Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Stock markets across Europe have gained ground. The FTSE 100 in London is up by 0.4%. Here are the opening snaps from across the rest of Europe: EUROPE’S STOXX 600 UP 0.1% GERMANY’S DAX FLAT FRANCE’S CAC 40 UP 0.2%; SPAIN’S…
William Morris famously implored us to avoid filling our homes with items that “you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”. But now the William Morris Gallery – housed in the 19th-century writer and artist’s former home – is appealing to the public to send them all manner of artefacts adorned…
New South Wales police are investigating whether engine failure led to a police car’s air conditioning failing and the subsequent death of two police dogs inside a special “dog pod”. The German shepherds Xtra and Soldier were found dead inside the police vehicle by their handler on Thursday at about 12.30pm. The dogs had been…
Pearl Hubbard picked up some yard signs for Kamala Harris at the vice-president’s speech in Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday afternoon, but wasn’t yet sure whether she’d risk displaying them outside her home in a city that sits in some of the most hotly contested political territory in the country. “I’m scared to put them up,”…
A senior police officer has been referred to Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog over an alleged road rage incident outside a school. Victoria police on Friday confirmed it had referred deputy commissioner Neil Paterson to the state’s Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (Ibac) over an incident at a Melbourne school in July. Paterson, who is understood not to…
Victorian Greens co-deputy leader Sam Hibbins will quit the state party room after revealing he had a “consensual relationship” with a staff member in his office. Hibbins, the member for Prahran, released a statement on Friday morning, saying the relationship ended “sometime ago” but it was a breach of the party room rules. He will…
Striking Boeing workers will vote on an improved contract offer on Monday, which includes a 38% pay rise over four years and a bigger signing bonus, their union said on Thursday. More than 30,000 factory workers who produce Boeing’s strongest-selling 737 Max commercial jet and other planes have been on strike since 13 September and…
Two former police officers who confessed to the murder of Rio city councillor Marielle Franco have been sentenced to decades in prison for their part in a crime that shook Brazil and cast a harsh spotlight on the links between politics and organised crime. Ronnie Lessa admitted to firing 14 shots in the 2018 drive-by…
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Amanda Meade New Radio National Breakfast host is Sally Sara Seasoned foreign correspondent Sally Sara will take over as Radio National Breakfast host next year. The presenter of ABC Radio’s The World Today since 2020, Sara has reported from more than…
It has been almost two decades since Nicholas Ferguson, a grand figure in the private equity business, caused a storm by talking out loud about his industry’s dirty little secret. It could not be right, he said, that highly remunerated private equity executives could pay less tax than a cleaner or other low-paid workers. Things…
