Shanghai hit by strongest typhoon in 75 years
Bebinca has forced thousands to evacuate and grounded all flights in the city's two main airports.
Jackson 5 singer Tito Jackson dead at 70
Tito was an original member of the Jackson Five pop group and brother of the late Michael Jackson.
Hong Kong: first person convicted under security law for wearing protest T-shirt
Chu Kai-pong, 27, pleaded guilty to ‘act with seditious intent’ for displaying slogan ‘Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times’
A man in Hong Kong has pleaded guilty to sedition for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan, becoming the first person to be convicted under the city’s controversial national security law known as Article 23, passed in March.
Chu Kai-pong, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of “doing acts with seditious intent”.
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Albanese says it’s a ‘good thing’ Trump is safe after apparent assassination attempt
Anthony Albanese has responded to news about an apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
Everyone wants the democratic process to be peaceful and to be orderly. This incident in the United States is of concern, again. It is good that President Trump has said that he is safe and that the incident, the details of which are still coming out, so it’s not quite clear all of those details but what is clear is that President Trump is safe. That is a good thing.
The first round of Labor’s Housing Australia Future Fund and National Housing Accord programs will deliver 4,220 social and 9,522 affordable homes, including 1,267 homes for women and children escaping domestic violence and older women at risk of homelessness.
In just the first round of these programs, the Albanese Government is directly supporting more social and affordable housing than the Liberals and Nationals did in their entire nine years in office.
Housing Australia has recommended contract negotiations for 185 projects, with construction on almost 40 per cent of the 13,742 dwellings forecast to get underway this financial year.
Round one of the programs’ funding will unlock $9.2 billion of investment in social and affordable housing across Commonwealth, State and Territory government, and the private and community housing sectors.
Violence and instability have become a feature, not a bug, of US political life
Another apparent Trump assassination attempt happened – as we brace for what has been dubbed ‘a tinderbox election’
It has happened again. Another serene and sunny weekend. Another lone suspect wielding a rifle. Another apparent bid to assassinate Donald Trump. And a nation hurtling into uncharted territory 50 days from a presidential election.
On Sunday, Secret Service agents opened fire after seeing a man with a rifle near Trump’s West Palm Beach golf club in Florida while the Republican candidate was playing. The suspect fled in an SUV and was later apprehended by local law enforcement.
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A suspect is in custody after the incident, which occurred at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida
Palm Beach county sheriff’s office is hosting its press conference.
According to authorities, a witness said: “I saw the guy running out in the bushes.”
Continue reading...Perth airport runway undergoes emergency repairs after Qantas plane takeoff
Video of QF71 taking off on Sunday shows parts of airport’s damaged main runway lifting up as plane accelerates
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An accelerating Qantas plane has caused extensive damage to a Perth runway, forcing its closure and emergency repairs.
Video of Singapore-bound QF71’s takeoff at about midday on Sunday shows the plane increasing speed as a large part of Perth airport’s main runway lifts up behind the plane.
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Continue reading...Tito Jackson, Jackson 5 member and brother to Michael, dies aged 70
The third of nine Jackson children and last to release a solo project, Tito was ‘incredible man who cared about everyone’
Tito Jackson, one of the brothers who made up the pop group the Jackson 5, has died at the age of 70.
Tito was the third of nine Jackson children, including global superstars Michael and sister Janet.
Continue reading...Trump rushed to safety and suspect held after man spotted with rifle
A gunman pointed a rifle at the former president on his Florida golf course, in what the FBI calls an apparent assassination attempt.
Germany reintroduces border checks to far-right praise as EU tensions mount
Olaf Scholz’s government says ‘acute dangers’ led to decision but some EU criticise ‘unacceptable’ decision
Germany has reintroduced temporary checks at all nine of its land borders in a move that has drawn criticism from several of its European partners but praise from the far right.
The embattled coalition government in Berlin said last week that checks already being carried out on its borders with Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland would be extended to France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark.
Continue reading...How apparent assassination attempt unfolded, in 60 seconds
Donald Trump has been targeted in an alleged assassination attempt, for the second time in a matter of months.
Couple accused of murdering teen to steal baby acquitted
Robert and Anne Geeves were accused of killing an intellectually disabled teen to steal her baby.
Daylesford driver looked ‘wasted’ after pub crash that killed five, witness says
Police allege William Swale drove SUV into families having lunch outside Royal Daylesford hotel, killing two children and three adults
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A wine cellar worker has described finding a driver inside his car looking “like he was wasted” a minute after a crash killing five patrons outside a pub.
William Swale, 66, faced the first day of a committal hearing in Ballarat on Monday over the November 2023 crash that killed two children and three adults in Victoria’s Daylesford.
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Continue reading...Solved: the mystery of how Victorians built Crystal Palace in just 190 days
Rapid assembly of structure for 1851 Great Exhibition in London was possible thanks to nut-and-bolt revolution
It was built at unprecedented speed to exhibit the British empire’s greatest treasures and manufacturing achievements to the world. Now, the mystery of how the Victorians managed to erect the Crystal Palace so quickly in 1851 has finally been solved.
Experts have discovered that the answer to this 173-year-old riddle lies in the first known use of standardised nuts and bolts in construction – a humble engineering innovation that would power the British empire and revolutionise the industrial world.
Continue reading...Valued GP ‘will be forced to leave UK’ after autistic daughter refused visa
London-based doctor Tajwer Siddiqui says Home Office rules are separating him from his wife and Alina, 19
An experienced and highly regarded doctor who is working at a GP surgery in east London says he has no choice but to walk away from his job because the Home Office is separating him from his wife and autistic daughter.
Tajwer Siddiqui says he has found himself in this situation at a time when the number of full-time GPs in the UK is falling.
Continue reading...‘Bulldoze your way through’: Anthony Albanese compared to Scott Morrison in climate trigger stoush
Sarah Hanson-Young says PM needs to negotiate with senators after he appeared to rule out adding a climate trigger to proposed environmental laws
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Anthony Albanese has been rebuked by the Senate crossbench for all but ruling out a climate trigger in environment legislation, with his take-it-or-leave-it stance compared to Scott Morrison’s description of himself as a “bulldozer”.
On Monday the independent senator David Pocock labelled the prime minister’s position “really disappointing” while the Greens’ environment spokesperson, Sarah Hanson-Young, warned the PM it is “not leadership to bulldoze your way through”.
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Continue reading...Canberra shivers through coldest September morning ever as south-east Australia records freezing temperatures
Capital’s weather falls to -6.9C on Monday while parts of inland NSW drop below zero and SA town has coldest September morning in more than 62 years
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Much of Australia’s south-east shivered through freezing temperatures overnight, with another frosty morning forecast for Tuesday before temperatures warm back up.
Canberra marked its coldest September morning on record, reaching -6.9C on Monday. The previous September record of -6.8C was set 12 years ago in 2012.
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Continue reading...Suspect held after apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump at Florida golf course
Ex-president ‘safe and well’ after Secret Service agents opened fire when they spotted person with firearm
A suspect has been arrested and an AK-47 style assault rifle and scope recovered at a Donald Trump golf course in Florida as the FBI investigated what “appears to be an attempted assassination” of the former president.
On Sunday afternoon, Secret Service agents scouting the course ahead of where Trump was playing spotted the muzzle of a firearm poking through a fence in a wooded area at the Trump International club in West Palm Beach, officials said.
Continue reading...Young people addicted to ketamine a national problem, says UK expert
Situation potentially fuelled by people unable to access mental health services self-medicating, clinic founder says
Young people becoming addicted to ketamine is a national problem that is growing rapidly, a leading addiction psychiatrist has said.
Specialist ketamine clinics have recorded a surge over the past two years in the numbers of young people coming through their doors, many of whom have struggled to engage with mainstream treatments. NHS and private clinics have also reported significant rises.
Owen Bowden-Jones, a consultant psychiatrist and founder of the pioneering Club Drug clinic, said he had seen a definite increase in young people after “a pretty big lift off” in ketamine’s popularity, making the drug a national problem.
Benefit sanctions more likely for minority ethnic claimants, UK data shows
Black universal credit claimants 58% more likely to get sanctions than white people, while mixed ethnic groups are 72% more likely
Black and minority ethnic benefit claimants are disproportionately likely to be hit with universal credit sanctions – financial penalties typically running into hundreds of pounds – according to official statistics unveiled for the first time.
Black universal credit claimants were 58% more likely to be sanctioned than white claimants, mixed ethnic groups were 72% more likely and Asians 5% more likely, according to the figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
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