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Police are expanding aerial searches near where the abandoned car of 41-year-old Trisha Graf was found Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast South Australian police hold grave fears for a woman missing in the outback for 16 days and have renewed search efforts near where her car was found abandoned. Trisha Graf was last seen in the early hours of Friday 12 December in the R…

Doctors say they blocked his right phrenic nerve in procedure that took place after jailed former president was hospitalised last week for hernia operation Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro underwent “a phrenic nerve block procedure” on Saturday to treat his persistent hiccups, his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, said on social media. The doctors treating Bolsonaro said later that they blocked t…

Open letter to Anthony Albanese calls antisemitism ‘a national crisis that demands a powerful national response’ Ten minutes of terror: how the Bondi mass shooting unfolded in real time – video Families of Jewish Australians killed in the Bondi shooting have demanded that Anthony Albanese call a commonwealth royal commission to investigate antisemitism and questions about law enforcement issues s…

Unions and thinktank urge action to save sector hit by sky-high energy bills, cheap imports and underinvestment Britain will lose a piece of its national identity if the country’s ceramics industry is allowed to descend further into crisis without state assistance, the government has been warned. Ceramics producers including the struggling potteries of Staffordshire have come under huge pressure …

Snowy holiday season in the upper midwest and north-east comes as a cold front is expected to hit the south A powerful winter storm was sweeping east from the Plains on Sunday, driven by what meteorologists describe as an intense cyclone that is expected to impact much of the US with a mixture of snow, ice, rain and strong winds. “Part of the storm system is getting heavy snow, other parts of the…

Kash Patel claims $250m scheme that stole Covid aid is ‘tip of iceberg’ and alleges state’s Somalia population is to blame The FBI has deployed additional personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to “dismantle large-scale fraud schemes exploiting federal programs”, director Kash Patel said on social media on Sunday. The FBI director said the agency had already dismantled a $250m fraud s…

Emergency services say ‘intense fire’ spread throughout semi-detached property in Hamstreet near Ashford A child has died and a second has been taken to hospital after a house fire in Kent, emergency services have said. The blaze occurred in White Admiral Way in the village of Hamstreet, near Ashford, on Sunday. Continue reading...

Hammonton police responded to a report of a midair crash that engulfed one helicopter in flames on Sunday morning One person is dead and another has been left critically injured after two helicopters crashed in a southern New Jersey town. Police in Hammonton, New Jersey, responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11.25am on Sunday, according to Denise Mazzeo, the town’s deputy municipal …

Republican senator Katie Britt also proposes AI companies be criminally liable if they expose minors to harmful ideas US senator Bernie Sanders amplified his recent criticism of artificial intelligence on Sunday, explicitly linking the financial ambition of “the richest people in the world” to economic insecurity for millions of Americans – and calling for a potential moratorium on new datacenter…

David Darke sustained fatal injuries in incident outside the Crown Inn in Appleby Magna, police say The relatives of a 66-year-old man who died days after being punched outside a village pub have paid tribute to the “devoted family man”. David Darke, who died in hospital on Saturday, was injured outside the Crown Inn in Appleby Magna, Leicestershire, on 21 December. Continue reading...

House armed services committee’s Mike Turner denied that military strikes showed new Trump approach to US forces US warns of more Nigeria strikes as Abuja talks of ‘joint ongoing operations’ A senior Republican on the US House armed services committee has said that the country’s recent military strikes in Nigeria and Syria are consistent with American foreign policy to combat Islamic extremism th…

Dissident released by Egypt was welcomed back to UK by Keir Starmer but offensive social media posts have since surfaced Successive UK governments are facing questions over their decision to campaign for the release and return of British-Egyptian democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah after past violent and offensive social media posts came to light. The dissident’s historical remarks – in which h…

Model turned actor never lost the poise from her dancing days – but she also made gingham and leopard print her own French screen legend dies aged 91 Brigitte Bardot: a life in pictures Obituary: star who shot to fame in the 1950s And God Created Woman, the title of the 1956 film that made Brigitte Bardot a global star, is the phrase that captures the magic of her. Bardot had an allure that was d…

UKHSA warns vulnerable and elderly people may be at risk with temperatures to drop severely overnight Amber cold health alerts have been issued for northern England, with low temperatures predicted to cause a “rise in deaths” among vulnerable and elderly people. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued two amber warnings for north-east and north-west England, which will be in place betwee…

Turnout appears low for vote in which most candidates seen as allies of junta and large areas excluded by war Polls have closed in conflict-racked Myanmar, ending the first phase of an election that has been widely condemned as a sham designed to legitimise the military junta’s rule. The military has touted the vote as a return to democracy almost five years after it seized power in a coup, ousti…