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Sydney council rejects controversial bid to broadcast Muslim call to prayer from Australia’s largest mosque after huge backlash
A Sydney council has shut down a proposal for Australia’s largest mosque to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer over noise concerns
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Inside secret police warehouse as Germany targets small boats gangs
German authorities seize dinghies and life jackets during their first raids under a new law that cracks down on smuggling.
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Burnham is choosing jobs over climate security. That’s a big risk | Gaby Hinsliff
The PM’s net zero pragmatism may please some voters, but as parts of the country go up in flames, it’s an increasingly hard sell When the siren sounded on Friday night, my first thought was fire. Weeks of unrelenting sun in the normally soggy Peak District, where I was visiting my mum, have bleached green…
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Half of homes in Great Britain taking longer to sell than last year amid mortgage volatility
Many buyers wait in hope of better deal, although there are hotspots in Scotland and northern England Half of homes in Great Britain are taking longer to sell than last year as volatile conditions in the mortgage market amid the Iran war prompt buyers to “wait and see” if they can get a better deal,…
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Top economists urge Burnham to sign UK up to UN initiative on global inequality
Open letter signed by 40 academics including Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz and Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level Forty prominent progressive academics are urging Andy Burnham’s government to join a new global push to tackle inequality. The experts include Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz, University College London professor Mariana Mazzucato, vice-chancellor of the London School…
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Poll showing LA Mayor Karen Bass leading Nithya Raman by a wide margin was fake: company
A poll released earlier this month claiming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had a wide lead over Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman in the city’s mayoral race was bogus, according to the company that released it. Median Strategies on Monday said in its announcement about the mayoral race poll that it has stopped…
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Police ambushed and attacked with rocks, arrows and metal bars by large group of men in Australia’s ‘Wild West’ town
A large group of men attacked police with rocks, window louvres, bows and arrows and metal bars.
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Fears millions of Aussies could risk super loss if a major coal mining company expands
Millions of Australians’ super could be exposed to losses if a major coal company expands, according to an activist group.
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Stephen A Smith goes off on national Black journalists organization after ‘personal hit job’ against him
Stephen A. Smith called NABJ's “Thumbs Down” award a “personal hit job,” saying the journalism organization failed to practice journalism in critiquing him.
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Albanese government fast-tracks plan to axe ‘widow tax’ in last minute deal
The Albanese government is set to strike a deal to cut the controversial ‘widow tax’ in the Federal Budget.