together, which comes as officials put the finishing touches to a devolution paper due in the coming weeks. The report recommends using city and regional mayors to road-test new public sector schemes before they are rolled out nationally, and…
Oasis have expanded their phenomenally successful reunion tour to Australia, with a pair of gigs in Melbourne and Sydney. The band will play Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium on 31 October 2025, followed by Sydney’s Accor Stadium on 7 November. Tickets for the Melbourne show go on sale at 10am on Tuesday 15 October, while tickets for…
Tunisia’s president, Kais Saied, has secured a second five-year term with a landslide victory, although the election had one of the lowest turnouts in the north African country’s history. The Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) declared on Monday evening that Saied had won 90.7% of the vote in Sunday’s election, on a turnout of…
