The Australian economy has had an underwhelming start to the year, with growth of just 0.2% in the first three months of 2025 compared to 0.6% in the previous quarter. Annual growth was steady at 1.3%, the new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed. Katherine Keenan, the ABS’s head of national accounts, described…
Israel hit southern Syria with a series of strikes overnight from Tuesday into Wednesday, saying it had targeted weapons belonging to Syrian authorities after the launch of projectiles towards its territory Israel launched the two attacks after reporting projectiles had been fired from Syria on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for…
Marty McFly grabbed a guitar in Back to the Future and rocked out with the band at a 1950s high school dance, helping him narrowly avoid blinking out of existence before time-traveling back to the 1980s. The guitar, in real life, wasn’t as lucky. Film-makers went looking for the instrument while making the movie’s 1989…
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has ordered the US navy to strip the name of prominent gay rights activist and navy veteran Harvey Milk from a ship during the middle of June – a month meant to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community – according to multiple outlets. The order to rename the USNS Harvey Milk,…
The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded Biden-era guidance clarifying that hospitals in states with abortion bans cannot turn away pregnant patients who are in the midst of medical emergencies – a move that comes amid multiple red-state court battles over the guidance. The guidance deals with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (Emtala),…
A United States judge dismissed California’s challenge to Donald Trump’s tariffs, allowing the state to file an appeal over the court’s ruling that the dispute should have been filed in a specialized US trade court in New York. The ruling, handed down late on Monday by US district judge Jacqueline Corley in San Francisco, did…
A black schoolgirl suffered mental harm and felt “physically violated” when she was strip-searched at school by police, a misconduct hearing for three officers has been told. The girl, who was 15 at the time and has been known as Child Q, was strip-searched in December 2020 at her school in Hackney, east London, while…
Rome taxi drivers are in uproar at the suggestion they drive as badly as mad Max Verstappen, with some challenging Formula One drivers to navigate the traffic and potholes of the Italian capital as skilfully as they do. Verstappen, a four-time F1 champion, was issued with a penalty on Sunday after crashing into George Russell’s…
Barack Obama has warned that Congress is putting millions of Americans at risk of losing healthcare coverage, in a rare intervention from the former president as the Republican party advances legislation that would gut major provisions of the Affordable Care Act. “Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of…
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched an investigation into Rockfire Investment Finance, which became embroiled in a financial scandal over how a UK council invested more than £100m into solar farms. The UK’s anti-corruption agency said it had “issued a series of section 2 notices compelling financial institutions to provide information on its newly…
