Police are investigating reports that the father of the schoolgirl Sara Sharif had his throat cut in an assault by fellow inmates while in prison for her murder. Urfan Sharif, 43, is said to have been attacked in Belmarsh prison, south London, by two men who rushed into his cell with a weapon made from…
The UK has been hit by a blast of cold weather, with temperatures falling as low as -5C (23F) overnight amid forecasts of snow and freezing rain. Meteorologists had warned that temperatures overnight could plummet to as low as -8C as a week-long spell of wintry conditions hit the UK. Initial data indicated that Rostherne…
A regional community is mourning an “unimaginable tragedy” after a three-year-old boy was found dead following a caravan fire. Emergency services were called to Lake View Street in Boort, north-central Victoria, at about 5.50pm on Thursday after reports a caravan had caught fire. After firefighters extinguished the blaze, the child’s body was found inside the…
Much of south-east Australia will swelter through a heatwave over the weekend that is expected to exceed 40C in some places, bringing extreme fire danger before a cool change comes through. Melbourne was expected to peak at 38C on Saturday, reaching 37C on Sunday and dropping to 22C by Monday as the cool change brings…
Emergency crews are searching for the body of a man believed to be the victim of a fatal shark attack in South Australia. The 28-year-old Lance Appleby from Port Lincoln was attacked by a shark just after 7pm on Thursday while surfing near Granites beach, south of Streaky bay on the Eyre peninsula, according to…
Police have located an interstate hiker who went missing while attempting a solo walk in Tasmania’s far south-west. The man, in his 50s, was reported missing on Thursday night when he failed to return after he was last seen attempting a walk from Cockle Creek on the South Coast Track. Police said he was found…
A judicial policymaking body on Thursday rejected a request by Democratic lawmakers to refer the conservative US supreme court Justice Clarence Thomas to the Department of Justice to examine claims that he failed to disclose gifts and travel provided by a wealthy benefactor. The secretary to the US judicial conference, the federal judiciary’s top policymaking…
Venezuelan authorities have announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of exiled opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who insists he beat President Nicolás Maduro at the polls. Police published on social media a photo of the previously little-known ex-diplomat with the word “wanted” under the image. He fled to Spain in September…
A barricade of police buses are set up near impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol’s official residence as investigators from the state anti-corruption agency left their office to execute a warrant to detain Yoon. Photograph: YONHAP/EPA Share A barricade of police buses are set up near impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol’s official residence. Photograph: YONHAP/EPA Share…
Wayne Osmond, the smooth baritone of pop group the Osmond Brothers and later the Osmonds, has died at the age of 73. Osmond died at a hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, after a “massive stroke”, according to his brother Merrill Osmond. “I’ve never known a man that had more humility,” Merrill Osmond wrote on…
