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Federal MP accused of assault is charged with breaching bail after allegedly going to the cricket
Federal Labor MP Luke Gosling has been charged with breaching his bail conditions after allegedly attending a Test cricket match in Darwin, adding to legal troubles stemming from an earlier assault accusation. He was originally arrested on 30 July over an alleged assault on Northern Territory administrator David Connolly at a Thai cultural festival on…
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Another set of Sullivan brothers are making football waves in Bangladesh
Twin brothers Ronan and Declan Sullivan, raised in Philadelphia, have become key figures in Bangladesh’s footballing revival after helping the national Under-20 side win the South Asian Football Federation Championship, with Ronan converting the decisive penalty in a shootout final against India in April. The pair, who qualified through their maternal ancestry and had never…
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Football transfer rumours: Manchester City and Spurs chase Cody Gakpo?
The Guardian’s daily transfer rumour round-up centres on Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur both reportedly showing interest in Liverpool forward Cody Gakpo, though a move looks unlikely while Liverpool have no incoming replacements lined up. Elsewhere, Aston Villa are being linked with several reinforcements after a poor start to the season, while Chelsea’s Enzo Fernández…
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Lego sales rise as World Cup and F1 ranges prove to be winners
Lego’s sales have jumped by more than a fifth in the first half of 2026, boosted by tie-ins with the football World Cup, Formula One and the film KPop Demon Hunters, alongside popular flower-themed and Star Wars sets. The Danish toymaker’s strong performance reflects a wider resurgence in the toy market, with adult “kidult” buyers…
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Chelsea’s chaos, Burnham’s caution and Newsnight’s axe threat
Labour’s Andy Burnham has ruled out a snap election but not tax rises, while the BBC weighs axing Newsnight; in the US, Trump faces a fresh impeachment bid; a Stanford study warns AI is squeezing young workers hardest; and Chelsea won a wild Fulham derby.
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Gunman allegedly murdered girlfriend and her family in quintuple homicide on rural property outside Portland
A gunman shot dead his girlfriend, three members of her family and friends, and several of her pets at a rural property near Forest Grove, Oregon, before killing himself hours later some three hours away in Washington state. Benjamin Charles Parker, 36, is believed to have murdered his girlfriend Stella Jade Kimsey, 26, along with…
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‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Opposition to Scotland’s rapidly growing datacentre pipeline is intensifying, with campaigners and politicians warning that Holyrood is “inching towards” a moratorium on new developments. The focus of anger is a proposed 600MW facility in Auchtertool, Fife, which would be larger than the village itself and is billed as potentially the second-biggest datacentre in the world;…
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Ralph Carr jailed for six years after raping woman at his home multiple times
Ralph Carr, a former celebrity talent agent prosecuted under his full name Ralph Carnovale-Carr, has been jailed for a maximum of six years after a jury found he raped a woman twice at his Melbourne home in March 2023. The 66-year-old appeared via videolink from Melbourne Assessment Prison for sentencing at Melbourne County Court, where…
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Breakthrough in ‘mysterious’ death of a woman found wounded at a waterfront unit as former partner is charged with murder
A man has been charged with murder eight months after a woman died in unexplained circumstances at a waterfront unit in Port Macquarie, on the New South Wales mid-north coast. Megan Tangye, 31, was found with multiple unexplained injuries at the property on Gore Street on 27 December and died in hospital later that day.…