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Former NSW police officer has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies before concealing bodies in bags purchased from sports store Beau Lamarre-Condon was seen sizing up a surfboard bag used to dispose of a victim days before the police officer murdered two men, prosectors have alleged in a Sydney court, where chilling CCTV footage was shown to the jury. Lamarre-Condon has bee…

What caused the turtles to begin nesting farther north than usual is the ‘million dollar question’ A sea turtle crawled out of the surf in southern California last weekend around sunset and started laying eggs in the sand. People on Huntington Beach who saw the female olive ridley sea turtle were shocked and excited. And they weren’t the only ones freaking out, said Justin Viezbicke, the Californ…

Dockers supporters cannot buy a barrel of Woodside oil – but the fossil fuel company hopes to buy into fans’ loyalty Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast When an oil and gas company buys logo space on an AFL jersey, it isn’t trying to convince fans to buy its products. Fremantle Dockers supporters cannot, for example, …

Ker’Sean Ramey, 41, died by lethal injection, the sixth person to be executed by Texas officials this year A man found guilty of fatally shooting three people during a 2005 attempted robbery at a rural Texas home was executed Wednesday, a week after the other man convicted in the killings was put to death. Ker’Sean Ramey, 41, died by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He is…

Small crowd enjoys singer’s free concert in MacArthur Park, which has often drawn headlines for less cheery reasons With no announcement and little fanfare, Justin Bieber performed a free acoustic set on Monday at a Los Angeles park often in local headlines for less cheery reasons. In videos that surfaced online, four musicians flanked the global phenom, who wore a plain T-shirt and shorts as he …

Andy Burnham under pressure to revisit Brexit as poll suggests pledge to rejoin could boost Labour’s electoral chances Britain should work towards rejoining the EU in the next decade, Tony Blair has said, adding to growing pressure on Andy Burnham to abandon Labour’s reluctance to revisit the 2016 referendum. The former prime minister has urged Burnham to use his 10-year plan in November to put t…

In 2024 ethics filing, US health secretary pledged to ‘not engage in writing, editing, marketing or promotional services for any of these books during government service’ Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, received $4m over the last year in book advances from allies within the Make America Healthy Again movement, according to a new report. The advances were for upcoming books by Skyhor…

US president to give red-carpet treatment to Chinese counterpart despite tensions over AI development Trump greets Xi – live updates AI looms large over Trump-Xi meeting amid US-China distrust Donald Trump welcomed Xi Jinping to the US on Wednesday evening at the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, an unusually generous meeting to kick off the Chinese president’s state visit. For the world leaders’ sec…

Approach to treating high blood pressure ‘not fit for purpose’, say researchers, with 59% of cases undiagnosed Only half of people being treated by a GP for high blood pressure in England have it under control, and millions more are completely unaware they have the “silent killer” condition, research reveals. Most people with hypertension (59%) are in the dark and undiagnosed, raising their risk …

Prime minister says he expressed ‘disappointment’ to chief executive it had taken the company ‘way too long’ to inform his government about the breach Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese says an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare in June. The prime minister made the comm…

Proposals aim to push people into work, but charities say families are still paying price of austerity cuts and rise in cost of living People claiming universal credit (UC) would have their payments cut by a third if they have not paid enough national insurance, under a Conservative plan condemned by one charity as “a fast track to increased poverty”. Under the proposals, those who receive this “…

Courses such as finance and construction form part of PM’s push for education ‘that offers a path for everybody’ Teenagers are to be offered a range of new vocational GCSEs under a radical shake-up of the school system in England designed to tackle a crisis that has left nearly a million young people out of work or training. From 2029, pupils will be able to supplement compulsory GCSE subjects su…

Hundreds gathered on Tuesday night in anticipation of a small boat arriving in Gosport Three people have been charged in connection with anti-migrant protests which drew hundreds of demonstrators to a marina in Hampshire on Tuesday night. Six people were arrested by police, as anti-migrant activists who mistakenly believed a small boat was due to arrive at Gosport gathered in an attempt to disrup…

Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast In a busy day of dipolomacy, Anthony Albanese also announced Australia will provide $60m more in support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion as part of a fresh security agreement, Australian Associated Press reports. The prime minister met Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr ⁠Zelenskyy, on the sidelines o…

An emotional prime minister says that Kyiv’s cause is ‘an issue for the world’ as he also sets out the need for a new global order Anthony Albanese has announced Australia will provide $60m more in support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion during an emotional meeting with Volodymyr ⁠Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the UN meeting in New York. With the prime minister planning to use a key…