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Police in Lansing, Michigan, are investigating whether five deaths along a one-mile stretch of the city's River Trail over an 11-month period are connected, raising the possibility of a serial killer targeting homeless men. Lansing Police Chief Rob Backus confirmed that investigators are looking at whether the cases are related.
Independent MP Monique Ryan has dismissed former Liberal treasurer Josh Frydenberg as dwelling on the past after he accused her supporters of waging a campaign thick with personal abuse during the 2022 election, as Liberal frontbenchers back him for a potential rematch in the Melbourne seat of Kooyong.
· 3 sourcesSeveral people have been injured in another attack on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, prompting a suspension of operations and drawing a signal from US President Donald Trump that Washington may join Saudi strikes against Yemen's Houthi rebels.
· 5 sourcesNew dashcam footage played in a Perth court shows Jack Dunn, the managing director of a private paramedic service, driving at 100 km/h in a 70 km/h zone, sounding his horn and crossing double-white lines with unauthorised lights and sirens moments before colliding head-on with an oncoming vehicle in Wanneroo on Sunday.
· 5 sourcesThe Albanese government has scrapped its controversial proposal to reduce federal disaster recovery funding to a 50-50 split with states and territories, bowing to fierce opposition from state leaders and local councils. Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced on Friday that the current 75-25 arrangement will stay in place.
· 4 sourcesThe national Indigenous children's commissioner has launched an independent review into how social welfare is delivered to vulnerable families in Western Australia's Pilbara region, after reports emerged of more than a dozen children living unsupervised in squalor in a South Hedland home.
· 3 sourcesThe Australian Taxation Office's plan to stop accepting credit card payments will no longer take effect at the end of next month, after the federal government negotiated with the independent agency to delay the change by a year. Treasurer Jim Chalmers will allocate additional funds to support the transition.
· 5 sourcesA Supreme Court judge has found that Western Australian officials were forced to break the law by keeping a mentally impaired man in prison because the state's only facility for mentally impaired prisoners did not have enough beds. Justice Terence Palmer ruled that the man, known only as SJQ, was denied appropriate psychiatric care for about two months at Hakea Prison despite a magistrate having ordered him sent to the Frankland Centre at Graylands Hospital for treatment of his treatment-resistant paranoid schizophrenia.
Leading New York Democrats expressed anger and demanded curbs on Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday, a day after a federal officer shot Oscar Belgal, 28, in his car in the Bronx while his five-year-old son sat in the back seat. Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the incident "unconscionable" and said he would ask President Donald Trump to end all ICE enforcement actions in the city. Governor Kathy Hochul said she had spoken to Trump and urged the release of body-camera footage.
· 9 sourcesPublicans and business owners on the New South Wales Mid North Coast say a new federal backpacker ballot, which caps second-year working holiday visas at 45,000 annual places, is already prompting employees to consider leaving Australia, threatening to deepen chronic labour shortages in the region.
· 2 sourcesRussian President Vladimir Putin has told Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian that Moscow will do everything it can to help end the United States-led war on Iran, Russian news agencies reported. The two leaders met in Turkmenistan on Thursday ahead of a summit of former Soviet nations, as Iran-US talks stand at an apparent impasse.
At least 24 vehicles have been set ablaze and foreign-owned shops looted in two South African cities as anti-migrant protests turned violent, police said, with the government blaming disinformation about a court ruling on asylum seekers.
· 2 sourcesUS President Donald Trump has awarded the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su, and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Michael Dell and Satya Nadella, in a ceremony that underscored the close ties between his administration and Silicon Valley. The honours were presented on Thursday, hours after the Trump administration announced it was suspending Microsoft and other tech companies from the H-1B visa system over alleged fraud.
The NHS in England is heading into a “world of system failures” as it struggles with relentlessly rising demand for mental health, ADHD and autism care, a government-commissioned inquiry has found. The review, led by Professor Peter Fonagy, warns that without urgent reform, patients face years-long waits and worsening symptoms while the risk of overdiagnosis grows.
A major independent review of NHS England's mental health services has concluded that mental distress has increased substantially over recent years and that rising awareness of mental health issues is not sufficient to account for the trend. The review, led by Professor Peter Fonagy and published on 8 October 2026, recommends that services ensure those with the highest needs receive specialist assessments sooner.
The head of a major review of maternity services in Scotland has promised that bereaved families will have their voices heard, after concerns they would be excluded from the forward-looking inquiry. The review, which began this week, was ordered by the Scottish government following a BBC Disclosure investigation into failings in maternity care across the country.
Police have arrested the twin brother of a 29-year-old man whose body was found in the backyard of a Perth home with visible injuries, as the Homicide Squad continues its investigation.
· 7 sourcesA soldier who survived the 2009 Fort Hood shooting has said the firing squad execution of the gunman is "befitting", but questioned the Pentagon's plan to livestream it, as the US prepares for its first Army firing squad execution since 1945.
· 3 sourcesPresident Donald Trump has reversed the Pentagon's plan to livestream the December 3 execution of convicted mass shooter Nidal Hasan, saying the event will not be streamed despite earlier support. The decision comes after widespread condemnation from US lawmakers and the United Nations, who argued livestreaming a firing squad execution would amount to torture and violate international law.
· 10 sourcesThe nephew of one of the victims of the Snowtown serial murders has described seeing images of convicted killer James Spyridon Vlassakis out in public as 'sickening', saying the sight brings back dark memories and a fear of encountering him. Ron Lane, whose uncle Barry Lane was among those killed, spoke out after Vlassakis was photographed leaving the Adelaide Pre-release Centre this week.
· 2 sourcesWith a month until polling day, declared political donations in New Zealand have reached NZ$7.4 million, already exceeding the total for the 2023 election campaign. The surge has renewed debate over campaign finance rules, including the absence of an overall cap on donations.
British bassist Dave Holland, who joined jazz legend Miles Davis at age 21 with no rehearsal, no set list and no prior discussion, is set to perform with his band Aziza in Sydney and Melbourne this month. Holland, now a celebrated figure in jazz, spoke to The Age about his unexpected start with Davis and his enduring career.
The USS Abraham Lincoln arrived at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego on Thursday, ending a record-breaking 322-day deployment that included 265 consecutive days at sea and support for the US-Israel war on Iran. Families, friends and thousands of well-wishers gathered to welcome home the crew, whose prolonged mission had drawn criticism over morale, food shortages and reported suicide attempts.
· 4 sourcesThe USS Abraham Lincoln returned to its home port in San Diego on Thursday after a fraught stretch at sea lasting the better part of a year, greeted by thousands of family members, friends and well-wishers celebrating the aircraft carrier's long-awaited arrival.
Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have found former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte fit to stand trial, clearing the way for his trial on charges of crimes against humanity to open on November 30. The court ruled on Thursday that independent medical experts had examined the 81-year-old and concluded he is mentally capable of understanding evidence and consulting with his lawyers.
· 2 sourcesLabour has comfortably held the north London seat of Holborn and St Pancras, with Sagal Abdi-Wali taking 45% of the vote to Green leader Zack Polanski's 33%, as Polanski defiantly insisted he would remain leader of the Green Party despite mounting calls from within his own ranks to quit.
· 15 sourcesThe US Justice Department's civil rights division is seeking criminal charges against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top Trump White House aide who gave explosive testimony to the committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol, according to a person familiar with the matter. The potential charges involve lying to Congress.
At least 81 United States military aircraft, including fighter jets and drones, have been lost or damaged during Operation Epic Fury, the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, according to a report released Monday by the Congressional Budget Office. The nonpartisan agency estimated the cost of the losses at between $1.9 billion and $3.3 billion as of August 1.
Israeli settlers have stepped up their campaign against the Palestinian olive harvest in the occupied West Bank, with armed settlers on tractors raiding lands near the villages of Ramin and Burqa on Wednesday, opening fire on farmers and killing 44-year-old Ali Bazzari, according to Palestinian accounts. Activists describe the current harvest as the most dangerous in years, with settlers seizing olives from groves that Palestinian farmers have been unable to reach since the Gaza war began in October 2023.
· 2 sourcesCardiff University has been criticised for following a student-run Instagram account that posted anonymous confessions including one describing sexual assault. The university has since unfollowed the 'Cardiff Uni Banter' account after students raised concerns about the material being posted.
New mass graves uncovered in Iraq and Syria, combined with recent sectarian massacres of Alawites and Druze, indicate that the violent sectarian dynamics that followed the US invasion of Iraq and the rise of the Islamic State are re-emerging across the Middle East, according to a Foreign Policy analysis published this week.
A class action has been launched against the federal government over allegations of "mass and routine sharing" of veterans' medical records across two decades, with the firm Gordon Legal serving the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) a privacy breach claim on Wednesday.
· 2 sourcesTaiwan's government is preparing to reverse a decade-long phase-out of nuclear power, with the Nuclear Safety Commission approving a review for the restart of the Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant. The shift, driven by surging electricity demand from the island's semiconductor and artificial intelligence sectors, could see the plant resume generation as early as 2028.
The Trump administration has suspended Microsoft, Adobe and several other major technology companies from a US program that helps skilled foreign workers obtain permanent residency, accusing the firms of fraud. Vice President JD Vance announced the move on Thursday, alongside a separate investigation into nine universities over their use of international student programs.
· 2 sourcesA Russian glide bomb struck two passenger buses in the eastern Ukrainian town of Kramatorsk on Thursday morning, killing at least 30 people and wounding 18, regional authorities said. The attack is part of what analysts describe as a new Russian tactic to disable Ukraine's transportation system.
A man is in police custody after allegedly carjacking a vehicle in Sydney’s CBD on Thursday night, driving erratically down George Street, striking a pedestrian and crashing into a police car outside the Queen Victoria Building.
· 4 sourcesAn inquest into a fire that claimed the lives of a mother and her two children in Cambridge has heard that the e-bike battery linked to the blaze had previously been repaired. Gemma Germeney, 31, and her children Lilly, eight, and Oliver, four, died in the fire on 30 June 2023. The children's father, Scott Peden, survived. Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said at the time the most probable cause was a charging e-bike.
New figures show sewage was released into rivers, lakes and the sea around Wales for more than 800,000 hours last year, according to analysis by the charity Surfers Against Sewage. The group recorded more than 100,000 sewage discharges in 2025, or roughly one every five minutes.
A lawyer for CNN, MS Now and Politico told a federal judge on Thursday that President Donald Trump's own recent interview made clear he banned the three news organizations from the White House because of their critical coverage, a direct violation of First Amendment precedent. The comments came during a hearing where a Trump-appointed judge extended a temporary order requiring the White House to lift the ban until at least Tuesday.
· 2 sourcesThree Fiji police officers have been charged with the alleged murder of Constable Peniasi Racagi, whose body was discovered floating off a beach in Lami town earlier this year. The officers are expected to appear at the Suva Magistrates Court today.
Palestinians in Gaza say they face Israeli strikes almost every day despite the ceasefire that took effect a year ago, with more than 1,400 people killed since the truce began and the peace deal meant to end the war showing signs of stalling.
· 3 sourcesA parliamentary inquiry has revealed that the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) received 15 risk of significant harm (ROSH) notifications involving children from Redeemer Baptist School in Parramatta since 2004, but never conducted a single face-to-face field assessment. The school, run by a church banned from caring for children, faces allegations of systemic abuse, extreme control and forced communal living, as former students and staff give evidence of sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual harm.
· 3 sourcesA former Merseyside Police constable has been jailed for 11 years after he subjected a woman to an 82-minute violent rape in a Liverpool hotel room, during which she told him to 'get off me' more than 300 times. Ryan Theaker, 30, was secretly recorded by the victim after a night out in 2023.
Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have pleaded not guilty to new charges of conspiracy to commit torture, appearing in a New York City courtroom on Thursday. The charges, unsealed last week, add to the drug trafficking and weapons offences the couple already face. Their trial is scheduled to begin in June 2027.
· 8 sourcesPresident Donald Trump said the United States will not attack Iran before the November 3 midterm elections, sending oil prices lower on Friday and lifting bitcoin above $82,000. But uncertainty persists as Iranian media reported “massive explosions” in the Strait of Hormuz, and diplomats continue to haggle over a broader ceasefire deal.
· 4 sourcesAt least two people have been killed after a seven-storey building partially collapsed in Istanbul's Maltepe district early Thursday, local officials said. Emergency crews are working to reach two people still believed trapped in the rubble, while eight others have been rescued.
South Korea has recalled its ambassador to Ukraine, Park Hee-chang, as a diplomatic dispute intensifies over the handling of two North Korean prisoners of war. Seoul accused Kyiv of breaching a confidentiality agreement after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed the transfer of the captured soldiers during a United Nations speech last month.
· 2 sourcesMillions of people from Louisiana to Florida are under hurricane warnings as Isaias, the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season, bears down on the US Gulf coast, with forecasters warning of a life-threatening storm surge, hurricane-force winds, heavy rainfall and flooding expected from late Friday or early Saturday.
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