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New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency on Monday in response to a dramatic increase in measles cases, citing 108 confirmed infections this year compared to just one in 2023. The order expands the pool of health professionals authorised to administer vaccines and testing as the United States confronts its worst measles outbreak in more than three decades.
A university student obsessed with the US crime drama Dexter has admitted murdering a 24-year-old woman after luring her to a plastic-lined 'kill room' inside a rented property in the West Midlands.
The US Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments from oil companies seeking to halt more than two dozen lawsuits accusing the industry of deceiving the public about climate change. The claims, brought by local governments including Boulder, Colorado, seek billions of dollars in damages to cover costs from climate-related extreme weather. The court's decision will turn on whether federal law preempts state and local governments from bringing such claims.
The family of a Sri Lankan migrant worker sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for blasphemy over a Facebook post has made an emotional public plea for his life, while diplomatic efforts to secure clemency continue.
Alex de Minaur's bid to win a maiden Beijing title has ended in heartbreak, with the Australian retiring one game into the second set of the final against Novak Djokovic with a groin injury.
John Murdock, an 18-year veteran attorney at the US Department of the Interior, has resigned in protest, denouncing what he called a 'deeply troubling assault on the rule of law' under the Trump administration. In his resignation letter, Murdock cited concerns over offshore oil and gas drilling, aggressive fossil fuel expansion, and the flouting of environmental regulations. He stepped down on 30 September.
Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman announced on Tuesday that the kingdom's critical East-West Pipeline has resumed pumping at a capacity of 5.8 million barrels per day (bpd), just weeks after it was shut down following a drone attack in early September.
A lawyer for one of the seven men accused in the Cornell University gang rape case has called for New York Attorney General Letitia James to be removed as special prosecutor, arguing that a social media post she made last month undermines the investigation's integrity. The case has triggered campus protests and a looming no-confidence vote by Cornell faculty against the university's leadership.
A Guardian Australia investigation has revealed that unmarked communal graves are being used to bury impoverished Australians at Rookwood Cemetery in western Sydney, in some cases without notifying families. The revelations have prompted widespread political condemnation and an urgent review from the New South Wales government, while cross-party calls grow for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to establish a uniform national standard.
A US citizen who was shot a year ago by a Customs and Border Protection agent during a sweeping immigration crackdown in Chicago filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Monday, alleging the agent lied about the incident and fired into her vehicle from behind. Marimar Martinez, then 30, was struck seven times on 4 October 2025 during what the Trump administration named Operation Midway Blitz.
The European Commission has proposed that any new member state face a 15-year probation period during which it could be stripped of voting rights or EU funds for breaching democratic values, in a bid to prevent leaders like Hungary's Viktor Orbán from blocking decision-making in an enlarged bloc.
The Iranian government is preparing measures to ease the severe financial strain on its population caused by tightened US sanctions and a naval blockade, President Masoud Pezeshkian has signalled, as the year-long war with the US and Israel takes an escalating economic toll.
Oil exports from the Gulf have resumed significantly despite a surge in attacks on ships around the Strait of Hormuz, with maritime intelligence firm Kpler reporting that Gulf oil flows, excluding Iran, recovered to more than 81 percent of pre-war levels in September. At least seven incidents involving tankers have been reported in the past week, according to shipping intelligence service Marisks, as shipping companies face higher freight, insurance and security costs.
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has put Gaza at the centre of the battle for Keir Starmer's former seat, telling a London hustings that Labour's position was "deeply cynical" while Labour's by-election candidate faced questions over her absence from the event.
Singapore has referred eight civil servants to the police after an inquiry found they may have used nonpublic information to buy properties near planned Mass Rapid Transit stations, the government announced on Tuesday.
The former husband of Katie Price told a teenager after allegedly raping her that she should 'take it to the grave', a court has heard. Kieran Hayler, 39, is on trial at Lewes Crown Court accused of three counts of rape and one count of sexual assault in West Sussex in 2016, all of which he denies.
Two Sussex Police officers who used a Taser, baton and pepper spray on a 92-year-old amputee with dementia at a care home have been found guilty of gross misconduct by a disciplinary panel, which ruled the force was 'unjustified and excessive'.
Four people have appeared at Newport Crown Court accused of murdering a 17-year-old who bled to death after being stabbed through the heart and lung with a 13.5cm zombie knife in Caerphilly in February.
A man who drugged and raped his wife without her knowledge for more than two decades has provided a witness statement at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court. The husband, who cannot be named to protect his wife's anonymity, pleaded guilty last month to 60 offences, including rape and administering a substance with intent. He was also accused of inviting 13 other men to abuse her between 2018 and November 2025.
Saudi Arabia says three people were wounded in attacks on two airports near the Yemen border on Monday evening, as fighting between Houthi forces and Yemeni government-aligned troops, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, intensifies across the region.
Three Iranian men have gone on trial at Woolwich Crown Court accused of spying for Iran on UK-based journalists, who prosecutors say were targeted so "serious violence" could be inflicted on them. The alleged targets worked for Iran International, the Persian-language satellite channel critical of the Tehran regime.
Two boys, aged 12 and 14, have been arrested on suspicion of arson after a major fire engulfed a Grade II listed building in Nottingham city centre, prompting a large emergency response and road closures.
Hundreds of Parisian teenagers built barricades outside their schools on Tuesday, chanting against riot police and demanding greater education funding, as the largest youth protest movement in decades continues to intensify. The government has reported more than 1,000 injuries, including 215 teenagers, 715 police officers and 85 teaching staff, in recent days.
Iran has stepped up attacks on commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, threatening the fragile rebound of crude oil exports from the Persian Gulf. Nearly 20 vessels, mostly tankers, have been attacked in the past month, according to the Joint Maritime Information Center, a group of US-allied militaries. Crude shipments through the strait remain volatile, averaging about 23 percent below prewar levels even as the US military maintains a protected shipping lane along the coast of Oman.
A National Conservatism (NatCon) conference beginning today in Jerusalem features speeches from far-right Israeli politicians, European figures who have faced disciplinary action over alleged antisemitism, and Christian nationalist and far-right figures from the United States, with the Trump administration's anti-terrorism czar originally scheduled but later withdrawing.
World number one men's tennis player Jannik Sinner will not compete again in 2026 after deciding to continue recovery from a knee injury that has kept him out of action since his Wimbledon triumph in July, his team announced on Tuesday.
Benjamin Davis, a former senior official at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has accused the agency of firing him for his work drawing attention to hunger in Gaza, and said he has begun an appeal against the decision. The 62-year-old Spanish-American dual citizen left the FAO last week after 26 years of service, alleging that his contract was not renewed because his team had published a brief on hunger in Gaza and held a seminar on the subject last year, and because he participated in weekly moments of silence for those killed in Gaza.
The World Health Organization has assessed the risk of a plague epidemic in Russia as low following the death of a laboratory technician at a Siberian research institute, while Russian authorities say she died of pneumonia of unknown cause.
The Houthi movement has warned passengers and airlines against using Saudi airports, threatening further attacks after a strike on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport killed 12 people and wounded hundreds. The warning came as Pakistani and Turkish forces began deploying to the kingdom under the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, activated for the first time since its signing in August.
Ukraine launched a large-scale drone attack on the Moscow region early Tuesday, killing two people and setting a warehouse ablaze, Russian officials said. The assault, which involved 650 drones, marks one of the largest such strikes on the Russian capital area in recent months, as both sides escalate long-range attacks ahead of winter.
Lithuanian lawmakers have voted to advance a constitutional change that would lift the country's ban on hosting nuclear weapons, prompting a warning from the Kremlin that the move and a separate push for a permanent US military base mark "another significant escalation" of regional tensions.
South Korea is considering unspecified measures to force an apology from North Korea after a United Nations-backed investigation concluded that landmines planted by North Korean forces about a year ago wounded three South Korean soldiers in the Demilitarized Zone, a Defence Ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.
The olive harvest season in the occupied West Bank has opened with a wave of settler attacks on Palestinian farmers, including beatings, gunfire, arson and theft, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli activists and field reports. Israeli forces have also closed off land, turned away harvesters and confiscated tools, while in Gaza, strikes continue despite a year-old ceasefire as the humanitarian situation deteriorates ahead of winter.
A Greek court is set to open trial proceedings on Tuesday against Tommy Olsen, the Norwegian creator of Aegean Boat Report, an independent monitor of distressed vessels in the Aegean Sea. Greek authorities accuse him of leading an international criminal organisation that smuggles refugees, but human rights groups see the case as an attempt to silence independent monitors of pushbacks and other abuses, for which Greece has previously been condemned by the European Court of Human Rights.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned that Australia faces a dangerous summer of bushfires, cyclones and extreme heat, driven by a combination of climate change and a super El Nino, as he opened climate talks in Fiji on Tuesday.
Argentina's foreign minister, Pablo Quirno, has told an audience that included the British ambassador that his government will prevent the Falkland Islands from exploiting offshore oilfields as part of a peaceful strategy to assert sovereignty over the disputed territory. Speaking at a thinktank event in Buenos Aires, Quirno condemned the UK for refusing to negotiate and for facilitating the Sea Lion oil project in the North Falkland Basin.
Lionel Messi will play his 208th and final match for Argentina in a friendly against Benin at the Monumental in Buenos Aires, marking the end of his decorated international career after announcing his retirement from national duty in August.
A Dunfermline childminder has pleaded guilty to neglect and abandoning children in her care, after admitting she left more than 20 children, including babies, alone and unsupervised in her home.
Bulgarian authorities have identified the sunken ship as the Togo-flagged Alfa Watan and launched a search for its missing crew after drones struck two commercial vessels in the country's exclusive economic zone early Tuesday, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said.
Jim Bakker, the US televangelist who built a multimillion-dollar broadcasting empire before being undone by a sex scandal, a fraud conviction and divorce from Tammy Faye, has died at 86, his second wife announced on social media.
Rahul Gandhi returned to the streets of New Delhi on Monday leading dozens of opposition MPs in a renewed demand for the resignation of India's chief election commissioner, as police detained thousands of students daily in a widening crackdown. The protest escalates a dispute over a nationwide voter roll revision that the opposition says is rigged to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party.
Donald Trump is facing renewed accusations of using the presidency for personal enrichment after the company behind his $Trump memecoin offered an exclusive dinner at his Washington club to the coin’s biggest investors, with disclosures showing he made about $636m from the venture last year. Democrats are seizing on the invitation as evidence of corruption, hoping it will energise voters ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Mass student riots are escalating across France, with violent clashes leading to arson, severe injuries, and over 5,000 arrests, as the government faces tight budget constraints that limit its ability to address the protesters' demands.
Richard Morecroft, who anchored the ABC's nightly NSW news bulletin for almost two decades, has died at the age of 70 following a cancer diagnosis.
Ukraine's state-owned railway operator says Russian drone attacks on locomotives are intensifying, with more than half of all strikes since the full-scale invasion occurring this year, as passengers increasingly face emergency evacuations and long delays far from the front lines.
A German judge has ordered the pre-trial detention of August Hanning, the former head of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND), a day after his arrest on suspicion of treason and espionage. Hanning's lawyer denied the allegations, stating that while his client possessed confidential documents, he did not pass on information to the detriment of Germany.
George Fenton, the British composer who earned five Oscar nominations for scores including Gandhi and Dangerous Liaisons, has died aged 76. His family said his death was unexpected but gave no cause, adding that he was survived by family members and by "a life of music."
Several Australian news outlets, including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times and WAtoday, are reporting that Matildas star Mary Fowler is taking leave from the national team. No official statement from Football Australia, the Matildas or Fowler has been released, and the reason for the absence and its duration are not yet known.