The Trump administration on Tuesday released thousands of pages of files concerning the assassination of John F Kennedy, the 35th president who was shot dead in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963. “So people have been waiting decades for this,” Donald Trump told reporters on Monday while visiting the Kennedy Center, “and I’ve instructed my people … Read more
The Australian bestselling children’s author Aaron Blabey has signed an eight-figure deal with the UK, US and Australian arms of Macmillan. The publisher announced the deal on Wednesday, contracting the actor turned writer to produce seven new titles across two new series for the tween reading market. Blabey, whose books have sold about 55m copies, … Read more
Former Queensland judge Walter Sofronoff engaged in “serious corrupt conduct”, the ACT Integrity Commission has found, after reviewing his inquiry into the prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann. The commission released a report on Wednesday into Sofronoff’s conduct as a Board of Inquiry into the prosecution. It found that “Sofronoff’s conduct fell within several elements of the … Read more
Louisiana has carried out its first execution using nitrogen gas, an experimental method for judicial killings that has only been used by one other death-penalty state. Jessie Hoffman Jr, 46, was executed at the Louisiana state penitentiary at Angola shortly after 7pm local time on Tuesday evening. He had been convicted of the 1996 rape … Read more
Urgent action is needed to harness the UK’s potential for tidal range energy in the Severn estuary but smaller lagoon models should be pursued over a larger dam-like barrage, a panel of experts has said. The Severn Estuary Commission said that harnessing the energy of the tides in the estuary could deliver predictable, renewable electricity … Read more
The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, has announced a C$6bn deal (A$6.6bn) with Australia to develop an Arctic radar system, warning that Canada must take more responsibility for its defence as US priorities shift. Carney made the announcement Tuesday in Iqaluit, capital of the Nunavut territory in the Canadian Arctic, on the final leg of … Read more
MPs in Hungary have voted to ban Pride events and allow authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attenders and potentially fine them, in what Amnesty International has described as a “full-frontal attack” on LGBTQ+ people. The legislation – the latest by the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and his rightwing populist party to target … Read more
Garifuna leaders have paid tribute to a prominent musician from their community who died in a plane crash that killed at least 13 people off the coast of Honduras. Aurelio Martínez was onboard a Lanhsa Airlines flight that crashed into the sea late on Monday while taking off from Roatán, one of the Central American … Read more
In his first public remarks since being detained by federal immigration authorities, Palestinian activist and recent Columbia graduate, Mahmoud Khalil, spoke out against the conditions facing immigrants in US detention and said he was being targeted by the Trump administration for his political beliefs. “I am a political prisoner,” he said in a statement provided … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Richard Luscombe The astronauts’ extended stay on the ISS became an opportunity for some political mischief, with Elon Musk, the SpaceX founder and Donald Trump acolyte, insisting without evidence they were “abandoned” in space by the Biden administration. Trump, in turn, … Read more