Australia’s housing crisis may be starting to ease with dwelling price rises tapering off and rents increasing at their slowest pace in four years, data groups say. Property values increased 0.4% in September, close to the 0.3% rise recorded for both the previous two months, CoreLogic reported. PropTrack’s housing index was basically flat, rising just…
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A former US national security adviser during Donald Trump’s presidency has dismissed the Republican White House nominee’s boasts that he would broker an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine if elected in November as “a real myth”. “I don’t really buy it,” HR McMaster said Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation. “I think it’s a…
A shareholder at a securities hall in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province in east China, on Sept. 24, 2024. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images China stocks rallied to their best day in 16 years, with related U.S. ETFs also soaring after recent economic stimulus buoyed investor optimism in the market. The Shanghai…
We’d like to find out more about the cost of being single and how much people pay compared to the cost for couples, or people with children. How much do you pay for your rent, mortgage, bills, holidays or entertainment? If you have paid a single supplement, how much did it cost? Do you have…
Israel’s defense minister tells ground troops in north ‘We will use all of our capabilities – including you’ Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, appears to have hinted that Israel intends to mount a ground invasion of Lebanon, after he told troops in the north of the country that “We will use all of our capabilities…
Liz Truss has said the Conservatives would have done better in July’s general election if she had stayed on as prime minister, during an often freewheeling one-off appearance at the Tory conference. Truss, who stepped down after 49 days in Downing Street, said that if she had had the support of her MPs and if…
A Democratic representative in a key battleground Senate race in Michigan told supporters she’s concerned about Kamala Harris’s chances in the state’s presidential election. “I’m not feeling my best right now about where we are on Kamala Harris in a place like Michigan,” Elissa Slotkin said at a fundraiser earlier this month, according to Axios.…
More than 200 people were killed in Nepal over the weekend in what experts described as some of the worst flash flooding to have hit the capital, Kathmandu, and the surrounding valleys. Swathes of Kathmandu were left underwater after the heaviest monsoon rains in two decades fell on Friday and Saturday, washing away entire neighbourhoods,…
A 96-year-old woman who was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving after killing another pensioner when her car mounted the pavement has been given a suspended sentence. June Mills, who used a wheelchair to appear at Liverpool crown court, was also disqualified from driving for five years. Mills was leaving a bridge club when…
