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The 27-year-old man from Maryborough is alleged to have had 23,000 photographs and videos stored on a hard drive Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Police say a Queensland man charged with 596 child abuse offences used false identities online to groom and coerce children – mostly aged seven to 15 – in Australia and o…

Exclusive: David O’Sullivan says war-based economy may be nearing point of becoming ‘unsustainable’ Western sanctions are having a “significant impact” on the Russian economy, the EU’s sanctions envoy has said, ahead of the fourth anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. David O’Sullivan, a veteran Irish official, said sanctions were “not a silver bullet” and would always face circ…

Governor JB Pritzker pledges to put ‘science, preparedness and people’ first by participating in global response network The Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, has announced that his state will join the World Health Organization ’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), following Donald Trump ’s decision to withdraw the US from the global body in 2025. Pritzker, a Democrat, made the ann…

Gus was last seen playing outside home on family sheep station in September, with his disappearance declared a major crime Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Someone who lived with four-year-old Gus Lamont is now considered a suspect in his disappearance, SA police said on Thursday as they declared the case a major crime. Four-year-old Gus Lamont disappeared from his fam…

Darcy Tinning, 19, allegedly made threat ahead of Herzog’s planned visit and made remark that constitutes hate speech, court hears Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A teenager has appeared in court after allegedly threatening the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, ahead of his contentious visit to Australia. Darcy Tinning, 19, has been accused of threatening to shoot the …

Ex-House speaker says at dinner ‘facts are challenged, truth is distorted and press is treated as enemy’ by those in power The Democratic former speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, said on Wednesday that press freedom is “under siege” in the United States after the Trump administration arrested a prominent journalist and searched the home of another. The warning from Pelosi comes on the same day …

Today show host acknowledges reports of alleged ransom letter and calls for safe return of 84-year-old mother online Today show host Savannah Guthrie, along with her siblings Annie and Cameron, has published a video statement calling for the safe return of their 84-year-old mother Nancy Guthrie, who was reported missing on Sunday. In a video posted to Instagram on Wednesday, the siblings said tha…

Cauchi, who lived with schizophrenia, killed six people in 2024 Westfield shopping centre stabbing before being shot dead by police inspector Amy Scott Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast It was a “major failing” for Joel Cauchi’s former psychiatrist not to recognise he had relapsed in the lead up to the Bondi Junctio…

Industry bigger than all but seven world economies, and accounts for more than third of China’s economic growth China’s clean energy industries drove more than 90% of the country’s investment growth last year, making the sectors bigger than all but seven of the world’s economies, a new analysis has shown . For the second time in three years, the report showed the manufacture, installation and exp…

The message, believed to be from Ghislaine Maxwell, was released as part of the latest tranche of the Epstein files An email believed to have been sent by Ghislaine Maxwell appears to confirm a photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with his arm around Virginia Giuffre’s waist is real. The message, released as part of the latest tranche of the Epstein files, was headed “draft statement” and sen…

Luke Pollard says blueprint expected last autumn is ‘a bigger task than many people outside defence realise’ A government minister has defended long delays to a military spending plan that are also stalling the UK’s next-generation Tempest fighter jet programme, but refused to say when it will be complete. The defence investment plan (DIP), originally expected last autumn, has faced repeated post…

Major obstacles to viable deal remain after Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Moscow of violating energy truce Ukrainian and Russian negotiators have held a “productive” first round of US-led peace talks in Abu Dhabi, as Washington seeks a pathway to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine. The two-day trilateral talks that are due to continue on Thursday come after Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Moscow o…

By age 20 diagnosis rates for men and women almost equal, research finds, challenging assumptions of gender discrepancy Females may be just as likely to be autistic as males but boys are up to four times more likely to be diagnosed in childhood, according to a large-scale study . Research led by the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden scrutinised the diagnosis rates of autism for people born in Swede…

Alphabet reports $34.5bn profit and revenue soars 48% in recent quarter as it plans a sharp increase in AI spending Google’s parent company, Alphabet, beat Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, and is planning a sharp increase in capital spending in 2026 as it continues to invest deeply in AI infrastructure. Alphabet on Wednesday reported profit of $34.5bn in the recently ended quarter, as reven…

Two-decade study indicates a diet rich in foods such as olive oil, nuts and vegetables can cut risk of every type of stroke A Mediterranean diet can reduce the risk of every type of stroke, in some cases by as much as 25%, a large study conducted over two decades suggests. A diet rich in olive oil, nuts, seafood, whole grains and vegetables has previously been linked to a number of health benefit…