49 m. ago Former Australian police officer avoids prison after killing 95

A former Australian police officer has avoided a prison term for killing a 95-year-old nursing home resident with a stun gun

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54 m. ago Welcome to the Notswolds: the area offering commutable Cotswolds charm without the price tag

On the border of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, the Welland Valley is less than an hour by train from London but you’ll get a lot more bang for your buck

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58 m. ago A remote Australian town seeks a doctor, offering a $400,000 salary and free rent

A remote Australian town that will soon lose its only doctor is offering a salary package of up to $680,000 Australian dollars, plus free rent and a car, to attract a new candidate

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1 hour ago ‘We won’t be deterred or scared’: Hungary’s LGBTQ+ community fights for right to march in Pride

Some want to oppose ban, others are nervous, but all see it as a warning sign under Viktor Orbán’s governmentMarching with a pink, white and baby blue transgender flag, Corvus gathered with thousands of others in a central square of Budapest this week. The 20-year-old started transitioning last August but cannot change their gender or name legally in Hungary, where an authoritarian rightwing government is cracking down on LGBTQ+ rights.Corvus wasn’t asking for an overhaul of transgender policy or anything particularly radical, however. They were asking simply for the right to be able to take part in a Pride parade. “The government wants to silence our voice and deny our existence,” they said. “They will not succeed.” Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Anthony Albanese calls Australian federal election for 3 May

Albanese visits governor general to kickstart Labor’s five-week election campaign, as Peter Dutton frames Coalition’s pitch around living standardsAustralian election campaign 2025: live updatesSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has framed the federal election as a choice between Labor’s plan to “keep building” and Peter Dutton’s “promises to cut” after announcing voters will head to the polls on 3 May.The prime minister visited the governor general, Sam Mostyn, on Friday morning to dissolve the 47th parliament, triggering a five-week race to form the next government.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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6 h. ago What book would Mark Field take to a desert island to alleviate the boredom with some rock'n'roll?

This week, Mark Field answers our burning questions, what is he reading, what book would he take to a desert island, what gave him the reading bug, what left him cold?

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7 h. ago Ange Postecoglou's future 'in serious doubt' as Tottenham identify top target

Ange Postecoglou has endured a difficult second season in charge of Tottenham Hotspur with the club identifying three contenders to replace the Australian manager

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8 h. ago Previous administrations were wary of the messaging app Signal. Trumpworld has embraced it

Amid the furor over the use of a commercial messaging app to discuss a military strike, the Trump administration has insisted that using Signal is routine and authorized. But former and current officials disagree. Andrew Feinberg reports

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8 h. ago Australian federal election date: Anthony Albanese calls poll for 3 May

Albanese visits governor general to kickstart five-week election campaign, with polls suggesting Labor is in a tight contest with Coalition under Peter DuttonAustralian election campaign 2025: live updatesSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralians will head to the polls on 3 May after Anthony Albanese fired the starter’s gun on the federal election campaign.The prime minister visited the governor general, Sam Mostyn, on Friday morning to dissolve the 47th parliament, triggering a five-week race to form the next government.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Australia's prime minister has survived a volatile political era

Anthony Albanese hopes to become the first Australian prime minister in 21 years to lead a political party to consecutive election victories

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9 h. ago Signal group chat leak: judge orders Trump administration to preserve all messages from 11

James Boasberg, who has been attacked by Trump for being assigned to the case, reminded hearing that cases are assigned randomlyTop aides to Joe Biden “aggressively” warned Democratic donors last summer that if the then president was forced out of the 2024 election over concerns about his age and fitness, the party would inevitably make the “mistake” of running the vice-president, Kamala Harris, against Donald Trump, a new book says.“One donor on the receiving end of an electronic message summed up the sentiments of Biden’s top aides: ‘They were aggressively saying that we would wind up with the vice-president and that would be a mistake.’” Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Iowa lawsuit says sheriff discouraged compliance with immigration law

Iowa’s Republican attorney general is suing a county sheriff over his Facebook post saying his department doesn’t always need to detain people at the request of federal immigration authorities

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10 h. ago Strathaven is latest of 55 cemeteries being checked by South Lanarkshire Council

The local authority has a duty of care to provide a safe environment for both visitors and staff.

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10 h. ago 'Professional thief' swiped bag from senior Tory Sir David Davis during £15k crime spree at London's busiest train stations, court told

Abderrahim Mamma, 28, allegedly stole Sir David's bag at King's Cross Station on November 4 last year.

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10 h. ago Putin authorises launch of new nuclear submarine carrying 'unstoppable' Zircon hypersonic

Vladimir Putin has approved a Russian nuclear-powered submarine to carry the 'unstoppable' Zircon hypersonic missile which is capable of flying at speeds of 6,670mph

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11 h. ago What Trump's trade war means for YOU: As tariffs throw markets into turmoil, what investors should do

The ink was barely dry on Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement before her plans to balance the nation's books were effectively blown out of the water.

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12 h. ago Kelly Brook says women 'put too much pressure on themselves' to lose weight as she praises her husband Jeremy Parisi for 'celebrating' her figure

Kelly Book has told how women put 'too much pressure' on themselves to lose weight as she opened up on husband Jeremy Parisi 's support of her own body.

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12 h. ago The Guardian view on Trump and reality: from promoting alternative facts to erasing truths | Editorial

The decision to put documents on the assassination of John F Kennedy into the public domain comes alongside a ‘digital book burning’ of dataWhat does the public need to know? The Trump White House boasts of being the most transparent administration in history – though commentators have suggested that the inadvertent leak of military plans to a journalist may have happened because senior figures were using messaging apps such as Signal to avoid oversight. Last week, it released thousands of pages of documents on John F Kennedy’s assassination. Donald Trump has declared that Kennedy’s family and the American people “deserve transparency and truth”.Strikingly, this stated commitment to sharing information comes as his administration defunds data collection and erases existing troves of knowledge from government websites. The main drivers appear to be the desire to remove “woke” content and global heating data, and the slashing of federal spending. Information resources are both the tar...

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12 h. ago Careless People review: Facebook whistleblower’s book serves up one bombshell after another

Sarah Wynn-Williams’ tell-all memoir is a nightmare for Mark Zuckerberg – and a joy for the rest of us

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13 h. ago Gigil: word describing ‘cute aggression’ among new entries to Oxford English Dictionary

Other foreign language additions include utepils - enjoying a beer outside – and komorebi, describing sunlight dappling through leavesHave you ever held a puppy that was so unbelievably fluffy and adorable you didn’t know how to convey the strong urge to squeeze its head without sounding like a maniac? Well, now there’s a word for it: gigil.Gigil (pronounced ghee-gill) is one of the new words that have made it into the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Continue reading...

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