Kawsar Ahmad, 53, and Zeinab Ahmad, 31, appear in Melbourne as Janai Safar, 32, due to face Sydney court on separate charges including joining a terrorist organisation Two Australian women charged with committing crimes against humanity including slavery offences during the rule of Islamic State in Syria have faced a Melbourne court. Kawsar Ahmad, 53, also known as Abbas, and her daughter Zeinab Ahmad, 31, were arrested by officers from the Victorian joint counter-terrorism team (JCTT) at Melbou
Barrister for actor Charlotte MacInnes, who is suing the Pitch Perfect star for defamation, also accused Wilson of ‘a complete revision of history’. Wilson has rejected defamation claims. Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Rebel Wilson has been accused in court of being a liar who made up terrible claims about her colleagues and completely rewrote history. The Pitch Perfect star copped the blunt assessment in the dy
Reform runaway winners in north-east, likely pushing Labour into opposition in Hartlepool, with other losses for Starmer in Chorley, Wigan, Redditch and Tamworth Election 2026 live: latest news updates Full results from England, Scotland and Wales The scale of the electoral challenge facing Labour was laid bare overnight as the party haemorrhaged councillors at the local elections and Reform made significant gains. Keir Starmer’s party went into Thursday’s local elections expected to lose up to
The NCAA will expand its March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season. It will add more early-round games in the first week without altering the overall format. (Image credit: Gene J. Puskar)
Exclusive: Farley discussed preferences and suggested platform before Voices group endorsed his rival Michelle Milthorpe as its candidate Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast One Nation’s Farrer candidate, David Farley, sought to cooperate with the community independent “Voices” movement before the last election, including discussing preferences and suggesting a platform for a House and Senate campaign, before the group endorsed Michelle Milthorpe as their candidate. Docu
NPR News · Oct 8
North Korea says it'll deploy new long-range artillery systems capable of striking the capital region of rival South Korea this year and commission its first naval destroyer in coming weeks. (Image credit: Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service)
Guardian - World · Oct 8
The US and Iran have offered conflicting messages over the likelihood of a deal being reached imminently Morning and welcome to the Guardian’s continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. The US and Iran have offered conflicting messages over the state of negotiations to end the war, with Donald Trump signalling the talks were “very good” and a deal “very possible”. News of a possible deal followed Trump’s abrupt U-turn on a US military operation to guide ships out of the strait of Horm
NBC News · Oct 8
Viral sea lion ‘Chonkers’ gets lookalike stuffed animal
Guardian - World · Oct 8
A booming tech sector has disrupted translation jobs in publishing – but they could be needed for a while longer yet In February 2022, while he was plugging away at rendering the US writer Dana Spiotta’s novel Wayward into French, the literary translator Yoann Gentric decided he needed a bit of light relief. He would test whether AI could put him out of work. Gentric had been grappling with a short non-verbal sentence that described the book’s protagonist’s feelings upon opening a window: “Brigh
