The UK’s jobs market has shown further signs of cooling after a rise in unemployment in September while pay growth slowed. Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the rate of unemployment rose to 4.3% in the three months to September, up from 4% the previous quarter. While the ONS warned its jobs…
Four non-citizens reportedly found on remote Croker Island in the Northern Territory have been removed from Australia. The ABC reported the four foreign nationals were found on Monday on the island north of Garig Gunak Barlu national park, near Arnhem land. Guardian Australia understands the four people are no longer in Australia, but the government…
A two-year-old who drowned in a pool while his mother looked at her mobile phone and cared for another infant two metres away highlights the need for close supervision around water, a Victorian inquest has heard. The boy had been playing in a toddlers’ pool adjoined to an adult pool at Crown Towers, a luxury…
A court has seen video footage of a police officer Tasering a 95-year-old to disarm her in a nursing home before she fell to the ground and sustained a head injury that ultimately killed her. The police body-worn camera shows great-grandmother Clare Nowland sitting in a chair in an office at the Snowy Mountains nursing…
Days of severe storms have been forecast for every mainland state and territory in Australia this week, with possible wind gusts, heavy rain, large hail and flash flooding on the cards. Weatherzone meteorologist Ben Domensino said “millions of lightning strikes” were also expected across the country. “We have a number of low pressure troughs sitting…
A kindergarten worker who died saving her young students from an out-of-control truck has been remembered as a kind and generous person who lit up every room. Police are investigating after a 68-year-old driver, suspected of suffering a medical episode, veered his water tanker off the road and ploughed into the preschool’s playground, north-west of…
Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday. Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad state park in Maryland’s Dorcester county for a formal ceremony making Tubman a one-star brigadier…
A man has been charged with murder after a fatal stabbing in south London. Police were called at about 10.40am on Sunday after reports of a number of people having been stabbed in East Street, Walworth. Three people were found with injuries and Hilkiah McLeggan, 77, from Southwark, was pronounced dead at the scene, the…
The wreck of the long-lost US warship USS Edsall, sent to the bottom of the sea during the second world war by the Japanese, has been discovered, US and Australian officials announced on Monday. The warship was sunk on 1 March 1942, three months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. The Edsall was traveling across…
During heated oral arguments on Monday morning, the Wisconsin supreme court appeared poised to find an 1849 law banning most abortions cannot be enforced. The legal status of abortion in Wisconsin has been contested since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and ended the right to abortion nationwide, triggering bans across the country…
