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Term was up against a shortlist including Ozempic face, blind box, ate (and left no crumbs) and Roman Empire AI slop is here, it’s ubiquitous, it’s being used by US president Donald Trump and now, it’s the word of the year. The Macquarie Dictionary dubbed the term the epitome of 2025 linguistics, with a committee of word experts saying the outcome embodies the word of the year’s general theme of …

Victim, 17, died from stab wounds to his thigh after being attacked in Rouse Hill on Monday evening, NSW police say Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A 15-year-old boy accused of stabbing a fellow teenager to death near a Sydney high school will spend Christmas behind bars. The victim, a boy aged 17, died from stab …

Labor is continuing talks with both sides and could be prepared to give more ground Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The fate of Labor’s nature laws hangs in the balance after new concessions to the Coalition and the Greens failed to immediately persuade either party to support them. But Labor is continuing talks w…

King has announced a genealogist working with the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds found no evidence of Cherokee ancestry in his family lineage A prominent Canadian-American author, who has long claimed Indigenous ancestry and whose work exposed “the hard truths of the injustices of the Indigenous peoples of North America”, has learned from a genealogist that he has no Cherokee ancestry. In an essa…

Nathan Gill was an MEP for the Brexit party and Ukip, and later became Reform UK’s leader in Wales. Now he has been jailed for 10 years for taking bribes to make pro-Russia statements. Luke Harding reports Nathan Gill was a Mormon bishop who went on to represent Wales in the European parliament – first for Ukip, Nigel Farage’s original party, then for the Brexit party. Most recently he led Reform…

Research shows 70% disapprove of job US president – who won backing of nearly half of Latino voters in 2024 – is doing A majority of Latinos disapprove of Donald Trump and his economic and immigration policies, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. After receiving support from nearly half of Latino voters in the 2024 election, Trump had lost the backing of a majority surveyed in…

China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and Xi told Trump that its return was an ‘integral part of the post-war international order’ Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told Donald Trump that Beijing’s claims to Taiwan remain unchanged, in a phone call that came amid rising tensions over the self-governing island. Xi told Trump on Monday that Taiwan’s return to China was an “integral part of the p…

The 65-year-old woman shocked temple staff when they heard a faint knocking and she started moving in her coffin after being brought in for cremation A woman in Thailand shocked temple staff when she started moving in her coffin after being brought in for cremation. Wat Rat Prakhong Tham, a Buddhist temple in the province of Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok , posted a video on its Facebook …

Home perched in Hollywood Hills, constructed for $37,500 and made famous by Julius Shulman photo, listed for $25m The Stahl house – a paragon of Los Angeles mid-century modern architectural design – is for sale for the first time in the home’s history. The cantilevered home, perched in the Hollywood Hills, hit the listings market this week. The asking price: $25m. Continue reading...

Two others rescued as authorities work to recover the bodies of those killed after they fell near the summit Two mountain climbers have died on Aoraki, New Zealand’s tallest peak, with two others from the same group rescued, authorities said. The climbers’ bodies have been found and specialist searchers were working to recover them “in a challenging alpine environment”, the police area commander …

Claimants forced to pay back thousands of pounds tell of ‘horrendous’ court ordeals and of desire for official apology DWP to reassess hundreds of thousands of cases in carer’s allowance scandal The carer’s allowance scandal – a timeline Vivienne Groom had never been inside the dock of a criminal court when she stood, sobbing and shaking, before a judge last year. She was accused by the governmen…

Damning official review finds many unpaid carers left with huge debt because of government failure ‘It’s like the Post Office scandal’: victims of carer’s allowance crisis speak out The carer’s allowance scandal – a timeline Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable unpaid carers will have their cases reassessed after a damning official review concluded they had been left with huge debts because of gov…

Ten years of bureaucratic failure, whistleblowing, political neglect and groundhog day-style policy inertia DWP to reassess hundreds of thousands of cases in carer’s allowance scandal ‘It’s like the Post Office scandal’: victims of carer’s allowance crisis speak out Ministers have announced a major review of the penalties imposed on hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers after a damning independe…

Trades, machine operations and administrative roles are most at-risk, says leading educational research charity Up to 3m low-skilled jobs could disappear in the UK by 2035 because of automation and AI, according to a report by a leading educational research charity. The jobs most at risk are those in occupations such as trades, machine operations and administrative roles, the National Foundation …

Winds the biggest contributor to power outages as city saw more than 880,000 lightning strikes and 12cm diameter hail Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Nearly 100,000 households were left without power across Queensland after a mammoth storm brought 110km/h winds and 12cm hail that tore through parts of the state on…