Western Sydney University graduates sent ‘fraudulent’ emails claiming degrees were ‘revoked’
University apologised to recipients, saying emails were referred to police and were not legitimateFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCurrent and former students at Western Sydney University (WSU) have received “fraudulent” emails, including one warning that some students’ degrees had been revoked.WSU confirmed this morning that fraudulent emails had been sent to students and graduates over the past 24 hours, saying some were “falsely claiming that they have been excluded from the university or that their qualifications have been revoked”. Continue reading...
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Schumer rejects Trump’s claim that bipartisan government shutdown negotiations are under way – live
Senate Democratic leader says of president ‘if he’s finally ready to work with Democrats, we’ll be at the table’The supreme court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s challenge of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming minors, who were sexually abused by her former boyfriend and companion Jeffrey Epstein – the disgraced financier who died in a New York prison in 2019.Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year-sentence for her crimes. She was recently moved to a minimum-security prison in Texas. Continue reading...
Australia politics live: Malarndirri McCarthy proposes penalising states for Closing the Gap failures; PM condemns ‘abhorrent’ Hamas graffiti
Deputy PM says 7 October a ‘day of commemoration and remembrance’ and not a day of protest. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor to introduce triple zero ‘custodian’ legislation to parliament this weekThree major telco bosses will be hauled into parliament today for a chat with the communications minister, Anika Wells, following two outages of the Optus mobile network.We expect the obligations that are given by the telecommunications companies in putting in place the triple zero service that those obligations are met, and that is obviously what we have been talking with Optus about when this has previously been looked at after the previous outage a couple of years ago. Continue reading...
Israel and Hamas Meet in Egypt to Discuss Gaza Peace Plan
As Israelis brace for a day of mourning and commemoration, negotiators for Israel and Hamas met with mediators in Egypt to hash out an end to the war.
US shutdown enters second week as Senate again rejects rival funding bills
Competing bills fail to pass 60-vote threshold, while Trump hints at possible deal with Democrats over health subsidies The US government shutdown entered its second week as the Senate again rejected rival bills to restart funding and Donald Trump suggested he might be open to negotiating with Democrats over the healthcare subsidies they have put at the heart of the stalemate.A fifth Senate vote to advance a Republican-written bill that would reopen the government failed on a 52-42 tally – well below the 60-vote threshold needed for advancement. The Democrats’ proposal was defeated in a 50-45 party-line vote. No lawmakers changed their votes from recent days, though there were a handful of absences. Continue reading...
New Zealand foreign minister Winston Peters’ home vandalised ‘during a protest’
Man charged as police allege a window was smashed in a rare act of violence targeted at a New Zealand politician’s homeA man who allegedly used a crowbar to smash in a window at the home of New Zealand’s foreign minister “during a protest” has been charged, police confirmed on Tuesday.Winston Peters posted to social media on Monday evening saying “a disgusting coward” had smashed a window in his Auckland home and left a sign on the door. Continue reading...
Marine Park in Ontario Warns It May Euthanize Beluga Whales Without Cash Infusion
The government has barred Marineland from shipping its whales to an aquarium in China so the park is threatening to put the whales down.
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid
Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactableThe Nobel committee has been unable to reach a winner of this year’s prize for medicine who is “living his best life” on an “off the grid” hiking foray.Fred Ramsdell shared Monday’s prestigious prize with Mary Brunkow of Seattle, Washington and Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University in Japan for their discoveries related to the functioning of the immune system. Continue reading...
Can Sweet Songs Prevail Over Bloody Ones? Mexico Is Giving It a Try.
On Sunday, three contestants were crowned winners of the inaugural, government-run “Mexico Sings” competition, meant to promote songs that aren’t about drug cartels or violence.
Mother of Israeli hostage says she still doesn't know if he's alive or dead
Two years on from Hamas' attack on 7 October, Herut Nimrodi says she is clinging to hope that her son Tamir is "still hanging on".