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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio invoked the ancient Greco-Persian Wars during a speech at the Acropolis in Athens, portraying the United States as the inheritor of Western civilisation, a move that drew widespread criticism from Iranian officials who warned that such historical comparisons carried risks of repetition as the US-Iran war continues.
The Trump administration has suspended eight technology companies from sponsoring foreign workers for green cards, prompting Vice President JD Vance to accuse Microsoft of replacing the 6,000 workers it laid off in 2025 with H-1B visa holders. Government data, however, shows that the two biggest H-1B sponsors, Amazon and Meta, were not on the suspension list.
A former headmaster of an Islamic boarding school on the Indonesian island of Lombok has been detained by police after a BBC Eye investigation revealed allegations of sexual abuse against him. The case, which sparked public outrage, was reopened by authorities after the BBC World Service documented accusations and evidence gathered by former students themselves.
A second missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh killed 12 people and wounded over 300 on Saturday, prompting US President Donald Trump to signal he is actively evaluating whether the United States should join Saudi Arabia's military campaign against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen. The strike struck a complex housing domestic terminals and suspended all airport operations.
A Mexican judge has sentenced three men to 158 years and nine months in prison each for the 2024 murders of Australian brothers Callum and Jake Robinson and their American friend Jack Carter Rhoad during a surf trip in Baja California, concluding a trial that drew international attention.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has postponed the first Palestinian parliamentary elections in nearly 20 years, issuing a decree to combine the legislative vote with a presidential election and set it for September 11, 2027, the official Wafa news agency reported on Saturday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has conveyed Tehran's vision for ending the war in Iran to US President Donald Trump, Russian state media reported Saturday, opening a possible diplomatic track in a conflict that began with US and Israeli airstrikes in February and has driven up global energy prices.
A drone attack by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed 41 people in the Blue Nile region near the Ethiopian border, targeting a camp for displaced people, according to a Sudanese rights group. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said it was appalled by the reports and that initial accounts indicate most of the casualties were women and children.
A businessman named Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores has been elected mayor of Queropalca, a remote district in Peru’s central Huánuco region, after winning 229 of 663 votes in the 4 October election.
Marcy Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in congressional history, is facing backlash from within her own party after releasing a campaign ad in which she says she voted with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools and that boys should not play in girls' sports. The ad has drawn condemnation from two county Democratic parties in her north-west Ohio district, the head of the country's largest LGBTQ+ rights group, and a former intern, while Kaptur argues it was necessary to confront an issue her Republican opponent is sure to use against her.
At least seven Palestinians, including an eight-year-old girl, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on the first anniversary of the United States-backed ceasefire, according to medical sources. More than 100 humanitarian organisations said the ceasefire exists 'in name only', as violence persists.
US President Donald Trump has escalated his public confrontation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, telling reporters that Ukraine needs 'a new leader who can make a deal' after Zelensky condemned a US-Russia agreement to release millions of tonnes of Russian diesel onto global markets.
Two tornadoes tore through the coastal town of Marsala in western Sicily on Friday, injuring dozens of people, damaging buildings including a school, and overturning cars. At least 11 people were taken to hospital, with a 70-year-old man in critical condition with multiple fractures.
The US Food and Drug Administration is proposing to expand a controversial exemption so that some of the world's most toxic chemicals could be added directly to food as ingredients without a safety review, according to public health advocates alarmed by the plan.
The death toll from a Russian glide bomb attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia has risen to at least 20 people, including four children, local officials said on Saturday. The attack, which used five glide bombs, also injured at least 32 people, with more feared trapped under rubble.
A 31-year-old man has been arrested after an 11-year-old boy was injured in an alleged dog attack in north Manchester on Thursday.
Tensions between McLaren teammates Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have flared after their last-lap collision in the Singapore Grand Prix sprint race, with the team reportedly slamming the incident and both drivers summoned to the stewards. Norris apologised to the team but defended his move, while Piastri downplayed the clash, which wrecked McLaren's pursuit of a podium finish and ended Piastri's race.
A 29-year-old Perth man has been charged with the murder of his twin brother, who was found dead in the backyard of their Orelia home.
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has signalled a potential overhaul of the party's grassroots democracy, calling for leaders to have greater control over strategic direction after a divisive vote equating Zionism with racism. Writing for the Guardian following his defeat in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection, Polanski said the party's rapid growth meant its democratic structures needed to change, including giving leaders more responsibility for setting political direction.
Students across France have staged the country's biggest youth protest movement in decades, with hundreds of thousands on the streets this week over inequality in the education system, dilapidated school buildings, a shortage of teachers and oversized classes. Hundreds of schools have been blockaded and thousands of teenagers arrested, while rights groups warn of alleged police brutality.
Hamurabi Huesca Manzano, a journalist who owned the news website Pinotepa Comunica and moonlighted as a taxi driver, has been shot dead in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca — the ninth media worker killed in the country this year, according to human rights organisation Article 19.
Ukrainian drones have struck the largest Yandex data center in Russia, at Kaluga, knocking multiple modules of the sprawling complex offline in the second attack on the company's facilities within 48 hours, according to United24 Media and Russian state news agency TASS.
One year after a ceasefire was declared in Gaza, the territory's healthcare system remains in crisis, with medical supplies restricted, evacuations stalled and more than 1,470 people killed since the truce began, according to the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
New satellite imagery released by NASA shows nighttime lights along Florida's Panhandle coast dimmed sharply after Hurricane Isaias tore through the region, offering a stark visual measure of the power crisis left behind. At least four people have died, and hundreds of thousands of customers remain without electricity as the weakened storm continues inland.
Brazilian police killed a suspect after he took 13 children hostage at a kindergarten in Curitiba on Friday, officials said. The man, who suffered from schizophrenia, threatened to set the building on fire and beat the children during a three-hour standoff before officers intervened. All children were rescued alive, with one wounded.
Russian aerial strikes killed at least seven people in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region on Saturday, authorities said, a day after US President Donald Trump announced he had struck a deal with Vladimir Putin for large deliveries of Russian diesel.
The Wallabies have extended their winless run at Auckland's Eden Park to 40 years, squandering a dominant opening in a Bledisloe Cup Test before bombing under a high-ball blitz, according to columnist Peter FitzSimons.
Eden Park officials are calling for platform upgrades and a new pedestrian bridge to prevent rail delays for fans attending major events at the Auckland stadium. The proposal follows the first Bledisloe Cup Test between the All Blacks and the Wallabies at the venue on 10 October.
Two women who say they were sexually abused as children at a British military school in Bünde, Germany, in the 1980s have told the Guardian and openDemocracy that their alleged abuser cannot be prosecuted because incomplete employment records have repeatedly stalled investigations.
The Metropolitan Police has dismissed the head of its Special Constabulary, James Deller, after Palantir's AI monitoring system uncovered that he had used his work phone to copy intimate images of a woman sent via WhatsApp's 'view once' feature.
Fred Vanke, a 103-year-old former codebreaker from Breaston, Derbyshire, kept his World War Two heroics secret for decades, but his story has now helped historians add 27 Polish codebreakers and signals intelligence personnel to the Bletchley Park Roll of Honour, one of the most significant expansions of documented Polish involvement in recent years.
WA Police are searching a section of the Swan River at Attadale for missing 38-year-old Alice Jane Bowden, after her car was found abandoned on Burke Drive on Saturday morning.
Shai Hope hit an unbeaten 102 off only 45 balls as the West Indies beat India by six wickets in Ranchi on Friday, completing their highest successful Twenty20 run chase and levelling the five-match series at 1-1.
Indian authorities have transformed central New Delhi into a fortified zone, deploying nearly 30,000 personnel and detaining protest leaders ahead of planned demonstrations by the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party and Gen-Z movement, which are demanding sweeping electoral reforms and the resignation of the country's election chief over a controversial voter revision exercise that has removed 130 million names from electoral rolls.
A landscaper employed at Cranbrook School in Sydney's eastern suburbs has been charged with possessing child abuse material following an Australian Federal Police investigation prompted by two reports from the US National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.
A Supreme Court jury has awarded more than $2.2 million to Greg Barclay, a survivor of historical clerical abuse at the former St Colman's College in Shepparton, rejecting aggressive claims by the Marist Brothers' legal team that he was a 'money-grubber' whose testimony had the 'credibility of a $3 note'.
The owner of a recruitment firm has been accused of being at the centre of a doxxing campaign against the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), anti-racism activists and business executives who recruit minority ethnic workers. Tom Watson, from Worcester, is alleged to have run an X account calling itself "Big Time Charlie", which was deactivated shortly after the campaign group Hope Not Hate named him.
South Melbourne have won the 2026 Australia Cup, defeating Melbourne Victory in a sold-out AAMI Park in a final that pitted the old NSL heavyweight against the modern A-League club. The match kicked off in a fiercely charged atmosphere, with early drama including a yellow card and booing of Victory's pre-match anthem.
A man released from prison under the government's early release scheme has been jailed for shoplifting offences committed within days of his release. Michael Bogle, 38, was freed from HMP Wandsworth on 1 October and later admitted stealing more than £100 worth of detergent from north London supermarkets, receiving an eight-month sentence.
The parents of Leah Croucher, the 19-year-old murdered by a repeat sex offender while he was on the run from police, have called for a new mandatory minimum sentence law for third-time sexual offenders, saying their ordeal has been compounded by online conspiracy theories and abuse.
Jamie Mott rode Attrition to a half-neck victory in the $2 million Hill Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday, securing his first career win in Sydney. Mott was vindicated after backing the Mitch Freedman-trained seven-year-old to beat race favourite Lindermann.
Rachel King has emerged as a serious contender to win this year's Cox Plate, a feat that would make her the first woman to take Australia's weight-for-age championship. The 36-year-old Sydney jockey became the first woman to win the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas on Saturday, riding favourite Warwoven for trainer Bjorn Baker.
Matt Renshaw's masterful 190 guided Australia to 390 all out on day two of the Durban Test against South Africa, with the Proteas resuming day three at 1-27. The innings came amid ongoing pressure on veteran Marnus Labuschagne, who fell for 37, and against a backdrop of civil unrest kilometres from the ground.
Four people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man in his late teens was killed and another suffered life-threatening injuries during an attack in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Police have said.
Triple Eight Race Engineering holds the lead at the Bathurst 1000 after Will Brown stormed from fifth to first during the opening round of pit stops, overhauling pole-sitter Zach Bates and early leader Aaron Seton. The move reshuffled the front of the field on lap 25, with Brown's co-driver Scott Pye now in position to chase the Peter Brock Trophy.
Lawyers for a New York City man shot by a U.S. immigration officer while his young son sat in the back seat alleged in a federal court filing Wednesday that the agent never identified himself before smashing the car window and opening fire, directly contradicting the Department of Homeland Security's version of events. The man, Oscar Belgal, 28, was struck in the neck and remains detained.
US, Ukrainian and European officials met in Miami for what US envoy Steve Witkoff described as "constructive discussions" on ending the Russia-Ukraine war, even as Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump that a resumption of negotiations is unlikely. The talks covered security guarantees, energy resilience, grain exports and post-war reconstruction, against a backdrop of deadly Russian strikes on Ukraine.
The Home Office is facing accusations that it misled people in Gaza after it emerged that a newly announced resettlement scheme for Palestinian refugees will only be open to those who have already escaped to neighbouring countries, not to those still inside the war-torn territory.