Several people were killed when a driver ploughed a car into a crowd at a street festival on Saturday in the Canadian city of Vancouver, local police said. “A number of people have been killed and multiple others are injured,” Vancouver police posted online. “The driver is in custody.” One witness told CTV News he…
Donald Trump has demanded free transit for American commercial and military ships through the Panama and Suez canals, tasking his secretary of state with making progress “immediately”. Trump has for months been calling for the United States to take control of the Panama canal but his social media post also shifted focus on to the…
The Coalition would not cut working holiday visas as part of its promise to reduce migration, senior Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie says. The Coalition has been under pressure to release further details about which immigration streams it would target in government. Peter Dutton has claimed the increase in immigration of the past two years has…
Jeremy Crawshaw is set to join the ranks of Australian punters in the NFL after being drafted by the Denver Broncos. The 23-year-old from Emu Plains in Sydney’s west was the first punter taken in the draft – going in the sixth round with pick No 216 – after being widely considered the best on…
Liam and Noel Gallagher have performed together for the first time in 16 years in a working men’s club in north London, according to reports. The brothers were pictured arriving at the Mildmay club in Newington Green, north London, on Thursday where they are believed to have filmed a promotional video for this summer’s sold-out…
A letter written by a survivor of the Titanic disaster has sold for a record £300,000 at auction. First-class passenger Col Archibald Gracie wrote The Truth About the Titanic, which described his experience of the 15 April 1912 tragedy that claimed 1,500 lives on the vessel’s journey to New York. The letter card is dated…
Counter-terrorism police are investigating an incident that has left two women seriously injured in Leeds. West Yorkshire Police were called at 2.47pm on Saturday following reports of a man with weapons. A crossbow and firearm were found at the scene, on Otley Road in the Headingley area. The two women injured were taken to hospital….
A Nevada newspaper owned by a Donald Trump mega-donor has savaged the US president’s decision to pardon a Republican councilwoman who was convicted of using donations intended to fund a statue of a police officer to pay for cosmetic surgery. The Las Vegas Review-Journal, owned by the billionaire Miriam Adelson, described the decision as a…
David Tennant has criticised the “demonisation” of the trans community, saying that while he wishes JK Rowling “no ill will”, he hopes that “we can all as a society just let people be”. The Scottish actor, who appeared in the 2005 film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, likened the treatment of…
Americans, including some Republicans, are losing faith in Donald Trump across a range of key issues, according to polling released this week. One survey found a majority describing the president’s second stint in the White House so far as “scary”. Along with poor ratings on the economy and Trump’s immigration policy, a survey released on…
