Investors defrauded by Melissa Caddick before her disappearance and death will recoup a portion of their $23m in losses after settling a class action lawsuit with her auditors. Victims have already been repaid $7.25m after liquidators of the dead fraudster sold off her assets in 2023 and 2024. The 32 investors also launched a class…
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Israeli forces kill Palestinian journalist and his entire family in airstrike on house in Khan Younis – reports We are seeing reports that Mohammed Saleh al-Bardawil, a Palestinian journalist, and his wife and three children were killed at dawn on Tuesday…
A colossal fire has erupted in a Malaysian suburb outside Kuala Lumpur due to a burst gas pipeline, prompting evacuations of nearby homes. The inferno near a gas station in Putra Heights in central Selangor state on Tuesday was visible for kilometres. National oil company Petronas said the fire broke out at one of its…
An incident in which a mother allegedly stabbed her three children as they slept has been labelled a “tragic case” by her lawyer after the matter was mentioned in court for the first time. The 47-year-old woman was arrested after allegedly attacking her children – aged 10, 13 and 16 – with a household knife…
The morning teenager Mark Haines was found dead on rural train tracks, a hysterical mother pounded on her son’s front door. The woman was looking for her son Raymond Ervine, whose birth certificate was on Haines when his body was found on train tracks near Tamworth, New South Wales, on the morning of 16 January…
The reproductive health provider Planned Parenthood said the Trump administration would cut federal family planning funding as of Tuesday, affecting birth control, cancer screenings and other services for low-income people. Planned Parenthood said that nine of its affiliates received notice that funding would be withheld under a program known as Title X, which has supported…
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday setting up a new entity to take over the Chips Act program and speed up corporate investments in the US. The United States Investment Accelerator within the commerce department will oversee implementing the Chips and Science Act, a 2022 law that made $52.7bn in subsidies available for…
A search is under way to find an 11-year-old girl after she fell into the River Thames in east London, police have said. Metropolitan police officers were called to reports that the child had entered the river close to Bargehouse Causeway, near London City airport, at about 1.15pm on Monday. Emergency services launched a “large-scale…
The 17 additional people the US shipped off to a prison in El Salvador on Sunday and accused of being tied to transnational gangs were sent there from immigration detention at Guantánamo Bay, a White House official confirmed to the Guardian on Monday afternoon. The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, announced the overnight military transfer,…
Virginia Giuffre, a victim of the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein who once alleged she was sexually trafficked to Britain’s Prince Andrew, says she has just days to live after being involved in a vehicle accident. “This year has been the worst start to a new year … I won’t bore anyone with the details,…
