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Man taken to hospital with minor injuries after shark attack at Point Plomer beach Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A surfer has been taken to hospital after being bitten by a shark off the coast of a New South Wales national park campground, the state’s fourth incident in 48 hours. The Mid North Coast Local Health…

Red caps are becoming a symbol of protest in Denmark as Donald Trump ratchets up the pressure on Greenland Red baseball caps spoofing Donald Trump’s Maga hats have become a symbol of Danish and Greenlandic defiance against the US president’s threat to seize the frozen territory. The caps reading “Make America Go Away” – parodying Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan – have gained popularity,…

Major disturbance in the Earth’s magnetic field may make northern lights visible far more south than usual The aurora could be visible across Canada and much of the northern tier of US states on Monday night, and possibly even further south, following a major disturbance in the Earth’s magnetic field, a forecast shows. The forecast, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s space…

Liberal MPs likely to vote for watered-down hate speech provisions and new powers to legally designate extremist organisations Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Labor says moves to legislate “the strongest hate speech laws that Australia’s ever had” are close to success, with Liberal MPs expected to support tough ne…

Life of Eraring power station in Lake Macquarie extended to April 2029, Origin Energy says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s largest coal-fired power plant, Eraring, will stay open for an extra two years until 2029, amid concerns about the national energy grid’s ability to support demand ahead of the sta…

Cancer charity highlights apparent ‘postcode lottery’ of testing and diagnoses across different regions seen in study Prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer across the UK, surpassing breast cancer, according to a leading charity. There were 64,425 diagnoses of prostate cancer in 2022, an analysis of NHS figures by Prostate Cancer UK found, and 61,640 new cases of breast…

Guidance for GPs and nurses says other factors should be taken into account, such as changes in behaviour A child’s body mass index should not be the key factor when deciding which under-18s get help for an eating disorder, the NHS has told health professionals. The new guidance from NHS England to GPs and nurses follows criticism that over-reliance on BMI has led to children who have an illness …

Government, Bank of England and FCA criticised for taking ‘wait-and-see’ approach to AI use in financial sector Consumers and the UK financial system are being exposed to “serious harm” by the failure of government and the Bank of England to get a grip on the risks posed by artificial intelligence, an influential parliamentary committee has warned. In a new report, MPs on the Treasury committee c…

Government replaces recruitment goal with plan to increase ‘education exports’ to £40bn a year by 2030 Ministers are scrapping target numbers for international students in the UK and will instead focus on encouraging universities to open hubs abroad, as part of a plan to bring British education to people “on their own doorsteps”. The government’s new international education strategy will set a ta…

Holiday marked with parades and services but tempered by anxieties over racial and social equality under Trump Martin Luther King Jr Day was marked with parades and services across the US on Monday. But the celebration for the achievements of the slain 60s civil rights leader was tempered by contemporary anxieties over racial and social equality and Trump administration’s crackdown in Minneapolis…

Exclusive: Campaigners claim changes will let companies ‘off the hook’, as government prepares to unveil new white paper for water industry Water companies could be let off fines for polluting the environment under changes announced in the government’s new white paper. The environment secretary, Emma Reynolds, hailed the changes as “once-in-a-generation reforms” featuring “tough oversight, real a…

Victor Manuel Diaz was found unresponsive at Camp East Montana in what ICE officials claim is ‘presumed suicide’ Who is on the frontline of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown? A second man being held at a US immigration detention facility in Texas has died in two weeks, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) said on Monday. Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, originally from Nicaragua, was found “u…

PM says US tariffs are in no one’s interests – and Greenland row should be resolved through ‘calm discussion’ UK politics live – latest updates Europe live – latest updates Keir Starmer has played down the prospect of retaliatory tariffs on the US, after Donald Trump threatened to impose fresh levies against Nato allies if a deal over Greenland is not reached. The prime minister said US tariffs w…

Case confirmed in a person recently returned from Thailand. Follow updates live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Good morning, Krishani Dhanji with you here for another very busy sitting day of parliament. It’s the second of two special sitting days, and it’s crunch time for the government make an agreement with the Coalition to pass its hate speech bill – something lo…

Officials say death toll likely to rise as rescuers continue to comb through wreckage in remote area of Andalucía Spain will begin three days of mourning on Tuesday as rescuers continue to comb through the wreckage of twisted train cars and scattered debris to locate victims after a train collision that killed at least 40 people and injured dozens. On Monday, more than 18 hours after a high-speed…