6 h. ago Australia news live: mushroom murders survivor Ian Wilkinson says he will ‘grieve and heal’ after judge hands life sentence to Erin Patterson

Ian Wilkinson thanked police, prosecutors and health services after Erin Patterson sentenced to life in prison with 33 years non-parole. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVictoria’s supreme court will hand down the triple-murderer Erin Patterson’s sentence shortly. The state’s supreme court will allow a television camera inside the courtroom to broadcast the sentencing hearing – with a 10 second delay – for the first time.Patterson, 50, faces the prospect of spending the rest of her life in prison. Justice Christopher Beale will deliver her sentence from 9.30am in a hearing expected to last about 30 minutes. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago F1 conspiracy theory erupts as Oscar Piastri is 'ripped off' by own team

Piastri did a great job of hiding any anger he may have had over McLaren's team orders at the Italian Grand Prix, but fans did not hold back as they reacted.

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9 h. ago Labour’s ruling body to draw up plans for race to replace Rayner

The National Executive Committee will hold talks on Monday aimed at deciding on a timeline and rules for the contest.

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9 h. ago Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people

Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such as KK Park on the Thai-Myanmar border has doubled since 2021Five years ago, the land now home to KK Park – a vast, heavily guarded complex stretching for 210 hectares (520 acres) along the churning Moei River that forms Myanmar’s border with Thailand – was little more than empty fields.Set against rugged mountains south of the town of Myawaddy, KK Park, with its on-site hospital, restaurants, bank and neat lines of villas with manicured lawns, looks more like the campus of a Silicon Valley tech company than what is really is: the frontline of a multibillion-dollar criminal fraud industry fuelled by human trafficking and brutal violence. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago NFL roundup: Rodgers’s four TDs help Steelers to thrilling win in return to Jets

QB secures 34-32 win against former teamDaniel Jones stars in Colts debut as Dolphins crushedAaron Rodgers threw four touchdown passes in his Steelers debut, leading Pittsburgh to an enthralling victory over the New York Jets. Chris Boswell kicked a go-ahead 60-yard field goal with just over a minute remaining. The Jets, who lost in coach Aaron Glenn’s debut, had a chance to drive for a potential winning field goal when they got the ball back with 56 seconds remaining. On fourth-and-three, Justin Fields connected with Garrett Wilson for what could have been a first down – but Jalen Ramsey smacked into the Jets receiver, who couldn’t hold on to the ball. Fields, also playing against his former team, ran for two touchdowns and threw for another. Rodgers was 22 of 30 for 244 yards with four TD passes. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert review – Baz Luhrmann’s electric yet avoidant documentary

Toronto film festival: the bombastic director’s second film about the music legend shows the singer at his most mesmerizing but the picture remains incompleteBaz Luhrmann now has two Elvis movies under his bedazzled belt. The first is his epic biopic starring Austin Butler and now he has unleashed another called EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, remixing archival material with never-before-seen footage from the singer’s residency in Las Vegas. What’s remarkable about them both, apart from the director’s obvious affinity for his subject’s showmanship, is his refusal across so many hours of jiggling and swivelling to meaningfully hold Elvis to account.Luhrmann’s Oscar-nominated 2022 film acknowledged Elvis’s cultural appropriation: how his phenomenal success owed so much to the R&B, gospel and rock he grew up around and the racist institutions that put him on a pedestal while holding down the Black artists that birthed and gave that music its soul. The movie also painted Elvis as a ...

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13 h. ago Kerry Katona fan holds up traffic to get a 'video for the missus'

Footage of the moment has since gone viral

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17 h. ago Max Verstappen wins F1’s Italian Grand Prix with dominant drive at Monza – live

Follow lap-by-lap coverage of race at MonzaGet in touch with Tom via emailIt’s tight and Norris is unhappy with Verstappen, calling him an “idiot” over race radio after that testy run up to the first corner. Verstappen forces Norris into the grass and runs wide himself. He has to give up his first place to Norris so we already have a new leader. Behind the front two Leclerc passed Piastri but couldn’t hold on to third. Antonelli got off poorly and dropped from sixth to 10th. and away we goooo! Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Chineke! Orchestra/Heyward review – kaleidoscopic concert combines energy and complexity

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe ethnically diverse orchestra played with vigour and spirit in a varied programme that included Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Shostakovich and Valerie ColemanThis concert was to have been conducted by Simon Rattle – a mark of the esteem in which leading artists hold Chineke! Orchestra, the trailblazing British ensemble made up of a majority of Black and ethnically diverse musicians. In the event, Charleston-born Jonathon Heyward put his own indelible stamp on a varied yet satisfying program.Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s La Bamboula, a kaleidoscopic dance with roots in the West Indies, played to Chineke!’s strengths. The performed it with vigour and spirit, while Heyward kept its likable blend of late-Victorian tunefulness and proto-Hollywood glitz gossamer-light. You could see why Henry Wood programmed it at the Proms 16 times, making its subsequent 91-year absence inexplicable. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Couple tell of ordeal when kittens went missing after being left in plane hold

British newlyweds feared worst when transportation of rescue cats from Greece to Paris went awryA newlywed couple who married in Greece have said they feared the worst when three kittens they rescued from Crete went missing after being left in the hold of an aeroplane.They first travelled to the island in September 2023 and found the mother cat, who “had a very distinctive bulging eye that needed to be removed”, Bethany Mulcahy-Stephenson, a veterinary nurse, said. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago ‘Shout out to the girls’: US exit Rugby World Cup but young stars stoke hope for future

The Eagles thrashed Samoa but missed the quarter-finals on points differential. Nonetheless, a joyful display was fitting for a team showing encouraging signs The US Eagles exited the World Cup on Saturday after beating Samoa 60-0 in York but seeing Australia hold England to 47-7 in Brighton, enough for the Wallaroos to reach the quarter-finals on points differential.Kate Zackary’s team will be disappointed to miss a last-eight date with Canada, knowing they might well have made it had a few things gone differently.Martin Pengelly writes on Substack at The National Maul, on rugby in the US Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Gmail account holders issued rare alert after 'broad warning' issued to all users

Google has issued a rare update to Gmail users in a bid to reassure millions of users about the security of the email platform following the recent reports of a mass data leak

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21 h. ago One in five people are now antisemitic, new polling claims, as Jewish community and allies prepare to march this afternoon

The findings showed that the number of people holding what would be considered entrenched anti-Semitic views has doubled in less than five years.

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22 h. ago Oliver Antman will 'challenge' Russell Martin and Rangers coaching staff as Cyriel Dessers outlines post Ibrox dream

An insider insists the player will hold the management team to account

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22 h. ago First Tube strike since 2023 begins as limited service runs today ahead of TOTAL shutdown at 6pm after union holds firm on pay increase demands

London Underground staff have started striking this morning over an RMT-led dispute over pay and conditions which will see the city grind to a halt over the coming week.

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23 h. ago ‘I never hold back’: Sally Mann on her controversial family photos and becoming a writer

The celebrated US photographer was catapulted into America’s culture wars with her photobook Immediate Family. Now she’s written a book of ‘how not-to’ advice for artistsSally Mann is chatty and open about nearly any subject imaginable. The photographer easily gets carried off in conversation, finding it hard to resist sharing stories about anything from her friend’s mother who had a lobotomy, to the time the poet Forrest Gander happened to drop by unannounced (the moment turned into a lifelong friendship).A large-format camera at Sally Mann’s Lexington studio; tools and objects on a workbench; mask of a face Continue reading...

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26 h. ago ‘When can I go back to school?’: communities in danger hold on to education in Latin America – picture essay

Some of the most disadvantaged communities in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia are taking part in Plan International’s Safe Schools project“When can I go back to school?” That’s the first question many children across Latin America start their day with. For millions in the region, there’s often no guarantee that their school will be open, accessible or safe that day.Classrooms caught in crossfire, hours-long walks and buildings destroyed by natural disasters are just some of the obstacles children face. On top of that, extreme poverty and displacement force many to drop out. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Who is in the Cooking with the Stars final? Series 5 cast and who presents show

Cooking with the Stars will hold its final on ITV this evening 😍

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27 h. ago One by one, leaders learn that grovelling to Trump leads to disaster. When will it dawn on Starmer? | Simon Tisdall

As the US president’s state visit looms, he’s leaving a trail of broken promises across the globe. Britain can’t afford to look like a lackey stateSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreSucking up to Donald Trump never works for long. Narendra Modi is the latest world leader to learn this lesson the hard way. Wooing his “true friend” in the White House, India’s authoritarian prime minister thought he’d conquered Trump’s inconstant heart. The two men hit peak pals in 2019, holding hands at a “Howdy Modi” rally in Texas. But it’s all gone pear-shaped thanks to Trump’s tariffs and dalliance with Pakistan. Like a jilted lover on the rebound, Modi shamelessly threw himself at Vladimir Putin in China last week. Don and Narendra! It’s over! Although, to be honest, it always felt a little shallow.Other suitors for Trump’s slippery hand have suffered similar heartbr...

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35 h. ago More than 425 arrested as protesters defy ban on Palestine Action in London

Police say offences include assault and support for a proscribed group as 1,500 oppose ban in Parliament SquareMore than 425 people have been arrested at the largest demonstration yet opposing the proscription of Palestine Action.Defend Our Juries, who organised the demonstrations, said there were 1,500 sign-holders in Parliament Square on Saturday at a fresh protest in London against the ban. At the previous major demonstration last month, 532 people were arrested for taking part. Participants gathered in Parliament Square by 1pm, many holding signs that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” Continue reading...

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