An Australian pilot will be surrendered to the United States as early as next week after the federal government approved the extradition of the former US Marine pilot to face charges over allegedly training Chinese fighter pilots. Daniel Duggan, who has been in maximum security prison in Australia for more than two years fighting his…
The Victorian opposition leader, John Pesutto, will face a leadership spill on Friday, with Berwick MP Brad Battin emerging as his most likely challenger. Battin and Liberal MPs Sam Groth, James Newbury, Richard Riordan and Bridget Vallence on Sunday called a party room meeting for Friday, where Guardian Australia understands a motion to spill the…
News Corp and Telstra will sell Foxtel in a $3.4bn deal with global sports streaming giant DAZN, relinquishing control of its entire portfolio of domestic and international sports broadcast rights including cricket, AFL and NRL. DAZN – owned by the second-richest man in Britain, Len Blavatnik – will take a majority stake in the Australian…
US president-elect Donald Trump has said he will rename Denali, Alaska natives’ name for North America’s tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th US president who was assassinated in 1901. Democratic former President Barack Obama in 2015 officially renamed the mountain as Denali, siding with the state of Alaska and ending a decades-long naming battle….
It famously once had a glass and a half of milk in every bar, but one thing that Cadbury no longer has is royal approval, after it has been dropped from King Charles’s list of warrants. The chocolatier was first given royal endorsement in 1854 by Queen Victoria, and was reportedly a favourite of Queen…
A small plane crashed into a Brazilian town popular with tourists on Sunday, killing all 10 passengers on board and injuring more than a dozen people on the ground, Brazil’s Civil Defense Agency said. In a post on X, the agency said the plane hit the chimney of a home and then the second floor…
Law enforcement officials in Lincoln county, Oregon, have condemned an anonymous letter encouraging residents to track down and report “brown people” in the Pacific coast community, particularly those believed to be undocumented. The letter, titled brown round-up part 1, told recipients to write down the license plate numbers of cars driven by people of color…
It’s not unusual for a trip through one of Ikea’s labyrinthine stores to end with a $2 hotdog, but more Australians are skipping the flat-pack furniture altogether and heading straight to the dining section. Ikea is seeing more growth from its in-store restaurants and food offerings than its home furnishings, according to its end-of-year results…
Peter Mandelson will need to make his “the most important voice” in Donald Trump’s ear when the US president-elect returns to the White House next month if he is to best represent Britain’s interests with the potentially chaotic administration, one of his predecessors has said. Kim Darroch, who was the UK’s ambassador to Washington for…
Donald Trump has demanded that the Panama Canal be given back to the US if Panama did not manage the waterway in a fashion that was acceptable to him – and he accused the central American country of charging excessive rates for use of the ocean-connecting ship passage. “The fees being charged by Panama are…
