3 h. ago Albanese is taking away social media for children but hanging out mistletoe for AI. It’s magical thinking | Peter Lewis

The PM won big by convincing us we could avoid the madness of Donald Trump’s new world order but Labor’s feeble AI plan embeds Australia deeply in its orbitGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastI’m blaming Santa. As 2025 reaches its inevitable endgame, I can’t help thinking we have all become gullible children enthralled by the promise of tech cornucopia, refusing to see the folds in our logic because deep down we don’t want to break the magic.While the federal government prepares to take the toys off the children with its world-first social media ban, it is hanging out the stockings for the self-same tech overlords to fill with new goodies via its light-touch National AI Plan. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Winner of Miss Bumbum contest hits back at critics who dismiss her as stupid because of her backside

THE winner of a Miss Bumbum contest has hit out at people who dismiss her as stupid — just because of her big backside. Kerolay Chaves, 24, has been the target of jibes online and in the street since her triumph in Brazil’s annual shapely rear contest. The former shop assistant added that such comments...

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6 h. ago Zelenskyy ‘ready for elections’ after Trump questions Ukrainian democracy

Zelenskyy says he would hold wartime elections within months given help from allies and Ukraine’s parliamentTrump lambasts ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’ Europe and hints at walking away from UkraineVolodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is ready to hold a wartime election within the next three months, if Ukraine’s parliament and foreign allies will allow it, after Donald Trump accused him of clinging on to power.Zelenskyy, clearly irritated by Trump’s intervention, said that “this is a question for the people of Ukraine, not people from other states, with all due respect to our partners”. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Broken defence promises: Labour's dithering is putting Britain's national security at risk, says MAGGIE PAGANO

Only a few months ago, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves boasted about how extra defence spending was going to turbo-charge economic growth.

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7 h. ago Larry the Cat from No10 used as a 'pawn' in Russia's propaganda war with Ukraine

Russian media sites are spreading fake news that Larry the Cat, who lives at Number 10, ‘snubbed’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his visit to see Sir Keir Starmer

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7 h. ago UK teaching assistant banned from classrooms after telling students he killed hundreds of people

Scott Trigg-Turner made the inappropriate comments to a group of Year 8 students and made other claims about his background that colleagues became suspicious of

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8 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Brother Torsten shimmered, beamed and lovingly stroked his girlishly smooth throat...

Treasury Questions and Torsten Bell was in da building! Little Torsten is that London think-tanker who used to pop up on BBC programmes as an allegedly non-partisan commentator.

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9 h. ago Keir Starmer pays tribute to member of UK armed forces killed in ‘tragic accident’ in Ukraine

MoD says Ukrainians were testing new defence equipment

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10 h. ago The Guardian view on Trump and Europe: more an abusive relationship than an alliance | Editorial

The White House is aggressively seeking to weaken and dominate the United States’ traditional allies. European leaders must learn to fight back.Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz have become adept at scrambling to deal with the latest bad news from Washington. Their meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Downing Street on Monday was so hastily arranged that Mr Macron needed to be back in Paris by late afternoon to meet Croatia’s prime minister, while Mr Merz was due on television for an end-of-year Q&A with the German public.But diplomatic improvisation alone cannot fully answer Donald Trump’s structural threat to European security. The US president and his emissaries are trying to bully Mr Zelenskyy into an unjust peace deal that suits American and Russian interests. In response, the summit helped ramp up support for the use of up to £100bn in frozen Russian assets as collateral for a “reparations loan” to Ukraine. European counter-proposals for a ceasefire will ...

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10 h. ago Member of British armed forces killed in Ukraine in 'tragic accident'

The man died after watching his Ukrainian counterparts test a new defensive capability away from the front lines, the MoD said

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10 h. ago Sir Keir Starmer leads tributes to armed forces member killed in Ukraine

The man died as he watched the testing of a new defensive capability, according to the Ministry of Defence.

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10 h. ago Zelensky turns to WhatsApp as he’s forced to improvise to get his message out on busy 36

Since the start of the war, Zelensky has shown a desire to communicate in real-time in whatever way is necessary

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10 h. ago Member of UK armed forces killed in ‘tragic accident’ in Ukraine

Man was observing as Ukrainian counterparts tested new equipment, Ministry of Defence says

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10 h. ago Trump says European leaders are ‘weak’ and countries are ‘decaying’ in extraordinary attack on US allies

US president launches tirade against European nations over migration and the war in Ukraine

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10 h. ago Yvette Cooper counters Trump criticism of Khan and praises Europe’s ‘strength’

The Foreign Secretary defended Sir Sadiq Khan’s record in City Hall after the president branded him a ‘disaster’ and a ‘disgusting mayor’.

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11 h. ago UK member of the armed forces killed in Ukraine in ‘tragic accident’

Defence Secretary John Healey revealed his ‘devastation’ over the death.

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11 h. ago UK armed forces member killed in 'tragic accident' observing testing in Ukraine

The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that a British soldier has died during a “tragic accident” while they were observing Ukrainian forces testing a new defensive capability

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11 h. ago Member of UK military is killed in 'a tragic accident while observing Ukrainian forces test new defensive capability'

A member of the UK armed forces has been killed in a "tragic accident" whilst observing the testing of new defensive capability in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence has said.

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11 h. ago Member of UK armed forces dead in Ukraine after weapons test 'tragic accident'

A member of the British Armed Forces has been killed in Ukraine in a 'tragic accident', the Ministry of Defence said

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11 h. ago Member of UK armed forces killed after ‘tragic accident’ in Ukraine

A member of the UK armed forces has been killed in a “tragic accident” while observing the testing of new defensive capability in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence says.

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