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Trumponomics To Gen Z's Rise: Top 10 Trends Of 2025 That Reshaped The World
Geopolitical conflicts, the growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI), and a rise in climate disasters like floods and cyclones - the year 2025 saw a lot of shifts globally, for good or bad.
Australia news live: Bragg says ‘every back yard’ could fit a new house or granny flat as he ties Liberal party’s future to housing
Shadow housing minister urges Liberals to seriously address housing affordability. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAlbanese and Ley respond to tragic firefighter deathThe prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has issued a statement after the death of a firefighter who was battling a blaze at Bulahdelah on the NSW mid-north coast.My heart goes out to the loved ones and colleagues of the firefighter who has tragically lost their life in the Bulahdelah bushfire. All Australians are thinking of you in your time of grief.This terrible news is a sombre reminder of the dangers that our emergency services personnel face to keep our homes and communities safe – and the extraordinary courage that their job demands. We honour that bravery, every day.All Australians are with the firefighter’s family, friends and the team who worked beside him. Our emergency services put themselves in harm’s way to keep Australians safe. Today we mourn this terrible loss. Continue reading...
Release secured of 100 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren but many still being held
Gunmen abducted 315 pupils and staff last month from St Mary’s school in Niger state as part of spate of kidnappingsNigerian authorities have secured the release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school last month, a UN source and local media said on Sunday, though the fate of another 165 students and staff thought to remain in captivity remained unclear.In November 315 students and staff were kidnapped from St Mary’s co-educational boarding school in north-central Niger state, as the country buckled under a wave of mass abductions reminiscent of the infamous 2014 Boko Haram abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok. Continue reading...
Ilhan Omar says Trump’s anti-Somali tirade ‘completely disgusting’
Minnesota representative says ‘hateful rhetoric’ can lead to ‘dangerous actions by people who listen to the president’US House member Ilhan Omar on Sunday defended the Somali community in her Minnesota congressional district, saying it was “completely disgusting” when Donald Trump recently referred to them as garbage.“These are Americans that he is calling ‘garbage,’” Omar, a Somalia-born Democrat, said while responding to the president’s remarks on CBS’s Face the Nation. “I think it is also really important for us to remember that this kind of hateful rhetoric – and this level of dehumanizing – can lead to dangerous actions by people who listen to the president.” Continue reading...
Firefighter dies in NSW as premier warns of ‘foreboding’ start to bushfire season
Member of national parks firefighting team killed by tree at Bulahdelah in ‘deeply distressing turn of events’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA firefighter has died on the New South Wales mid-north coast, as the state’s premier issued a warning about a “foreboding beginning” to the bushfire season.The deputy secretary of the NSW national parks and wildlife service, Alex Graham, on Monday said she was very saddened to confirm the death of one of their firefighters overnight. Continue reading...
Anthony Albanese warns of ‘difficult’ bushfire season ahead as almost 40 homes lost in NSW and Tasmania
Disaster payments announced after 16 homes destroyed in Koolewong and four at Bulahdelah, and 19 homes lost in TasmaniaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has warned of a “difficult” summer bushfire season ahead, as a natural disaster was declared in parts of New South Wales and crews battling more than 70 fires gained the upper hand on Sunday.The most destructive blaze – an out-of-control bushfire at Koolewong, not far from built-up areas of the Central Coast – destroyed 16 homes on Saturday. The threat had eased by midday on Sunday as strong winds gave way to a cool change.Central CoastMid coastUpper HunterMuswellbrookWarrumbungleDubbo Continue reading...
Man arrested after people at Heathrow allegedly attacked with ‘form of pepper spray’
Police think incident at airport car park involved theft of a suitcase and ‘people known to each other’A man has been arrested on suspicion of assault after people were allegedly attacked with a “form of pepper spray” at a multistorey car park at Heathrow airport Terminal 3, police have said.The Metropolitan police said armed officers were called to the terminal’s car park at about 8.11am to a report of people being assaulted. Continue reading...
Another Coup In Africa, Soldiers Appear On State TV To Announce Takeover
Military personnel in Benin on Sunday announced that they had ousted President Patrice Talon, although his entourage said he was safe and the army was regaining control.
Austrian Woman Left To Freeze On Mountain By Boyfriend Identified, Tributes Pour In
Prosecutors have alleged Plamberger left Gurtner "unprotected" to go for help around 2 am, but did not use the available emergency blankets or bivouac sack to protect her from the cold.
Water leak in the Louvre damages hundreds of works, museum says
Open valve in heating system affects 300 to 400 items just weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised security concernsA water leak in late November damaged several hundred works in the Louvre’s Egyptian department, the Paris museum said on Sunday, weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised concerns over its infrastructure.“Between 300 and 400 works” were affected by the leak discovered on 26 November, the museum’s deputy administrator, Francis Steinbock, said, describing them as “Egyptology journals” and “scientific documentation” used by researchers. Continue reading...
Keir Starmer to make Iceland boss Richard Walker a Labour peer
Appointment marks a rapid political transformation for a former Tory donor and potential candidate for MPThe formerly Conservative-supporting boss of the supermarket Iceland is to be made a Labour peer when the party appoints another 25 representatives to parliament’s upper house later this month.Keir Starmer will appoint Richard Walker to the House of Lords, the Guardian understands, the culmination of an unusual and rapid political transformation for someone named as a prospective Tory MP candidate a little over three years ago. Continue reading...
Thousands of patients in England at risk as GP referrals vanish into NHS ‘black hole’
Exclusive: Watchdog finds 14% of cases not put on hospital waiting lists, with many reporting worsening health and rising anxietyOne in seven people in England who need hospital care are not receiving it because their GP referral is lost, rejected or delayed, the NHS’s patient watchdog has found.Three-quarters (75%) of those trapped in this “referrals black hole” suffer harm to their physical or mental health as a result of not being added to the waiting list for tests or treatment. Continue reading...
