A 13-year-old girl has been charged with murder and arson after the body of a woman was found in a house in Northamptonshire. Firefighters and police officers discovered the body of a woman in her 40s in a house in Wellingborough in the early hours of Monday after reports of a fire at the property.…
Simon Holmes à Court has denied any ties between Climate 200 and a community media organisation the Coalition claims is peddling “disinformation” and promoting teal independent candidates. The Coalition has filed a complaint to the Australian Electoral Commission about the five digital newspapers owned by Gazette News. “I don’t know a lot about Gazette,” Holmes…
Lawyers for the former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte have demanded that he be returned to Manila in a petition filed to the supreme court, as victims of the former leaders’ bloody “war on drugs” expressed jubilation. Duterte, who was flown to The Hague on Tuesday night to face charges of crimes against humanity in relation…
Traditional owners say justice has been served for their people as the high court dismissed a commonwealth appeal in a landmark compensation case. The commonwealth lost the high court battle over whether it may be liable for up to $700m in compensation for bauxite mining at Gove in north-east Arnhem Land. Gumatj leaders Djawa Yunupingu…
The growing saltwater crocodile population in the Northern Territory has led to the creatures gorging on nine times more prey than they did 50 years ago, with the apex predators contributing important nutrients to Top End waterways, new research suggests. Saltwater crocodile populations have increased exponentially in recent decades, from less than 3,000 in 1971,…
The US Department of Education intends to lay off nearly half of its workforce. The layoffs of 1,300 people were announced by the department on Tuesday and described by the education secretary, Linda McMahon, as a “significant step toward restoring the greatness of the United States education system”. In a post on X, McMahon said:…
House Republicans pulled off a near party-line vote on Tuesday to pass their controversial funding bill to curb the looming government shutdown, shipping it off to the Senate, where it still will face an uphill battle to pass. The Trump-backed bill passed 217 to 213, with the Kentucky representative Thomas Massie casting the sole Republican…
The Trump administration said on Tuesday that Columbia University was “refusing to help” the Department of Homeland Security identify people for arrest on campus, after immigration authorities detained a prominent Palestinian activist and recent Columbia graduate over the weekend. The Trump White House’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said on Tuesday the administration had given the…
Portugal’s minority government has lost a vote of confidence in parliament, forcing its resignation and bringing the EU country’s third general election in three years. The exact vote count wasn’t immediately available, but the speaker of parliament, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, said the centre-right government was defeated. The government, a two-party alliance led by the Social…
A Pennsylvania man who was going through security at a New Jersey airport was found to have a live turtle concealed in his pants, according to the federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The turtle was detected on Friday after a body scanner alarm went off at Newark Liberty international airport. A TSA officer then conducted…
