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Whitesnake’s David Coverdale and Slash of Guns N’ Roses pay tribute to musician described as an ‘exceptional talent’John Sykes, a guitarist with the rock bands Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake, has died aged 65. A statement said his death followed “a hard-fought battle with cancer”.It added: “He will be remembered by many as a man with exceptional musical talent but for those who didn’t know...

Rachel Reeves hopes expansion will increase economic growth but Ed Miliband and Sadiq Khan oppose it Business live – latest updatesA reported plan to approve a third runway at Heathrow and an expansion of Gatwick and Luton airports has been labelled “desperate”, as the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, faces opposition from within Labour to the decision.Reeves is poised to make a swathe of announcements intended...

Finding upholds Human Rights Commission’s earlier ruling to deny group a five-year exemption under Sex Discrimination ActFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Victorian lesbian group cannot exclude transgender and bisexual women from its public events as doing so would constitute unlawful discrimination, a tribunal has ruled.In 2023 the Lesbian Action Group...

NSW premier Chris Minns says police will track down people behind Maroubra attack and foreshadows new anti-hatred lawsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore detectives will be assigned to track down the perpetrators of a spate of antisemitic attacks in Sydney after a childcare centre was set alight and targeted with graffiti...

Prime minister acknowledges US president’s move would ‘impact the globe’ but says Australia remains a sovereign nation Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has vowed to continue Australia’s action on climate change after the United States president, Donald Trump, once again moved to pull his country out of the Paris...

Move is part of £300m investment that includes deepwater quay and building of hundreds of homes near city centreBelfast harbour is to invest £90m to upgrade its port to serve a wave of wind energy projects and cruise ships as part of a £300m investment plan.A new deepwater quay capable of supporting wind projects will be the largest part of an investment plan that...

Andrew Cheung defends city’s legal processes as ‘transparent, fair and independent’ despite mounting concerns from departing legal officersHong Kong’s top judge has claimed the exodus of foreign judges from the judiciary’s benches since the introduction of the national security law is due to escalating geopolitical tensions and “orchestrated harassment”.The city’s chief justice, Andrew Cheung, made the remarks at the ceremonial opening of the city’s...

This blog has closed. You can follow live coverage on our new liveblog hereMy colleague Joseph Gedeon in Washington DC also had this look at what Trump might have planned for day one:In the grand theatre of American politics, presidential inaugurations typically follow a familiar script: the oath, the speech, a few carefully chosen executive orders to satisfy campaign promises. Franklin D Roosevelt used...

Cheaper foodstuffs and being able to go out without fear of death or mutilation bring relief but conditions remain direOn the first morning of the first day after the ceasefire, the market of Asdaa camp, a sprawling area of tents and makeshift shelters on the central Gaza coast, was busy.Some shoppers had come because prices of the small range of basic necessities available had...

Dozens of children fall ill during rollout of program that was a centrepiece of President Prabowo Subianto’s election campaignDozens of Indonesian schoolchildren have suffered food poisoning after consuming free meals offered through a new flagship program of President Prabowo Subianto, his office has confirmed.Rolled out this month, Prabowo’s multi-billion dollar policy was a centrepiece of the former general’s election campaign, with a pledge to...

Ohio State Buckeyes 34-23 Notre Dame Fighting IrishJeremiah Smith’s big play clinches championshipInstead of having to mull over another collapse, Ohio State can celebrate another national title after holding off a Notre Dame comeback bid on Monday night to walk away with a nailbiter of a 34-23 victory over the Fighting Irish.Will Howard hit big-play receiver Jeremiah Smith for 56 yards on a late...

Most leaders were diplomatic about their differences, while others more ideologically aligned with the new US president voiced their joyDonald Trump inauguration – live updatesInternational leaders have responded with a mixture of wariness, anger and enthusiasm to Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president, with Panama pushing back on his pledge to retake the Panama Canal and Mexico vowing to defend its people ahead of...

More than 1,600 people eligible to resettle in the United States are waiting to flee Afghanistan and Pakistan, say advocatesMore than 1,600 Afghans eligible to enter the US as refugees will see their entry blocked under an executive order signed by Donald Trump on Monday evening that suspends the resettlement of all refugees to the United States for an indefinite period of time.The decision...

President begins issuing flood of immigration-related executive orders after being sworn into officeDonald Trump returns to office – live updatesDonald Trump on Monday began issuing a barrage of executive orders aimed at making good on his central campaign promise to crack down on immigration and unauthorized crossings at the US-Mexico border.In his first appearance from the White House’s Oval Office after being inaugurated as...

Gulf of Mexico to be called Gulf of America, and Denali, highest North American peak, reverts to Mount McKinleyDonald Trump inauguration – live updatesCan Trump really rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America?In a flurry of first-day-in-office activity, Donald Trump has signed an order to rename the 617,800 sq mile Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s 20,000ft mountain Denali.The Gulf of Mexico will...

Desire to be ‘unifier’ rubs up against 47th US president’s ambitions for territorial expansionDonald Trump inauguration – live updatesDonald Trump offered a bombastic and contradictory vision for US foreign policy at his inauguration on Monday, declaring that he would be a “peacemaker and unifier” even as he repeated his vow to “take back” the Panama canal.In his speech, Trump said that the Panama canal,...

President plans to sign an order to change the name within the US – but other countries would not have to follow suitTrump signs order to rename Gulf of MexicoIn his inaugural speech, Donald Trump repeated his intention to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.The ocean basin – bounded by the US Gulf coast, Mexico’s eastern states and the island...

Palestinian prisoners describe being held in poor conditions after their release as part of ceasefire dealIn the dead of night on Sunday, after hours of waiting, a white bus carrying dozens of Palestinian prisoners, released in exchange for three Israeli hostages handed over by Hamas to Israel, arrived at Fawakeh square in the West Bank city of Ramallah.A group of young men had climbed...

Sodalitium of Christian Life ended after investigation found sexual and spiritual abuses and financial mismanagementPope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium of Christian Life (SCV), after years of attempts at reform and a Vatican investigation. The investigation uncovered sexual abuses by its founder, financial mismanagement by its leaders and spiritual abuses by its top members.The Sodalitium...

Hungary PM says US leader will bolster Europe’s rightwing forces as nationalist politicians attend inaugurationDonald Trump inauguration – live updatesDonald Trump’s presidency will boost rightwing political forces across Europe, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has said, as he announced an offensive “to occupy Brussels”.A Trump ally, Hungary’s long-serving prime minister was speaking as European far-right and nationalist politicians flocked to Washington to welcome...

The search for thousands of people buried under rubble has started as the ceasefire in Gaza enters its second dayFull report: Palestinians celebrate as prisoners freedThe Spanish government has welcomed the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which will allow for an increase in aid to the strip. The Spanish foreign ministry said the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) is “essential and irreplicable” to the delivery...

Security forces rush to tamp down on rising leftwing violence as 11,000 people remain displacedColombia has vowed “war” against leftwing guerrillas, as security forces rushed to contain a wave of violence that has killed more than 100 people and threatened to derail the country’s troubled peace process.In just five days, violence has been reported in three different Colombian departments, from the remote Amazon jungle...

Ceasefire celebrations replaced by shock and sorrow as people begin to assess the scale of devastationAfter the first night in Gaza for more than a year without the sound of drones or bombing overhead following the successful implementation of a ceasefire, people in the besieged Palestinian territory have begun returning to destroyed homes and searching for missing loved ones.The truce that took effect on...

Escape of James Neo Tshoaeli, a Lesotho national known as Tiger, described as an ‘embarrassment’South African police are hunting an alleged “kingpin” of illegal mining after he escaped from custody following a rescue operation last week in which 78 bodies were brought out of an illicit goldmine.James Neo Tshoaeli, a Lesotho national known as Tiger, has been accused by other illegal miners of being...