US secretary of state’s two-day visit reportedly intended to thaw Washington’s frosty relations with Vatican and Italy The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, will meet Pope Leo on Thursday, weeks after Donald Trump’s unprecedented broadside against the pontiff. Rubio will meet the first US-born pope privately in the Vatican’s apostolic palace at 11.30am (10.30 GMT), the Holy See’s press office confirmed on Monday after media reports on Sunday. Continue reading...
Chris Minns says technology has been ‘weaponised against women, and our laws have not kept pace’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast After their marriage of 25 years deteriorated and his wife expressed a desire to leave, a man in regional New South Wales bought a GPS tracking device from an auto parts retailer. He used it to monitor her movements for the month, and up to at least the day before he shot and killed her, and then turned the gun on himself. Continue reading.
Exclusive: Sperm re-transplant offers hope that boys left infertile by chemotherapy could have biological children one day In a groundbreaking fertility trial, a man whose testicular tissue was frozen before he underwent chemotherapy as a child to be re-transplanted 16 years later has been able to produce sperm. It is the first time a transplant of cryopreserved prepubertal testicular tissue has been demonstrated to restore sperm production in an adult patient. The 27-year-old man had the sample
The red carpet at the 2026 Met Gala is just hours away where the red carpet is set to be filled with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, business and pop culture including the long-awaited return of Beyoncé. This year’s theme is a nod to the costume institute’s newest exhibit titled “Costume Art,” but the event is also drawing controversy after it was announced that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez Bezos would serve as lead sponsors of the event as well as honorary co-ch
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey backs launch of Vine reboot, Divine, where content must be made by a human As a pioneer of the short-form video format, Vine has been credited as one of the most influential – if short-lived – social media platforms. The app, which allowed users to record a looping six seconds of video, boomed in popularity after its launch in 2013, creating a plethora of viral comedy sketches and internet memes. It hit 100 million monthly active users at its peak and helped launch
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Rudy Giuliani hospitalized and in 'critical' condition
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Kent schoolgirl tracks down 10,000 namesakes as part of campaign – but non-Kirstys are welcome to donate too Calling all Kirstys! A schoolgirl from Tunbridge Wells in Kent is seeking people who share her name to help raise money for research into paediatric brain tumours like the one for which she is being treated. Kirsty Waugh, who turns 12 on Monday, has already persuaded more than 10,000 Kirstys, Kirsties, Kersties and assorted other variants to plot their locations on a map that shows Kirsty
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Lobbyist Tara Singh says stripping projects of subsidy contracts would undermine investor confidence in UK Britain could be beset by levels of economic chaos last seen under Liz Truss if a Reform UK government were to fulfil its promise to strip renewable energy projects of subsidy contracts, according to the industry’s chief lobbyist. The anti-renewables policy put forward by Nigel Farage’s populist party would severely undermine investor confidence in the energy industry and across the wider U
Guardian - World · Oct 8
US president’s post follows flurry of mixed signals including concern Tehran had not ‘paid big enough price’. Plus, could Santa Marta climate talks mark ground zero in push to ditch fossil fuels? Good morning. Donald Trump has announced this morning that the US will “guide” ships trapped in the Gulf by the Iran war through the strait of Hormuz, and claimed his representatives were having “very positive” discussions with Iran. What has Iran said? The head of the Iranian military’s unified command
