Healthcare graduates most satisfied with choice of course, UK data shows

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Official agency’s figures indicate those who took journalism or marketing far more likely to regret their decision

The UK’s most satisfied graduates are those who studied healthcare subjects, while those who opted for journalism or marketing are far more likely to regret their choices, according to data obtained by the Guardian.

Vets, midwives and paramedics were the happiest with their degrees after entering the workforce, alongside those who studied vocational subjects such as architecture, computer science and construction, and were most likely to say they would study the same course if they were making their university choices again.

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UK lender offers 98% mortgage to first-time buyers – but bars bank of mum and dad

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Newcastle building society aims for those with smaller deposits and no help hoping to get on to housing ladder

First-time buyers are being offered the chance to borrow up to 98% of the price of a property – but they cannot get help with their deposit from the bank of mum and dad.

Newcastle building society’s First Step mortgage is designed to help those who have been saving to get on the housing ladder.

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Universities around the world cut ties with Israeli academia over Gaza war

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Educational bodies from Europe to South America are boycotting Israeli institutions, though Universities UK said it did not support the action

A growing number of universities, academic institutions and scholarly bodies around the world are cutting links with Israeli academia amid claims that it is complicit in the Israeli government’s actions towards Palestinians.

According to Gaza’s health ministry, more than 63,000 people have been killed in the territory – the majority of them civilians – with the true toll likely far higher. UN-backed experts have confirmed parts of Gaza, much of which has been reduced to rubble, are now in a “man-made” famine.

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Widow of Charlie Kirk says her ‘cries will echo around the world like a battle cry’

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In statement Friday, Erika Kirk says ‘evildoers responsible for my husband’s assassination have no idea what they have done’

Erika Kirk, the widow of rightwing activist and provocateur Charlie Kirk, said in a statement Friday evening that her late husband’s message and mission will be “stronger, bolder, louder and greater than ever” and that her “cries will echo around the world like a battle cry”.

“I loved knowing one of his mottos was ‘never surrender’,” she said of her late husband. “We’ll never surrender.”

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7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes near the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka region – NBC News

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  1. 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes near the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka region  NBC News
  2. 7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Russia’s Far East  The New York Times
  3. A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake strikes near the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka region  ABC News
  4. Update: 7.5 earthquake off East Coast of Kamchatka Russia; No tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi  Maui Now
  5. No tsunami threat to Hawaii after 7.4M earthquake hits Russia’s Kamchatka region  KITV
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Victorian Liberals must unite or face ‘crisis’, president warns as moderates swat away challenge for power

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Philip Davis pleads for rival groups to ‘kiss and make up’ after divisive campaign to replace him

The president of the Victorian Liberals, Philip Davis, has warned his party to unite ahead of the 2026 election or “we will be in a crisis”, after he survived a leadership challenge.

Davis defeated his immediate predecessor, Greg Mirabella, in a vote at the Victorian Liberal party’s state council at Moonee Valley racecourse on Saturday by 493 votes to 397.

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Can Keir survive? Inside the plot to bring down the prime minister

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With his government mired in scandal, an operation to dethrone Starmer is now under way

There has been a joke going around Labour MPs over the past week about three envelopes in Soviet Russia. “Whenever you run into trouble, open them in order,” the instructions go. Envelope one says: “Blame your predecessor.” So he does – and it works. The party officials are satisfied. A year later, problems arise again. He opens envelope two. It says: “Restructure the organisation.”

He does a big reshuffle, changes some titles, and again buys himself some time. Finally, another crisis comes. He opens envelope three. It says: “Prepare three envelopes.”

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Six great reads: rebels in Nazi Germany, how creativity works and Europe’s biggest pornography conference

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Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the past seven days

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British ice dancer and same-sex skating partner to compete in Finland after rule change

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Mille Colling and Emma Aalto given go-ahead to compete in qualifier for national championships next month

A British ice dancer and her skating partner are to become Finland’s first same-sex team to take part in a competition after a rule change by the country’s skating federation.

Millie Colling, 20, who was born in Gateshead and moved to Finland at the age of six, and Emma Aalto, 19, will compete in a qualifier for the national championships next month after pressing for an amendment to the rules to allow them to enter as a team.

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Australia’s eSafety watchdog tells social media giants to shield kids from gruesome Kirk shooting footage

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Commission asked platforms to apply content warnings to protect children or others who do not want to see US shooting

Australia’s eSafety watchdog has asked social media companies to do more to guard children from seeing graphic footage of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk being shot dead.

Kirk, an ally to US president Donald Trump, was killed while speaking on a university campus in Utah on Thursday.

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France’s credit rating downgraded, with debt forecast to keep rising amid political turmoil

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Fitch downgrade to lowest level on record complicates new prime minister Sebastien Lecornu and President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to control France’s finances

The Fitch agency downgraded France’s credit rating on Friday, as President Emmanuel Macron struggles with political instability and disagreements on how to put the country’s strained public finances in order.

The US rating agency, one of the top global institutions gauging the financial solidity of sovereign borrowers, downgraded France on its ability to pay back debts, from “AA-” to “A+”, the country’s lowest level on record at a major credit rating agency.

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Hamas and Hezbollah among groups relisted by Australia for counter-terrorism sanctions

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Total of 33 groups and 10 individuals face continued financing sanctions as government adds new ‘entity linked to Hamas’

A trio of extremist organisations including Hamas, along with other entities and individuals, have been relisted for counter-terrorism financing sanctions.

Palestinian groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Lebanese group Hezbollah, along with 30 other entities and 10 individuals, have been relisted by the federal government for sanctions.

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