Norton expands monitoring to fight rising data breaches and scams, but small businesses must act fast to benefit from alerts.

Jaguar Land Rover paused production in multiple facilities.

Parviz Sabeti crafted an anonymous new life for his family – but now he faces a $225m lawsuit for atrocities committed in prisons in Tehran and elsewhere Neighbors in the upscale Florida community of Windermere know them as Peter and Nancy, the seemingly friendly retired couple they wave to on morning walks, and who always appear to enjoy visits from their two high-flying grown daughters, one a respected professor of science at Harvard University. Yet behind the high walls of their $3.6m lakefront mansion lies a darker, more closely guarded reality: “Peter” is actually Parviz Sabeti, the alleged head of secret police and chief torturer of the former Shah of Iran’s pre-revolutionary government, now facing a $225m lawsuit in Florida for atrocities committed in prisons in Tehran and elsewhere. Continue reading...

The trial for Lamar Ahchee, who is accused of being involved in drug smuggling in Bali, is underway.

Deputy State Coroner Rebecca Hosking found a nine-month-old baby girl died suddenly and unnaturally from blunt force head injuries in 2018.

Queensland supreme court judge says Irving ‘fought for some 30 years to have the state recognise the wrong that occurred, without any apology’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Terry Irving spent 1,671 days in prison for a crime he did not commit. On Thursday, Queensland’s supreme court decided he was owed $130,000 in compensation for an ordeal that has consumed his life for more than three decades – years fighting from prison to clear his name, and 28 more seeking vindication. Continue reading...

NSW man John G Whaley is granted bail after pleading not guilty to a number of charges related to threats he allegedly made on Facebook against a senior constable.

Prison officials have confirmed that one of Australia's most prolific paedophile priests, John Sidney Denham, has died at the age of 82.

Family of Luke Briggs, 35, left ‘utterly distraught’ by death in custody following arrest in Hoppers Crossing car park Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Negligent manslaughter charges have been laid against two Victorian police officers after a man died following his arrest in a car park, with the lawyer for his family saying they had been left distraught by his passing and delays in the case. Luke Briggs, 35, was arrested in a convenience store car park at Hoppers Crossing, in Melbourne’s southwest, in July 2024. He became unresponsive at the scene and died eight days later at Royal Melbourne Hospital. Continue reading...

E Jean Carroll won her case, but in Trumpland the only sex offences that matter are committed by paedophiles with links to Democrats On Monday, Donald Trump appeared in two, unrelated stories involving the sexual abuse of women. The first was a ruling by the US federal court of appeals, upholding an earlier judgment in which the president was found liable for $83.3m in damages for defaming the writer E Jean Carroll – a woman whom, it was ruled in civil court in 2023, had been sexually abused by Trump. On the same day, Trump’s alleged contribution to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday book” was shared by Democrats on social media in the form of a lewd drawing the president denied having made. The E Jean Carroll news caused no public inconvenience for Trump; the Epstein story went up like a mushroom cloud in what has become the most politically dangerous episode of his presidency. What, exactly, is the difference then between the sexual abuse of E Jean Carroll, for which Trump has been found liable in a civil court, and the trafficking and abuse of victims by Epstein, in which there is no direct evidence of Trump’s involvement? For that matter, why does Trump’s record of gross references to grabbing women “by the pussy” and calling them “fat” and “ugly” elicit barely a shrug from supporters, while his friendship with Epstein, a man referred to in the press, variously, as the “billionaire paedophile”, the “paeodophile financier”, and, surely coming down the pike at some point, the “hell-based paedophile money manager”, has triggered not only fury among the Maga faithful but accusations of a Trump cover-up? Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Robert Karl Huber has been sentenced to 12 years in prison over the death of his partner Lindy Lucena in Ballina in 2023.

Police say the attack on a home in Fairy Meadow, near Wollongong, was targeted and that they are investigating potential links to gang and black market activity.

Verified videos taken at the scene of the shooting of high-profile right-wing activist Charlie Kirk show what appears to be a figure on the roof of a nearby building.

Two police officers are facing a negligent manslaughter charge following the death of a man several days after his arrest.

It has been revealed that police were tracking a stolen car that hit two school boys outside St Edmunds College, but were unable to find a way to safely stop the driver before the crash.

The trial against a South Australian man accused of murder has been vacated after a jury member allegedly googled information, a court has heard.

A central Queensland massage therapist has been charged with more than 60 sexual assault offences after a public appeal for information by police.

Puerto Rican rapper says he and his team were ‘very concerned’ that Ice agents might target his performances Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Bad Bunny says he excluded the US from his forthcoming world tour due to fears that, as a prominent Latino musician, his fans would be subjected to immigration raids. In an interview with i-D magazine on Wednesday, the three-time Grammy-winning musician was asked whether he was skipping the US “out of concern about the [mass deportations of] Latinos”. Sign up for our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

The 18-year-old is to face court after police allegedly found a document linked to ‘proscribed terrorist organisations’ on his electronic devices Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A teenager has been charged with terrorism offences after violent extremist material was allegedly found during a police raid. The 18-year-old was set to face court on Thursday after a joint terrorism taskforce searched his property at The Gap in Brisbane’s north. Continue reading...

Over 1 million files were found on the man's devices, with about 550,000 identified as unique images.

The theft of a rifle model from a statue of a soldier on Thirroul's historic World War I memorial has dismayed members of the local RSL.

A driver will face court charged over the deaths of two men in a ute rollover on KI on Wednesday night. In a separate incident in SA's far north, a pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries when she was hit by a bus on the Stuart Highway.

Police allege the 59-year-old West Australian man communicated with minors and others on social media in order to engage in sexual activity.

Wildlife Victoria and Hume City Council are among those calling for mandatory wildlife crash reporting in Victoria, after two women die trying to help an injured animal.

As a close-knit regional NSW community reels in the wake of a fatal dog attack, the state government is finalising the first review of its dog ownership laws in more than 20 years.

An 11-year-old girl dies when a car she is travelling in plunges into a dam in the New England region.

Emergency services were called to Cabanda Street in Wynnum West on Tuesday morning where they found the two-storey house on fire.

AI Tools are transforming ransomware, phishing, and malware attacks – requiring proactive defenses, automation, and human oversight to maintain cybersecurity resilience.

Ethical hackers uncovered catastrophic flaws in Burger King systems, from weak passwords to leaked drive-through audio, exposing fragile cybersecurity practices.

Shooting of the commentator comes as a series of events show a rising level of violence related to political dissent Charlie Kirk shooting – follow the latest updates Explainer: What we know so far The shooting of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at an event in Utah marks another example of ongoing political violence in the US, now a feature of American life. Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday that Kirk had died, saying: “No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie.” Continue reading...

Almost two dozen groups and individuals sanctioned by the OFAC for scamming US citizens.

Shocking allegations of suspected embezzlement at the fertility industry's peak body have been revealed just days before Australia's health ministers meet to decide the future of how the organisation self-regulates the IVF sector.

Mark David Chapman, 70, is serving 20-years-to-life sentence in New York after fatally shooting Beatle in 1980 The man who killed John Lennon outside the former Beatle’s Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 14th time, according to New York prison officials. Mark David Chapman, 70, appeared before a parole board on 27 August, and the decision was recently posted online by the state department of corrections and community supervision. Continue reading...

The Israeli military said it had struck military camps, the headquarters of the Houthi military "propaganda" department, and a fuel storage site.

Vendors will have to prove adherence to strict new compliance rules.

Apple iCloud Calendar invites are being abused by scammers to deliver phishing emails, malware, and remote access threats to users.

Israel's strike in Doha, aimed at killing the political leaders of Hamas, has been widely condemned.

A bug named SessionReaper allows for full account takeover.

Many of 1 million residents say they will not leave as they do not believe al-Mawasi humanitarian zone is safe The Israeli military has killed at least 41 people in Gaza, including 12 aid seekers, over the last 24 hours as it continued to order the population of Gaza City to evacuate ahead of its planned offensive. The evacuation orders were accompanied by intensified Israeli bombing of the city, the Israeli military interspersing orders with announcements of high-rise towers they had bombed. Continue reading...

Heidi Liddle told inquiry she felt ‘crushing’ guilt, while Leanne Lucas said she felt ‘ostracised’ from community A dance teacher who led the Taylor Swift-themed children’s workshop which was attacked in Southport has described feeling “tortured” by a “crushing” guilt over the atrocity. Heidi Liddle, who shielded one little girl inside a bathroom during the attack, said the trauma of that day had “fractured every part of my brain and my life”. Continue reading...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is being urged to sack Britain's ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson amid growing scrutiny over his relationship and business dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Researchers spotted a unique piece of malware called RatOn, combining previously unseen features.

The commission was publicly reprimanded after the security failings.

A major cryptojacking campaign, possibly turning into a botnet, was seen in the wild.

Choi Mal-ja’s appeal gained momentum after #MeToo movement inspired her to seek justice A court in South Korea has acquitted a woman convicted six decades ago for biting off part of a man’s tongue during an alleged sexual assault, after she challenged the ruling, inspired by the country’s #MeToo movement. Choi Mal-ja was 19 in 1964 when she was attacked by a 21-year-old man in the southern town of Gimhae. He pinned her to the ground and repeatedly forced his tongue into her mouth, at one point blocking her nose to stop her from breathing, according to court records. Continue reading...

The deployment of troops has led to arrests for low-level crime, indiscriminate detention and a rise in racial profiling In the 30 days since Donald Trump took control of Washington DC’s police department and deployed national guard troops, the city has seen the indiscriminate detention of immigrants, the rise of racial profiling and the arrests of large numbers of people for low-level crimes. The US president claimed the takeover, which began on 11 August, was necessary because of violent crime in the country’s capital, especially after the attempted carjacking and assault of a former Doge staffer. “Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people,” he said during a news conference at the White House at the time. Continue reading...

The police are looking for a Ukrainian national allegedly responsible for millions in ransomware damages.

South Korean woman Choi Mal-ja has had a 60-year-old conviction overturned for defending herself against sexual violence.

Women allegedly sexually assaulted by former Roebuck Bay Hotel manager Stewart Buchell have told a Broome court of his alleged predatory behaviour.

While the number of passports and licences declared lost in the post only represents a very small proportion of the millions sent each year, identity theft experts have described the figures as "concerning".

A study will work with Indigenous researchers who will map cultural assets and integrate traditional healing to improve outcomes in remote centres.

Circulation of stills from video ‘distressing and disappointing’, Victoria police says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The circulation of footage taken when fugitive Dezi Freeman allegedly shot dead two police officers and wounded a third is “distressing and disappointing”, the Victoria police force has said. Freeman, also known as Desmond Filby, allegedly shot the officers on 26 August at a Porepunkah property, in the state’s north-east, after they were part of a group of 10 police who attempted to execute a search warrant. Continue reading...

The woman, aged in her 70s, was crossing a street when she was hit by the vehicle.

Tarek Zahabe, 27, was charged in July for allegedly orchestrating four attacks in January, along with alleged accomplice Kye Pickering, 26 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Police have charged the alleged mastermind behind four antisemitic attacks, including an arson attack on a childcare centre, that came amid a spate of other incidents that rocked Sydney’s Jewish community over the summer. New South Wales police said on Wednesday that 27-year-old Tarek Zahabe was charged in July for orchestrating four attacks in January. These included vandalising a Jewish school in Maroubra on 30 January, just nine days after he allegedly directed an arson attack on a nearby childcare centre. Continue reading...

If we don’t refuse and resist, not just our culture but our democracy will be irrevocably diminished Today’s large-scale AI systems are founded on what appears to be an extraordinarily brazen criminal enterprise: the wholesale, unauthorised appropriation of every available book, work of art and piece of performance that can be rendered digital. In the scheme of global harms committed by the tech bros – the undermining of democracies, the decimation of privacy, the open gauntlet to scams and abuse – stealing one Australian author’s life’s work and ruining their livelihood is a peccadillo. Continue reading...

Peter Moiler is found guilty in a Perth court of setting fire to his estranged wife Kirsten, who required months of hospital treatment for severe burns.

Police allege the truck was stolen from Elizabeth Street in Brisbane's CBD about 10:15 this morning.

Police charge the alleged mastermind and an accomplice who they say orchestrated and carried out a series antisemetic attacks across Sydney this year.

Mark Andrew Orford, 53, is charged with two historical assaults and of being a public officer using information to secure a benefit, dating back to 2022.

The parents of Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart, one of two officers killed in the Porepunkah shooting, have flown to regional Victoria to meet with local police.

Study claims Swiss firm provided Nazi concentration camp with anti-frostbite product used in deadly tests in early 1940s The natural cosmetics company Weleda supplied a skin cream to the Dachau concentration camp that went on to be used for human testing, resulting in the agonising deaths of prisoners, a historian specialising in Nazi Germany has claimed. Weleda, founded 104 years ago and known worldwide for its holistic remedies, sourced large quantities of medicinal herbs during the Nazi era from an agricultural plantation overseen by the SS in Dachau, southern Germany, according to a major report by Anne Sudrow commissioned by the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. Continue reading...

He is one of the worst sexual predators in history – and she agreed to be his lawyer. But why? The woman who was called ‘the devil’s advocate’ explains all This time last year, Béatrice Zavarro, a then unknown lawyer from Marseille, drew herself up to her full 1.45-metre (4ft 8in) height, and addressed the figure in the dock: “It’s you and me against the world.” That man was Dominique Pelicot. Over the next three months and 17 days, the court would learn that for almost a decade he had drugged his wife, Gisèle, and invited more than 50 men into their bedroom to rape her while she was unconscious. Continue reading...

The SA government says 473 children have been treated at the Women's and Children's Hospital since 2023, for road trauma related injuries. For Kai Archer, the injuries he sustained in an accident two years ago are still having an impact.

Homicide Squad detectives investigate the death of a 49-year-old man from his injuries after an incident a home in Perth's southern suburbs.

Police vision shows the moments after an alleged gangland assassin failed in his attempt to take out a Sydney crime boss.

Victoria Police admitted they failed to stop an attack on Camp Sovereignty last month because they did not know it was happening. More officers will be deployed in Melbourne this weekend for planned protests.

A 30-year-old man pleads guilty to killing an award-winning novelist after ploughing into her with his car while driving at high speed along a city street.

Less than a year after its announcement, the Department of Defence quietly scraps a procurement promising to scale up production at Thales Australia's north-east Victorian facility.

Community leaders call for justice for 15-year-old Dau Akueng and 12-year-old Chol Achiok, who have been murdered in what investigators say may have been a case of mistaken identity.

The White House says it will support a forensic analysis of the signature on a birthday letter allegedly given by Donald Trump to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A man has gone overboard off Queensland's western cape early this morning, sparking a major air search.

Typically full of brio and swagger, the White House is scrambling because Trump is behaving so out of character It took Trump chronicler Maggie Haberman to cut to the chase: if Trump didn’t sign the birthday card or other documents released by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, the reporter asked in a quiet yet insistent tone, what’s the working theory as to why he’s in there? “The president has one of the most famous signatures in the world,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, replied on Tuesday. “The president did not write that letter. He did not sign those documents.” Continue reading...

A lower court earlier ruled president exceeded his authority when enacting tariffs under law meant for emergencies The US supreme court agreed on Tuesday to decide the legality of Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, setting up a major test of one of the Republican president’s boldest assertions of executive power that has been central to his economic and trade agenda. The justices took up the justice department’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that Trump overstepped his authority in imposing most of his tariffs under a federal law meant for emergencies. The court swiftly acted after the administration last week asked it to review the case, which involves trillions of dollars in customs duties over the next decade. Continue reading...

A legislated medical defence for drivers using medically prescribed cannabis was recommended by last year's drug summit. Independent MP Alex Greenwich, who takes medical cannabis, is pushing for reform.

A man who sexually abused a young girl in foster care is seeking to quash his conviction in the High Court.

Dozens of domains used by Salt Typhoon and others, as part of C2 infrastructure were discovered.

After her daughter's school suggested her 9-year-old find a "secret" way to tell her teacher she was being bullied, one parent has demanded change.

An advanced, highly convincing, phishing campaign, was spotted spoofing hospitality-centric platforms.

Four other supreme court justices to cast their votes in coming days, with verdict expected by Thursday or Friday ‘He’s always on the attack’: the Brazilian judge prosecuting Bolsonaro inspires both love and hate Jair Bolsonaro led a criminal organization that sought to plunge Brazil back into dictatorship with a murderous power grab involving special forces assassins and a massive disinformation campaign, the supreme court judge presiding over the former president’s trial has claimed as he voted for Bolsonaro’s conviction. Alexandre de Moraes announced his decision on Tuesday as the trial of Bolsonaro and seven alleged co-conspirators – including four senior members of the military and the former head of Brazil’s answer to MI6 – entered its final stretch. Continue reading...

The "biggest supply chain attack" in the history of npm took place recently, affecting almost two dozen packages.

Judge says sufficient evidence of intent wasn’t given against those who signed files claiming Trump won 2020 election A judge in Michigan dismissed the felony charges against a slate of electors who falsely signed on to documents claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election in the latest blow to efforts to hold the president and his allies accountable for attempting to overturn the results of the White House race he lost to Joe Biden. Sixteen people were initially charged with eight felonies each related to forgery and conspiracy by the Democratic attorney general, Dana Nessel, in 2023, though one of them had his charges dropped after he agreed to cooperate with the prosecution. The fake electors in Michigan will not go to trial. Continue reading...

Trump’s view of the prerogatives of husbands towards their wives mirror his own sense of his entitlements as president towards his abused country Speaking at a Christian museum on Monday, Donald Trump claimed, falsely, that his deployment of national guard troops to invade the nation’s capital has eliminated crime in Washington. He complained, however, that domestic violence was being counted in the crime statistics, which he claimed meant that the influence of his policy was not being seen as significant enough. “They said, ‘Crime’s down 87%,’” the president claimed, not explaining who “they” were. “I said, no, no, no. It’s more than 87%, virtually nothing. And much lesser things, things that take place in the home they call crime. You know, they’ll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime. See? So now I can’t claim 100%, but we are. We are a safe city.” If Trump wanted to endorse domestic violence decriminalization, he may take some comfort in the status quo: as it is, about 24% of adult American women have been the victims of “severe physical violence” by an intimate partner, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline; the Centers for Disease Control, meanwhile, puts the proportion of women who have experienced “contact sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner” at 41%. and many of those incidents are not reported or not prosecuted – meaning that the perpetrators are free, and that their assaults have not been treated as fully “criminal”. Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

Tobacco law would also prohibit minors from using vapes and stop sale of single-use electronic cigarettes The Spanish government has approved a draft tobacco law that would ban smoking and vaping on bar and restaurant terraces, prohibit minors from using vapes and related products, and end the sale of single-use electronic cigarettes. The legislation, which was signed off by the cabinet on Tuesday morning, is intended to “reinforce protections on people’s health and to adapt the law to consumption patterns and to the tobacco-product market”, according to the health ministry. Continue reading...

Media streaming giant warns of a cyberattack affecting some of its users.

ICC hearing takes place in absence of Ugandan rebel leader accused of murder, rape, torture and sexual slavery An international criminal court hearing into charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Ugandan fugitive rebel leader Joseph Kony has begun with accounts of atrocities allegedly committed by his Lord’s Resistance Army. The ICC’s first in-absentia hearing will confirm charges but cannot progress to a trial in Kony’s absence. The warlord faces 39 counts, including murder, rape, sexual slavery, enslavement and torture, allegedly committed in northern Uganda between July 2002 and December 2005. Reuters and Agence France-Presse contributed to this report Continue reading...

Jonathan Braun of New York faces up to five years after he was arrested and charged in connection to recent crimes A convicted New York drug dealer whose federal prison sentence was commuted by Donald Trump during Trump’s first presidency has been found guilty of violating the terms of his release after being arrested and charged in connection with several recent crimes. Jonathan Braun now faces up to five years in prison during a sentencing hearing tentatively scheduled for 9 October. Continue reading...

Confronting the historic trauma of forced assimilation, a wave of artists are rejuvenating hyper-diverse Indigenous cultures in the kinds of festivals that were once forbidden On a sunny, breezy August afternoon in Mani-Utenam, a reservation on the Quebec coast for the Innu people, a powwow ceremony is under way. Two sets of drummers beat out a steady rhythm while chanting in tandem, as dancers sway in their traditional, colourful regalia, ringing with the sound of small bells attached to their clothing. It is part of Innu Nikamu, one of the largest Indigenous festivals in North America, but this joyful performance is taking place on troubled ground. This was once the site of a residential school where children were taken away from their families to force them to assimilate to western culture and forget their heritage. Active from the 1800s, such schools were run by the Canadian state and the Catholic church, who would inflict severe punishments on children who spoke their Indigenous languages and practised their customs. Beyond the thousands of traumatised survivors, 3,200 children are documented to have died (unmarked graves have also been discovered), and in 2022, Pope Francis made a “penitential pilgrimage” to Canada to atone on behalf of the church. Continue reading...

An independent audit reveals unfit for purpose tech in the NCA.

Hundreds of accounts and thousands of secrets stolen in a supply chain attack.

Three men who pleaded guilty to a pair of vicious assaults on a rival gang member in a NSW prison are set to be sentenced later this month.

The boss of a supermarket chain is considering closing down stores, warning retail workers are facing unprecedented levels of violence and aggressive behaviour on an almost daily basis.

Former Newcastle Anglican dean Graeme Lawrence has been charged with seven sexual assault offences dating back more than 40 years in the NSW Riverina area.

Brittany Higgins has been ordered to pay the lion's share of her former boss Linda Reynolds's legal expenses in the blockbuster defamation trial that concluded last month.

The Australian Border Force is launching a reporting function on a popular fishing app, but stakeholders in the far north say the technology means little without more boots on the ground.

An apparent test drive of Tesla's automated self-driving technology in Melbourne's CBD earlier this year was not approved by the Victorian government.

A Broken Hill man who is facing nearly $1 million in fraud charges under two separate names has his bail conditions tightened, after a court heard police removed him from a flight headed for Adelaide.

Perth man Dion Barber, who was repeatedly sexually abused at successive state care placements, is awarded almost $3 million in compensation by a judge.

The US president fails in his bid to appeal a jury decision to award writer E Jean Carroll $US83 million ($126m) for sexual assault and defamation.

My class of college students and inmates can get loud and rowdy, with everyone engaged. This is what philosophy should look like • This essay was originally published as Socrates Would Be Pleased on Aeon.co At 8.30am sharp, a white van pulls up to the North Carolina college campus where the Outsiders are huddled in their black shirts, sleepy-faced but in good spirits. They pile in quickly, knowing there is a tight schedule to stick to. A 10-minute drive from campus, then the van pulls up under the arch of a large metal gate crowned with razor wire. By 8.45am, the Outsiders are standing in line, placing their possessions in plastic bins and waiting for the no-nonsense guards to pat them down and rifle through their things. They’re checking: are all cellphones securely locked in the van? Has the driver checked in their keys at the front desk? The Outsiders know the drill. They know that their clothing should be neutral and moderate. They know that IDs and visitor cards should be out and ready, bags open for inspection. Every beep of the metal detector makes everyone go tense, and slows things down. The Outsiders know that everything needs to go smoothly so that at 9am sharp we can make it to Room 209 of the main building where another no-nonsense guard is waiting impatiently to let us in. With him is a group of women in uniforms of various shades of blue. We know them as the Insiders. In here, they are known as the “offenders”. Continue reading...

A growing number of Kenyans, Ugandans and Ethiopians are being trafficked to Myanmar, where missing online scam targets leads to beatings and torture • Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people Within hours of landing in Bangkok from Nairobi last December to start a job as a customer service agent, Duncan Okindo knew something was wrong. The 26-year-old had sold his cattle, borrowed money from friends and used his savings to pay a recruitment agency 200,000 Kenyan shillings (£1,150). “I felt it would be good to go outside [the country] and look for money to take care of my family,” says Okindo. “I’d tried hard to get a job in Kenya, but life here had pushed me to the wall.” Continue reading...

CCTV footage shows the bus creeping forward in moving traffic before the train comes through, splitting the bus into two pieces.

University of Sydney research shows 60 per cent of those living with a disability don't have any sort of emergency plan.

Queensland police say the man was shot during an incident with officers who were responding to a reported house fire.

Jacinta Allan offered her condolences to the families of two boys who were fatally stabbed at Cobblebank over the weekend as police continue to search for those responsible.

Hannah Thomas's lawyer, Peter O'Brien, told the magistrate he will pursue costs in relation to the criminal proceedings that have been withdrawn.

How the search for New Zealand fugitive and father of three Tom Phillips concluded after nearly three years.

Thomas was arrested and charged at a Sydney protest on 27 June, where her lawyers allege she was punched in the face by police Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast New South Wales police have dropped all charges against former Greens candidate protester Hannah Thomas who was arrested at a protest in June. Thomas was arrested and charged alongside four others at a pro-Palestine protest in Sydney on 27 June that was attended by about 60 people at SEC Plating. The 35-year-old was taken to hospital and underwent two rounds of surgery to her right eye, with her lawyers alleging a police officer punched her in the face. Continue reading...

The children's remains were found when the unclaimed suitcases were sold at auction by the facility.

A 14-year-old boy has been charged over the death of his teenage passenger following a police pursuit in the NSW Upper Hunter.

The result of generations of advocacy and nearly a year after negotiations began, the in-principle agreement will go before the state parliament today.

A lewd note allegedly from Donald Trump wishing late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein happy birthday in 2003 is released by Democrats, after the US president denied it existed.

A 17-year-old girl dies after being attacked by a dog while visiting a friend's home in the Hunter Valley last week.

Head of US border patrol says operations will start back up in city after temporary restraining order reversed US immigration officers are ramping up immigration sweeps in Los Angeles again after the supreme court reversed a temporary restraining order that banned the Trump administration from stopping people solely based on their race, language or job. In a post on Twitter/X, Greg Bovino, the head of US border patrol in Los Angeles, called the temporary restraining order “very poorly” written and “the worst” he’s ever seen. He also said that border patrol would be starting operations back up again today. Continue reading...

With Erin Patterson's 33-year sentence handed down, the Gippsland community hopes to get back to normal.

Fifteen years after it was first earmarked for "pedestrian infrastructure", a 1 kilometre-long road in Darwin's north remains dangerously underdeveloped, according to residents and local politicians.

Underworld heavyweight Rafat Alameddine allegedly offered a seven-figure sum to have an underworld rival taken out, a court has heard.

The New South Wales government put Tayla in the residential care system, where the girl with high needs and multiple diagnoses was pulled into a cycle of sexual abuse.

Figures released today reveal there has been a slight decrease in the number of deaths by suicides by serving and former Australian Defence Force members.

SVG files used to trick people into downloading malicious DLLs.

His account kept being deactivated, even though he had spent thousands of dollars to use the social media site for advertising. Just one of the perils of sharing a name with the world-famous tech billionaire ... Name: Mark Zuckerberg. Age: Unknown. Continue reading...

A dubious infostealer can grab webcam snapshots if an XXX site is opened in the browser.

Prosecutors allege Ryan Routh concealed himself with a rifle near the sixth green of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, intending to shoot Donald Trump during a round of golf in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign.

Malicious or negligent - it makes no difference, businesses suffer nonetheless.

The company suffered a third-party attack, but stressed that passwords - and funds - are safe.

A critical SAP flaw is being used in "limited" attacks against unknown entities.

Ian Wilkinson thanked police, prosecutors and health services after Erin Patterson sentenced to life in prison with 33 years non-parole. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Victoria’s supreme court will hand down the triple-murderer Erin Patterson’s sentence shortly. The state’s supreme court will allow a television camera inside the courtroom to broadcast the sentencing hearing – with a 10 second delay – for the first time. Patterson, 50, faces the prospect of spending the rest of her life in prison. Justice Christopher Beale will deliver her sentence from 9.30am in a hearing expected to last about 30 minutes. Continue reading...

Free speech demonstrations came after government said Facebook and others failed to follow new regulations At least 16 people have been killed during protests in Nepal over a government ban on dozens of social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and X. The government, led by the prime minister, KP Sharma Oli, has faced mounting criticism after imposing a ban on 26 prominent social media platforms and messaging apps that it says have failed to comply with new regulations. Continue reading...

Triple murderer sentenced in Victorian supreme court after killing relatives with a beef wellington lunch laced with death cap mushrooms Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Erin Patterson has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 33 years after murdering three people and attempting to murder a fourth with a lunch laced with death cap mushrooms. Justice Christopher Beale delivered the sentence during a live broadcast in the Victorian supreme court on Monday morning. Continue reading...

President says he welcomes investments by overseas companies but adds they should ‘hire and train American workers’ Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I’ll be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next couple of hours. We start with news that Donald Trump has told foreign companies that they must hire and train American workers and respect immigration laws, after a raid at a Hyundai Motor manufacturing facility in Georgia saw about 300 South Koreans detained. US treasury secretary Scott Bessent has refused to acknowledge that the sweeping trade tariffs imposed by Donald Trump around the world are taxes on Americans. In a new interview Bessent, a former billionaire hedge fund manager, dismissed concerns from major American companies including John Deere, Nike and Black and Decker who have all said that Trump’s tariffs policy will cost them billions of dollars annually. The Republican senator who heads the homeland security committee has criticized JD Vance for “despicable” comments apparently in support of extrajudicial military killings. “Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,” the vice-president said in an X post on Saturday, in defense of Tuesday’s US military strike against a Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean Sea, which killed 11 people the administration alleged were drug traffickers. President Trump on Sunday suggested a Gaza deal could come soon to secure the release of all the hostages held by Hamas, after earlier issuing what he called his “last warning” to the Palestinian militant group. Trump, speaking to reporters after landing in the Washington area on Sunday evening following a brief trip to New York, said he had been discussing the issue on the plane. Trump was booed and cheered at the US Open during the national anthem before Sunday’s men’s final. Prior to the match, US Open broadcasters were asked not to show any negative crowd reactions to the president at the event. Nine attorneys – who have represented approximately 50 Jeffrey Epstein survivors – have told the Guardian they have not been recently contacted by the justice department, despite the president’s promises to get to the bottom of the deceased financier’s crimes. As Chicago braced for an immigration enforcement crackdown and a possible national guard deployment, churches across the city have urged congregants to carry identification, stay connected to family and protest. Trump said on Sunday that individual European leaders would visit the United States on Monday or Tuesday to discuss how to resolve the Russian-Ukraine war. Speaking to reporters, Trump also said he would speak to Russian president Vladimir Putin soon. Continue reading...

A House committee will receive the late sex offender’s will and contacts from his ‘black book’, among other files The release of records from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate to US lawmakers this week, as well as potentially suspicious transaction reports, could offer a roadmap to where the scandal swirling around the late convicted sex trafficker goes next. Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed full transparency around Epstein and his links to a wide circle of powerful, rich and famous associates. But instead, the administration has been accused of foot-dragging and a cover-up, and has faced intense scrutiny over the extent of Trump’s own social contact with Epstein. Continue reading...

The president has claimed any decision against him would ‘destroy’ the ‘financial fabric of our country’ Donald Trump has upended the global economy, imposing steep tariffs on US allies and rivals, dismissing fears of higher prices, and promising his strategy will yield a new “golden age”. All the president needs to do now is prove he’s allowed to do it. Legal experts say he may face an uphill battle. Continue reading...

A man in his 40s has been critically injured in a workplace incident in Perth's north-east.

Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such as KK Park on the Thai-Myanmar border has doubled since 2021 Five years ago, the land now home to KK Park – a vast, heavily guarded complex stretching for 210 hectares (520 acres) along the churning Moei River that forms Myanmar’s border with Thailand – was little more than empty fields. Set against rugged mountains south of the town of Myawaddy, KK Park, with its on-site hospital, restaurants, bank and neat lines of villas with manicured lawns, looks more like the campus of a Silicon Valley tech company than what is really is: the frontline of a multibillion-dollar criminal fraud industry fuelled by human trafficking and brutal violence. Continue reading...

Alexandre de Moraes is leading the criminal trial against the former president for allegedly engineering a coup Anatomy of a coup plot: why Jair Bolsonaro is on trial Tattoo artist Bruno Ferreira has inked countless superheroes and superstars on to Brazilian bodies during his 25-year career: Wonder Woman, Batman, Ayrton Senna and Pelé. But when Adauto Gomes Nascimento marched into his studio earlier this year, he had a different personality in mind: a muscular, shaven-headed supreme court judge called Alexandre de Moraes, who is now one of Brazil’s biggest and most controversial celebrities. Continue reading...

Premier says government stands with South Sudanese community in ‘fight against the cancer of youth gang crime’ after Cobblebank killings The families of two children allegedly murdered in Melbourne’s outer west on the weekend are “shattered” and the community “terrified” as police continue to hunt the perpetrators responsible for the machete killings. It comes as the Victorian premier promised the government would stand with the South Sudanese community “in their fight against the cancer of youth gang crime that is breaking their community’s heart”, announcing she would convene an existing working group. Continue reading...

Proceedings filed against the commissioner of the National Anti-Corruption Commissioner Paul Brereton and federal Special Minister of State Don Farrell Despite being on the brink of bankruptcy as a result of court proceedings, embattled former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has lodged legal action against the head of a corruption watchdog and a federal minister. The legal action was filed by Lehrmann personally at 9.30pm on Thursday under the classification of a “judicial review”, which asks the court to review the legality of a governmental decision. Continue reading...

A guard has admitted to watching a soccer game on TV in the moments leading up to the death of an Indigenous inmate, an inquest has heard in its first day.

After Patterson was sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years, only the question of motive remained Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Full report: Erin Patterson sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years Erin Patterson raised her chin almost defiantly, giving a sense this was all a grave mistake, that she was not supposed to be there. For lengthy periods during her sentencing she even closed her eyes, a woman seemingly at peace with her fate. But her hands betrayed her: clasped tightly in her lap, though moving frequently, the thumbs rotating around each other or the fingers on her left hand opening and closing regularly as if to mimic her heartbeat. Continue reading...

Lars Faleata has been charged with the murders of Christine and Joe Stephan, who were found dead after a fire at their home in Ipswich — south-west of Brisbane — in January, 2022.

Camp Sovereignty, the sacred site subjected to the attack last month, also held a day of celebration and defiance over the weekend.

Erin Patterson has been sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years after murdering three people and attempting to murder a fourth with a lunch laced with death cap mushrooms. Justice and courts reporter Nino Bucci tells Nour Haydar how Justice Christopher Beale arrived at his decision and how Patterson reacted when she learned her fate Read more: Mushroom murderer Erin Patterson sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years Continue reading...

The driver, a 51-year-old man, had been spotted on the highways near Prague numerous times over the past six years.

A vision-impaired Paralympic swimmer says he had to involve police when three different Uber drivers refused him transport because he had his guide dog with him.

A WA judge finds police acted unlawfully in detaining a man July 2023, allowing him to go free despite being found to be in possession of methylamphetamine.

An 18-year-old was charged in May over alleged threats to use explosives and poisons to target a school and public events in Adelaide.

Authorities are investigating after two reports were made to police last week.

A legal battle between NSW Police and organisers of an anti-corruption rally known appears to have been avoided, after a plan to march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge was dropped.

A Supreme Court judge spares convicted triple-murderer Erin Patterson the harshest penalty under the law – a life sentence with no parole – as he sentences her to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years.

Tom Phillips is killed during a shootout with police during a burglary in New Zealand's Waikato region, his sister says.

Fatal stabbing attack on two boys in Cobblebank had ‘the hallmarks of a youth gang crime’, Victoria police say Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A fatal stabbing attack on two boys in Melbourne by eight masked attackers armed with machetes and long edged weapons had “the hallmarks of a youth gang crime”, Victoria police say. A 12-year-old and 15-year-old Dau Akueng were found fatally stabbed on separate streets in Cobblebank, in the city’s west, on Saturday night. Continue reading...

<p>Painting was spotted online by Dutch journalists when the daughter of a former Nazi official put her house up for sale in Mar del Plata</p><p>There was nothing very remarkable about the middle-aged couple who lived in the low, stone-clad villa on calle Padre Cardiel, a quiet residential street in the leafy Parque Luro district of Argentina’s best-known seaside town, Mar del Plata.</p><p>Patricia Kadgien, 58, was born in Buenos Aires, five hours to the north. Her social media described her as a yoga teacher and practitioner of biodecoding, an obscure alternative therapy that claims to cure illness by resolving past traumas.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/06/18th-century-portrait-stolen-by-nazis-recovered-in-argentina">Continue reading...</a>

<p>From a diplomat who embraced the exiled Albert Einstein to a schoolteacher who helped ‘non-Aryan’ students flee, these remarkable individuals refused to bend the knee to Hitler – only to be dramatically betrayed. What made them risk it all?</p><p>I grew up in a house where nothing German was allowed. No Siemens dishwasher or Krups coffee machine in the kitchen, no Volkswagen, Audi or Mercedes in the driveway. The edict came from my mother. She was not a Holocaust survivor, though she had felt the breath of the Shoah on her neck. She was just eight years old on 27 March 1945, when her own mother was killed by the last German V-2 rocket of the war to fall on London, a bomb that flattened a&nbsp;corner of the East End, killing 134 people, almost all of them Jews. One way or another, the blast radius of that explosion would encompass the rest of my mother’s life and much of mine.</p><p>Of course, she knew that the bomb that fell on Hughes Mansions had not picked out that particular building deliberately. But given that the Nazis were bent on eliminating the Jews of Europe, she also knew how delighted they would have been by the target that fate, or luck, had chosen for that last V-2, how pleased that at 21 minutes past seven on that March morning it had added 120 more to the tally of dead Jews that would, in the end, number 6 million. And so came the rule. No&nbsp;trace of Germany would be allowed to touch our family: no visits, no holidays, no contact. The Germans were a guilty nation, every last one of them implicated in the wickedest crime of the 20th century.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/06/astonishing-story-german-rebels-defied-nazis-jonathan-freedland-the-traitors-circle">Continue reading...</a>

<p>Democracy means a society and system in which everyone’s rights matter. Rapists count on this being untrue – and Trump is proving them right</p><p>Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights. Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally. They count on a system that discounts the voices of victims and only too often cooperates in silencing them, through shame, intimidation, threats, discrediting, the obscene legal instrument known as a nondisclosure agreement and a system too often run by men for men at the expense of women and children. That is to say, rapists count on getting away with it because of a system that hands them power and steals it from their victims. They count on a silencing system. On profound inequality.</p><p>Which is what makes rape such a peculiar crime: it is the ritual enactment of the perpetrator’s power and the victim’s powerlessness, buttressed by the circumstances that puts and keeps each of them in those roles. It’s driven by the desire to use sexuality to cause physical and psychic injury, to dominate, to celebrate the rapist’s power and the victim’s powerlessness, to treat another human being as a person without rights, including the right to set boundaries, to say no and to speak up afterward. A society that perpetuates and protects this desire and arrangement is rape culture, and it’s been our culture throughout most of its existence.</p><p>Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Orwell’s Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunatabua of the climate anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/06/epstein-files-rape-crime-trump">Continue reading...</a>

<p>Victoria’s largest reward ever offered for arrest as alpine hunt for alleged killer of two police enters 12th day</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Victoria police have announced a million-dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of fugitive Dezi Freeman but given strict warnings to the public not to go searching, after the alleged murder of two police officers in Porepunkah last month.</p><p>The reward of “up to $1m” is the largest ever offered in Victoria for an arrest, said Det Insp Dean Thomas from the homicide squad. Thomas told media on Saturday morning that a number of “heavily armed” specialist police continued to search bushland in the Porepunkah area.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/06/dezi-freeman-porepunkah-search-victoria-police-announce-reward-for-information-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>

Business owners affected by a fire which gutted a shopping centre in Perth's north-east are calling for state government support as they begin the recovery process.

Korea University researchers dismantled EVPAD, a P2P piracy network hosting 25,000 titles for 130,000 users.

A 62-year-old man is arrested and charged after allegedly having 35 kilograms of methamphetamine, worth an estimated $11 million, in his luggage at Brisbane Airport.

Hackers break into a third-party file transfer tool used by Chess.com.

Chinese state-sponsored threat actors spotted targeting old TP-Link routers with botnet-building malware.

Sitecore flaw was being used to deploy reconnaissance malware as well as numerous legitimate tools.

Authorities are searching for alleged police shooter Dezi Freeman in the north-east Victorian town of Porepunkah. Here's what we know about the search so far. 

There's a new entry-level version of the MaxRanger4K, with a more compact design and the same sharp recording.

An attack disrupted Bridgestone operations in two countries.

The Northern Territory government urgently passes legislation to establish a new police rank this week, after pulling anti-discrimination reforms from the agenda.

The event has been put together by an umbrella group known as Australia Unites Against Government Corruption with links to anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists and sovereign citizens.

A court orders ex-footballer and sports presenter Warren Tredrea to pay $149,000 to cover legal costs that were accumulated by his former employer, Channel Nine, during part of the long-running court battle between the parties.

Hook v3 banking trojan expands with ransomware overlays, fake financial screens, real-time spying, GitHub distribution, and ongoing unfinished features.

Police praised bystanders for saving a 17-year-old girl being attacked by a large mixed-breed dog in the New South Wales Hunter Valley.

The family of Dee Annear, a woman murdered by her partner in a remote forest cabin on the NSW Mid North Coast, say the lies of her killer will never be forgotten.

Canberra's only prison breached the human rights of a former Aboriginal detainee by illegally strip-searching her while she was held in remand there in 2021, the ACT Supreme Court has found.

A fourth man has been charged over the violent neo-Nazi attack on Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne, as Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell remains in custody facing 25 charges.