Craig and Lindsay Foreman given 10-year sentences in February for alleged espionage, which they deny A British couple jailed on spying charges in Iran have lost an appeal against their convictions, their family has said. Craig and Lindsay Foreman, both aged 53, were handed 10-year prison sentences in February after being convicted of espionage, which they deny. Continue reading...

Sydney crowd told to target National MPs as upper house prepares to vote on a bill outlawing sex-selective terminations Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce has joined pro-life campaigners to pile pressure on Nationals MPs to vote to criminalise some abortions ahead of a tight vote in New South Wales. Anti-abortion activists have threatened to campaign for One Nation against major parties to force new limits on terminating pr

Lindsay and Craig Foreman were arrested in January 2025 during a global motorbike journey.

Ohio-based slider chain introduces Southwest Veggie Slider permanently after customer feedback for meatless option Vegetarians have a new reason to celebrate: White Castle has added a permanent meat-free option to its menu. On Monday, the Columbus, Ohio -based slider chain announced the launch of the Southwest Veggie Slider, featuring a crispy brown rice crust and a smoky chipotle- and barbecue-inspired veggie patty made with sweet potatoes, black beans, corn, red bell pepper

Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The foreign minister, Penny Wong , has announced new sanctions by the commonwealth over three Israeli individuals and four entities in response to “escalating settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank”. The entities will receive targeted financial sanctions while the individuals will receive travel bans to Australia. For the first time, designated entities now include farming ou

Bank apologises after IT update caused problems with Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland apps Lloyds Banking Group has apologised after thousands of its customers were unable to make payments or send money due to another IT glitch. According to Downdetector, a website that lets people track real-time service issues and outages, customers started noticing problems shortly after 11am on Wednesday, with issues affecting many of the group’s brands: Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of

Case challenges permits approved by South Africa’s arms control body, citing compliance failures and oversight gaps.

Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Jim Chalmers ’ budget bill will face debate and a vote in the House today, and he poses the legislation as a “really simple choice” for the Coalition. As we know, the government has set up the bill as a wedge for the opposition, by including both tax changes to CGT and negative gearing and tax cuts for workers. Really simple choice in the parliament today: Labor lower taxes on workers, a fai

Silenced, a documentary about violence against women, opened the Sydney film festival on Wednesday Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Brittany Higgins says she decided not to change her name when she got married in 2024 because she is proud to be Brittany Higgins, the former Liberal staffer has revealed in Silenced, a documentary about violence against women which opened the Sydney film festival.

NSW police appeal after comprehensive class action loss in 2025 when force admitted music festival search of Raya Meredith was unlawful and unjustified Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The state of New South Wales is arguing that police have the power to forcibly move body parts when conducting a strip-search, as it seeks to appeal a landmark class action ruling. Thursday was the first day of a

Nastassja Kinski, who appeared in the film when she was 13, said the film-maker "didn't protect me".

Foreign affairs minister says her position is to ‘always believe women’ when sexual assault allegations are made Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, says she believes the Australian women who have alleged they were raped and beaten by Israeli soldiers after being detained as part of a humanitarian flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. Appearing at Senate estimates, Wong said the treatment of the Australian

Items bought by former chief executive included more than £23,000 from a luxury stationery brand and a £3,000 robotic lawnmower BBC Scotland has more details of the Peter Murrell hearing this morning on its live blog. And, on its live blog , Sky News has pictures of some of the items purchased by Murrell with stolen SNP funds. Andy Burnham will not call an early election if he becomes prime minister after the Makerfield byelection, a spokesperson for the Greater Manchester ma

After numerous divisions on amendments from the opposition and independents, the government has moved to vote on the substantive bill. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Jim Chalmers ’ budget bill will face debate and a vote in the House today, and he poses the legislation as a “really simple choice” for the Coalition. As we know, the government has set up the bill as a wedge for the opposition, by including both tax changes

A wide variety of chiral non-collinear spin textures have been discovered and have unique properties that make them highly interesting for technological applications. However, many of these are found in complex materials and only in a narrow window of temperature. Here, we show the formation of Néel-type skyrmions in thin layers of simple ferromagnetic alloys, namely Co-Al and Co-Ni-Al, over a wide range of temperature up to ~773 K, by imposing a strain gradient perpendicular

Alarm after Elias Irizarry is hired to position in office that manages highly classified military operations The Pentagon has appointed a rioter convicted for his role in 6 January, 2021 insurrection to a sensitive national security role dealing with counterterrorism, overriding insiders’ concerns about his past record. Elias Irizarry, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in connection with the storming of the US Capitol, has been appointed to a position in the US Depar

Firefighters rescue more than 40 people trapped inside as thick smoke fills the burning New Delhi building.

Police allege the 44-year-old lauded for disarming one of the gunmen in December’s attack put his father in a headlock Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Sydney man who disarmed one of the Bondi terror attackers has been charged with assaulting his father. Ahmed al-Ahmed, 44, is accused of allegedly putting his father in a headlock on 9 March at a house in Bankstown, in the city’s west. Continue reading...

This work presents a compact, closed-form surface-impedance framework for statistically disordered all-dielectric monolayer metasurfaces under normal incidence. Dynamic Mie polarizabilities, combined with a disorder-averaged interaction constant, yield collective electric and magnetic responses that are mapped to an equivalent sheet admittance and sheet impedance. Coherent reflection and transmission are obtained via an ABCD-matrix embedding, while diffuse scattering is estim

Senate estimates told it was a ‘joint idea’ to rework the nuclear submarine deal. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australian troops will be sent to Poland in coming weeks to train Ukrainian soldiers in the latest effort to support its fight against Russia’s illegal invasion. Australian Defence Force personnel have since January 2023 been based in the UK helping to train Ukrainian soldiers in basic infantry tactics, leaders