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The BBC has confirmed that Jack Ross, the Conservative activist featured in an Al Jazeera undercover video appearing to offer to broker the hiring of contract killers, was contracted to provide social media advice to the Conservative Party until earlier this year.
German prosecutors have said a 33-year-old man arrested on suspicion of arson after a fire engulfed Adolf Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat showed signs of mental illness and has been sent to a psychiatric facility, as authorities investigate whether a political motive lay behind the blaze.
An analysis by the BBC has found that, despite the triple lock, the UK state pension provides a replacement rate of 54.2% of average earnings, below the average of 63.2% across wealthy countries, according to OECD data. At the same time, pensioner poverty has increased slightly due to rising housing costs, but pensioners remain less likely to be in relative poverty than other age groups.
Geoffrey Gates' third novel, The Phantom Surrealist, blends mystery, romance and art history as a PhD student hunts for an Australian artist who disappeared in Spain, according to critic Kirsten Krauth.
A five-bedroom Mosman home on Beauty Point passed in at $9.85 million on Saturday after the only registered party did not bid, highlighting the pressure on Sydney’s prestige market from high interest rates and economic uncertainty.
Oil prices hit a six-month high above $116 a barrel this week as the United States reduced diplomatic staff at four more Middle East embassies over fresh intelligence warnings that Iran has "substantially increased" plots to kill Americans, while the Houthis fired ballistic missiles over the weekend. A separate report said the Trump administration has vowed to hold off on military strikes against Iran until after the Nov. 3 midterm elections, with inflation and economic disruption dominating voter concerns.
Arch Jelley, the revered New Zealand running coach who guided Sir John Walker to the first sub-3:50 mile and Olympic gold in the 1500 metres, has died at the age of 104. Athletics New Zealand confirmed his death, marking the end of a coaching career that spanned more than five decades.
Pauline Parker, one of the two teenagers who bludgeoned her mother to death in Christchurch in 1954 in the infamous Parker-Hulme case, has died in Orkney at the age of 88, bringing the story to a final close. To her neighbours she was known as Hilary Nathan, a quiet religious woman who ran a riding stable and lived a reclusive life.
The family of Joseph Paratore, a 40-year-old cyclist fatally struck in an alleged hit-and-run at Bibra Lake last week, has released a statement expressing their grief. Police arrested Craig Daniel Strawbridge, 40, who appeared in Fremantle Magistrates Court and did not apply for bail.
Travis Head has pushed back against calls to regenerate Australia's Test team after a heavy defeat to South Africa in Gqeberha, arguing the team should stick with experienced domestic players rather than overhaul the side due to one bad day. Speaking after his rearguard century in the second Test, Head said Australia remain a strong side and should continue a policy of reinforcing with hardened first-class cricketers.
Dual international Lote Tuqiri has defended Mark Nawaqanitawase's decision to delay his international allegiance and criticised Rugby Australia for leaving Zac Lomax out of the Australia A side to play the United States, saying the Wallabies are wasting the former NRL flyer.
A growing number of Darwin home owners and investors are listing their properties to cash in on rising prices, but experts at real estate analytics company Cotality warn the window to sell may be short-lived as the market shows signs of cooling. Darwin has recorded the strongest property market in the country, with house prices up 0.3% and units up 0.8% for September, bucking a national downturn.
The Oregon father who fatally shot a gunman at his daughters' elementary school this month has spoken publicly for the first time, describing his anguish over being unable to save more children and his desire to meet the victims' families. In an interview with Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) that aired Friday, Kaylub Giamanco said he relives the attack every night and wants to apologise to the parents of the three boys who were killed.
Two police vehicles were damaged during disorder in Derry on Wednesday evening after a group of youths attacked officers in the Creevagh Heights area. Items including stones, bottles, paint and fireworks were thrown at police, who were conducting an ongoing policing operation. The Creevagh Road was closed as officers dealt with the incident.
Cuban officials have mocked an appeal by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging Cubans to partner with the CIA, with a deputy foreign minister saying there must be "a great deal of desperation or misery within the agency" for it to recruit in public, as the intelligence service posted a Spanish-language video courting potential informants.
The U.S. Department of Justice has notified specific counties of its plans to send federal monitors for the Nov. 3 midterm elections, with six Georgia counties and Washington's King County among those confirmed to receive observers. The move is part of an effort announced in August to deploy roughly 1,000 monitors nationwide, which Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon called the "biggest DOJ election observer effort in history."
A teenage boy's arrest after a lockdown at a new secondary school in north Wales has sparked a demand from a local councillor for an immediate review of safeguarding procedures, despite senior education officials insisting the incident proved the existing emergency plans were working correctly.
FC Twente will run out in a new tartan-inspired shirt for the first time this weekend, in a kit that honours a friendship between the Dutch club's fans and supporters in the Scottish town of Stranraer, born from a terminally ill supporter's dying wish to see an Old Firm match.
The Duchess of Sussex has ended contact with her father, Thomas Markle, after writing him a letter last year citing allegations of child sexual abuse. The Metropolitan Police has admitted it failed to share a letter containing claims about Markle with other law enforcement agencies and is now reviewing its handling of the matter.
Pachinko author Min Jin Lee has returned with American Hagwon, a novel that follows a Korean family from Seoul to Sydney and California after the Asian financial crisis, and takes aim at the promise that education can protect people from being 'made obsolete' under capitalism. In an interview, Lee praised Australia's social institutions as a contrast to the United States.
Israel's central bank and more than 100 economists have rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to use cryptocurrency and blockchain to circumvent potential international banking sanctions, in a rare public rebuke days before the country's national election on Tuesday.
Kenya's world marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir has been provisionally suspended after an out-of-competition sample collected in Kenya returned an adverse analytical finding for the blood booster EPO, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Friday.
The ex-wife of an Adelaide mother has been sentenced for her role in the mother's death, according to reports carried by several Australian newspapers on Friday.
An Ohio man who ran down and killed a sheriff's deputy hours after watching body-camera footage of police shooting his 18-year-old son was found guilty of murder and other charges on Friday. Rodney L. Hinton, 40, now faces between 15 years and life in prison.
A divided federal appeals court on Friday ruled that the Trump administration may detain certain illegal immigrants indefinitely without bond hearings while their deportation cases proceed, handing the White House a significant legal victory on a core immigration policy.
Russell Brand is on trial at Southwark Crown Court in London, where one of six accusers told the jury that the comedian raped her in his Hampstead home after a consensual encounter, with the court hearing both graphic testimony and the defence’s suggestion that she had agreed to the acts. The 51-year-old entertainer denies three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault relating to six women across a decade from 1999.
Rahul Gandhi, a leader of the opposition Congress party, has called for a "Save the Vote, Save the Country" march and rally in New Delhi on November 1, as controversy deepens over the deletion of over 130 million names from India's electoral rolls. The call follows a weekend of protests including a human chain in Hyderabad organized by civil society groups and the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), all demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the scrapping of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls.
The individual identified as the NCA bomber is reported to have refused food and medication prior to their death, according to news reports. No further details have been made public at this stage.
With four days until Israel's legislative election, a record number of first-time voters is preparing to cast ballots. An overwhelming majority of these young Jewish Israelis identify as right or centre-right, a trend observers have labelled 'Generation Right' in contrast to left-leaning youth trends elsewhere.
A senior official in Tigray's new federally backed administration called on rebel fighters to lay down their weapons on Friday, hours after a rebel commander pledged to keep resisting government-backed forces, deepening the collapse of the peace agreement that ended the region's 2020-2022 war.
The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for early December in a case that could decide whether Arizona can require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and purge voter rolls of noncitizens within 90 days of an election. The case, brought by advocacy groups Mi Familia Vota and Living United for Change in Arizona, challenges two laws passed by the Republican-controlled legislature in 2022 that were blocked by lower courts as violations of the National Voter Registration Act and the Civil Rights Act.
Storm Boelo, the second named storm to hit the UK in as many days, has forced the cancellation of Saturday's events at the Paisley Halloween Festival, organisers confirmed. The decision comes as an amber warning for wind covers most of mainland Scotland, with gusts of up to 80mph forecast from Saturday evening.
An Argentine federal judge has formally dismissed the criminal investigation into President Javier Milei, his sister Karina Milei, and nine others over the collapse of the $Libra memecoin. Judge Marcelo Martinez de Giorgi ruled that the reported events did not constitute a criminal offence, finding no evidence of criminally relevant deception despite the president's social media promotion of the token. The dismissal, which prosecutors had requested, was celebrated by the presidential office as absolute proof of the president's innocence.
The detention of two Ukrainian journalists in Vienna while investigating a fugitive former prosecutor general has drawn renewed attention to Austria's role as a refuge for individuals wanted for corruption in Ukraine and for Russian elites. Mykhailo Tkach and Yaroslav Bondarenko were arrested on Oct. 6 by Austrian police, who treated them 'like terrorists,' according to Tkach. The journalists were later released, but the incident has raised questions about Austria's commitment to the rule of law and its cooperation with Ukrainian anti-corruption efforts.
The Trump administration is lifting 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods including plywood, paper products, machinery and refrigeration equipment, effective October 30, in a move that Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine said would help her state's agricultural industry. The White House also imposed new tariffs on carpets, valves and waste products, as the US-Canada trade war enters a new phase less than two weeks before the midterm elections.
Russian attacks are increasingly turning Kyiv into a front-line city, with residents sleeping in subway stations, a 14-year-old killed in his own home and the military administration warning that 2026 could be the deadliest year for the capital since the full-scale invasion began.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at lowering mortgage costs, directing federal agencies to cancel mortgage insurance on eligible future loans and expand a refinancing program, as rising interest rates and inflation pressure housing affordability.
The Conservatives' former director of campaigning, Anthony Lee, his wife Laura, and former party employee Amy Hind have received suspended prison sentences at Southwark Crown Court after admitting to cheating at gambling by placing bets on the date of the 2024 general election. Judge Tony Baumgartner said their conduct risked undermining public trust in the Conservative Party, the democratic process and the integrity of the gambling system.
President Donald Trump has further modified the 50 percent additional tariffs the United States applies to certain Canadian motor vehicle products, removing some goods from the levy and adding others, effective October 30. The White House says the change continues to offset what it describes as Canadian discrimination against US commerce.
A judge in Ecuador has ordered the pre-trial detention of former left-wing presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez, a day after her arrest on alleged money laundering charges, deepening a confrontation between her Citizen Revolution party and the right-wing government of President Daniel Noboa.
UN human rights chief Volker Türk has condemned an escalation in drone strikes across Sudan that killed at least 306 people and injured hundreds more in the first three weeks of October, with attacks attributed to both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
A Platinum frequent flyer has criticised Qantas for refusing to downgrade his fare to catch an earlier domestic flight, while other travellers warn of scams and share positive experiences in a weekly collection of reader letters.
Parramatta councillor Tanya Raffoul was verbally abused at her gym by a man who filmed the incident, prompting calls from female politicians and advocates for stronger protections for local officials. Raffoul said she had previously reported concerns about the man to police but was told there was little they could do because he had not directly threatened her.
New data from the NSW Coroner’s Domestic Violence Death Dashboard shows that almost all women killed in intimate partner homicides were killed by their abuser, and that nearly three-quarters of men killed by a female partner were the primary abuser in the relationship. The findings come amid ongoing debate over sentences for abused women who kill, highlighted by the case of Nirmeen Noufl, who received a minimum three-year sentence for the manslaughter of her husband after years of documented abuse.
A campaign video from Spain's main opposition party, the conservative People's Party (PP), featuring AI-generated deepfakes of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's wife and other Socialist figures has ignited a political firestorm just weeks before the 29 November general election. The video, which has amassed nearly 2 million views, shows an artificial version of Begoña Gómez admitting to nepotism and a deepfake of former Socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero discussing hidden jewellery, both references to ongoing investigations they deny. Spain's digital transformation minister called it a 'colossal lie', while legal experts are divided on whether it breaks the law.
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli, approaching the halfway point of his four-year term, has spent the past week in a series of set-piece speeches touting progress on the 'big four' issues of health, housing, crime and cost of living. But analysis suggests his government faces a growing bind: having ticked off most election pledges, it must now show tangible change on long-term problems while public frustration, particularly over crime, remains high.
The Desert Mob art festival in Alice Springs has conclueded its 35th edition, featuring works from 183 artists across 32 Aboriginal art centres and awarding the Vincent Lingiari Art Award to Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney for a painting of her grandmother’s Country. The event, organised by Desart, the peak body for Central Australian Aboriginal art centres, brings remote community artists to town for exhibition, talks and a busy art market.
As thousands of children across Victoria compete for places in representative basketball teams, one parent and coach has offered a rare insider view of the intense tryout process. Marc McGowan, a sports reporter whose 10-year-old son Mason was vying for a spot with the Ringwood Hawks, describes a system marked by fierce competition, parental anxiety, and painful decisions as clubs whittle down hundreds of hopefuls.