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The juvenile humpback was spotted near Bundjalung National Park in what experts say is a rare, but not unprecedented event While the case of a whale found 11km upstream in a New South Wales river this weekend was unusual, it was not unprecedented, experts say. The juvenile humpback, which swam into the Clarence River on the state’s mid-north coast and later died, was towed out to sea on Sunday, a…

Plans to shed as many as 2,000 employees have been announced in stages, and staff fear further cuts in 2027 Morale at the BBC has been severely dented by a gradual “bloodletting” that has seen plans to shed as many as 2,000 staff slowly announced over several weeks, members of the corporation’s staff have warned. More internal meetings have been called for this week to discuss further details of …

Natural History Museum and British Museum among cultural institutions leveraging collections and exhibitions They are often free to visit but museums are bolstering their finances by putting their stamp on everything from upmarket hotel suites to trendy jumpsuits and virtual reality experiences. Forget buying a T-shirt. If you can afford the “from £724” price tag, you can spend the night in the N…

Study of remains taken from royal cemetery at Umm el-Qa’ab appears to confirm early Egyptologist’s theory Court officials and craftspeople serving early Egyptian kings may have been sacrificed when their ruler died, according to research that found fractures in several ancient skulls. The royal cemetery of Umm el-Qa’ab near Abydos features the tombs and enclosures of the First Dynasty rulers of E…

Jukka Salovaara, who served in London during Cool Britannia era, will be ‘very close’ to negotiations as Burnham government resets relations with EU Jukka Salovaara, the newly installed European Union ambassador to the UK, is likely to become a ubiquitous figure in national politics as the Andy Burnham government grapples with the question of its future relationship with the European Union. Burnh…

Nine years on from a failed independence push, former president Carles Puigdemont will find times have changed After years of legal wrangling, Spain’s constitutional court is expected to remove the last obstacle to the return of the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont after nearly nine years in exile this week. Puigdemont fled in 2017 to avoid being jailed for his part in the failed and il…

Experts say country does not have plan to feed people in a crisis and is unprepared for future shortages Britain does not have a plan for how to feed people in a crisis and is unprepared for potential future food shortages, according to a warning from more than 150 experts delivered to Andy Burnham. The climate crisis, geopolitical shocks, cyber-attacks and energy outages are among the threats to…

Officers were responding to reports a car had driven into a tree 84km north of Yass on Sunday Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A man has been shot dead by police in regional New South Wales after allegedly aiming a loaded rifle at officers responding to a car crash. NSW police were responding to reports that a car had driven into a tree on a road 84km north of Yass abo…

Barnaby Joyce defends move, saying party will lease space from mining billionaire’s company at commercial rates Barnaby Joyce says there’s no conflict of interest between One Nation and the mining billionaire Gina Rinehart after it was revealed that Australia’s richest woman had bought a new multimillion-dollar Brisbane office for the minor party to lease. The One Nation MP said the party’s natio…

Fitness influencer, 46, faces court on Monday after his arrest in Noosa at the weekend The fitness influencer and reality TV star Sam Wood has been charged in Queensland with domestic violence offences. The personal trainer and star of the third season of reality TV show The Bachelor was charged on Sunday and spent the weekend in police custody after an alleged incident on Saturday night. Continu…

The actor, who is performing on the West End, was filmed telling theatre fans ‘you can’t come 20 times and sit in the front row, it’ll drive me mad’ Gillian Anderson has come under fire after the actor was filmed telling a group of fans that they were “distracting” her by repeatedly sitting in the front row while she performs in London’s West End. The Sex Education and X-Files star was filmed out…

Far-right challenger and son of disgraced ex-president Jair Bolsonaro will now face leftwing president in runoff vote Brazil’s presidential race will go to a second round after the far-right candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro, beat the incumbent leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, but failed to secure the outright majority he needed to avoid a runoff. With more than 99% of votes counted, the …

The announcement came hours after Iranian-backed Houthis reportedly cut a vital supply route to besieged city of Taiz Yemen’s Saudi-backed government has announced the start of a new military operation to retake all territory held by the Houthis, even as the militant group made fresh gains on the ground, reportedly encircling a government-held city. Rashad al-Alimi, the head of Yemen’s presidenti…

Beni Rae Harmony, 24, has been ‘a trusted voice for the MAGA movement as a White House correspondent’, White House says The White House has defended a newly hired press aide who posed for a holiday photograph in 2021 wearing a “Fuck Joe Biden” T-shirt and holding a rifle. Beni Rae Harmony, the new assistant White House press secretary, revealed on Friday that she was going to work for Donald Trum…

Only 150 of 2,189 titles published in UK for young children last year focused on minority ethnic, disabled or neurodivergent characters The number of children’s books featuring Black main characters fell by almost 8% last year, according to research into diversity in UK publishing. Just 47 – or 2.1% – of the 2,189 books published for under-10s in 2025 featured a Black main character, a 7.8% fall …