Democrat Scott Colom seals historic win in Mississippi Senate race
Colom is the first black person from the southern state elected to the US Senate in over 140 years.
New York building collapse kills one person and injures 12
Rescuers are searching for people who may be trapped under the rubble of the three-story building in Brooklyn.
Nigeria’s president launches re-election manifesto but can he regain voters’ trust?
For Nigerians to feel meaningful improvements, reforms will need to go beyond the promises outlined, analysts say.
Brooklyn building collapse kills at least one, traps others in wreckage
Three-story building was at the edge of a construction site where another edifice had been demolished
Firefighters dug through the rubble of a three-story building in Brooklyn on Wednesday after it collapsed at the edge of a construction site, killing at least one person and trapping others beneath the wreckage.
Firefighters were called to the scene in the borough’s Flatbush section at about 4pm. News helicopter footage showed dozens of firefighters scouring the debris, with a group homing in on one area and appearing to use a saw to cut through the wreckage.
Continue reading...Human torso found in sofa in Sydney bushland prompts homicide investigation
Police called to Lane Cove North on Wednesday after sofa found containing human torso believed to be that of adult man
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New South Wales police have launched a homicide investigation after a human torso was found in bushland on Sydney’s lower north shore.
Police were called to Lane Cove North about 2.30pm on Wednesday after reports of human remains.
Continue reading...Facial recognition errors put ethnic minorities at risk of wrongful arrest, police watchdog warns
Inspectors find some officers acted on potential matches from retrospective searches without making enough checks
Police officers risk arresting innocent people, especially from ethnic minorities, if they treat inaccurate facial recognition data as evidence, an official report has found.
Although the technology can help fight crime, the report found it is beset by errors and biases, and operators do not always realise they must make further inquiries to verify the data.
Continue reading...Bronze leg found in Scottish bog sheds new light on Roman occupation
Once thought to have been looted by Scottish tribes, the gilded limb is the centrepiece of a new exhibition on Roman Scotland in Edinburgh
A large bronze leg found in a bog in rural Scotland more than 200 years ago and then hidden away in a duke’s storeroom is helping to rewrite the history of the Roman empire.
Antiquarians argued that the so-called Mislington leg had been looted, perhaps from York, hacked off by marauding Scottish tribes and carried north over Hadrian’s Wall. “We cannot visualise the conditions which would have led to its erection anywhere north of the Great Wall,” said one scholar, James Curle, in 1932.
Continue reading...Hacker claims to have sold VCE exam papers to hundreds of students after government website hack
With year 12 exams under way, VCAA says there is no evidence any have leaked and hacker is attempting to exploit ‘anxious students’
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The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority’s website has been hacked during the state’s exam period, with the culprit launching a tirade of expletives and claiming without evidence to have accessed student papers.
On Wednesday evening, a message attributed to someone using the alias “DaggerElite” appeared on the VCAA’s homepage banner, claiming to have sold exam papers to “hundreds of students” across the state.
Continue reading...Two skulls likely belonging to enslaved people returned to Brazil after Harvard used them in eugenics studies
Remains believed to have belonged to Africans or Afro-Brazilians repatriated after being flown back by diplomats
Two skulls, including that of a man believed to have taken part in Brazil’s greatest slave revolt but whose remains were taken to the United States and used in racist eugenics studies at Harvard University, were repatriated on Wednesday.
The remains had been outside Brazil since the 19th century. One was taken about 190 years ago from Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia; the other, about 160 years ago, from Rio de Janeiro – and were welcomed back in moving, subdued ceremonies in both cities.
Continue reading...Clashes erupt in Barcelona after thousands join Spain general strike
Tens of thousands of people have been taking part in the strike, called by the country's main unions over housing and the high cost of living.
African writing award probe finds ‘no evidence’ winning story was AI generated
Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has also vehemently denied the allegation made in a US magazine.
Poundland owner extracted millions when chain was on ‘knife-edge’, MPs say
Retailer’s management to seek two-week extension of legal protection from creditors in high court
MPs have accused the owner of Poundland of extracting millions of pounds from the budget retailer when it was on a “knife-edge” as it seeks extra time to secure a rescue deal.
The management of Poundland, which employs 12,000 people and operates 600 stores in the UK and Ireland, will seek a two-week extension of legal protection from creditors from the high court on Thursday morning.
Continue reading...Trump planning new military assault or tighter sanctions, say Iranian officials
Regime adviser says Tehran could be forced into pre-emptive strikes if stalemate continues
Senior Iranian officials believe the US is planning either further military strikes or an ever-tightening economic stranglehold that will push Tehran into retaliatory action.
The assessment comes from Mehdi Mohammadi, an adviser to Iran’s chief negotiator in talks with the US, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
Continue reading...Famed ship SS United States to be sunk off coast of Florida
Activists unsuccessfully fought for the historic liner to be preserved and turned into a museum, but it will now become the world's largest artificial ocean reef.
Schools in Italy, Scotland and Northern Ireland hit by threats in suspected bomb hoax
More than 6,000 Italian schools received a threat. Authorities in all three countries say there appears to be no risk to the public.
Missing 11-month-old baby rescued after being buried alive in a crate in South Carolina
Officials say the child was found close to his father's home on Tuesday, a day after he was taken, and is being cared for in hospital.
Russia-Ukraine talks turn to post-war security but end without breakthrough
Talks in Abu Dhabi centred around Europe's security framework, with US envoys due to meet Putin and Zelensky on Thursday.
Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi bring progress on prisoners but not on peace
US envoys to visit Moscow and Dublin on Thursday for talks with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy respectively
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to the “largest prisoner exchange” of the war at their first US-brokered talks since February but made little progress towards a broader peace agreement.
Both sides sent senior delegations to the two-day talks, led by Donald Trump’s envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, in an effort to find a solution to end the nearly-five-year war.
Continue reading...Three Iran-backed suspects plotted attacks including RAF Fairford incident, US says
The US Department of Justice says the men were involved in a string of plots, including a major incident near the UK airbase that is used by US armed forces.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent relocated after alleged Iranian threats
Bessent is now one of several Trump administration officials to live on military bases due to safety concerns.