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Police in Northern Ireland have confirmed that a suspicious package delivered to a hotel in Derry contained a viable explosive device, prompting condemnation from Stormont's justice minister and a local assembly member. Police described the incident as a "reckless and targeted attack".
A draft rule from the Australian Energy Market Commission that would let gas networks recover more of their costs from today's customers has drawn opposition from consumer advocates and the energy regulator, who warn households left on gas could face higher bills as the customer base shrinks.
Uluṟu keeps surprising its visitors. Research cited in a new travel feature on the destination found 72 per cent of recent guests said it offered more to do than they expected, and more than half said they would stay longer if they were planning the trip again. The most common advice for first-timers: allow at least four nights.
Former Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka played his final professional match at his home tournament in Basel, losing to eighth-seeded Jiří Lehečka in the first round of the Swiss Indoors. The 41-year-old three-time grand slam winner had announced last December that 2026 would be his last year on tour, and he exits the sport after more than two decades as a professional.
Explosions and fires were reported in the Russian city of Lipetsk late on Oct. 27 following a strike by Ukrainian forces, with a fire breaking out in the area of the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant, according to Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova Plus. The plant has previously been identified as a supplier to Russian defense companies producing air defense systems, drones, missiles, and other weapons, and is owned by sanctioned Russian billionaire Vladimir Lisin.
A Russian military satellite moved dangerously close to a US-registered satellite earlier this month, the latest in what the Defense Intelligence Agency describes as a sustained pattern of harassment of US national security space satellites, according to a new DIA report.
A Canadian woman with permanent US legal residency died in her western Washington home after avoiding medical care because she feared being detained or deported, her son said. Paige Adamson, 61, died Oct. 18 of internal bleeding and blunt force injuries from a fall, according to Dylan Adamson, who said she was facing a deportation hearing over allegations that she voted illegally in 2018, which she denied.
Halima Salman, 27, a former Brooklyn resident who was taken to Syria at age 17 by her father and married to an Islamic State fighter, was convicted Tuesday in federal court of receiving military training from the militant group. The jury reached its verdict after several days of deliberations that at one point appeared deadlocked. Salman faces up to 10 years in prison; sentencing is set for Feb. 2.
Australian shares surrendered an early gain of almost 1% to finish flat on Wednesday after stronger-than-expected inflation pushed market expectations of a Reserve Bank interest rate rise next week to nearly 90%. The S&P/ASX 200 closed at 8,847 points, with gains in mining shares offset by weakness in energy stocks and retailers.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright has defended the Trump administration's decision to allow Russian diesel onto the US market, framing it as an incentive for Moscow to end the war in Ukraine, even as Ukrainian and bipartisan US critics condemn the move.
Conor Haughey, whose penalty knocked Arsenal out of the Carabao Cup, said he had not practised spot-kicks before the match, while Fleetwood manager Matt Lawlor described the result as "mental".
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to intervene in a Texas-led lawsuit, leaving in place restrictions on when immigration judges can pause deportation proceedings, even for immigrants who qualify for legal status.
A federal grand jury in Washington has rejected a Justice Department request to indict Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide whose testimony about President Donald Trump's actions on Jan. 6, 2021, became a flashpoint in the investigation of the Capitol attack.
The federal government has conditionally invested $180 million in the Donald Rare Earth and Minerals Sands Project planned for western Victoria, backing a mine that local farmers say will destroy prime agricultural land. Two federal agencies, the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation and Export Finance Australia, have issued conditional approval for up to $110 million and $70 million respectively for the joint venture between locally registered Astron Corporation and United States uranium giant Energy Fuels, which has already contributed $183 million.
Noah Wyle, star of the HBO Max medical drama The Pitt, has been crowned People magazine's 2026 'sexiest man alive', an honour the 55-year-old said he never expected. Wyle, who played Dr John Carter on ER from 1994 to 2006, told the magazine it 'sounded like a prank' when he heard the news.
A 47-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Loredana Morosanu, a Romanian woman in her 40s whose body was found at her home in Finglas, County Dublin on Monday.
Pennsylvania homeowners selling their homes will be required to disclose far more about flood risk, including past flooding incidents and flood insurance claims, under a law signed last week by Gov. Josh Shapiro that takes effect by summer 2028.
Chancellor John Healey has delivered his first Budget, announcing a £100 one-off energy payment for 20 million households in England funded by a tax increase on bank profits, as the devolved governments of Scotland and Wales confirmed they would replicate the payment and the OBR said British households would be little better off than before the pandemic even a decade after Covid-19 hit, a situation its boss David Miles described as “pretty grim”.
Australia is on track for a sixth consecutive year of rising road fatalities, with deaths to the end of September already the highest recorded in 15 years, reversing decades of steady safety improvements. The trend has pushed the country further from its national target of halving road deaths by 2030 and reaching zero by 2050.
An assistant coroner has warned that more lives could be lost unless North Wales Police improve how they handle disconnected 999 calls from remote mountain areas. The warning follows the deaths of two young walkers in Snowdonia whose emergency call was dropped and not properly followed up, delaying the mountain rescue response.
The European Commission is examining whether to channel revenue from a global minimum corporate tax on large multinationals into the EU's next seven-year budget, four EU diplomats with knowledge of the proceedings told POLITICO. The move could help resolve deadlocked negotiations over new EU-wide taxes that have stalled budget talks.
A new ad from a pro-Abdul El-Sayed political action committee blaming US aid to Israel for high grocery prices has drawn accusations of antisemitism, injecting a fresh controversy into the Michigan Senate race as President Trump intensifies his own attacks on the Democratic candidate's Muslim faith.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday congratulated Quebec’s separatist premier, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, on his election win, pressing a familiar jab at Ottawa even as Washington and Canadian officials intensify trade talks. The president also congratulated British Columbia’s premier-designate, Lorne Doerkson, writing that “Conservatives are moving strong in Canada!”
The Federal Election Commission said Tuesday night that it identified the problem affecting its electronic filing system and was implementing a fix, after reports that hackers targeted the agency days before the midterm elections. The system remained offline early Wednesday, cutting off public disclosure of campaign money in the final stretch of the race.
Israelis voted on Wednesday in their first national election since the October 7 attacks, and with polls just closed, early exit polls indicated the opposition bloc of parties edging slightly ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition, according to Australian reports; RTÉ described the blocs as even. In Australia, federal politicians are set to receive a security boost that could include wider use of emergency alarms, as the government fast-tracks a review following last week's attack on independent MP Helen Haines.
Australia's openers Travis Head and Matt Renshaw made a cautious but promising start in their chase of South Africa's 329 on day two of the third Test at Newlands, reaching 0-26 after seven overs with the series tied at 1-1.
A former Metropolitan police officer who served in the same unit as Wayne Couzens and David Carrick has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault against a woman he met through his work, a court has heard.
Two parents are on trial in England accused of causing or allowing their young daughter's death, with prosecutors alleging physical and sexual abuse before she suffered a fatal head injury.
Olivia Chow has been re-elected as mayor of Toronto for a second term, winning 54 per cent of the vote against rival Brad Bradford’s 41 per cent in a tightly fought contest that saw record turnout. The 69-year-old incumbent’s dominant 13-point victory defied pre-election polls that had suggested a dead heat, and she promptly pledged to pursue rental housing, free school lunches, and reduced transit fares for frequent riders.
The New South Wales government has reversed a key provision of its new plastic waste law, abandoning a requirement that would have forced cafes to offer dine-in customers reusable glassware or crockery by 2030, Environment Minister Penny Sharpe announced on Wednesday.
A 46-year-old man has been charged with allegedly fabricating an injury and lodging a fraudulent compensation claim following the Bondi Beach massacre last December, in what police say was an attempt to obtain financial advantage from the worst terror attack in Australian history.
Three brothers who used their wealth and luxury real estate connections to drug and rape dozens of women over two decades were each sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Tuesday. Judge Valerie Caproni rejected pleas for leniency and said the brothers, who continued to deny the crimes, would be housed separately to prevent them from being 'bad influences' on each other.
Several Australian news outlets, including The Sydney Morning Herald, WA Today, Brisbane Times, and The Age, published headlines on October 27, 2026, noting that it was election day in Israel, but the articles contained no substantive information about the election.
The U.S. military anticipates needing hundreds of thousands of drones of various sizes and capabilities to prepare for a potential war with China, a conflict the department hopes never to fight, according to a report.
A Russian military court has sentenced an IT specialist to 13 years in prison for financing “terrorism” after cryptocurrency exchange Binance supplied investigators with records of his donations to Ukrainian fundraising campaigns.
New research from the Australian Child Maltreatment Study estimates that one in four young Australians have experienced physical abuse at the hands of their parents, with most cases occurring before the age of ten. The study highlights that physical abuse is overwhelmingly perpetrated by family members rather than institutional figures, challenging the common focus on abuse outside the home.
Utah authorities announced Tuesday that DNA testing has linked serial killer Ted Bundy to the 1974 murder of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith, closing a cold case on the 52nd anniversary of the day a hunter found her body in the woods.
Billionaire businessman Clive Palmer secured a personal audience with Queensland Premier David Crisafulli over a “matter of commercial significance” related to his interests in the state, but the details have been blocked from public release under Right to Information laws. Documents obtained by Brisbane Times show only a single text message was released, with key segments redacted as “contrary to the public interest,” and no correspondence or records of three diarised meetings were found.
The US military said Tuesday it killed five people in an airstrike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific, the latest in a series of such attacks under the Trump administration that have drawn criticism from legal experts and rights groups over their legality.
Rising costs, sperm shortages and long wait times are driving some Australian parents who need assisted reproductive technology to abandon regulated IVF clinics in favour of private donor agreements and at-home insemination, a practice experts say carries significant legal and health risks due to a lack of mandatory checks.
Egypt's parliament has authorised President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to provide military assistance to Saudi Arabia if the kingdom requests it, approving the measure after closed-door sessions as Houthi attacks on the kingdom continued and Saudi officials held talks in Tehran.
An inquiry into the deaths of 33 detainees in Nigeria's Minna state has found they died as a result of severe overcrowding, poor ventilation and a failure by officers to respond to distress calls. Forensic and medical evidence showed the deaths were 'entirely preventable', resulting from acute respiratory failure aggravated by heat stress and dehydration.
Papua New Guinea police have confirmed the deaths of 12 men who they say staged an armed robbery at a tradestore in Kimbe, West New Britain, on Monday and then opened fire on officers while attempting to flee. West New Britain Governor Sasindran Muthuvel said the public is deeply frustrated with repeated armed robberies and violent crime, and supports a call to officially categorise criminal groups as terrorists.
Dozens of protesters stormed the newsroom of Informer TV, a station supportive of former Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, on Monday evening, calling for the arrest of its editor and shouting “This is how it is in free Serbia!” The incident came as tens of thousands celebrated a second night on the streets after Vucic’s alliance was defeated in Sunday’s historic election by the Student List, a movement born out of student-led anticorruption protests.
Egyptian editor Lina Attalah has been released from detention after her news outlet Mada Masr paid a 3 million Egyptian pound ($53,500; £40,100) fine imposed by a Cairo court that convicted her of running an unlicensed website and ordered the site closed. Her lawyers say that during her release she learned she had been sentenced in absentia in 2024 to a year in prison, and that a retrial hearing is scheduled for 11 November.
A controversial Islamic cleric in northern Nigeria has been shot dead outside his home in Dutsin-Ma, Katsina state, in an attack that also killed one of his guests. Police said two assailants arrived on a motorcycle and opened fire as the cleric, Yahaya Masussuka, was saying goodbye to visitors on Monday evening.
Sam Walker plans to see out the remaining year of his Roosters contract next season despite the spectacular breakdown of extension talks that saw the club pull a three-year, $4.2 million offer. The development comes as Hudson Young is set to become a free agent after the Raiders withdrew their contract offer, with both stars among the most in-demand players expected to be available when the November 1 transfer window opens.
In a strongly worded opinion piece published across Nine newspapers, academic and writer Kylie Moore-Gilbert argues that the rise of AI-generated content and bot-driven disinformation is undermining Australian democracy and that current regulatory attempts, such as the Digital Duty of Care Act, are only a baby step toward addressing the fundamental disconnect between online and offline speech. She connects the recent attack on independent MP Helen Haines to an online environment she describes as a profit-driven Wild West.