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Vincent Chan, 45, is already facing years behind bars for molesting girls aged three and four at a nursery in London A paedophile nursery worker has admitted a series of new charges including filming up the skirts of girls as they sat in a classroom. Vincent Chan, 45, is facing years behind bars for molesting girls aged three and four while working at Bright Horizons nursery in West Hampstead, no…

The departure of Greg Bovino has not quelled ICE’s raids – and hope that tensions are easing feels distant When the belligerent border patrol official Gregory Bovino finally left the Twin Cities this week, there was hope that the tension in the region would dissipate. But in the wake of the deaths of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, residents say they are still dealing with immigration raids an…

Kevin Couch says he ‘resigned yesterday’, amid recent turmoil following a leadership overhaul initiated by Trump The newly appointed senior vice-president of artistic programming at Washington DC’s John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Kevin Couch, has resigned less than two weeks after his hiring was announced. Couch confirmed he “resigned yesterday” in a statement to the Guardian on Th…

Exclusive: Acoss report shows property investors received $12.3bn in tax concessions in 2025, while the share of social housing dropped to a record low Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia spends billions of dollars more on tax breaks for property investors than on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined, according to research by the Australian …

Albanese government awarded contracts to MTC despite allegations of ‘gross negligence’ in the US involvement with ICE Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Australian government’s main immigration detention contractor is playing a key role in Donald Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown and has attracted a string of complaints over its treatment of Immigration and Cust…

Workers and union say outsourcing will mean loss of knowledge and experience needed to help ‘very vulnerable people’ waiting for government payments Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A group of call centre staff kept on short-term contracts at the government department responsible for workplace standards will be replaced by a third-party contractor, with their union war…

Eleven guthega skinks could soon become 13 thanks to a captive breeding program in the Alpine national park Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Eleven endangered skinks released into a gated community in Victoria’s Alpine national park could soon become 13, with a female known as Omeo due to give birth in March. One of Australia’s only alpine lizards, guthega skinks live …

Giving passengers right to additional carry-on baggage would be ‘terrible for the consumer’, warns airline’s CEO EasyJet said proposals to enforce free additional cabin bags on planes across Europe are a “lunatic idea”, warning of fare rises and flight delays if legislation goes through. The European parliament last week voted overwhelmingly to give all passengers the right to carry on a small ca…

Turkey hosts urgent mediation as Trump’s threats mount and Tehran weighs painful compromises to avoid conflict Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi will travel to Ankara for talks aimed at preventing a US attack, as Turkish diplomats seek to persuade Tehran it must offer concessions over its nuclear programme if it is to avert a potentially devastating conflict. Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip …

Paul Patterson, who represented the firm at the public inquiry, will become non-executive chair in March The European boss of Fujitsu, the company behind the Horizon software at the heart of the Post Office IT scandal, is to step down from his role in March. Paul Patterson, who is the chief executive of the European division of the company, will become non-executive chair of Fujitsu’s UK business…

Projects this year expected to triple global gas capacity, forecast finds, as concerns grow over impacts on planet The US is leading a huge global surge in new gas-fired power generation that will cause a major leap in planet-heating emissions , with this record boom driven by the expansion of energy-hungry datacenters to service artificial intelligence , according to a new forecast. This year is…

Report into actions of Yaser Jabbar from 2017 to 2022 says 36 of the patients suffered severe harm under his care Nearly 100 children suffered harm at the hands of a Great Ormond Street orthopaedic surgeon, a report has concluded. Great Ormond Street hospital (Gosh) published a review on Thursday into the actions of Yaser Jabbar, who treated hundreds of children from 2017 to 2022. Thirty-six chil…

Leo Ross was stabbed to death in knife attack as he walked home from school A teenager has pleaded guilty to murdering 12-year-old Birmingham schoolboy Leo Ross by stabbing him in the stomach during a random attack in parkland. Leo died after being taken to hospital from a riverside path in Shire Country Park, Hall Green, Birmingham, on 21 January last year. Continue reading...

Pan Europe found several pesticide residues in 85% of apples, with some showing traces of up to seven chemicals Environmental groups have raised the alarm after finding toxic “pesticide cocktails” in apples sold across Europe. Pan Europe , a coalition of NGOs campaigning against pesticide use, had about 60 apples bought in 13 European countries – including France, Spain, Italy and Poland – analys…

Serving in Senate in 2007, Klobuchar ran in 2020 Democratic presidential primary before endorsing Biden Amy Klobuchar , the Democratic US senator and one-time presidential candidate, announced she will run for governor of Minnesota , an expected move after the incumbent governor, Tim Walz , dropped out of the race in early January. “Minnesota, we’ve been through a lot,” Klobuchar said in a video …