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Coroner’s court hears body of three-month-old discovered after police kicked in door to Corowa home in 2022Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe only DNA found on the handle of a freezer inside which a dead three-month-old baby was discovered belonged to the infant’s mother, a New South Wales inquest has heard.Almost three years after the infant’s body was discovered...

For every £1 spent on renewable energy projects, only 25p was invested in connecting them to grid, report findsThe UK is lagging behind in the race to rewire the world’s power grids by investing four times more on renewable energy projects than on the electricity cables needed to connect them to the grid and consumers, according to a new report.For every pound the UK...

Resort town struggles with squalid housing, poor nutrition for children and now, statistics show, earlier deathsIt is a league table that no one wants to top. For the first time in 20 years, Blackpool, a once-glamorous seaside resort, this week overtook Glasgow to have the lowest average male life expectancy in the UK.Men born in Blackpool will now live until just after their 73rd...

Recent killings and arrests of government critics suggest end of reformist approach under Samia Suluhu Hassan, say political rivalsWhen Samia Suluhu Hassan took office as Tanzania’s president in 2021, many in the east African country hailed what they hoped was a new dawn after the authoritarian and repressive rule of her predecessor John Magufuli.The signs were positive in her first few years in office:...

Starmer will meet crown prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia for talks about forging closer ties on MondayJamal Khashoggi’s widow has urged Keir Starmer to raise her husband’s murder at his meeting with the Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.Starmer will arrive in Saudi Arabia on Monday for talks with the Saudi crown prince as part of a two-day trip to the...

Blow to Labour growth hopes as poll finds demand for staff falling at ‘sharp and accelerated pace’, particularly in permanent rolesThe number of job vacancies in November fell at the fastest rate since the start of the pandemic, as business confidence slumped to its lowest level in almost two years, according to two new reports.In a damaging blow to the government efforts to boost...

Gulf state awarded the tournament amid accusations of ‘sportswashing’ over exploitation of its migrant workforceSaudi Arabia’s World Cup bid victory is a crushing defeat for migrant workers’ rightsSaudi Arabia’s hosting of the men’s World Cup in 2034 will probably lead to “severe and widespread rights violations”, say human rights organisations anticipating Fifa’s rubber-stamping of the Gulf state’s bid this week.The country is the sole...

After 152 shows, Swift’s global tour has been the most successful of all time. At the final dates, fans explain their devotionBy now, nearly 21 months after Taylor Swift launched what would become the highest-grossing tour of all time, you could be forgiven for thinking both “wait, Taylor Swift is still on the Eras Tour?” or that the globe-spanning, headline-dominating, literally seismic show would...

The 40-year-old defended Trump in the New York case which saw him become the first former US president convicted of felony crimesPresident-elect Donald Trump has announced that he is appointing one of his defense attorneys in the New York hush money case as counselor to the president.Alina Habba, 40, defended Trump earlier this year, also serving as his legal spokesperson. Habba has been spending...

Coverage of the extraordinary events in Syria has filled the front pages in the UK, US and AustraliaNewspapers covering the fall of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his subsequent flight to Moscow have reflected on the Assad family’s five decades of dynastic rule in Syria, jubilation across the country, and questions over what will happen next.The Guardian splashed with “Rebels seize Damascus as Assad...

Average global temperature in November was 1.62C above preindustrial levels, bringing average for the year to 1.60CThis year is now almost certain to be the hottest year on record, data shows. It will also be the first to have an average temperature of more than 1.5C above preindustrial levels, marking a further escalation of the climate crisis.Data for November from the EU’s Copernicus Climate...

US president Joe Biden says ‘we think we can get him back’, as family of Washington Post contributor ask for his safe returnJoe Biden believes missing American journalist Austin Tice, who disappeared 12 years ago near the Syrian capital, is alive, and said that Washington is committed to bringing him home after Bashar al-Assad’s ousting from power.“We think we can get him back,” Biden...

First speech by UK chancellor to eurozone finance ministers since 2020 will promise ‘business-like’ approach to relationsRachel Reeves plans to end the UK’s “fractious” post-Brexit accord with the EU, a relationship she said had been defined by “division and chaos”, by promising closer ties in the first speech by a UK chancellor to eurozone finance ministers since 2020.Reeves will say she wants to adopt...

Nominee Dr Janette Nesheiwat knocked over gun in 1990, causing it to fire and fatally shoot father in the headDonald Trump’s nominee for US surgeon general – Dr Janette Nesheiwat – accidentally knocked over a gun when she was 13 years old, causing it to fire and fatally shoot her father in the head.The death of Nesheiwat’s father occurred in February 1990 at her...

Citizens dream of a better future but some are wary of Islamist groups claiming to represent themThe people of Syria have celebrated the fall of Bashar al-Assad and dared to dream of a better future after five decades of dynastic rule came to a sudden and unexpected end with the dictator fleeing to Moscow.Crowds of people waved the Syrian revolutionary flag and pulled down...

President-elect says he will ‘act quickly’, claiming convicted Capitol rioters had been put through a ‘very nasty system’In his first sit-down television news interview since winning a second presidency in November’s election, Donald Trump renewed promises to pardon his supporters involved in the attack on the US Capitol in early 2021.He also doubled down on promises of mass deportations and tariffs in the conversation...

US president-elect claims Kyiv ‘would like to make a deal’ to end war with Russia and cites loss of ‘400,000 soldiers’Donald Trump has called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, a day after meeting the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Paris, claiming Kyiv “would like to make a deal” to end its war with Russia.In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said...

Ruling New Patriotic party concedes defeat after vote dominated by economic crisis and high cost of livingGhana’s former president John Dramani Mahama has won a historic comeback election victory after voters appeared to punish the ruling New Patriotic party over its management of an economic crisis.The NPP’s candidate, the vice-president, Mahamudu Bawumia, on Sunday conceded defeat in the weekend presidential election after failing to...

Archbishop of Paris consecrates the cathedral’s new altar with perfumed oil to the sound of the restored organParisians, the French and the world rediscovered the breathtaking beauty of the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral on Saturday evening, five years after it was devastated by fire.The French president, Emmanuel Macron, led a guest list of international heads of state and other dignitaries including Donald Trump,...

Rebels say Damascus is ‘free’ of the ‘tyrant’ Bashar al-Assad after lightning advance across the countryFull report: Rebels say they have advanced into Damascus as residents report sound of gunfireLive updates: Syrian rebels say they have captured capital as Bashar al-Assad reported to have fled DamascusIslamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a former al-Qaida affiliate, said on Saturday it has a duty to protect...

Anti-regime forces declare Damascus ‘free’ of Assad as government forces withdraw presenceBashar al-Assad reported to have fled Syria as rebels say they have captured DamascusWelcome back to our live coverage of the rebel offensive that seems to have been successful in toppling the Syrian government, led by longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.Here are the latest developments:Rebel forces, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, in Damascus have...

Men killed when vehicles were hit in Birmingham and near Preston, and quarter of a million people have power cutA second man has died in Storm Darragh after his vehicle was hit by a falling tree, police have confirmed, as weather warnings remain in place across the UK.There were gusts of nearly 100mph in some parts of the country on Saturday and more than...

Former Beatle’s treatment for the film – and an expanded version by sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov – unearthed in the USIt is the film that never was – an unlikely sci-fi musical about aliens dreamed up by Paul McCartney half a century ago. The aliens would have landed in a flying saucer, but the project never got off the ground.Now the former Beatle’s treatment...

Home Office has postponed transition to digital visas but campaigners fear ongoing technical problems could cause travel chaosMigrant rights groups have warned that British residents could still be barred from returning from abroad because of the switch to digital visas, despite the government extending the deadline by three months.The Home Office announced last week that the transition to eVisas as the accepted proof of...