Department says teenager died at Perth’s Sir Charles Gairdner hospital shortly after 10pm on Thursday Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast An Aboriginal teenager has died in a Perth hospital a week after being found unresponsive inside a maximum […]
Sag-Aftra’s advice is to eschew characters played by real people and instead take inspiration from animated TV shows not in its remit Spiders are in but Spider-Man is out, after the US actors’ union Sag-Aftra warned its members that dressing up as their favourite film or television characters this Halloween could break strike rules. Now […]
Keir Starmer’s party wins seat for first time since bellwether byelection in 1996 Labour has overturned a near 20,000-vote Conservative majority in Tamworth, winning the area for the first time since a bellwether byelection in 1996. Labour’s Sarah Edwards received 11,719 votes ahead of Andrew Cooper, the Tory candidate, who received 10,403 – a majority […]
Apra Amcos boss calls for tax incentives to revive the sector, after report reveals number of venues for small to medium gigs shrank by a third over three years Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email More than 1,300 live music venues and stages across Australia have been lost permanently since Covid restrictions began, shrinking […]
Multiple aircraft and boats looking for man who was allegedly seeking to evade police when he jumped into Fitzroy River near Rockhampton Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Queensland police were on Friday using aircraft and boats to continue […]
Gaza officials have said at least 471 people were killed in the explosion, with more than 300 wounded Israel and Hamas at war – live updates The US intelligence community has estimated there were likely 100 to 300 people killed in the blast at the Al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza, but added that the assessment […]
More than 100 community Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations say safety of Indigenous children ‘should not be politicised’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast More than a hundred First Nations advocacy groups and organisations have banded together to […]
Alistair Strathern overturns huge Tory majority to win seat vacated by former culture secretary Labour have won the Mid Bedfordshire byelection, overturning a huge majority and delivering a significant blow to Rishi Sunak’s hopes of holding on to power at the next general election – expected to be in 2024. Alistair Strathern takes the parliamentary […]
Ketel Marte broke a 1-1 deadlock with a bases-loaded hit in the ninth inning against Phillies closer Craig Kimbrel. “I’m not a pressure guy,” he said. “I know what kind of hitter I am. He threw me a fastball up and I put a good swing.”
The judge conceded that weapons like AR-15s are commonly used by criminals, but said the guns are importantly also owned by people who obey the law and feel they need firearms to protect themselves. (Image credit: Rich Pedroncelli/AP file photo)