A contentious Captain Cook memorial repeatedly damaged by vandalism is to be scrapped. The City of Yarra on Tuesday voted unanimously not to restore the memorial, which stood at the entrance to Edinburgh Gardens in Melbourne’s inner north. The granite monument was toppled and graffitied on the Australia Day long weekend and is now in…
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature The defence is continuing their cross-examination of Dr Thomas May, a mycologist or scientist specialising in fungi. Erin Patterson’s defence lawyer, Sophie Stafford, is cross-examining May. Under cross-examination, May agrees he has made conclusions in articles that the general public has…
An AI tool has been used to review public responses to a government consultation for the first time and is now set to be rolled out more widely in an effort to save money and staff time. The tool, named “Consult”, was first used by the Scottish government when it was seeking perspectives on the…
A controversial chemical plant in the centre of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” region has indefinitely suspended all production following dire financial results, the facility’s operators announced on Tuesday. The Denka Performance Elastomer plant in St John Parish has long been associated with chronic air pollution issues and was the subject of a years-long Guardian reporting series…
Uruguay’s former president José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerrilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle fascinated people around the world, has died. He was 89. His death was announced by the current Uruguayan president. Yamandú Orsi. In a post on social media platform X, Orsi called Mujica a…
The actor Robert De Niro has – after a brief period of abstention – returned to his robust public critique of Donald Trump, using his Palme d’Or acceptance speech at the Cannes film festival to newly attack the US president. Speaking during the opening ceremony of the 78th film festival in France, De Niro said…
The vice-chancellor of the University of Greater Manchester and two other members of staff have been suspended as police confirmed an investigation is under way into “allegations of financial irregularities”. The university, which was known until recently as the University of Bolton, confirmed that Prof George Holmes, who has been its vice-chancellor for 20 years,…
Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, has announced a major cabinet shakeup, including a new foreign minister, as he shapes a newly re-elected Liberal government. Carney, who replaced Justin Trudeau earlier this year and won the election last month, named Anita Anand as foreign minister, replacing Mélanie Joly, who becomes the minister of industry….
A duty to provide space for children to play on new developments should be embedded in planning law, MPs and campaigners have said. The first ever all-party parliamentary group on play was launched on Tuesday alongside a campaign to bring in a “play sufficiency duty” in England to match those in Wales and Scotland. Tom…
Donald Trump is all too comfortable brushing aside criticism from Democrats and the “fake news media”, but when the flak over his decision to accept a $400m luxury jet from the Qatari government comes from his most devoted supporters it might behoove the US president to listen. Stars of Trump’s Make America great again (Maga)…
