The hairdresser Trevor Sorbie has died aged 75, his company said. The Scottish-born stylist, who gained fame with the creation of the wedge cut as well as his TV appearances, revealed in October he had weeks to live after his bowel cancer spread to his liver. A spokesman for Sorbie’s company confirmed his death to…
Jonathan Powell, the former chief of staff to Tony Blair, has been appointed as Keir Starmer’s new national security adviser. The veteran former diplomat led discussions on the status of the Chagos Islands for the UK government in September and played a key role in the Northern Ireland peace negotiations. The job of national security…
Hurricane Rafael became the 17th named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season this week, reaching the minimum expectation of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Back in May, Noaa warned of an above-average level of activity, predicting 17-25 named storms, in comparison with the average of 14. Of these 17-25 storms, Noaa predicted that…
Shares in the FTSE 100 housebuilder Vistry have plunged after it issued a second profit warning in as many months and said cost overruns on building projects were worse than previously thought. Vistry was the top faller on the blue chip index of stocks on Friday morning. The builder’s shares were down 18%, wiping about…
Good morning. As the Labour government tries to work out what having Donald Trump back in the White House will mean for Britain, and what it must do in response, David Lammy is absolutely at the centre of that debate. Partly that is because he is foreign secretary, and partly it’s because (in a crowded…
A New South Wales real estate agent who exposed the personal details of a tenant who left a bad Google review broke privacy laws, Australia’s information commission has found. After the tenant, who has not been named for legal reasons, gave Noonan Real Estate Agency a one-star review in 2021, the agency responded by disclosing…
A quiet Sydney street was thrown into chaos on Friday as residents described a wave of water rushing through their windows from a burst pipe. Sydney Water said network technicians were assessing a leak on the main when it burst at Binya Place in Como, a suburb in the city’s south, on Friday afternoon. Four…
People in Gaza have been pushed “beyond breaking point” with families, widows and children enduring “almost unparalleled suffering”, according to the secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council. Jan Egeland visited Gaza this week and found “scene after scene of absolute despair”, with families torn apart and unable to bury relatives who had died. He…
A man who stabbed a paramedic to death in Sydney in an unprovoked attack has been found not criminally responsible for the fatal act on mental health grounds. Jordan James Fineanganofo admitted stabbing 29-year-old paramedic Steven Tougher 55 times outside a McDonald’s in Campbelltown in the early hours of 14 April 2023. The 23-year-old pleaded…
An Australian far-right extremist has walked out of a Melbourne court on bail after being sentenced to one month in jail for performing an illegal Nazi salute. Last month Jacob Hersant, 25, became the first Victorian convicted of intentionally performing the salute in public. Less than an hour after being sentenced by the magistrate Brett…
