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A nurse who stole £750,000 from a vulnerable 99-year-old woman in her care has been struck off the nursing register after a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) hearing found her fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct.
· 2 sourcesGlobal Citizen co-founder Michael Sheldrick is returning to his hometown of Perth as the advocacy organisation brings its event back to Western Australia, with a mission aimed at tackling energy poverty. Sheldrick, a northern suburbs product who went from a shy, struggling student to a global advocate, credits a high school teacher for helping him realise his potential and is now determined to provide similar opportunities to children around the world.
· 3 sourcesPolice have dropped their investigation into a social media post by Sarah Helm, the wife of the UK’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell, which appeared to express support for the proscribed group Palestine Action. The Metropolitan Police said on Saturday that the post had been assessed by specialist officers and determined not to meet the criminal threshold, adding that no further police action would be taken.
· 6 sourcesKatie Zacharia has been removed as White House press secretary after just five days on the job, the shortest tenure in U.S. history. President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that he had encouraged Zacharia to reconsider the role, saying 'I just spoke to her about it. I said, Katie, is this for you?' A White House official confirmed to reporters that Zacharia was 'transitioning out' of the position.
· 15 sourcesKatie Zacharia, Donald Trump's new White House press secretary, faced tough questions from Fox News host Sean Hannity on Friday amid growing scrutiny of her first press briefing and her claim to be a lawyer despite not having passed the bar exam.
· 2 sourcesThe Guardian-produced documentary NAZA, which investigates Israel's mass killing of civilians in Gaza through anonymous testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders, has been met with widespread acclaim following its UK cinema release this week. The film will screen in more than 50 countries and be available free on the Guardian's website from late November.
European Union leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to supporting Ukraine as tensions between Kyiv and Washington escalate, raising concerns about Ukraine's vulnerability to Russian attacks this winter. At a summit in Brussels on Friday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked EU leaders for their backing and requested an additional 70bn euros ($79bn) in funding for the next year.
Lebanon is divided over hundreds of kilos of explosives seized by security forces on October 5, after Hezbollah demanded the return of the cargo it says was meant for use against Israel and political opponents warned the bomb-making materials could be turned on domestic rivals.
The 16-year-old who killed three children and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday was a former special-needs student who targeted a special education classroom, police said. The bystander who shot the suspect has been identified as Kaylub Giamanco, a father of two girls at the school. A teacher confronted the gunman, throwing her phone and wrestling for his shotgun before Giamanco intervened.
· 8 sourcesMalnutrition and starvation in Gaza have reached 'catastrophic' levels, with 466 deaths since 2024 and children making up a third of fatalities, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on World Food Day, warning that 1.4 million people may face crisis-level food insecurity through the end of 2026.
Russian strikes on Kyiv's power grid this week follow the methods set out in an intercepted Russian military assessment that aims to make Ukrainian cities unliveable, a document seen by the Guardian shows. The attacks have continued despite Donald Trump's unilateral declaration of an "energy ceasefire" last week, and threaten a humanitarian crisis in a capital of 3 million people.
The BBC has reported from inside Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi, a counter-offensive in the eastern Donbas region that Kyiv says has liberated 277 square kilometres in recent months, even as restrictions on the Starlink satellite system - a critical battlefield tool - have this week sparked alarm. The successful assault blunted an attempted Russian pincer movement that threatened to encircle key Fortress Belt cities still under Ukrainian control.
· 2 sourcesUS President Donald Trump has said tech mogul Elon Musk restored Ukraine's access to Starlink, the satellite internet service critical to Kyiv's air defences, declining to comment on a Wall Street Journal report that he personally called Musk to order the restoration. The statement comes after weeks of conflicting accounts over who was responsible for throttling the Starshield military-grade network, with new revelations that Musk himself approached Trump with the idea of slowing the system, and that Trump agreed.
· 3 sourcesA third woman has told Russell Brand's trial that the comedian grabbed her breasts, dragged her into a toilet and orally raped her within minutes of meeting her at a Soho bar in 2004, describing a 'weird maniacal grin' on his face that she likened to a clown.
· 6 sourcesA woman has told Southwark Crown Court that comedian Russell Brand turned into a 'wild-eyed maniac' when he tried to drag her into a men's toilet during a sexual encounter at MTV in 2001, and that she 'wrenched' herself free before he could rape her. Brand, 51, denies three charges of rape, three of sexual assault and one of indecent assault against six women between 1999 and 2009.
Devon and Cornwall Police has formally apologised and paid compensation to nine women who alleged the force promoted and protected male officers despite knowing they were accused of attacking women, according to documents obtained by the Guardian.
· 2 sourcesThe last greyhound race has been run at Sydney's Wentworth Park, closing a chapter that began in 1932, as a sell-out crowd of 6,000 watched Friday night's Million Dollar Chase final while animal rights protesters gathered across the road to celebrate.
· 4 sourcesThe government has committed to reforming the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) after the UK Covid Inquiry found the system was failing those injured or bereaved by vaccines, with fewer than one in every 100 claims resulting in a payout.
The northern rivers community is coming to terms with the death of Yvonne Whear, the 73-year-old who vanished in February and whose car was found in a river near her home in September, confirming the fears her family had held for nearly eight months.
Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been the focus of renewed political speculation as he promotes his new memoir, with commentators examining whether he can stage a comeback in the seat of Kooyong and revive his ambition to become prime minister.
· 2 sourcesTreasurer Jim Chalmers spent a 13-hour visit in Bangkok meeting finance ministers and central bank governors just days after the International Monetary Fund warned the global economy 'could soon test the limits of resilience', a grim backdrop that underscores the pressure he faces on multiple fronts.
Ethiopia has announced an interim government will take charge of the northern state of Tigray, following the military's recapture of the region from the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed promising free elections within six months.
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres of New York has introduced the Power To The Players Act, federal legislation that would require video game purchases to confer ownership rather than a revocable license. The bill directs the Federal Trade Commission to establish regulations ensuring consumers own their games and that online-only titles must provide an offline mode before their servers are shut down. The move follows growing backlash against publishers that deactivate games after discontinuing support.
Russia has launched a diplomatic push to mediate between Pakistan and Afghanistan, with senior officials holding separate talks in Rawalpindi and Kabul this week, as months of cross-border attacks and failed ceasefires deepen the conflict.
Pope Leo XIV made his first major public appearance since lung cancer surgery on Sunday, greeting about 15,000 people in St Peter's Square and saying he would gradually resume his duties.
· 4 sourcesA South African rugby union player has died in a hotel in La Rochelle, France, the day before his team, the Lions, were set to make their debut in the European Champions Cup. French media reports the player was found unconscious in a shower and later died of cardio-respiratory arrest, with his identity withheld pending family notification.
Several brushfires fueled by hot, dry Santa Ana winds forced evacuations in southern California early Friday, while utilities proactively shut off power to more than 150,000 customers to reduce the risk of equipment-sparked blazes. The largest fire, the Bryson fire in Malibu, grew to about 200 acres and threatened a juvenile detention facility as firefighters worked through the night.
A pastor and his wife have been arrested in South Africa after about 200 people, some with chains around their feet, were found held at a suspected illegal rehabilitation centre in the north-eastern Mpumalanga province. Authorities raided the facility on Thursday and uncovered what they described as 'gross inhumane conditions,' with patients found with sores all over their bodies and others chained to each other.
· 2 sourcesAnti-government protests in Albania have turned violent, with clashes between demonstrators and police in Tirana and several other cities, four days after a student-led movement escalated into the country's most serious unrest in decades.
Donald Trump is likely to be the only political leader ever to receive the Fifa peace prize after members of the Fifa council told president Gianni Infantino at Thursday's meeting to make major changes to the award or scrap it, The Guardian has learned.
Saudi Arabia has accused the Houthi group of committing "full-fledged war crimes" by threatening Muslim holy sites and pilgrims, while the United States embassy in Riyadh warned of potential attacks on Saudi airports and imposed travel restrictions on its staff.
A growing Israeli footprint in Cyprus’s water supply, air defence systems and gasfields has sparked concern among some Cypriots that their country is becoming too dependent on a powerful neighbour with its own strategic interests.
Uruguay has announced a mass regularization scheme offering a straightforward path to permanent residency for tens of thousands of asylum-seekers, most of them Cubans fleeing political and economic crisis, in a move that breaks with the tighter migration policies adopted by several Latin American governments.
Johannes Natland, 19, was sentenced to 20 years' detention at Woolwich Crown Court on Friday for conspiracy to murder, after being recruited by an Iran-backed Swedish crime gang to travel from Norway to England and kill an unidentified target.
· 3 sourcesVillagers in Odisha's Koraput district have alleged that their thumb impressions and signatures were forged on documents consenting to a $24m bauxite mine developed by an Adani subsidiary on forest land considered sacred by local Indigenous communities.
Masked Israeli settlers carried out a mass coordinated assault on Palestinian olive farmers across eight villages in the occupied West Bank on Friday, injuring at least 20 people and setting fire to groves and vehicles. Among the wounded was Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine, who was beaten, robbed and hospitalised with a broken rib, lacerations and injuries requiring hand surgery. The attack, the latest in a surge of settler violence, was witnessed by BBC journalists and other international media.
· 9 sourcesA bipartisan group of US senators has sent a letter to the Pentagon inspector general demanding an urgent investigation into restrictions on SpaceX's Starlink internet service in Ukraine that slowed drone operations, while President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that services were still being restored and a US official denied American involvement.
· 2 sourcesUS President Donald Trump has announced that Washington is holding talks with Russia and China on nuclear disarmament, saying he would like to see the world 'denuclearise' as China expands its arsenal.
The 16-year-old who killed three children and a teacher at an Oregon elementary school on Thursday was a former student, police said, and was shot dead by an armed community member who followed him inside. Two other victims, a seven-year-old and another teacher, remain in hospital in critical condition.
· 6 sourcesA mother of four whose north Belfast home was pipe-bombed has said the attack was a case of mistaken identity. Nicola Nugent and her children escaped unharmed after the device exploded in the early hours of Friday.
· 2 sourcesThe Australian Jillaroos began their Rugby League World Cup title defence with a commanding 40-0 win over Samoa at Western Sydney Stadium, but the match was overshadowed by a sparse crowd as many fans left after the earlier men's game, prompting calls for greater support for women's sport.
· 2 sourcesPrison authorities face a daunting task keeping convicted paedophile and former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson safe inside Maghaberry Prison, a former governor has warned, after the ex-politician began a 15-year sentence for child sex abuse.
Mathias Cormann, Australia's longest-serving finance minister and now head of the OECD, will warn on Saturday that populist movements will tear apart the nation's mainstream parties unless both sides of politics embrace major tax, housing and migration reforms to lift living standards. He will deliver the warning in a Brisbane speech to the right-leaning Centre for Independent Studies.
· 3 sourcesA senior doctor who raised early concerns about Lucy Letby has said he should have gone to police sooner rather than trusting hospital managers to act, in his first interview since the publication of the Thirlwall Inquiry report.
An Oregon-based influencer who played a key role in spreading false claims that Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico had been admitted to a mental health facility has a long history of social media posts that invoke Nazi Germany, express antisemitism and anti-Black racism, and call for the remigration of refugees, according to a Guardian review. The hoax, which circulated widely on Sunday before being debunked by the Lindner Center of Hope psychiatric hospital in Ohio, was amplified by a staffer on the campaign of Talarico's Republican rival, Attorney General Ken Paxton.
· 2 sourcesThai authorities have uncovered an audacious scheme in which a fiberoptic cable was illegally run across the border from Thailand into Myanmar to supply an online scam compound with internet bandwidth. The cable, discovered in Kanchanaburi province, was reportedly serving an illegal border casino and a suspected scam center.
Ukraine has struck several of Yandex's largest data centers in recent days, disrupting key Russian digital services including shopping and taxi applications in major cities. The attacks come as Russia has itself targeted Ukrainian data centers in an escalating campaign against civilian infrastructure. Cloudflare reported that malicious bot traffic associated with Russian disinformation briefly dropped before migrating to other hosts.
A growing number of Jamaican directors are using film and television to confront the enduring legacy of enslavement and colonisation, with Sky's supernatural series Possession the latest example of a taboo-breaking shift in the country's screen industry.