A BRITISH father was unlawfully killed by an Iranian drone while on an oil tanker, an inquest found.  Adrian Underwood, 44, was working as a security officer on the empty vessel near Oman when the device hit.  The Army veteran, of Andover, Hants, joined a maritime security agency in 2020.  The motive behind the strike on...

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Greens senator Steph Hodgins-May says gas corporations have created ‘crisis’ Australian households have to pay for. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Urgent investment is needed in new energy infrastructure – particularly synchronous generators – if the Eraring coal power plant in New South Wales is to shut as planned in 2027, authorities have warned. An Australian Energy Market Operator (Aemo) report on Monday said investment was needed in the…

Congress is investigating reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike on survivors of a drug-boat attack, putting the legality of the recent U.S. military campaign under scrutiny.

Tasmania is launching Australia's first compensation program for men once criminalized under anti-gay laws, raising difficult questions about how to measure and remedy decades of harm.

When the Zika crisis hit Brazil, women infected with the virus gave birth to babies with a debilitating condition. Some of the moms joined together to build a new life and to push for reparations.

The unidentified man was believed to be suffering from mental health problems when he scaled the wall to the Brazilian zoo and hopped into the lion's enclosure using a tree branch

Minelli founded the Dignitas organisation in 1998 after decades working as a journalist and lawyer

The BBC visits a camp where people are taking refuge after the fall of el-Fasher city.

An auctioneer stumbled upon the long lost painting, which depicts the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, inside a Paris townhouse last year during a routine visit.

Zhou Bo is a retired senior colonel in the People’s Liberation Army and a senior fellow at Tsinghua University’s Centre for International Security and Strategy. His military career included roles in the Ministry of National Defence’s Foreign Affairs Office and as a defence attaché. Zhou is the author of the recent book Should the World Fear China?

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Detectives claim to have uncovered Sydney-based network involving online distribution of child sexual abuse material involving ritualistic or satanic themes Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast NSW police say they have uncovered an “international satanic child sex abuse material ring” and charged four Australians for their alleged involvement. Detectives from the sex crimes squad said that as part of Strike Force Cons…

Algerian foreign minister says African countries and peoples continue to pay a heavy price for colonialism African leaders are pushing to have colonial-era crimes recognised, criminalised and addressed through reparations. At a conference in the Algerian capital, Algiers, diplomats and leaders convened to advance an African Union resolution passed at a meeting earlier this year calling for justice and reparations for victims of colonialism. Continue reading...

Several thousand people rallied in Croatia’s capital on Sunday, denouncing the rise of far-right nationalism and attempts to glorify the country’s WWII pro-Nazi Ustasha regime. Similar marches took place in Rijeka, Pula and Zadar.

Exciting times await as the UK unopposedly bids to host the 2035 Women's World Cup, a monumental event poised to invigorate the sport globally.

The recent flurry of sporting events has thrown up a number of aspects which I found particularly inspiring. With much of the media focus on China’s 15th National Games naturally on the sporting contests, less attention was paid to the fact that the event could only have been successfully organised with the support of local volunteers.

The Agency for Volunteer Service appealed for help in marshalling competitors and spectators, and tens of thousands of ordinary Hongkongers applied. The target...

Ludwig Minelli founded the group in 1998, which has since helped thousands of people to die.

Diplomats have been focused on revisions to a proposed 28-point plan developed in negotiations between Washington and Moscow

Stefanie Pieper, a beauty influencer with tens of thousands of followers, was found dead in a Slovenian forest after police were allegedly guided to her body by her former partner

A defence expert believes that one EU nation in particular poses more of a threat to Europe's defences than any other.

A HIGH-SCHOOL teacher in Australia has pleaded guilty to having sex with a 15-year-old student, after months of denying the allegations. Karly Rae, 37, admitted to having sex with the boy on multiple occasions in October 2024 in several locations around Newcastle, New South Wales. According to the court reports, Rae initially groomed the pupil...

American and Ukrainian delegations meet in Florida to discuss the outlines of a peace deal with Russia.

Journalist and editor also led British Board of Film Classification and served as senior lay member of the Church of England Andreas Whittam Smith, the co-founder of the Independent newspaper and a former president of the British Board of Film Classification, has died aged 88. Whittam Smith was also the first editor of the Independent and served as first church estates commissioner, the senior lay member of the Church of England, from 2002 to 2017. Continue reading...

Indonesian authorities said residents in flood-stricken Sumatra have looted shops for food and water as the death toll climbs to 442 and hundreds remain missing, while Sri Lanka reported at least 193 dead after days of torrential rains and mudslides.

COPS have arrested the ex-boyfriend of a famous influencer whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase and buried in the woods. Patrick M. got caught up in the investigation after the police found him in Stefanie Pieper's apartment following her death. Stefanie Pieper was making her way home from a Christmas bash before she vanished....

Christians are still the largest religious minority in the Middle East, the region where Jesus was born, lived and died, but the community is shrinking.

The New Jersey senator, 56, tied the knot with Alexis Lewis, 38, in Washington D.C. Saturday

Former Navy captain, Democratic senator who urged military members to refuse illegal orders says ‘double-tap’ strike ‘seems to’ be a war crime, if reports are accurate

The southern Thailand city of Hat Yai is used to flooding. But resident Krongkarn Jantarasavad says what ended up happening was inconceivable.

The US boycotted the G20 held in South Africa due to false allegations of genocide against white farmers.

Russian lawyer Andrei Kapustin, 32, known for helping victims of botched cosmetic surgery, died on the operating table during a hair transplant

Eight more wild boar with suspected cases of African swine fever were discovered near Barcelona, La Vanguardia newspaper reported on Sunday, as Spain struggles to limit the damage to a pork export industry worth billions of euros a year.

The newspaper cited sources close to the Catalan agriculture ministry. Two cases have been confirmed, and 12 others have shown signs they may also have the disease but are undergoing tests to confirm this. If confirmed, it would bring the number of infected...

The body of missing beauty influencer Steanie Pieper was found in a Slovenian forest, with her boyfriend arrested by police after he was caught near his burning car

Pope Leo XIV challenged Lebanon's political leaders on Sunday to be true peacemakers and put their differences aside, as he sought to give Lebanon's long-suffering people a message of hope and bolster a crucial Christian community in the Middle East.

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Liverpool gathering lays bare bitter divisions within new party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana The new leftwing party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will be called Your Party after a vote by members, but its weekend conference laid bare bitter divisions. Just over 37% of members voted for the name Your Party, provisionally adopted when it was launched earlier this year, to become permanent. The votes for others on the shortlist were 25.23% to be called For The Many, 25.23…

Around a third of Americans think the US economy will get worse in 2026

Diplomats from Ukraine and the US are meeting for high-level talks in Florida aimed at securing peace.

Mikel Merino cancels out Trevoh Chalobah's opener to spare the Premier League leaders' blushes at Stamford Bridge.

Investigators credit the persistence of the victim’s daughter for keeping the case alive

The woman told police she thought she had stopped before the tracks

A commission set up to investigate a violent mutiny that saw dozens of senior army officers massacred 16 years ago on Sunday said former premier Sheikh Hasina had ordered the killings.

Officials in Indonesia say more than 442 people have died, while Sri Lanka suffers worst natural disaster since 2004 tsunami Authorities in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand are racing to clear debris and find hundreds of missing people after more than 900 died in devastating floods and landslides across the south of Asia. In the latest example of the impact of the climate crisis on storm patterns and extreme weather, heavy monsoon rains, exacerbated by a tropical storm, have overwhelmed parts o…

The head of Swiss right-to-die organisation Dignitas has died through assisted suicide, the group said in a statement on Sunday.

Reigning F1 champion Max Verstappen closed to within 12 points of leader Lando Norris heading into final round in UAE.

Former Labour leader announces official name at conference in Liverpool after vote by members Kemi Badenoch has reiterated her calls for the chancellor to resign on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, after accusing Rachel Reeves of breaking promises not to raise taxes. In this year’s budget, Reeves froze tax thresholds for three years longer than previously planned, meaning that as wages rise more people will have to start paying income tax. The chancellor called an emergency pres…

US and Ukrainian officials held what both sides called productive talks on Sunday about a peace deal with Russia, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressing optimism about progress despite challenges in ending the more than three-year war.

“We continue to be realistic about how difficult this is but optimistic, particularly given the fact that as we’ve made progress, I think there is a shared vision here that this is not just about ending the war … it is about securing Ukraine’s future, a...

Pontiff tells politicians and religious heads they must persevere with peace efforts despite facing ‘highly complex, conflictual’ situation Pope Leo has urged political leaders in Lebanon to make peace their highest priority in a forceful appeal as he is visiting the country, which remains a target of Israeli airstrikes, on the second leg of his first overseas trip as Catholic leader. Leo, the first US pope, arrived in Beirut on Sunday from a four-day visit to Turkey where he said that humanity’…

Five hours later, when Hu was supposed to check out, a hotel cleaner went to his room and found him dead.

My beloved father, Jayanta Kumar Kundu, was not only a headmaster of a primary school – he was the headmaster of my character and my life. In the world’s eyes, he was a simple man: a primary school teacher who rose to become a headmaster, a quiet Marxist who believed in equality and justice, a […]

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Lexus' Touch Sensor Controls are like little laptop trackpads that live on the steering wheel. They're not for everybody.

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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday to protest against Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, accusing his left-wing government of corruption and demanding his resignation and early elections.

The demonstration was organised by the conservative People’s Party (PP) under opposition leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo.

The rally in central Madrid carried the slogan “Mafia or democracy?”

Participants waved Spanish flags and carried signs reading “Resign now!” and “Sanchez, go...

Delegations meet in Florida to ‘create pathway’ for sovereign Ukraine ahead of US special envoy Witkoff’s Moscow trip.

Plane skidded off runway and 45 cars were piled up as 53 million were under winter weather alerts over Thanksgiving A Thanksgiving weekend storm system brought over a foot of snow and strong winds across the US midwest and thunderstorms across the south, as 53 million people from South Dakota to New York were under winter weather alerts . Over the weekend, ahead of one of the busiest travel days of the year on Sunday, a 45-car pile-up occurred on interstate 78 in Indiana and a Delta Air Lines pl…

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The arrest marks the second time this season that Javier Pavia has been detained at a Vanderbilt game

British finance minister Rachel Reeves on Sunday denied she misled the public over official forecasts ahead of this month’s budget, saying she had been honest about the need to build up a bigger financial buffer.

In a speech on November 4, Reeves appeared to lay the groundwork to break the Labour Party’s promise to voters before the 2024 election and raise income tax rates, citing a “weaker than previously thought” productivity performance.

In a letter published on Friday, the head of Britain’s.…

When OpenAI quietly released ChatGPT as a research preview on 30 November 2022, it looked like a clever toy. Three years later, it has become something very different: a default starting point for questions, ideas, shopping – and increasingly, travel. On its third birthday, ChatGPT is no longer just a chatbot. With hundreds of millions […]

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The explosions were initially said to be a result of 'external causes', but were later confirmed to be as a result of a strike by Ukrainian naval drones targeting Putin's 'shadow fleet'

Alexander Isak scored his maiden goal for Liverpool as the Reds ended their two-game EPL losing streak at West Ham.

The airport for Lithuania's capital Vilnius is suspended operations due to a reported balloon threat

Elon Musk has once again highlighted the importance of skilled immigration in the United States, especially the contributions of Indian professionals, during a conversation on Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath’s podcast, People by WTF. His remarks come at a time when thousands of Indian students and workers are increasingly worried about tightening U.S. visa rules, unpredictable […]

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who played Sam in Richard Curtis’s film, thinks streaming ushered in genre’s decline If modern romcoms aren’t sweeping you off your feet any more, you’re not the only one wondering where the magic went. Romantic comedies are just not as good as they used to be, according to one of the stars of Love Actually. Continue reading...

WHO partners with 42 African nations, setting global safeguarding standards in health operations to address and prevent sexual misconduct.

NATO fighter jets have intercepted a slew of Russian military aircraft flying with their transponders off near the Polish airspace. Authorities said they intercepted the Russian aircraft that were flying "with no flight plans" over the Baltic Sea. Poland said it scrambled pairs of F-16s and MiG-29s to intercept the Russian military aircraft "which posed...

Thousands of mourners poured into Tai Po on Sunday, forming a solemn river of remembrance for the 146 lives lost in Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in more than seven decades, while Beijing called for unity and healing as a massive rescue and recovery operation continued amid the charred ruins.

The scale of the calamity was evident, as the Disaster Victim Identification Unit (DVIU) discovered 18 more bodies in the wreckage of Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po following Wednesday’s blaze.

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Turkey says Ukraine's attacks posed 'serious risks to navigation, life, property and environmental safety'.

A Filipino domestic worker who fled Hong Kong’s deadly inferno with her employers’ three-year-old daughter in her arms has expressed regret that she was unable to persuade a neighbour who perished in the blaze to also try to escape.

Reinalyn Niere, who arrived in the city last year, said she was asleep with the child in the family’s third-floor flat in Tai Po’s Wang Fuk Court when disaster struck at the housing estate on Wednesday afternoon. The child’s parents were at work at the...

River Action says use of issuance tied to environmental benefits is ‘corporate greenwash on steroids’ Water companies have issued a fifth of the UK’s “green bonds” since 2017, despite a consistently poor record of sewage pollution during that time, research has shown. Privately owned water companies in England have together issued £10.5bn in bonds tied to projects that offer “environmental benefits”, according to analysis of financial market data by Unearthed, which is part of Greenpeace UK. Con…

After declaring a nationwide emergency on Wednesday, Nigeria continues to be gripped by kidnappings

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the country’s president on Sunday for a pardon in his long-running corruption trial, arguing that the criminal proceedings were hindering his ability to govern and that a pardon would be good for Israel. Under Israeli law, however, the president does not have the power to pardon someone who is not a convicted criminal, FRANCE 24’s Noga Tarnopolsky said, noting that no verdict has yet been rendered on Netanyahu, who is actively seeking to prevent hi…

A 30-year-old man, identified locally as an Indian student, was stabbed during a street attack in central England and later died of the serious injuries in hospital.

Brandishing slogans such as "enough is enough!" and "not another day!" Spain's conservative opposition Popular Party rallied in Madrid on Sunday to demand Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez resign.

Flaco’s Tacos food truck owner, Rafael Calvillo, who claims he was unaware of the name’s trademark, is seeking new name suggestions until December 5

Patent filings published earlier this week, viewed by The Independent , include designs for seats equipped with sensors and robotic safety inspectors

The parents also allege in the lawsuit that the perpetrator had sexually assaulted other students

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio anticipated ‘more progress’ from talks with Ukrainian officials

Ludwig Minelli, whose work had lasting influence on Swiss law, dies just days before his 93rd birthday The head of the Swiss right-to-die organisation Dignitas has ended his life through an assisted death, the group has said. Ludwig Minelli, who founded the group in 1998, died on Saturday, days before his 93rd birthday, Dignitas said. It added: “Right up to the end of his life, he continued to search for further ways to help people to exercise their right to freedom of choice and self-determinat…

Crowds welcome Pope Leo in Beirut as he calls for an end to violence and promotes interfaith understanding.

The death toll on the island of Sumatra has risen to more than 440, the government says.