14 h. ago Wrexham miss out on transfer target as former Man Utd star joins new club

Wrexham were heavily linked with a move for a former Manchester United starlet during the summer, but the 31-year-old has now made a surprise move to Australia instead

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20 h. ago Two dead as severe weather brings down trees and powerlines in Tasmania

Severe weather warnings have also been issued for Victoria, southern New South Wales and parts of South AustraliaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo people have died, a hospital has been damaged and thousands of properties left without power in Tasmania, as severe winds buffet Australia’s south-east.Weather warnings were also in place on Friday afternoon in parts of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia as the weather system moved towards the country’s east coast. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago A knock at the door. A call from a strange number. Here's how the Nobel Prize winners heard they won

This year’s Nobel Prize science winners got the good news from late-night phone calls and door knocks

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1 week ago 'I moved from Manchester to Australia after British weather burned my skin'

A woman has shared how she was forced to move to Australia after her skin condition became so severe that she was left with no option but to head halfway around the world

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1 week ago I moved to Australia after UK weather left me in unbearable pain

Manchester's damp weather caused Rosie Daniels agonising pain until she moved to the Sunshine Coast

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1 week ago 'I moved to Australia after British weather made my skin burn – I'll never return'

Rosie Daniels said that her skin became so bad from living in the UK that she decided to move halfway around the world to live in a completely different country

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2 w. ago UK workers with these jobs invited to move to Australia – they'll also double their salary

Professionals are being invited to job fair events in the UK to discuss career and lifestyle opportunities with representatives from key sectors in South Australia

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2 w. ago Scots workers in a wide range of jobs being sought to move to Australia

Those who work in healthcare, engineering, construction and public services can find out more about life down under this month in a Glasgow showcase.

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2 w. ago Netanyahu vows to denounce Keir Starmer for recognising Palestine as he sets off to address the UN in New York

Sir Keir Starmer made the move on Sunday 21 on the same day as Canada , Australia and Portugal, prompting a furious response from Israel which accused the countries of 'rewarding' Hamas terror.

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2 w. ago A drunk driver hit our car, my three friends died, and I began a fight for my life – and my ballet career

At 20, Marc Brew was the sole survivor of a terrible crash that killed his fellow dancers. Paralysed from the chest down, he had to learn to live in a new, uncharted realityMarc Brew was sitting in the back seat of a car on a motorway near Johannesburg, telling jokes and laughing with his friends, when a pickup came hurtling down the wrong side of the road towards them. “Out of nowhere, I just remember seeing this white flash,” says Brew, who was 20 at the time. The truck, which he later found out had a drunk driver at the wheel, drove straight into the car he was in. The crash killed everyone else in the vehicle.Nine months previously, Brew had moved from Australia to South Africa to join the Pact ballet company, based in Pretoria. That Saturday, he had attended his usual morning dance classes, before he and his friend Joanne, another member of the company, set off with her brother, Simon, and Simon’s fiancee’s brother, Toby, towards a game reserve where they had planned to go bush...

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2 w. ago Israeli politicians react bitterly to international recognitions of Palestinian state

Experts say move by nations including UK and Australia won’t change government policy and could strengthen its grip on powerMiddle East crisis – live updatesA wave of international recognitions of a Palestinian state has prompted bitter and almost unanimous condemnation across the political spectrum in Israel, uniting political foes and, analysts said, potentially reinforcing the ruling coalition’s grip on power.The UK, Portugal, Australia and Canada formally recognised a state of Palestine on Sunday while France was expected to follow suit on Monday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Scot moved to Australia to start new life then banned and exiled after horrifying crimes

Frank Gardiner was a known and fearsome bushranger with a well-deserved reputation who - along with various others operating outside of the law - had been a scourge on the country

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3 w. ago I had to learn a whole new language when I moved to Australia from the UK. These are the strange words I'd NEVER heard before

A UK exchange student based in Queensland has highlighted some of the Aussie words she'd never encountered before moving Down Under.

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3 w. ago Australian woman who's moved to the UK reveals the details of British life that baffle her

Nina Skalonja, 31, moved from Australia, to Wales, in October 2024 after she fell in love with Welshman Ben Roberts, 28 - and the move caused some culture shocks.

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3 w. ago I moved to the UK from Australia and there is one thing here that terrifies me

Nina Skalonja, 31, who made the move from Australia to the UK, has revealed the biggest "shocks" she's faced since relocating

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4 w. ago Champion horsewoman, 30, who died hours after celebrating first wedding anniversary as she prepared to move to Australia was found hanged, inquest hears

Abigail Garside, 30, an accomplished horse rider, was found dead just hours after posting joyful pictures celebrating her first wedding anniversary with her husband at a luxury spa.

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