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Canadian police have confirmed the identity of a second woman whose body was dumped at a private landfill near Winnipeg by a serial killer who preyed on Indigenous women and left their bodies hidden in trash. The Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted police said in a statement on Monday that the human remains found in the … Read more

The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, has postponed several stops on a tour to promote his new book, citing security concerns, as the New York Democrat faces intensifying backlash over his vote to support a Republican-drafted spending bill and avert a government shutdown. Schumer was scheduled to participate in events in Baltimore, Washington DC, New … Read more

Ireland’s prime minister has denounced anti-immigration comments made by Conor McGregor as the MMA fighter visited the White House before a Saint Patrick’s Day meeting with Donald Trump. McGregor said “Ireland is on the cusp of losing its Irishness” and that an “illegal immigration racket” was “running ravage on the country”. Last week, Donald Trump … Read more

The drag artist known as The Vivienne died of a cardiac arrest caused by the effects of taking ketamine, their family has said. James Lee Williams, who won the first series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK as The Vivienne in 2019, died at their home in Cheshire in January. Their sister Chanel Williams said it … Read more

With flags still flying at half mast in North Macedonia, grief over a fire that tore through a nightclub killing dozens of people turned to anger as thousands took to the streets in protest. In Kočani, the town where the fire destroyed the Pulse venue early on Sunday, demonstrators demanded justice for the 59 people … Read more

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Patrick Commins The Paris-based OECD – a 38-member grouping of rich countries, including Australia – on Monday evening issued a more downbeat assessment of the global economy, laying the blame on Trump’s tariffs. The OECD’s economists slashed their estimates for Australian … Read more

An operation is under way to retrieve thousands of plastic pellets from the North Sea that were spilt in a collision between two ships last week, in which one man died. The coastguard said the pellets, made of plastic resin and known as nurdles, were spotted by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and have … Read more

Fossil fish so exquisitely preserved that scientists have been able to reconstruct their final days from up to 16m years ago have been discovered in central New South Wales. Several fossils of small freshwater fish, embedded in an iron-rich mineral called goethite at the McGraths Flat fossil site, have retained microscopic structural features including their … Read more

It’s getting to be quite a habit. Reform send out an invitation to attend a press conference with the promise of a “special announcement”. The media attend with high expectations only to be rewarded with a crushing sense of anticlimax. One special announcement turned out to be a 30-minute whinge from Nigel Farage about some … Read more

The British Red Cross had to use hundreds of thousands of pounds from its funds earmarked for disasters to provide basic clothing for asylum seekers in the UK in what it described as an unprecedented intervention. The charity is the largest UK provider of services to refugees, asylum seekers and other vulnerable migrants. It said … Read more