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Former Sydney police officer, 31, has pleaded not guilty to murdering AFL umpire Jesse Baird and flight attendant Luke Davies Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Brand new AFL shorts, a Qantas card and other bloodied belongings were found in a dumpster two days after football umpire Jesse Baird and flight attendant Lu…

Loved ones describe Jordan Yap, 30, as an experienced hiker who set out for a 10-day solo trek Peru before falling silent Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Loved ones of a missing Australian trekker who was last seen nearly two weeks ago on a remote South American hiking trail are urging local authorities to help with the search. A wide-scale sweep by a private rescue c…

Police arrest couple in their 70s after Jonathan McKinsey, 40, found dead in park in Bay Area city of Dublin A married couple in their 70s have been arrested for allegedly shooting and killing their son-in-law, a New York Times engineer, in broad daylight at a suburban Bay Area park. A police officer found Jonathan McKinsey, 40, lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds in a park in Dublin…

GPT-6.1 Astra showed deceptive behavior and tried to use external tools despite knowing it would be unsafe OpenAI is scrapping the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation ⁠AI model planned for an October debut, over safety concerns raised by researchers ⁠during internal testing, the ⁠Wall ​Street Journal reported on Monday. The model, expected to appear in ChatGPT and ⁠Codex, was designed to …

Tran Hiep, a 50-year-old Australian Vietnamese anti-human trafficking campaigner, not heard from since 18 September The wife of an Australian activist missing in Cambodia has implored the federal government to find him and bring him home. Tran Hiep, a 50-year-old Australian Vietnamese democracy campaigner, was due to return to Bangkok, Thailand, to reunite with his wife Chloe Dang after a short t…

Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stay Christa Pike was 18 when she killed a classmate in a jealous rage and became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row. Now 50, she is scheduled to be put to death on Wednesday in what would be Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years. Pike and her boyfriend were c…

Outrage over treatment of alleged offenders, members of Chi Phi fraternity, has grown since lawsuit was made public Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Prosecutors in New York said on Monday that they have reopened an investigation into the alleged gang-rape of a student at Cornell University after an outcry over “leniency” shown to seven fraternity members named as the perpetrators…

Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast There were 30 drowning deaths in 2025-2026, the highest number in almost a decade, according to a Royal Life Saving Australia report that Australian Associated Press reports on. Of them, 14 involved more than one death, often related to boating, driving through floodwater, or people exploring unfamiliar enviro…

Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight different factors, including lost food production The biggest coal project before authorities in New South Wales, the HVO mine , will emit the equivalent of about 809m tonnes of climate-warming carbon dioxide if it wins approval. That number, for most people, will carry little meaning, as might the calculatio…

Amid conflicting statements, local MP and councillors demand answers over how suspects were allowed to enter residential areas of nearby village An MP and councillors representing the residents of the village near RAF Fairford who were evacuated due to a suspected terror plot have expressed scepticism and concern over the security response to threats made by Iran. About 85 properties in Whelford,…

Former journalist and honorary life president of Norwich City FC died peacefully at home on Monday Michael Wynn-Jones, the journalist and husband of the TV chef Delia Smith, has died at the age of 85. Wynn-Jones was honorary life president of Norwich City football club, which said everyone at the club was “deeply saddened” by his death. Continue reading...

Row comes amid rising division and a tendency towards cynical political posturing in Northern Ireland Three decades ago, it took the deaths of three Roman Catholic children – the Quinn brothers, Jason, nine, Mark, 10, and 11-year-old Richard – in a petrol bomb attack to bring an end to the Drumcree dispute. “No road is worth a life, let alone the lives of three little boys,” the Orange Order’s Co…

Tehran has been trying to step up attacks on targets in the west but its track record has been mixed Investigators may be some way from determining exactly what led five men with three vans to a village just outside RAF Fairford in the small hours of Sunday – but the fact they have all been released on bail without immediate charge suggests they are not deemed to pose a serious and violent threat…

Police say alleged offences could have been committed ‘knowingly or unknowingly’ on behalf of a foreign state Five men arrested over a suspected bomb plot at RAF Fairford have been released on bail as police investigate why they were so close to the US base in three vans with suspicious material in the back. The five suspects were revealed to be British men, all in their 20s and from London. They…

Culture secretary criticises Reform leader after he tried to link suspected bomb plot to small boat crossings Nigel Farage has been described as a “master of the conspiracy theory” by the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, , after he tried to link events at RAF Fairford to small boat crossings. The Reform UK leader was criticised over his reaction to the arrests of the men on Sunday, when he said he …