14 h. ago Southport killer Axel Rudkubana's life in prison as he gets 'legal minimum rights'

Axel Rudakubana, 18, was jailed for life with a minimum of 52 years in January after he killed three children in a knife attack at a workshop in Southport, Merseyside

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44 h. ago Australian bouncy castle operator acquitted in accident that killed six children

Families of victims express disbelief over verdict

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47 h. ago Families of children killed in Hillcrest jumping castle incident ‘shattered’ after not guilty verdict

Rosemary Gamble, owner of Taz-Zorb which set up the equipment in Tasmania, had pleaded not guilty to failing to comply with workplace safety lawsAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe families of the six children killed in a primary school jumping castle incident are angry after the operator who set up the castle was found not guilty of a workplace safety charge.Chace Harrison, Jalailah Jayne-Maree Jones, Zane Mellor, Addison Stewart, Jye Sheehan and Peter Dodt died after the incident at Hillcrest primary school in Devonport in December 2021.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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51 h. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Children are being killed because we are too scared of being called racist. When will this dangerous madness end?

We've been here before and we'll be here again. Twenty-five years ago, a tragic eight-year-old girl called Victoria Climbie was tortured, starved and beaten to death while the authorities did nothing.

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67 h. ago Two children among 11 killed in stampede during IPL title celebrations in India: How the tragedy unfolded

Cricket authorities blame organisers for disaster at Royal Challengers Bengaluru home stadium

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3 d. ago Harry and Meghan explored changing surname to Spencer amid children’s passport delays

Exclusive: source says couple feared unexplained wait was due to king’s opposition to their children bearing HRH titleThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex explored the idea of changing their family name to Spencer amid repeated delays by British officials to issue passports for their children, the Guardian has been told.The suggestion was a result of “sheer exasperation” and came during a face-to-face meeting between Prince Harry and his uncle Earl Spencer. He was understood to be enthusiastic and supportive of the name change. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Goebbels and the Führer review – private life of propagandist shows grotesque heart of Nazism

Joachim Lang’s bleak film shows a preening Goebbels and a careworn Hitler as they battle to convince the German public, and themselves, they will win the warIn an appropriate spirit of cynicism and bleakness, German director Joachim Lang has made a film about the private life of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, the Hexenmeister or chief sorcerer of lies, and his always strained relationship with Hitler. Robert Stadlober plays the preening and self-pitying Goebbels and Fritz Karl is a careworn Hitler. Franziska Weisz plays Goebbels’s wife Magda, who at first resented his infidelities with showbusiness starlets but for the sake of the Fatherland submitted to the public image of a good Nazi wife and mother of six adorable children – whom Joseph and Magda finally murdered in the bunker before killing themselves.In its subversive, austerely satirical way, the film feels almost like a B-side to Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Downfall from 2004, and Lang has perhaps even inhaled, just a little, t...

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4 d. ago Hegseth orders US navy to strip Harvey Milk name from ship amid Pride month

Timing of announcement on ship named after prominent gay rights activist and veteran is intentional, reports sayThe US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has ordered the US navy to strip the name of prominent gay rights activist and navy veteran Harvey Milk from a ship during the middle of June – a month meant to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community – according to multiple outlets.The order to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler, was in a memorandum from the office of the secretary of the navy, which was reported on and viewed by Military.com and CBS. Those reports note that the navy secretary, John Phelan, was instructed to strip the ship of its name by Hegseth. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Children's book sizes shrinking with fears TikTok is 'killing attention spans'

An analysis of the length of books for six to 12-year-olds shows the tomes have shrunk over the past century from an average of 193.5 pages in the 1930s to only 60.6 pages in the 2020s

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7 d. ago Trump’s pardoning of Black celebrities is a cynical ploy | Tayo Bero

It’s not the first time the president has sought to curry favor this way. His instincts about Black Americans are clearThis week, Trump issued two dozen presidential pardons to a motley crew of wrongdoers, including shady politicians, fraudulent CEOs and other wealthy ne’er-do-wells. On that list were the Louisiana rapper NBA YoungBoy (whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden) and the Chicago gangster Larry Hoover.Regardless of where you stand on American carceral culture and what we know about the ways the criminal justice system squashes Black people who have the misfortune of interacting with it, Trump handing out pardons to Hoover and Gaulden isn’t the magnanimous or justice-focused move he wants us to believe it is. Instead, it’s a clear effort to garner support from the Black community by way of its big names.Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Catch of the day: rare gold lobster saved by attentive cook in Rhode Island

The crustacean, since named Calvin, had a genetic mutation that occurs in about one in 30 million lobstersBeing one in a million may sound nice, but being one in 30m recently saved an exceptionally rare, gold lobster from being cooked and served as dinner at a New England restaurant, according to those who had a hand in the animal’s reprieve.As the manager of the Nordic Lodge Restaurant in Charlestown, Rhode Island, tells it, one of the eatery’s cooks noticed the crustacean in question buried under a bunch of other lobsters after they were delivered to the business. The lobster, since named Calvin, was in a basket ready to be cooked and presented as a meal alongside a number of his brethren when the employee pulled him out and set him aside, manager Jake Dolbey told the Guardian. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Dad left chilling note for kids to find after strangling their mum in next room

The family of Kelly Morgan, who was strangled to death by her husband George just hours after the couple watched their children in a school assembly, have opened up to Killer Britain with Demot Murgnahan about a murder which shook Britain

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7 d. ago 'My woman wants to splash my £500 bonus on fancy sex parties and freaky gear'

JUST JANE: Today our agony aunt Jane O'Gorman is dealing with a new issue from a Daily Star reader who faces pleasure and pain in the name of love

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8 d. ago One afternoon in Gaza, two family tragedies: the childhoods cut short by Israeli airstrikes

Relatives’ trauma over events of 23 May reflects a daily reality in Gaza: the killing and maiming of its youngest citizensAt about 3pm last Friday, Dr Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatrician at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, received the charred remains of seven of her 10 children, killed in an Israeli airstrike. The bodies of two others were buried beneath the rubble.A few miles away, 11-year-old Yaqeen Hammad, known as Gaza’s youngest social media influencer, was killed after a series of heavy Israeli airstrikes hit the house where she lived with her family. She was watering flowers in a tiny patch of greenery eked out of a displacement camp when she died. Her cousin, 16-year-old Eyad, was gravely wounded. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Steve Coogan reads out names of children killed in Gaza at Westminster vigil

‘We are reading out the names to remember them as human beings and not just a statistic’

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9 d. ago Child victims of Gaza onslaught remembered in Westminster vigil

Actors read out the names of children who have died in the conflict.

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9 d. ago Discussions on US ceasefire proposal are ‘ongoing’, says White House – Middle East crisis live

Washington says proposal has been submitted to Hamas that has been ‘backed and supported’ by IsraelHere are the latest pictures from the West Bank, courtesy of the newswiresIsraeli strikes killed at least 13 Palestinians overnight in Gaza, the Associated Press reports. According to local hospitals, Four were killed in a strike on a car in Gaza City late Wednesday, and another eight, including two women and three children, were killed in a strike on a home in Jabaliya. A strike on a built-up refugee camp in central Gaza killed one person and wounded 18. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which says it only targets militants and blames civilian deaths on Hamas because the militants are embedded in populated areas. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Farmer, 78, killed himself because he feared Rachel Reeves' inheritance tax raid, coroner concludes, as his distraught children urge Labour to ditch hated policy before more deaths

Yorkshire farmer John Charlesworth died while consumed with worry about the implications of the budget - 24 hours before it was announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, a coroner found.

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9 d. ago Netanyahu tells hostages’ families that Israel has accepted ceasefire proposal from US, say reports – Middle East crisis live

Proposal by US special envoy Steve Witkoff stipulates the release of 10 living hostages held in Gaza and the return of 18 bodies in exchange for a 60-day ceasefireHere are the latest pictures from the West Bank, courtesy of the newswiresIsraeli strikes killed at least 13 Palestinians overnight in Gaza, the Associated Press reports. According to local hospitals, Four were killed in a strike on a car in Gaza City late Wednesday, and another eight, including two women and three children, were killed in a strike on a home in Jabaliya. A strike on a built-up refugee camp in central Gaza killed one person and wounded 18. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which says it only targets militants and blames civilian deaths on Hamas because the militants are embedded in populated areas. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Ukraine war briefing: Kremlin holds back peace memorandum that it promised Trump

Zelenskyy says Moscow dragging out the process as Lavrov insists on another meeting; funeral for three sibling children killed by Russian cruise missile. What we know on day 1,191Ukraine has submitted its peace terms and insisted Russia do the same before further talks, which the Kremlin has demanded take place next Monday in Turkey. “We are not opposed to further meetings with the Russians and are awaiting their memorandum,” said the Ukrainian defence minister, Rustem Umerov. “The Russian side has at least four more days before their departure to provide us with their document for review. Diplomacy must be substantive, and the next meeting must yield results.”Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said instead that a Russian team “is ready to present a memorandum to the Ukrainian delegation and provide the necessary explanations during a second round of direct talks in Istanbul on Monday, 2 June”. The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Wednesday called for Moscow to engage i...

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