One person was killed and several others were injured in a shooting at Tuskegee University in Alabama on Sunday, the fourth reported shooting at homecoming events across the US within the last three weeks. The Tuskegee shooting occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning. The person who was killed was not affiliated with the…
A British man has been killed while fighting in Ukraine for the country’s foreign volunteer platoon. Callum Tindal-Draper, 22, had travelled to the country to join the fight against Russia despite his family’s pleas for him not to. His father, Steven Draper, paid tribute to his son, a former NHS worker from Gunnislake in Cornwall,…
Nine boats carrying 572 people have been intercepted while attempting to cross the Channel, according to the Home Office. The latest crossings come after Keir Starmer announced plans to tackle what he described as the “national security threat” of people smugglers, pledging an extra £75m and a new team of detectives. The arrivals on Saturday…
Is there a job you’re putting off finishing so you can read this story? Well, if new research into procrastination is anything to go by, you’d better get back to it. Scientists studying the psychology of people who leave things to the last minute have found that work that is submitted late tends to be…
Australia’s economy will not be immune from escalating trade tensions, Jim Chalmers has warned, as the Albanese government prepares itself for an incoming Donald Trump administration. In a speech to be delivered on Monday , the treasurer will outline the risks of an “uncertain world characterised by economic vulnerability and volatility” but will say the…
The UK is examining all possible options when it comes to the US president-elect Donald Trump’s approach to Ukraine, the chief secretary to the Treasury has said, as the UK’s chief of the defence staff said approximately 1,500 Russian troops were being killed and injured every day. Whitehall officials are “considering and planning lots of…
Cold-case detectives in the Netherlands are hoping that an innovative lifesize hologram of a young sex worker who was murdered in Amsterdam 15 years ago will jog people’s memories and help bring her killer, or killers, to justice. Bernadett Szabó, known as Betty, was born in Hungary and left for Amsterdam when she was 18….
Republicans on Saturday appeared close to clinching control of the US House of Representatives, a critical element for Donald Trump to advance his agenda when the president-elect returns to the White House in January. With votes still being counted from the 5 November general election, Republicans had won 212 seats in the 435-member House, according…
The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, has warned against “American-style division” surrounding the state’s nation-leading Indigenous treaty, ahead of negotiations beginning this month. The First Peoples’ Assembly – Victoria’s democratically elected Indigenous body – will begin negotiating a statewide treaty with the Allan government in the coming weeks. The assembly has publicly outlined ideas raised by…
Stefanos Kasselakis, the Greek American shipping investor and former banker who burst into Greek politics over a year ago, has said he is leaving leftwing Syriza, the country’s main opposition party he had led, and forming his own. Kasselakis announced he was leaving Syriza on Friday after a two-day party congress refused to consider his…
