From 1945 to 1989 security police relied on tens of thousands of spies to suppress dissent. To rebuild trust, their files will finally be made publicHungary’s new government will on Wednesday reveal the names of tens of thousands of state informants from the communist era in an a...
Woman among hundreds asking why electronic trackers not fitted before offenders leave prisonA domestic violence survivor who was punched, threatened with a knife and had her front door kicked in by her former partner is “living in terror” because he has still not been fitted with...
Survey finds UK government’s decision to impose trade ban was not a decisive factor in how Israelis voted in electionThe UK government’s decision to impose a ban on trade in goods from illegal settlements was not decisive in how Israelis voted in their general election, but a maj...
Yousef Jabareen says he is ready to join forces with opposition bloc to oust Benjamin Netanyahu after winning record number of seats in KnessetThe leader of Israel’s main Palestinian coalition, which holds the balance of power after Tuesday’s elections, has said the country is fa...
Paediatric early warning system (Pews) uses a vital signs scoring system to assess whether a child is deterioratingThe world’s largest “early warning system” to spot when sick children are dangerously deteriorating is being introduced in A&E departments across England, NHS leader...
More than 2.3m households face jump in payments in 2027, after expected increase in Bank of England rate this weekMore than 2.3m UK households face a sharp rise in mortgage payments as they come off fixed-rate deals in 2027, with the Bank of England expected to begin raising inte...
Frustration grows over the economy with one Labor MP saying voter anger is already high ahead of Reserve Bank of Australia decisionGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastThe NSW premier, Chris Minns, has warned an expected interest rate increase will force j...
Exclusive: Professional bodies call for regulation to boost confidence and protect public from abuse in ‘landmark’ reportMinisters should introduce statutory regulation for counsellors and psychotherapists to protect the public from abuse, according to a report that has been hail...
Commons committee says lack of coherent strategy is hampering business and leaving national security risks unaddressedThe UK is making up policy on China “as it goes along” and risks having its strategy dictated by Washington or Beijing, a parliamentary report has concluded.An in...
Judicial commission finds against Vicky Prapas over a series of comments, including one made when school children were presentGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA magistrate who told a court user “I want to slap you around a bit too” has come under fire fo...
‘I’m just happy to catch fish,’ Matthew Maurice says after landing 80cm barramundi as part of Northern Territory competitionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Darwin man is $1m richer after angling an 80cm, red-tagged barramundi during a night-time fishi...
Deployments of surveillance vans over five months result in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offendersGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than a million people have had their faces scanned in a trial of real-time fac...
The train disaster, one of Europe’s deadliest rail incidents this century, killed 69 people, including 54 SpaniardsFour US citizens and one each from Canada, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Tunisia and the Czech Republic were among the 69 killed in last week’s high-speed train collisio...
The train disaster, one of Europe’s deadliest rail incidents this century, killed 69 people, including 54 SpaniardsFour US citizens and one each from Canada, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Tunisia and the Czech Republic were among the 69 killed in last week’s high-speed train collisio...
President again took aim at progressive Senate candidate and lauded Haley Stevens for endorsing Mike RogersDonald Trump railed against Democratic US senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed at a campaign event in Iowa Sunday, repeatedly referring to the Michigan progressive as a “jihadist”....
Tilt comes after Michelle Landry announced she will not recontest her Queensland seat of CapricorniaGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastThe Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, will run in a lower house Queensland seat at the next federal election, in a move t...
Bowen Wan was on anti-seizure medication, and chatbot provided her with a tapering schedule to reduce dosageA woman’s death from an epileptic seizure after she received dangerous advice from a chatbot has prompted her parents to sue OpenAI earlier this week.The legal action is th...
It is unclear if anyone on the ground was hurt and no details yet on whether anyone onboard survivedA business jet carrying nine people crashed in a Florida neighborhood on Sunday, erupting in a massive fireball.The Learjet 60 crashed in a residential area in Florida’s Palm Beach...