Soaring average temperatures and strong winds will lead to high and extreme fire danger warnings for parts of southern Australia this weekend. The Bureau of Meteorology said the elevated risk was caused by high temperatures in Western Australia’s interior – up to 16C higher than the average – being pushed eastwards across the country. “On…
A US army soldier has been charged with murder in the death of a fellow service member at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, the military announced Thursday. The army office of Special Trial Counsel charged the 21-year-old specialist Wooster Rancy on Wednesday with murder and obstructing justice in the death of 23-year-old Sgt Sarah Roque….
A Pittsburgh-area Halloween parade’s depiction of Kamala Harris in chains and being dragged by a vehicle displaying Donald Trump’s name is being condemned as racist – and has prompted an apology from the event organizer. Photos of Wednesday night’s parade in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, that circulated widely across social media show a person dressed as…
A former British soldier has told a jury he did not hand himself in after he escaped from prison because he was “finally demonstrating what a foolish idea it was” to imprison someone with his “skill set”. Daniel Khalife, 23, told the court he absconded from Wandsworth prison while on remand because he was “terrified”…
Ministers have been told that a plan to ban the sale of disposable vapes by next summer could lead to some users “reverting or relapsing” back to cigarette smoking. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said vape usage in England had grown by more than 400% between 2012 and 2023, with 9.1%…
Police dismissed a teenage girl who reported an alleged sexual assault by Mohamed Al Fayed in 1995, saying they would add her name to a pile of similar claims. Last month the Metropolitan police said the first report of sexual assault by the Harrods owner had been made in 2005. After the family of Samantha-Jane…
Members of the RMT union at London Underground have called off plans to strike over the coming week, as transport officials urged tube train drivers to follow suit. The RMT said it had suspended its planned week-long action, which had been due to begin on Friday evening, after receiving a significantly improved pay offer from…
On 21 July, Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Kamala Harris. This historic move changed the landscape of the election and how many felt about the race. The Guardian US is averaging national and state polls to see how the two candidates are faring. We update our averages once a week,…
The US added just 12,000 jobs in October, the last snapshot of the employment market before election day, in a report heavily impacted by the strike at Boeing and two recent hurricanes. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1%. Temporary impacts from Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton and the ongoing strike by 33,000 Boeing workers in…
Residents in Spain’s Valencia region have been warned to brace for more rain, days after rivers of mud-coloured waters left a trail of devastation and as an additional 500 soldiers were earmarked to help with the rescue operations. On Friday, the state weather agency AEMET said that four regions, including Valencia, remained under amber alert…
