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Exclusive: Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 10% of the true number of cases Katie’s story: her abusive ex-partner said ‘kill yourself’. When she did, police dropped domestic violence inquiry The number of women who are driven to suicide by domestic abusers is being under-reported, and their cases overlooked by police, in what has been described by experts as a “national…

After her death, police dropped a case examining Katie Madden’s former partner, despite evidence he had repeatedly told her to kill herself Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core Hours before Katie Madden took her own life, she had a tense phone call with her former partner Jonathon Russell. Russell was on bail after allegedly assaulting Madden – he was…

Retailers face penalties if they profited from promotions that breached consumer law. Follow today’s news live Good morning, and welcome to Monday. Nick Visser here to guide you through the day’s news. Here’s what’s on deck: The federal court will hold a hearing on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) case against Coles and Woolworths today after the consumer watchdog sued …

UK Health Security Agency urges parents in Enfield to get their children vaccinated as Easter holiday travels approach A big measles outbreak in north-east London is affecting unvaccinated children under the age of 10, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed. UKHSA previously reported 34 laboratory-confirmed measles cases among children who attend schools and nurseries in Enfield from…

Emails suggest former prince leaked information about RBS bailout and held meetings suggested by convicted sex offender The UK’s top prosecutor has said that “nobody is above the law” amid growing pressure on police to fully investigate Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s links with Jeffrey Epstein. Thames Valley police said earlier this week that they were in discussion with the Crown Prosecution Servi…

Unclear how encounter between Britain’s shortest-serving PM and US president was initiated and how long it lasted After spending time and resources crisscrossing the Atlantic to cultivate the support of the Maga faithful, Liz Truss has finally got the prize she apparently craved: a photo with Donald Trump. Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister tweeted a photo on Sunday showing her in the comp…

Talk of a stronger, independent Europe was the dominant mood in Munich amid bitter disagreement on Ukraine If JD Vance’s thuggish speech to last year’s Munich Security Conference, directed at the solar plexus of Europe, marked the moment when a transatlantic breakup started, this weekend’s conference, in a rainy and cold Bavaria, was where the debate about the terms of the divorce settlement got …

Ofelia Torres, 16, spotlighted her dad Ruben’s illegal detention last fall during Trump’s crackdown in Chicago A Chicago teenager, whose father was detained by immigration authorities while she navigated cancer, died on Friday, a family spokesperson said. Ofelia Torres, a 16-year-old in Chicago, had been undergoing treatment for an aggressive and rare form of cancer since late 2024. As she and he…

Defence chiefs write joint appeal urging public to prepare for threat of war with Russia with attendant costs As defence chiefs, we must warn you about Russia and say this: rearmament is not warmongering | Richard Knighton and Carsten Breuer Britain and Germany’s highest ranking military chiefs have made an unprecedented joint appeal to the public to accept the “moral” case for rearmament and pre…

Tragedy has prompted a wave of support for town from neighbouring communities and across country When Jim Caruso heard the news of the school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, he knew immediately he needed to be there. He packed his bags and boarded a plane for the community 700 miles away. “I wanted to be here to bring some level of comfort,” he said. “I wanted to hug people, pray for them and, most im…

Authorities ask neighbors within two-mile radius to send in any home video footage as search draws national attention The search for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC’s Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie, has entered its third week, as investigators ask neighbors within a two-mile radius to send in any home video footage. Nancy Guthrie was last seen on the evening of 31 January, when s…

Reza Pahlavi, son of the last shah, tells 200,000 in Munich he is ready to lead country to a ‘secular democratic future’ Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in rallies around the world to show their solidarity with anti-government demonstrators in Iran whose continued protests have been met with brutal and deadly repression . On Saturday, Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last sh…

Pentagon tracked sanctioned Veronica III from Caribbean Sea after it left Venezuela on day Maduro was captured US military forces boarded another sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela , the Pentagon said on Sunday. Venezuela had faced US sanctions on its oil for several years, relying on a s…

Yvette Cooper says claim against Kremlin ‘deeply serious’ while Russia dismisses western ‘feeblemindedness’ The UK is mulling fresh sanctions against Moscow after pinning blame on the Kremlin for the poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Yvette Cooper has suggested. The Foreign Office and four of the UK’s allies – Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands – announced on Sat…

Kaja Kallas says other countries ‘look up to us’ and rejects idea Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’ The EU’s foreign policy chief denied claims levelled by the US that Europe was facing civilisational erasure, rejecting what she condemned as “fashionable euro-bashing” by Washington. Kaja Kallas also insisted the US was discovering that it could not settle the war in Ukraine without Europe’s i…