People in Gaza have been pushed “beyond breaking point” with families, widows and children enduring “almost unparalleled suffering”, according to the secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council. Jan Egeland visited Gaza this week and found “scene after scene of absolute despair”, with families torn apart and unable to bury relatives who had died. He…
A man who stabbed a paramedic to death in Sydney in an unprovoked attack has been found not criminally responsible for the fatal act on mental health grounds. Jordan James Fineanganofo admitted stabbing 29-year-old paramedic Steven Tougher 55 times outside a McDonald’s in Campbelltown in the early hours of 14 April 2023. The 23-year-old pleaded…
An Australian far-right extremist has walked out of a Melbourne court on bail after being sentenced to one month in jail for performing an illegal Nazi salute. Last month Jacob Hersant, 25, became the first Victorian convicted of intentionally performing the salute in public. Less than an hour after being sentenced by the magistrate Brett…
After years of negative headlines and post-pandemic economic struggle, San Francisco has picked a wealthy Democratic outsider with no government experience to serve as the city’s new mayor. Daniel Lurie, 47, is one of the heirs to the Levi Strauss jeans company fortune, and previously spent 15 years as the executive of a San Francisco…
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with manslaughter after a fatal crash north of Brisbane that followed an alleged carjacking at gunpoint. The teenager was taken into custody after a 69-year-old woman was killed and two police officers injured in the “harrowing” collision on Thursday. Police allege a woman was held up at gunpoint at…
The Republican Dave McCormick won the Senate race in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Thursday, denying the Democratic incumbent, Bob Casey, a fourth term and expanding his party’s majority in the upper chamber. When the Associated Press called the race at 4.09pm ET on Thursday, two days after polls closed in Pennsylvania, McCormick led…
The mayor of Mississippi’s capital city said on Wednesday that he had been indicted in an alleged bribery operation, and he said it was a “political prosecution” to hurt his 2025 campaign for re-election. “My legal team has informed me that federal prosecutors have, in fact, indicted me on bribery and related charges,” Chokwe Antar…
The French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot has abandoned a visit to a holy site in Jerusalem under French control after armed Israeli police entered the site and briefly arrested two French gendarmes. France has summoned the Israeli ambassador over the incident, the latest of several controversies involving the Eleona sanctuary on the Mount of Olives,…
A new Star Wars trilogy is in the works from Lucasfilm and X-Men’s Simon Kinberg. According to Deadline, the new films will reportedly take place after the most recent trilogy that concluded with The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. It will allegedly involve new characters and a new storyline, although the return of known names…
“I couldn’t imagine it not being here,” says Diane Carroll, who has worked at the ticket desk for A Play, a Pie and a Pint at the Òran Mór in Glasgow since it opened its doors in 2004. As she assists those who are queueing for the show it becomes clear what they have come…
