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Three people stabbed in attack near Merrylands train station Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A man is in custody after three people were stabbed near a train station in western Sydney, leaving one of them dead. Police responded to reports of the stabbing in Merrylands, about 10am on Tuesday. Continue reading...

Supermarket defends pricing practices after ACCC labels discounts ‘utterly misleading’ in federal court case Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Coles has defended its promotional prices in a high-profile court case brought by the consumer watchdog, arguing that shoppers would understand the supermarket’s well-known “…

London police say criminal gangs are using Snapchat to offer cash rewards of up to £380 for stolen iPhones Gangs are recruiting children to go out to steal smartphones before they head to school, using Snapchat to offer rewards of up to £380 for the latest Apple iPhones, police have revealed. The Metropolitan police said they were deploying new resources including drones and Surron ebikes to chas…

Messages from ex-wife of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to sex offender, sent after his conviction, came to light last month Six companies linked to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, are being wound down in the wake of revelations about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. According to Companies House, an application to strike off each company was filed after new details about F…

Exclusive: First meeting to be held over domestic payments system aimed at reducing reliance on US networks UK bank bosses will hold their first meeting to establish a national alternative to Visa and Mastercard, amid growing fears over Donald Trump’s ability to turn off US-owned payment systems. The meeting, chaired by Barclays’ UK chief executive, Vim Maru, will take place this Thursday and bri…

Stuart Leslie, 46, and Shaun Overy, 51, died while skiing off-piste in Val d’Isère amid red avalanche alert Two British skiers who died in an avalanche in the French Alps have been named as Stuart Leslie and Shaun Overy. The pair were part of a group of five people, accompanied by an instructor, skiing off-piste in Val d’Isère in south-east France on Friday when they were swept away by falling sn…

Premiership-winning Canterbury winger hit in stomach and leg in Greenacre shooting Former NRL star Matt Utai is in hospital fighting for his life after being shot multiple times in a public shooting. The 2004 premiership-winning Canterbury winger was shot outside a home in Greenacre, in western Sydney, at around 6am on Tuesday. Continue reading...

Advisory board member says Europe already paying price for lack of preparation but adapting is ‘not rocket science’ Keeping Europe safe from extreme weather “is not rocket science”, a top researcher has said, as the EU’s climate advisory board urges countries to prepare for a catastrophic 3C of global heating. Maarten van Aalst, a member of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change…

Police confirm suspect is one of dead in incident at boys’ hockey game that injured four in Pawtucket At least two people are dead in an apparent mass shooting at an indoor ice rink in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on Monday afternoon, officials told the WPRI local news outlet . Police confirmed to the outlet that the suspect is dead. A local sports reporter, Branden Mello, said that one of the shooti…

Abbas Araghchi is steeped in more than a decade of nuclear dealmaking with a book on the art of negotiations If the US and Iran are to avoid a regional war , both sides need to start to make concessions at talks in Geneva on Tuesday, and also to accommodate one another’s very different bargaining styles. The Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, steeped in almost 15 years of Iranian nuclear ta…

Judge says people should not lose chance of parenthood ‘by the ticking of a clock’ after 10-year deadline missed More than a dozen fertility patients have won a high court battle to save their embryos, eggs and sperm from destruction after errors meant they did not renew consent to store them within the 10-year window required by law. Ruling that the material could be kept, the judge said they sh…

State’s governor had demanded impartial inquiry into the shooting of the VA nurse by federal immigration agents Minnesota law enforcement authorities have said the FBI is refusing to share any evidence on its investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal immigration authorities in late January. Pretti was shot on 24 January by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials…

Seven in 10 experienced indirect racism, rising to nine in 10 Palestinian and Jewish students and staff, report finds. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Following the leak of immigration policy developed under former Liberal leader Sussan Ley on Monday, the new opposition leader, Angus Taylor, said he had not seen the plan, and that it had not b…

Calls grow for reform of England’s vaccination system including delivery of jabs in pharmacies as take-up falls Children are at risk of measles because the NHS is “clearly failing” to ensure they get the MMR vaccine and its system needs an urgent overhaul, MPs and health experts have warned. Calls for major reform of how MMR jabs are delivered are growing as it emerged that vaccination rates in s…

PM under fire from his own MPs and opposition leaders after ditching plan to postpone elections for 30 councils Why Starmer’s latest U-turn could be a gift for Reform Keir Starmer has been forced to abandon plans to delay local elections with less than three months’ notice in another policy U-turn that has prompted anger among his own MPs and scorn from opposition leaders. The prime minister is u…