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The public inquiry into the Southport knife attacks has been told that ambitious Home Office plans to tackle extreme violence in the wake of the killings were not taken forward because of cost.
The archbishop responsible for Catholic military personnel has condemned the Pentagon's proposal to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, and has urged Catholic soldiers to refuse any role in the firing squad.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday defended India as the “mother of democracy” even as police detained members of the viral “Cockroach” protest movement and the Supreme Court was set to hear a challenge to the removal of more than 130 million names from voter lists.
Yemen's Houthi rebels launched fresh missile attacks on Riyadh on Monday, the third consecutive day of strikes targeting Saudi Arabia's capital, as authorities scramble to understand how the weekend's barrage breached air defences. The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted a ballistic missile fired towards the city and two aimed at Khamis Mushait, while King Khalid International Airport remained closed and airlines cancelled flights. US President Donald Trump accused the Houthis of 'misbehaving very badly' and said he is considering direct American strikes.
Australia's eSafety commissioner has acknowledged it does not have the power to proactively prevent a livestream of the looming US military execution of Nidal Hasan, but says it will monitor and enforce obligations that could require online platforms to block it themselves.
Actor RJ Mitte, best known for playing Walter White Jr. on the AMC drama "Breaking Bad," has died in Brownsville, Texas, at age 34, his representatives confirmed Monday. They did not disclose a cause of death, while TMZ reported, citing law enforcement officials, that Mitte died by suicide and that the investigation remains ongoing.
NATO’s top commander has warned that his forces would destroy “anything and everything” if someone was “foolish enough” to attack the alliance, as European governments accuse Moscow of stepping up sabotage, drone incursions and cyberattacks against them.
US actor RJ Mitte, best known for playing Walter White Jr on the Emmy-winning drama Breaking Bad, died by suicide, his publicist has confirmed to the BBC. He died in Brownsville, Texas, on Monday 12 October. He was 34.
About 70 runners in Utah’s Moab 240 ultramarathon were evacuated on Sunday after flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel stranded them along the course, with organizers confirming all participants were safe and accounted for.
Olivia Cooke's Sid Baker was shot in the head early in the first season of Slow Horses, an end that seemed to settle her fate on the Apple TV+ spy drama. Yet the show, and the connection it sparked with co-star Jack Lowden's River Cartwright, could not keep her away.
The final section of Sydney's $30 billion M1 metro line between Sydenham and Bankstown will not be able to run longer trains, because platforms at five refurbished stations are too short for eight-carriage services. Future capacity growth will instead rely on running trains more frequently, while the line's opening still awaits approval from the national rail regulator.
A motorcyclist suffered critical injuries in a crash on Te Puke Highway in the Bay of Plenty on Tuesday morning, closing part of the road while police investigate.
A 31-year-old man has been pulled alive from a cave on the Italian island of Sardinia after being trapped roughly 10 metres below ground for 26 hours following a rockslide, in a complex rescue operation involving dozens of specialists.
A proposal to fast-track housing development in the Queenstown-Lakes district has ignited a heated exchange between local leaders and election candidates, with residents packing a meeting in Arrowtown to voice their opposition.
RNZ has investigated why Māngere, a South Auckland suburb, records one of the lowest voter turnouts in New Zealand. The report, by journalist Ke-Xin Li, explores the reasons behind the persistently low participation rate in the electorate.
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has claimed that Prime Minister Andy Burnham will take Britain back into the European Union, as Burnham faces escalating debate over his plans for a major reset of UK-EU relations including next month's Brussels summit.
Actor Selma Blair was taken into custody late on Sunday night at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport after she was accused of being physically abusive toward two Delta Air Lines flight attendants and injuring them, authorities said.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced a public inquiry into the deaths of two men killed during an attack at a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur last year, following a request from the coroner.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has ignited a political firestorm by naming Russian state agencies as key culprits in trying to influence the 2016 Brexit referendum, prompting Leave campaigners to cry foul, Remain supporters to hail the admission, and senior Labour figures including London Mayor Sadiq Khan and MP Emily Thornberry to step up calls for Britain to rejoin the European Union.
A South Korean cosmetic surgery company has cancelled a two-day Sydney event where prospective patients were due to meet Korean doctors, after the ABC raised questions about whether the doctors were allowed to practise in Australia. The cancellation has renewed warnings from Australia's peak plastic surgery body about the risks of travelling overseas for procedures.
King Island District School will receive a $5 million upgrade, including a roof over its outdoor court and new bathrooms, funded by returns from the Tasmanian government's stake in the island's tungsten mine. The investment follows a letter from three students who said the court was unusable for half the year due to slippery conditions.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced the immediate expansion of police support to political figures who are not current MPs, including peers, former MPs and party spokespeople, and ordered an independent review of security arrangements for high-profile public figures following the murder of Reform UK spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe.
The head of Egypt's Journalists Syndicate, Khaled Elbalshy, has vowed to keep fighting for press freedom after the union came under fire for defending six journalists detained last month and charged with joining a "terrorist" group, while separately filing a complaint alleging the detainees were tortured.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has ordered the first review of NYPD use-of-force policies in a decade and introduced a package of reforms, responding to renewed pressure from progressives for police accountability.
Australian engineer Robert Pether has been reunited with his family in Dublin after finally being allowed to leave Iraq, more than five years after his arrest on fraud charges he and his family long argued were trumped-up.
Smart glasses are giving blind and deaf Australians a new level of independence, yet the same devices are at the centre of a fractious political debate over privacy, with the Greens moving to introduce a 12-month import ban in the Senate today.
The Climate Council has warned that coal and gas mines are exploiting a loophole in Australia's Safeguard Mechanism to expand operations and add emissions without facing the stricter pollution limits applied to new projects, urging the government to close the gap ahead of a scheduled review next year.
Ethiopian government forces have entered the strategic northwestern Tigray town of Adwa without a fight, residents said, a day after fighters from the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) withdrew, extending a federal advance that has already retaken the regional capital Mekelle.
Australia's health system is unprepared for a coming wave of elderly patients, with projections showing a 411 per cent increase in patients aged 85 and over presenting to emergency departments by 2050, according to the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine's State of Emergency 2026 report. The report, released at Parliament House in Canberra, warns that older patients are routinely left in hospital corridors to deteriorate while waiting for a bed, putting them at greater risk of death within seven days of presentation.
A six-year-old boy died after falling into the road and being struck by a van while playing on his bike near his home in Llanfairfechan, an inquest has heard. Harrison Jones was playing with a friend when the incident happened at about 17:30 BST on 1 October. Denbighshire Coroner's Court was told he was hit by a passing Ford Transit tipper van, and a post-mortem examination found he died from severe head injuries.
Hurricane Isaias has killed four people and left more than 650,000 without power in Florida, with the city of Pensacola among the hardest-hit areas. Officials are warning of additional flooding from heavy rainfall as the storm moves through the region.
In Arizona's sixth congressional district, Democrats are betting that nearly two decades of Marine service will help JoAnna Mendoza unseat Republican incumbent Juan Ciscomani, a race that could help decide control of the US House in next month's midterm elections.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has told MPs he will push for new post-Brexit agreements with the European Union at a bilateral summit in Brussels next month, warning that EU plans to protect European industry from Chinese competition pose "a risk to UK manufacturing."
The International Court of Justice is expected to rule later this year on whether Myanmar’s military committed genocide against the Rohingya, a decision that would mark the first time in the court’s 80-year history that a state has been held responsible for the crime. As the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) prepares to gather foreign ministers in Baghdad on October 17, the founder of the Burma Human Rights Network has called on member governments to take concrete steps to protect the Rohingya rather than issuing further communiqués.
Police in southern France have detained a 14-year-old student suspected of shooting and wounding his middle school principal and teacher with a hunting rifle he hid in a guitar case, local officials said on Monday. A third person was grazed in the incident at Joseph Lakanal Middle School in Aubagne, near Marseille.
An alleged air strike on a gold mining site in northern Sudan has killed at least 72 workers, according to a Khartoum-based rights group, underscoring the severe security vacuum along the lawless, disputed border region with Egypt. Egypt has not responded to the accusations.
Elon Musk has contributed at least $276 million to Republican groups since July, bringing his total known federal political giving for the 2025-26 cycle to roughly $366 million and making him the biggest known donor of the 2026 midterm election, according to figures released by his representatives and reported by The New York Times. The largest share, $158 million, went to the Senate Leadership Fund, the main super PAC backing Republican Senate candidates.
The head of the International Energy Agency says the world is facing its biggest energy crisis ever, driven by the US-Israel war on Iran and the resulting disruption to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway carrying about 20 percent of global oil and liquefied natural gas.
Thousands of Indian opposition lawmakers and supporters are marching to the Supreme Court in Delhi on Monday to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, accusing him of orchestrating voter fraud. The protest follows a contentious revision of electoral rolls that the opposition says is designed to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Authorities have deployed thousands of security personnel and barricaded roads across the capital.
King Charles III, Queen Camilla and Prince William will visit the south Wales village of Aberfan on 21 October to mark the 60th anniversary of the disaster that killed 116 children and 28 adults, joining survivors, bereaved parents and the community in tribute.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the attorney general and the head of the Shin Bet security service to identify soldiers and officers interviewed in the documentary NAZA and prosecute them, accusing the film of harming Israel's diplomatic and security interests.
Alvaro Pulido, a businessman wanted by US authorities for years over alleged bribes to top Venezuelan officials in exchange for lucrative state contracts, has been taken into US custody and is scheduled to appear in a Miami court on Tuesday.
Chris Bruni-Lowe, Nigel Farage's private pollster for many years, played an influential role at the national polling firm Redfield & Wilton Strategies even though he was never publicly associated with it, the Guardian has revealed. Several former employees say Bruni-Lowe helped run its operations and sometimes went by the name 'Chris Redfield'.
A teenager was killed and dozens of people injured on Monday when unexploded ordnance exploded near the Lebanese border in northern Israel, striking students and staff from a religious high school on an outing, the Al Jazeera news network reported.
The UK government has formally accused Iran of orchestrating the security incident at RAF Fairford, with Prime Minister Andy Burnham telling parliament the plot was "almost certainly directed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard". Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband summoned the Iranian ambassador to make clear that "Britain will not tolerate threats on our soil", while the Foreign Office imposed sanctions on two Iranian nationals, including the head of Iran's counterespionage operations. The attribution was backed by a joint statement from 29 countries condemning Iranian hostile activities.
The federal government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency has urged Australian employers to make management roles more flexible, including through part-time arrangements and co-CEO positions, warning that women's higher resignation rates from senior jobs are widening the gender pay gap.
Unseeded Belgian Zizou Bergs knocked seven-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz out of the Shanghai Masters round of 32 on Monday, a 7-5 7-6(4) upset that also confirmed Alexander Zverev as the ATP's year-end world number one.
Thirteen freshwater turtles rescued from a drying water hole in western New South Wales have been returned to the Gingham water hole, months after the state government stopped environmental water flows to the area following a private landholder complaint.