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Former police officer has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in early 2024 Warning: graphic content Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Warning: graphic content A hole in a door and a bullet bent out of shape: crime scene photos shown to a jury paint a harrowing picture of Jesse Baird and Luke…

Figure cited by minister highlights trade-offs Kyiv faces as it tries to keep normal life moving amid Russian strikes Missile alerts are costing Ukraine an estimated $45m (£34m) for every hour they bring business to a halt, according to the country’s economy minister, as Kyiv searches for ways to keep the economy running under an intensifying Russian bombardment. Russia has increasingly targeted …

National Trust says latest figures encouraging – with numbers of birds on the rise – but work still to be done England’s most important tern colonies are showing signs of recovery after being hit by years of bird flu, flooding and increasingly unpredictable weather, new figures from the National Trust reveal. The trust reported record numbers of little terns at Long Nanny in Northumberland , one …

Exeter museum to host DJ’s ‘collaboration’ with woodland fungi and artist’s map of her own body’s mycobiome For one of the installations, a musician spent hours in woodland “collaborating” with fungi to create a soundscape inspired by the electricity they emit. Another is a kinetic sculpture of an extinct fungus that honours Beatrix Potter not for her tales of mischievous rabbits but for her less…

Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigating staffing gaps as key factor in four incidents in July and August Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Modelling by Sydney airport’s air traffic control operators predicted elevated fatigue risks for staff at the time of a series of major safety incidents, with a review i…

The 74-year-old says he is leaving to spend more time with his family, including his six grandchildren Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free weekly media newsletter here Financial journalist Alan Kohler, a familiar face on the ABC’s 7pm news bulletin, will retire in December after three decades as the public broadcaster’s highly respected fin…

Group of officers known as ‘riders’ in 2000s prompted longest arrangement of its kind in US history After 23 years, a district judge has released the Oakland police department (OPD) from federal oversight, marking the end of the longest arrangement of this kind in US history. In the early 2000s, a group of police officers known as the “riders” were exposed for offenses like planting evidence, fal…

Nine American citizens have been killed by Israeli settlers or security forces in occupied West Bank since 2022 The US Senate on Tuesday evening rejected along mostly party lines a Democratic resolution that would have forced the state department to report to Congress on violence in the occupied West Bank, including the killings of nine American citizens by Israeli settlers or security forces ove…

Shoebridge to stand on a joint ticket with Steph Hodgins-May – a first-term senator from Victoria Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast New South Wales senator David Shoebridge has joined the race to become the Greens’ new leader, with an increasingly crowded field revealing splits among the 11-member party room. Shoebr…

‘Yellow 2120’ has been driven out of other Altadena neighborhood crawlspaces, but he just keeps coming back He’s back: the 550lb bear made famous after he took up residence under an Altadena home in November 2025 is wandering the Los Angeles neighborhood again after he moved in and out of the crawlspace of another home. “Yellow 2120”, as the black bear has been tagged, was spotted in the crawlspa…

Curtis Wilkie Beasley was executed for the 1995 killing of Carolyn Monfort, after supreme court declined to intervene A 77-year-old Florida man was put to death on Tuesday for his conviction in a deadly hammer attack on a woman decades ago, becoming the 16th person executed to date this year in the nation’s busiest death chamber. Curtis Wilkie Beasley was pronounced dead at 6.12pm following a let…

Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Early works are beginning on the second stage of the long-awaited train line to Melbourne Airport – a 7.6km stretch of the train line from Albion, in Sunshine West, to Keilor East, where a new station will be built. Anthony Albanese will be in Melbourne today with Victorian premier, Ben Carroll , to announce t…

US cannabis and drinks firm Tilray, which took over in March, will improve beers, pubs and working conditions BrewDog’s new owner has urged drinkers to give the ailing brand “a second chance” as it invests more than £50m in improving the company’s beers, pubs and working conditions. The US cannabis and drinks company Tilray bought BrewDog for £33m in March this year, after the company collapsed i…

PM says his plan, which includes ending pensions triple lock to fund national care service, will ‘allow us to rise again’ Analysis: PM’s promises will take time to come good Key takeaways from Burnham’s conference speech Andy Burnham has staked his future on a gamble that the public will back radical progressive policies on social care, electoral reform and Europe, telling voters that his agenda …

Head of counter-terrorism policing defends decision to bail five British men arrested in connection with the incident No explosive devices were found in three vans searched near RAF Fairford as part of a terrorism investigation but a quantity of petrol was recovered, police have said. Five British nationals were arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning after a resident living near the Glouce…