1 min read

Play: Cooler Than Me? – BBC Weather

  Britain’s true national sport is complaining about the weather. But does the Sun really shine brighter everywhere else, or is this quite a green and pleasant land after all? Compare your location to cities across the world, and find out if you’re forecast to become the BBC’s next star meteorologist. You can find the […]

4 mins read

China issues warning to Papua New Guinea over defence deal with Australia | Papua New Guinea

  China has urged Papua New Guinea not to sign a treaty that could restrict or prevent it from cooperating with another country, days after Australia failed to secure a defence pact with the Pacific nation. In a statement on Facebook late on Thursday, the Chinese embassy in Papua New Guinea said it respected the […]

4 mins read

Convicted rapist Gareth Ward argues he should receive lighter sentence due to ‘enormous fall from grace’ | New South Wales politics

  Lawyers for convicted rapist Gareth Ward have argued in court that he should receive a lighter sentence because of his “enormous fall from grace”, including the loss of his political career. Ward resigned as a New South Wales MP last month, just hours before he was to be kicked out of parliament. He is […]

5 mins read

For comedians around the world, the laughs often end as democracy fades | Freedom of speech

  The exiled Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef has experienced firsthand how intolerant governments can silence political satire. And he had a short message this week for those living in an age of Donald Trump’s free speech clampdown: “My Fellow American Citizens,” he wrote on X. “Welcome to my world.” In his attacks on the most […]

4 mins read

Seven teenagers charged with murder after stabbing deaths of two boys in Melbourne | Melbourne

  Seven teenagers have been charged with murder after the stabbing deaths of 15-year-old Dau Akueng and 12-year-old Chol Achiek in Cobblebank in Melbourne’s west earlier this month. The seven males, aged between 15 and 19, were arrested on Friday morning after raids on homes in Melbourne’s north and west by homicide squad detectives. They […]

7 mins read

‘Crisis of justice’ as floods devastate: Pakistan’s climate change minister | Climate Crisis News

  Islamabad, Pakistan – As Pakistan reels from one of the worst flooding to have hit the country in decades, where more than 1,000 people have been killed and more than two million displaced, Pakistan’s climate change minister has slammed the “crisis of justice” facing his country. The United Nations said more than six million […]

18 mins read

Friday briefing: Special relationships, unlikely ‘friendships’ – Trump’s state visit beyond the cliches | Donald Trump

  Good morning. Donald Trump has gone home, no doubt so thrilled by the Red Arrows and the chance to have dinner with Nick Faldo that he will enter the Oval Office this morning a changed man. Admittedly, at his Chequers press conference with Keir Starmer yesterday afternoon, the transformation hadn’t entirely taken hold: Trump […]