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Authorities declined to file charges against napping woman whose truck accelerated on to field during youth game A soccer mom napping in her pickup truck when it suddenly accelerated on to the field at a Kansas youth tournament where her child was playing, killing two people , won’t face criminal charges, a prosecutor has said. Investigators believe the 34-year-old woman had failed to put the Che…

Peoria officials said a bomb was found at BioUrja Renewables and later defused; FBI said it is investigating Residents were ordered to evacuate parts of an Illinois community on Friday after the mayor there said authorities found a bomb at a local ethanol- and alcohol-production plant. The discovery reported at BioUrja Renewables in Peoria triggered a mandatory evacuation over a one-mile evacuati…

Met Office says overnight frost to give way on Saturday to ‘fine day with some sunshine’ in most regions The UK should have a milder weekend as the unusual autumn freeze eases off, after cold health alerts were issued and temperatures plummeted overnight, forecasters have said. After frost on Saturday morning, most of the UK should enjoy a “fine day with some sunshine”, the Met Office said. Howev…

People around the world have contended with unprecedented weather events and their fatal effects caused by the climate catastrophe After the world’s hottest summer since records began in 1850, the death toll from extreme weather in 2026 is already in the high tens of thousands. That is a conservative estimate and is certain to rise much higher. As Cop31 continues and scientists warn that climate …

Members of Congress and advocates warn that returning people to their home countries could be a death sentence Dozens of Afghans who are currently in the US but fear being deported back to Afghanistan along with a larger group and possibly killed by the Taliban are experiencing “fragile relief” this weekend after it appeared that the Trump administration had put on hold plans to remove them withi…

Questions remain about reason for leak, safety of drinking water and where salt can be sourced for roads during winter When water last month began gushing through a crack in the ceiling of a Morton Salt mine in Ohio, the company had only one option: shut the mine down for good. For locals in and around Fairport Harbor, it means the loss of 77 jobs; but for the wider region, which depends on its s…

‘We have further to go,’ says Huw Pill after increase to 4% last month as Bank seeks to tackle rising inflation The Bank of England will probably need to raise interest rates next month and again in early 2027 to combat rising inflation, its chief economist has said. Signalling a sharp rise in mortgage payments for an estimated 2.3 million homeowners who will have to refinance their loans next ye…

Experts warn of risks of platforms hosting bets tied to US public health – including vaccine mandates and drug trials The sign was pasted on a construction fence next to an elementary school in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. “Vaccines,” it proclaimed in bold capital letters against a blue star-spangled background – appearing, at first glance, to be like any other public health message on …

Tech company says services now restored to all customers and regions hit by one of worst IT failures in years Microsoft has said its service is fully restored after a massive outage that caused widespread disruption to governments, businesses and public services around the world . The technology company said on Saturday morning it had restored service to the remaining customers affected by one of…

Activists dumped rocks off Norfolk coast on site of Burnham-backed project in protest against seabed trawling The giant offshore windfarms backed by Andy Burnham this week may face unexpected stumbling blocks after Greenpeace activists unwittingly dumped about 15 tonnes of boulders on to the site as part of a campaign against seabed trawling in the North Sea. Greenpeace created the “boulder barri…

Undercover ITV report also shows inadequate welfare checks at ex-military base run by firm of asylum camp billionaire Graham King Asylum seekers accommodated at a controversial military base in East Sussex have been subjected to inadequate welfare checks, and torture survivors may have been placed there unlawfully, a new undercover documentary for ITV has revealed. Mass accommodation sites are ce…

Eurotunnel owner Getlink wants to replicate ‘airport experience’ at Folkestone and Calais, without making people get out of cars Airport-style passport and fingerprinting controls are to be introduced at Eurotunnel in an attempt to prevent “short-term and long-term chaos” in Folkestone and Calais. In a breakthrough for travellers, the European Commission has agreed to a new system in which an “ea…

Prospect of partial return to Budapest by Central European University suggests confidence in Hungary’s future A university that Viktor Orbán tried to chase out of Hungary is open to expanding its presence in Budapest, in a mark of confidence in the country’s democratic future. Carsten Q Schneider, the interim president and rector of Central European University (CEU), said it was interested in inc…

Sydney and Melbourne airports say grounding of planes from US airports led to delays for some flights US flight outage – live updates Some US bound flights from Sydney Airport have been grounded in response to American authorities halting departures and delaying landings at all US airports . Flights from Melbourne Airport were also affected, with passengers expected to depart for Los Angeles shor…

The former coalminer’s claim Australians are being ‘demographically replaced’ sparked wide criticism, but his party has shown no signs of dumping him Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast In a Facebook video from a Sydney anti-immigration rally on Sunday, as a man dressed like a medieval knight watches on, One Nation leader upper house candidate Stuart Bonds launches into a…