A infant has been killed and four children and an adult injured in a horrific house fire in Tasmania on Sunday morning. Police and emergency services responded to reports of a fire at Rokeby shortly before 9am. The house was alight when fire crews arrived to contain the blaze. A child and an adult were…
A Queensland man has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly setting fire to a woman in a horrific act of domestic violence in a home south of Brisbane. After being treated by paramedics at the scene in the Logan suburb of Kingston on Saturday morning, the 34-year-old woman was rushed to the Royal Brisbane…
It’s not unusual to see individuals championed as heroes of climate action, with their efforts to install rooftop solar and buy electric cars promoted as pivotal in the fight to save the planet. Hero figures can motivate others to follow suit, but a University of Sydney study suggests the way the energy sector shapes this…
Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s former deputy prime minister, kicked off her bid to lead Canada by boasting: “Donald Trump doesn’t like me very much” in a campaign video that quickly went viral. For Freeland, who led Canada’s re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade agreement (Nafta) with the United States and Mexico during Trump’s first term,…
Two judges have been killed in a shooting on Saturday at the supreme court building in Tehran, Iranian state media has reported. “This morning, a gunman infiltrated the supreme court in a planned act of assassination of two brave and experienced judges. The two judges were martyred in the act,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website…
A fuel tanker exploded after flipping over in central Nigeria on Saturday, killing 70 people who had scrambled to take the fuel. Kumar Tsukwam, the head of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Niger State, said a truck carrying 60,000 litres of gasoline had an accident at about 10am at the Dikko junction on…
The UK is set to introduce digital driving licences this year as the government looks to use technology to “transform public services”. The digital version of driving licences will be available in a virtual wallet in a government app, instead of being added to existing Google or Apple wallets. It could be accepted as a…
A ski lift has collapsed at a Spanish resort, injuring dozens of people, nine of them very seriously and eight seriously, the regional government has said. Around 80 people remained trapped, hanging in the chairlift at the ski resort of Astún, in the region of Aragon, according to the state TV channel TVE. “It’s like…
Israel has ‘failed to achieve its aggressive goals’ in Gaza, says Hamas Hamas said on Saturday that Israel had “failed to achieve its aggressive goals” in Gaza, a day before the start of a ceasefire and hostage release deal it agreed with Israel. Israel “only succeeded in committing war crimes that disgrace the dignity of…
“Illegal or barely legal” working practices are rife in the UK’s TV industry, new research has revealed. Workers in post-production roles, including editors, designers and special effects artists, are regularly being paid below the minimum wage and experiencing “unacceptable” conditions, such as hours spent in dark, unventilated rooms and exposure to traumatic content with no…
