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The US postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, who said earlier this month that he had asked the government efficiency team led by Elon Musk for assistance with a number of issues, is resigning effective on Monday, the agency said. DeJoy, who has headed the agency since 2020, in February said he had asked the US Postal … Read more

A man has been arrested at a major airport and charged with murder after the body of a 79-year-old woman was found at a suburban home. The woman’s body was discovered with a fatal stab wound at a residence at The Gap in Brisbane’s north-west on Monday afternoon, Queensland police said. About two hours later, … Read more

A poem inspired by the writer’s experience missing her son after he moved from the UK to Australia has won this year’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition. Fiona Larkin’s poem, Absence has a grammar, was picked from nearly 22,000 entries. “It feels a bit like a lottery win, because the odds are so high,” said Larkin. … Read more

A catastrophic security leak is triggering bipartisan outrage after the Atlantic revealed that senior Trump administration officials accidentally broadcast classified military plans through a Signal group chat with a journalist reading along. “Every single one of the government officials on this text chain have now committed a crime – even if accidentally,” the Delaware senator … Read more

An 89-year-old man has won his battle to save the last remaining phone box in a village in East Anglia. Derek Harris learned in January that BT was planning to remove the K6-style box in Sharrington, Norfolk, where he has lived for 50 years. Harris and his fellow campaigners argued it was “an iconic heritage … Read more

Elon Musk’s X stands to benefit financially if the government pulls an £800m tax on US tech tech firms as part of an economic deal with Donald Trump, as a prominent tax campaigner indicated the social media platform qualifies for the levy. Dan Neidle, the head of the non-profit organisation Tax Policy Associates, said the … Read more

The UK appears to be a step closer to an outright ban on ticket touts ripping off fans, after the competition watchdog threw its weight behind government plans to cap ticket resale prices. In a blow to websites such as lawful companies Viagogo and StubHub, which make hundreds of millions a year by selling access … Read more

A Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has been arrested by the Israeli army after masked settlers attacked his house. According to five Jewish American activists who witnessed the attack, Hamdan Ballal, one of the four directors of the the film that documented the destruction of villages in the West Bank, was … Read more

The French actor Gérard Depardieu has appeared in court in France on trial for allegedly sexually assaulting two women during a film shoot in 2021. Depardieu, 76, dressed in a black suit and trainers with his grey hair swept back, arrived at the Paris criminal court amid a large police presence. Dozens of protesters had … Read more

Newcastle have upset many of their supporters after announcing plans to celebrate their Carabao Cup triumph with a party on the city’s Town Moor rather than an open-top bus parade. The outcry has prompted the possibility of a modified event and club officials spent Monday in talks with Newcastle city council and Northumbria police regarding … Read more