It's been a seismic 48 hours for football after Uefa threatened to boycott the World Cup and Concacaf rejected Gianni Infantino's funding plan - what happens now, and can Fifa's president survive?
A Pima County sheriff's vehicle parked in the driveway of Nancy Guthrie's home in Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 21.
London-based company to sell local loan portfolio to Blackstone, but will continue private and institutional banking services Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The London-headquartered HSBC is closing all Australian branches over the next 18 months after selling its local mortgage and personal loan portfolio to global asset giant Blackstone. The transaction will end HSBC’s decades-long retail presence in Australia,
Pre-programmed flights gather data at different altitudes then return to bases to recharge and download Weather happens in the boundary layer, the atmosphere from ground level to a few thousand metres, but this can be difficult to study in detail: weather stations are too low, and aircraft are expensive. Instrumented weather balloons are the traditional solution, and thousands are released every day. But these are at the mercy of the wind and use irreplaceable helium. Drones offer an alternative
Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos was found guilty of two counts of assault and not guilty of three of six counts of rape A British musician and YouTube personality on trial for allegedly violently raping a fan in a Perth hotel has been acquitted of three sexual penetration charges. But the jury found rapper Yung Filly guilty of two assault offences over his September 2024 encounter with a 20-year-old woman after a show. Continue reading...
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President Donald Trump is taking his next Cabinet meeting on the road to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland
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While the plan is progress, it was met with little enthusiasm by Palestinians let down by many years of collapsed agreements.
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Leftwing Democrats are having their moment in the sun, with Zohran Mamdani in New York, Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and endless calls for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president in 2028. Has Democratic socialism shifted from the political fringe to the mainstream? And can this group lure back the all-important swing voters? Jonathan Freedland speaks to Bhaskar Sunkara , president of the Nation magazine, founding editor of Jacobin and author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical P
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Campaigners worry politicians will have moved on by time of elections in which Marine Le Pen is expected to challenge As dozens of forest wildfires burned across France this week amid the summer’s fourth brutal heatwave and increasing air pollution, some wondered whether voters’ first-hand experience of the climate emergency would change the political debate ahead of next year’s presidential election. The Green leader, Marine Tondelier , who cut short a tour of France on medical advice that at s
