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Level of compensation – and looming penalties – mean cost of airline’s outsourcing saga has ballooned past budgeted figureFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQantas will pay $120m in compensation to 1820 baggage handlers the airline illegally sacked in 2020 as the full cost of its controversial outsourcing decision continues to grow.On...

The Accomplice, a noir tale found by Strand editor Andrew Gulli, considers the temptation of a grocery clerkA previously unknown story by John D MacDonald, author of The Executioners, the novel twice filmed as Cape Fear, is published for the first time on Tuesday in the Strand Magazine.The Accomplice is the hard-boiled story of Joey, a young grocery store worker who attracts the attentions...

The order follows three-year-long legal saga involving the south coast park’s owner and Kiama councilFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe owner of a New South Wales amusement park has vowed to fight a court order that he dismantle more than two dozen attractions, including a pony ride yard, bumper car track...

HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa says fighters will all be ‘subject to the law’ as he sought to emphasise need for unity in post-war SyriaSyria’s rebel factions will be “disbanded”, the head of the group that led the ousting of Bashar al-Assad has pledged, as he seeks to reassure minorities at home and abroad that the country’s interim leaders will protect all Syrians, as well...

Australia’s defence department has defended the security at a naval base on Sydney’s Garden Island despite drone’s close flight above several warshipsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s defence department has defended the level of security at a key Sydney naval base after footage on Chinese social media appeared to show a...

Teenager receives raucous reception after defeating China’s Ding Liren in tense 14-game seriesIndian chess star Gukesh Dommaraju returned to a hero’s welcome in his home city on Monday after becoming the youngest world champion aged only 18.Hundreds of fans crowded the arrivals area of Chennai airport, cheering alongside banks of television cameras as Gukesh made his way out of the airport after victory in...

Shooter killed teacher and teenage student, with six others wounded in attack at Abundant Life Christian, say policeThree people are dead after a shooting on Monday at a private Christian school in Wisconsin – including the teenage shooter – and six others were wounded, according to local police.The shooter was a 15-year-old female student, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press. Continue reading...

Juan Merchan rules ‘decidedly personal acts’ of falsifying records pose no danger of intrusion on executive functionA judge on Monday ruled that Donald Trump’s conviction for falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal should stand, rejecting the president-elect’s argument that it should be dismissed because of the US supreme court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity, a court filing showed.Manhattan judge Juan Merchan’s decision...

Mary Jane Veloso was sentenced to death after she was found guilty of drug trafficking in 2010A Filipino migrant worker who has spent almost 15 years on death row in Indonesia is expected to arrive home on Wednesday after a deal was struck between Manila and Jakarta.Mary Jane Veloso, 39, was sentenced to death after she was found guilty of drug trafficking in 2010,...

Prime minister tells Joint Expeditionary Force conference in Estonia that Ukraine requires ‘all the capability it can get’Keir Starmer is to visit British troops serving on Russia’s border after saying that Ukraine will require more funding and capability.The prime minister was speaking at the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) conference in Estonia, where he met leaders of other Baltic states. Continue reading...

This live blog is now closed. For the latest on US politics, see our full coverage here. Last week, the New York Times reported that a lawyer who had filed petitions seeking to revoke the approval of vaccines for polio and other preventable diseases has been by Robert F Kennedy Jr’s side in interviews to hire top officials for the health and human services...

Composer Toninho Geraes claims 2015 song Million Years Ago copied music of his samba classic Mulheres (Women)A Brazilian judge has ordered a song by British pop superstar Adele, Million Years Ago, be pulled worldwide – including on streaming services – over a continuing plagiarism claim by a Brazilian composer.The injunction threatens the Brazilian subsidiaries of Sony and Universal, Adele’s labels, with a fine of...

Former talk show host Carlos Watson and now-defunct startup found guilty last summer of wire fraud conspiracyFormer talk show host Carlos Watson was sentenced on Monday to nearly 10 years in prison in a federal financial conspiracy case that cast his once-buzzy Ozy Media as an extreme of fake-it-til-you-make-it startup culture.So extreme that another Ozy executive impersonated a YouTube executive to hype Ozy to...

Threats started in New York and spread to Chicago and Atlanta after company failed to meet negotiation deadlineThousands of workers at Amazon are threatening to strike at the company after giving the company a deadline of 15 December to agree to begin negotiating a first contract with the union representing employees.The strike threats, which started in New York, have now spread to Chicago and...

Alexander Smirnov admits lying about Bidens’ links to fake bribery scheme that played key role in impeachment effortA former FBI informant pleaded guilty on Monday to lying about a phony bribery scheme purportedly involving Joe Biden and his son Hunter that became central to an attempt to impeach the president in Congress.Alexander Smirnov entered his plea to a felony charge in connection with the...

Royal’s relationship with alleged spy, Yang Tengbo, should be seen as a blessing in disguise, says China analystPrince Andrew should be commended for doing Britain a great service according to longstanding China watcher, Charles Parton. The now marginalised royal has, the analyst observed, “almost single handedly” succeeded “in highlighting the threat to free and open countries” posed by the contemporary Chinese state.The story of...

Claims surrounding businessman Yang Tengbo put spotlight on whether to designate China as enhanced riskAn alleged spy who befriended Prince Andrew has been named as the businessman Yang Tengbo, amid a row at the heart of government over how to deal with influential Chinese nationals.The allegations surrounding Yang have cast a spotlight on the government’s plans for a foreign interests register and whether to...

White House says North Koreans are on the ‘front lines’ of Russia’s war after Ukraine’s claim of fatalities among the estimated 12,000 troops sent over by Kim Jong-unNorth Korean troops have been killed during combat against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region, according to Ukraine’s military intelligence agency and the Pentagon.The deaths are the first reported since the US and Ukraine announced that...

Jacktone Odhiambo sentenced to 50 years in prison over killing of housemate in city of EldoretThe housemate of an LGBTQ+ activist in Kenya has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the murder of Edwin Chiloba, whose mutilated body was discovered in a metal box almost two years ago.The high court in Eldoret found Jacktone Odhiambo guilty over the January 2023 killing that...

British government referred to European court of justice for alleged failure to protect rights of EU citizens in UKThe European Commission is taking the British government to court over alleged violations of the rights of EU citizens in the UK, a decision that ​casts a cloud over Keir Starmer’s attempted post-Brexit reset.The commission announced on Monday that it was referring the government to the...

HTS fighters guard the gates of Khmeimim airbase as Syrian leaders take a pragmatic approach to relations with foreign powers – including Russia Standing at the gates of the Khmeimim airbase, a fighter from the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) eyed a pink vape being puffed on by a Russian soldier. Catching his gaze, the soldier offered it to him. The bearded...

Chrystia Freeland, who is also minister of finance, says country faces ‘grave challenge’ from Trump threatCanada’s deputy prime minister and minister of finance has resigned amid growing tensions with the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, over the looming threat posed by Donald Trump’s “America First” economic nationalism.Chrystia Freeland stood down on Monday, just hours before she was due to release the country’s first economic plan...

Ankara says plan would ‘seriously undermine’ efforts to bring stability to Syria after Bashar al-Assad’s fallTurkey has denounced Israel’s plan to double the population living in the occupied Golan Heights at the south-western edge of Syria as an attempt to “expand its borders”, as international concern grows over Israel’s actions in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime.Israel captured about two-thirds of the...

Former Syrian leader claimed he wanted to stay and fight but left after Russian airbase came under attackThe former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has said he had no plans to flee Syria before being evacuated by the Russian army after its base in western Syria came under attack.In his first comments since the fall of his brutal regime, Assad said he had planned to...