The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, has denied the state’s police force is in chaos after the acting chief commissioner, Rick Nugent, announced he wouldn’t apply for the permanent position after just 41 days in the job. Nugent on Wednesday said he made the “difficult decision” not to seek the role after realising he couldn’t commit…
Former Costa Rican president and Nobel winner Óscar Arias said on Tuesday that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like “a Roman emperor”. Arias, 84, was president between 1986 and 1990 and again between 2006 and 2010. A…
Republicans on Tuesday won special elections for two US House of Representatives seats in Florida vacated by Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, dashing Democratic hopes for an upset victory in the first federal special elections held since the president began his second term. But Democratic candidates Josh Weil and Gay Valimont are likely to lose the…
Pupils in England are to be taught how to spot the risks of in-game purchases as well as to scrutinise the claims of influencers in a new suite of lessons designed to improve their financial literacy. The package of 80 lessons is aimed at teaching pupils aged five to 16 how to navigate online spending,…
An 11-year-old girl who is missing after entering the River Thames in London on Monday has been named by police as Kaliyah Coa. Kaliyah, who had been playing during a school inset day, entered the water near Bargehouse Causeway near London City airport in east London. Emergency services were called at 1.23pm on Monday, with…
Cory Booker, the Democratic US senator from New Jersey, has embarked on a marathon speech on the Senate floor to warn of what he called the “grave and urgent” danger that Donald Trump’s presidential administration poses to democracy and the American people. Booker began his speech at 7pm on Monday night and passed the 20-hour…
Adding VAT to private school fees discriminates against children with conditions such as autism whose needs cannot be adequately met by UK state schools, the high court has been told. The legal action against Labour’s policy is being taken by parents claiming that VAT on school fees is a breach of human rights law and…
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is finalizing the dismantlement of the US Agency for International Development, ordering the firings of thousands of local workers and US diplomats and civil servants assigned to the agency overseas, two former top USAID officials and a source with knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday. On Friday, Congress was notified…
A UK energy supplier with about 90,000 customers has gone bust blaming a “perfect storm” of surging wholesale prices and squeezed customers, on the day households face another increase in gas and electricity bills. Rebel Energy, which serves around 80,000 households and 10,000 business customers, will cease trading immediately and leave the industry regulator to…
Jury selection begins on Tuesday in the retrial of Karen Read, who says she was framed by law enforcement in the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend. Read, of Mansfield, is accused of striking her boyfriend, the Boston police officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowstorm…
