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Australia’s love-hate relationship with fuel-guzzling utes and SUVs is now a looming election issue, after the Coalition indicated it may rethink Labor’s vehicle emission standard. On Tuesday the shadow transport minister, Bridget McKenzie, called Labor’s vehicle emission standard “poorly designed” and said the Coalition will have “more to say” about it when the opposition releases … Read more

A former New York Yankees player and his wife say they have “many questions” and “few answers” after their youngest son fell ill and died during a family vacation. Miller Gardner – the son of Brett and Jessica Gardner – was 14. Miler Gardner died in his sleep on Friday morning, according to a statement … Read more

A former member of the Red Army Faction has gone on trial in Germany for robberies she allegedly committed during three decades hiding in broad daylight. Daniela Klette, the last female member of the far-left terror network still on the run before her arrest, appeared before a court in the north-central city of Celle on … Read more

Teenage boys are joining online gangs where they share sadistic and misogynistic material that fuels crimes including fraud, violence and child sexual abuse, the director general of the National Crime Agency has warned. Offenders in online communities collaborate and compete to cause harm online and offline through cyber-attacks such as launching malware, ransomware or executing … Read more

Elon Musk appears to be laying the groundwork to privatize some space and satellite operations now under the authority of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), or steer lucrative contracts toward his SpaceX and Starlink companies, former agency employees say. They’re sounding the alarm as at least four other federal agencies have reportedly begun pushing … Read more

The transport secretary has given formal approval to the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing, a road tunnel joining Essex and Kent. Heidi Alexander granted a development consent order on Tuesday morning, after the decision had been pushed back again last year by the new government. The controversial scheme has for years been Britain’s biggest single planned … Read more

Sexism, harassment and violence against women are rife in parliaments across the Asia-Pacific region, according to a damning report published on Tuesday that lays bare the scale of abuse faced by women in politics. Based on interviews with 150 female MPs and parliamentary staff across 33 countries across the region – including Australia, Mongolia, India, … Read more

Gérard Depardieu has admitted in court to grabbing by the hips a woman who accuses him of sexual assault, but denied this was assault and said any crude comments he may have made were because of his bad mood. A towering figure of French cinema, Depardieu, 76, has faced a growing number of sexual assault … Read more

The use of toxic flea treatments for pets should be tightly restricted, the Liberal Democrats will say in parliament on Tuesday, as the chemicals kill wildlife including fish and birds. The government is coming under pressure to control the sale of pet flea treatments containing neonicotinoids, after it effectively announced a ban on the chemicals … Read more

Good morning. A major security leak is triggering bipartisan outrage after the Atlantic revealed that senior Trump administration officials accidentally broadcast highly sensitive military plans through a Signal group chat with a journalist reading along. According to the Atlantic, the editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally invited into a Signal chat group with more than a … Read more