Filming for a new movie starring Daniel Day-Lewis was interrupted when traffic wardens in Chester began putting parking tickets on 1980s vehicles being used in the backdrop of a scene. Day-Lewis has come out of retirement for Anemone, which his son Ronan Day-Lewis is directing, and is starring alongside Sean Bean and Samantha Morton. Filming…
Protesters on the move as crowd condemn Albanese, Wong with shouts of ‘shame’ Emily Wind Speeches went for about an hour in Sydney’s Hyde Park, before protesters began marching as part of the pro-Palestine rally. The anger and frustration in the air was palpable as the crowd was led through a number of chants, taking…
Hon Hai Group’s headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan. Ceng Shou Yi | Nurphoto | Getty Images Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, beat expectations to post its highest-ever revenue for the third quarter on strong demand for artificial intelligence servers. Revenue for Apple’s biggest iPhone assembler jumped 20.2% year on year to 1.85 trillion Taiwanese dollars ($57.3 billion). “The result exceeded the…
It is “impossible” for the People’s Republic of China to become Taiwan’s motherland because Taiwan has older political roots, the island’s president has said. Lai Ching-te, who took office in May, is condemned by Beijing as a separatist. He rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims, saying the island is a country called the Republic of China that…
An eight-year-old girl has died and a woman is missing after a townhouse caught fire at Thorneside, south of Brisbane on Sunday. Queensland police told ABC reporters at the scene that they had “a strong belief” that the missing woman had been at the home when the fire took hold, and would not have survived.…
The federal government has hit back at Peter Dutton’s claims that Australia is at odds with its allies over the conflict in the Middle East, characterising this as “an intentional lie” that aims to fuel division. With more Australians expected to fly out of Lebanon on Sunday as Israel steps up strikes in southern Beirut,…
Kamala Harris pledged ongoing federal support and praised the “heroes among us” during a swing through hurricane-hit North Carolina on Saturday, her second trip in four days to the disaster zone. The vice-president began her visit by attending a briefing with state and local officials in Charlotte, where she thanked “those who are in the…
Florida is expected to get walloped by another hurricane next week, just 10 days after it was hit by Hurricane Helene, which caused widespread storm surge and wind damage before it moved inland to cause devastating flooding. The latest system, Tropical Storm Milton, formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday. Forecasters expect the storm…
The UK is “resolutely committed” to all of its overseas territories, the responsible foreign minister said, after Argentina vowed to gain “full sovereignty” of the Falkland Islands. Stephen Doughty said on Saturday that the sovereignty of the territories is “not up for negotiation”. Keir Starmer defended the UK relinquishing control of the Chagos Islands on…
Muslim and Jewish leaders today unite around an unprecedented joint statement calling the assaults on Israel on 7 October last year “brutal Hamas terrorist attacks” that led to a “devastating war in Gaza and beyond” which together have caused “horrific” human suffering. Joined by the archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby in the first high-level act…
