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Pat Cummins has indicated Matt Renshaw could move back up the batting order for the second Test after the left-hander produced a career-best 190 and 82 in a 214-run demolition of South Africa in Durban. Josh Hazlewood's six-wicket haul sealed the win, and Cummins praised the team's flexibility as they prepare for the next match in Gqeberha from Sunday.
· 8 sourcesThe Philippine House of Representatives has passed a bill that would restrict social media access for minors, according to a report from The Diplomat. The legislation, which now moves to the Senate for consideration, is the latest in a wave of similar efforts worldwide aimed at protecting children from online harms.
The Trump administration has removed more than 750,000 enrollees from Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplaces, the one relief initiative it has completed amid a flurry of stalled pre-midterm promises, according to a Guardian analysis.
A new book argues that the prosecution of Black journalist William Worthy in 1962 under President John F. Kennedy's administration set a precedent for later governments, including Donald Trump's, to use obscure legal provisions to punish political dissidents. Worthy, a distinguished international correspondent, was charged with violating a little-known requirement in the Immigration and Nationality Act after re-entering the United States without a passport following a reporting trip to Cuba.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has reopened the debate on Brexit, declaring that the post-Brexit status quo with Europe is ‘not good enough for Britain’. The statement, reported by BBC News, marks the first time a UK leader has actively sought to revisit the issue after years of near-silence from Westminster.
Former boxing world champion Joe Cordina is standing trial for assault by beating after an incident at a Texaco garage in Cardiff in February, with a prosecutor telling the court he was retaliating rather than defending himself.
· 2 sourcesA coronial inquest into the death of William Chapman, the 24-year-old former child star killed by a tiger at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, has heard that he had a diagnosis of schizophrenia and a history of psychosis. The inquest at Doncaster Coroner's Court on Thursday also confirmed his official cause of death as multiple traumatic injuries sustained during the attack. The park has since reopened to the public.
· 4 sourcesAbout 4,700 people were evacuated from offices in the City of London on Tuesday after a ruptured gas main caused a major leak on Old Broad Street, forcing a large cordon and a multi-agency emergency response before the incident was declared resolved.
· 2 sourcesRussia struck six Ukrainian energy facilities hours after US President Donald Trump announced the two countries had agreed to an energy ceasefire, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday. The attacks caused blackouts in the city of Izyum and targeted energy and railway infrastructure in western Ukraine.
The UK Supreme Court has heard arguments on whether Benjamin Field, a former deputy church warden jailed for murdering university lecturer Peter Farquhar, could have legally caused his death by administering sedated whisky. Field's conviction was quashed in April, and the Crown Prosecution Service is seeking to uphold the murder verdict.
Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar has vowed she will not be silenced after federal agents raided her home, describing the operation as an attempt by the Trump administration to target political enemies and weaponize law enforcement.
Germany's Nuremberg Airport halted flight operations Tuesday after a hijacking code was transmitted from the cockpit of an incoming aircraft and the pilot could no longer be contacted by radio. The plane, Flight XR 456 from Corfu, later landed safely, authorities said. Police and airport officials are investigating the incident, which comes amid heightened surveillance of European skies over a rise in mysterious drone sightings.
· 2 sourcesThe head of MI5 has warned that rightwing extremists with anti-immigration views are becoming more likely to plan terrorist attacks against immigration centres and asylum hotels in the UK, marking what he called the most significant shift in the agency's caseload over the past year. Ken McCallum also detailed rising threats from Iran and Russia, including plots against Jewish communities and attempted interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum.
MI5 Director General Sir Ken McCallum has warned that Russia remains "aggressor number one" and that state threats to the UK have quadrupled over the past decade, with the intelligence service now facing equal scale of terrorism and state threat operations. In his annual address at Thames House, he also highlighted rising threats from Iran, extreme right-wing terrorism, and attempts by terrorists to exploit artificial intelligence, including by integrating the technology with drones.
· 4 sourcesFamilies in Yemen searching for relatives who disappeared during the civil war say renewed fighting since July has halted their efforts, with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) receiving more than 1,800 tracing requests since then.
A forest fire fuelled by El Niño has destroyed nearly 300 homes in a village on Indonesia's Sumatra island, forcing hundreds to flee, as the country battles its worst wildfire season in years.
France is facing growing backlash over a controversial bill that would presume police officers acted in self-defence when using firearms, as the Senate prepares to vote on the measure. The bill, approved by the National Assembly in July, has drawn fierce criticism from advocacy groups and families of victims of police shootings, who argue it would legitimise violence and entrench impunity.
The current El Niño has strengthened to what some scientists call unprecedented levels, with several key measures of the climate phenomenon now in record territory weeks before its expected peak in December.
· 2 sourcesChicago police said on Monday that newly discovered DNA evidence has tied the 1960 murder of eight-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz to Thomas McInerney, a former homicide detective with the Chicago police department who died 20 years ago, after retiring from the force and later working as an investigator in Nevada.
SpaceX has agreed to testify before the New York City Council's technology committee this Friday as part of a legislative investigation into artificial intelligence safety risks, the council announced Tuesday, after initially failing to appear at a hearing last week and facing the threat of a court-enforced subpoena.
· 2 sourcesFormer Congolese president Joseph Kabila has been announced as the leader of a new rebel coalition seeking to oust the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the clearest indication yet of his direct involvement in an armed movement.
· 2 sourcesSeveral Australian news outlets, including the Sydney Morning Herald and Brisbane Times, have published headlines indicating an Australian defector is under investigation, but the accompanying reports contain no substantive details about the individual, the nature of the investigation, or the circumstances.
· 3 sourcesIsraeli forces raided the offices of several Palestinian nongovernmental organisations and the courtyard of the Palestine Medical Complex in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, confiscating equipment and deploying snipers around the hospital entrance, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa and Al Jazeera reporting.
Britain has appealed to Interpol to reject Argentina's requests for the arrest of individuals involved in the Sea Lion oil project off the Falkland Islands, arguing that the red notice applications are politically motivated. Interpol has indicated it will respect article 3 of its constitution, which forbids it from undertaking interventions of a political character.
· 2 sourcesSenator Flávio Bolsonaro has made Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes the central target of his family's campaign in Brazil's presidential election, framing the vote as a choice about the judge who sentenced his father to prison, as a scandal engulfing the top court threatens to return the Bolsonaros to power.
The jury in Russell Brand's rape and sexual assault trial has begun considering its verdicts after a three-week trial at Southwark Crown Court in London. On Tuesday, Mr Justice Bennathan told the jury of eight men and four women that he can only accept a verdict on which they all agree. Brand, 51, denies seven charges, three counts of rape, three of sexual assault and one of attempted indecent assault, brought by six women over allegations spanning 1999 to 2009.
· 17 sourcesThe Trump administration has proposed a rule change to the 2030 U.S. census that would exclude millions of noncitizens without permanent resident status, potentially altering congressional representation and how federal funding is distributed, according to a September notice. Congressional Democrats and civil rights groups say the change violates the 14th Amendment and are bracing for a legal fight.
Millions of Medicaid beneficiaries in the United States will be required from 1 January 2027 to prove through government paperwork that they work at least 80 hours a month, the marquee change of a Republican healthcare reform law that cuts roughly $1tn in federal health spending and is expected to leave about 17 million people newly uninsured through 2034.
Tens of thousands of year 12 students across New South Wales sat their first HSC exam on Tuesday, facing an English paper that asked them to examine 'assumptions about human strength and vulnerability.' While some students reported feeling the question was fair, others described it as challenging, with one Reddit user warning it could 'kick most people in the ass.'
· 2 sourcesSchool leavers hoping to study in Sydney next year are being urged to accept any university offer they receive, as a new federal funding regime passed by parliament this week tightens entry at some of the city's most popular universities.
· 3 sourcesPrime Minister Anthony Albanese's government is seeking advice on how to stop Australians from watching the planned livestream of a US firing squad execution, after the eSafety Commission said it lacks the power to proactively prevent the broadcast. Mr Albanese labelled the proposed stream 'completely abhorrent' as pressure mounted across the political divide for the government to block it.
· 4 sourcesMalaysian low-cost carrier Firefly has extended its suspension of flights between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore through Wednesday as smoke from fires in Indonesia continues to blanket the region, with an air quality monitor ranking both cities among the world's most polluted.
A dying Queensland plumber has been awarded Australia's largest-ever asbestosis compensation payout, receiving $1,897,000 plus legal costs after decades of exposure to asbestos while working at the Mackay Harbour Board.
· 4 sourcesTreasurer Jim Chalmers has forecast a year of economic turmoil and warned progressives not to sneer at supporters of One Nation, as Labor prepares to introduce its 30 per cent tax on trusts and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese moves to steady nervous backbenchers.
· 4 sourcesNigel Farage has denied that a Reform UK government would authorise lethal force against migrant crossings in the Channel, hours after one of his MPs said the Royal Marines should be permitted to fire on the boats.
· 2 sourcesMore than 150 clinicians in England have written an open letter to Education Secretary Lucy Powell and Health Secretary Yvette Cooper urging a rollback of screen use in schools, warning that tablets and laptops are being used without a full understanding of their long-term effects on children's physical and developmental health, including eye health.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is set to file a legal challenge on Tuesday against the federal government's imposition of emergency and governor's rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as the crackdown on the party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan intensifies.
The Welsh government has reached a deal with Labour on its mini-budget, which failed to pass in the summer, with ministers agreeing an extra £60m for children with additional learning needs (ALN). The supplementary budget will be debated in the Senedd on 3 November.
An analysis of Australia's declining fertility rate, published across the Nine network's major mastheads, examines how falling birth rates are reshaping family life and what the trend means for the country's not-too-distant future.
· 4 sourcesA 32-year-old woman with chronic endometriosis says she paid £20,000 for private treatment after waking from more than one operation in Wales to be told adequate resources were not available to perform the procedure. Gynaecologists warn that specialist centres for complex endometriosis in Wales are in jeopardy and a national service must be commissioned to prevent a skills exodus and patients being sent to England for care.
A four-month investigation by the Guardian has found that Latin American organised crime groups are now active in at least 12 European countries, fuelling a dramatic rise in cocaine trafficking across the continent. The probe, which drew on police databases, intelligence agencies and interviews with judges, prosecutors and experts from eight countries, documents the presence of cartels and factions from Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico and the United States operating in Europe and forming close links with local mafia organisations.
A mass shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, left nine people dead on Friday, including the gunman and two young children. The shooter, 45-year-old Matthew Stone Sr., died by suicide after killing eight others, according to the Erie County Coroner.
Former AFL prospect Jake Calvert has been charged with 232 counts of making false documents as part of a police taskforce investigation into the distribution of hundreds of fake building qualifications across Victoria's Big Build projects, sparking opposition calls for a broadened royal commission.
· 4 sourcesThe University of Newcastle researcher who led a cannabis-based cancer study has lost his case before the Fair Work Commission and been terminated for research misconduct, following revelations that women's cells were used in mice experiments without patient consent. The research centre he directed has been shut down, all samples and data destroyed, staff lost their jobs, PhD students abandoned their studies, and the university has had to repay donors.
· 4 sourcesPolice in New Delhi detained leaders of India's Cockroach Janta Party on Tuesday after they climbed over barricades to enter Jantar Mantar, the historic protest site that authorities had stripped of designated protest status a day earlier. The detentions came as the youth-led movement presses its demand for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign over a controversial voter list revision.
· 5 sourcesA police officer has told a coronial inquest that Queensland child safety staff were determined to send Elizabeth Struhs home to her parents in 2019 despite concerns raised by hospital doctors, and that their decision could not be changed once made. Elizabeth, then aged six, died at home in Toowoomba on 7 January 2022 after her parents, members of a religious sect known as the Saints, withdrew the insulin she needed for type 1 diabetes.
Two ships have been hit by drones off the coast of Bulgaria in the Black Sea, with one vessel sunk and another damaged. Rescue operations are underway, according to The Guardian.
· 2 sourcesEmergency calls released from the failed execution of Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike show that help was delayed by several minutes as first responders and prison officials struggled to confirm the emergency was legitimate, with one dispatcher even suggesting the request could be a hoax.
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