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Worth £6bn and with revenues recently rising by 10.9%, the niche interest game has become a global business You don’t need to spend your weekends organising a face-off between bloodthirsty orcs and elves to have heard of the game Warhammer. So popular is the fantasy game that its parent company Games Workshop is valued at a staggering £6bn and is almost ever-present on British high streets. Conti…

Three-page letter acknowledged that while Peter Malinauskas could not direct festival board, he was ‘deeply concerned’ Palestinian Australian author’s invitation not rescinded Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A letter sent by the South Australian premier to the Adelaide writers’ week board criticising the inclusion of Palestinian Australian writer Randa Abdel-Fattah in…

Child in a critical condition in hospital after being pulled from the water in Vaucluse at about 4.20pm Sunday Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A boy has been attacked by a shark in Sydney’s east and is in a critical condition after suffering serious injuries to both legs. The boy, believed to be aged about 12, was pulled from the water at Shark beach, in the eastern s…

Newly appointed Cambridge professor says feat would accelerate scientific knowledge by an order of magnitude Dark, hungry and inescapable: black holes are often portrayed as the ultimate cosmic villains. But now astronomers are preparing to capture a movie of a supermassive black hole in action for the first time, in observations that could help reveal another side to these elusive – and perhaps …

Call for UK state to step in after Gupta-owned Dalzell works in Scotland unable to produce metal for three new warships A shipbuilder for the Royal Navy faces an uncertain wait for the steel to build three warships because of a shortage of cash at the Scottish steel mill that has won the contract. Liberty Steel Dalzell in Scotland has been unable to start production in earnest because there is “n…

Tony Cholerton created Robovacc to inoculate a timid tiger at London zoo – but says it could administer jabs to badgers It began with the tiger who wouldn’t come to tea. Cinta was so shy that she refused to feed when keepers at London zoo were around, and staff wondered how they would ever administer the young animal’s vaccinations without traumatising her. So Tony Cholerton, a zookeeper who had …

Executive Council of Australia Jewry implores Anthony Albanese and Sussan Ley to thrash out deal after government splits contentious bill Jewish leaders have warned Labor and the Coalition their community remains at risk from the promotion of antisemitic hatred, urging a last-minute compromise to secure tough new hate speech laws ahead of a special sitting of parliament. After Anthony Albanese ag…

Government extends grip on north after stalled efforts under Ahmed al-Sharaa to reach accommodation with Kurds and fold their forces into national army Syria’s army has taken control of swathes of the country’s north, dislodging Kurdish forces from territory over which they held effective autonomy for more than a decade. State media said on Saturday that the army took over the northern city of Ta…

Donald Trump will lead the largest US delegation ever at the World Economic Forum, as others plan a fightback against his policies “A Spirit of Dialogue”: the theme for this year’s World Economic Forum, the gathering of the global elite in the sparkling Alpine air of Davos, seems a heroic stretch, when star guest Donald Trump has spent the past year smashing up the world order. The president will…

Many believed a US president would – for the first time – rescue them but now people can only despair after mass arrests and brutality When Donald Trump, said he would “rescue” protesters if Iranian authorities started shooting, Siavash Shirzad believed the US president. The 38-year-old father had seen protests rise up before, only to be brutally crushed by authorities. But this was the first tim…

Kyrylo Budanov arrives in US heading delegation for further talks on peace proposals. What we know on day 1,425 Russia is taking aim at Ukraine’s nuclear power system , Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday, as the Kremlin continues to try to freeze Ukraine into submission by crippling its energy grid. “We do not see any willingness on the part of the aggressor to comply with any agreements or end t…

Island’s PM joins demonstration chanting ‘Greenland is not for sale’ while rallies held across Danish realm Trump threatens 25% tariff on European allies until Denmark sells Greenland to US Thousands of Greenlanders carefully marched across snow and ice to take a stand against Donald Trump on Saturday. They held signs of protest, waved their national flag and chanted “Greenland is not for sale” i…

Woman killed by tree branch as NSW SES records more than 800 calls for help. Follow updates live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Evacuation order on Sydney’s northern beaches as Australia’s east coast smashed by stormy weather Australia’s east coast is being smashed by summer storms as residents are told to evacuate. Within that concentrated area is where you could ge…

Using one of his favourite weapons to win an argument, the president underlines the unstable nature of any deal with Trump Donald Trump’s threat to impose fresh tariffs on eight European countries – UK, Norway and six EU member states – is a wrecking ball to the carefully stitched deals he concluded with those countries last summer. It also disregards the fact that individual member states do not…

Israel says some appointments to the board, which will oversee the administration and reconstruction of Gaza, are ‘contrary to policy’ Israel has objected to the White House’s pick of world leaders who will join the so-called Gaza “board of peace”, meant to temporarily oversee governance and reconstruction in the strip. The White House and other sources announced a flurry of appointments and invi…