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Truong My Lan found guilty of embezzling from Saigon Commercial Bank in case that was part of wider crackdownA prominent property tycoon has been sentenced to death for her role in Vietnam’s biggest-ever fraud case.Truong My Lan, the chair of the developer Van Thinh Phat, was found guilty of embezzlement, bribery and violations of banking rules on Thursday, in a case that has shocked...

Shadow chancellor says Labour would ‘ramp up’ number of HMRC staff to close gap between what is owed and paidUK politics – latest updatesThe shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said proposals to close the tax gap to fill a hole in her spending plans is not “rocket science”.Reeves was forced to respond after Jeremy Hunt used his budget to adopt some of Labour’s revenue-raising...

British foreign secretary talked with Republican presidential candidate following Trump’s repeated questioning of US aid to UkraineChina’s foreign minister Wang Yi met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in China on Tuesday, underlining the ever-friendly relationship between Moscow and Beijing.Wang said that China and Russia would continue to strengthen international cooperation and work together to maintain the stability of supply chains. The two sides agreed...

Tasmanian tribunal rules Museum of Old and New Art discriminated against NSW man by denying him entry to installationGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastHobart’s Museum of Old and New Art has been ordered to allow “persons who do not identify as ladies” entry to its Ladies Lounge art installation after losing a legal battle.The judgment, handed down...

Jessica Burns-McDonnell from West Virginia and Larry McDonnell took over the world record from a UK-based coupleA West Virginia woman who set a world record by marrying a man who is nearly three feet shorter than her says the couple is a testament to how “what’s really important” in a spouse is “the person … on the inside”.“I mean, you might find a person...

West Yorkshire police arrest 25-year-old on suspicion of murdering woman, 27, who was shopping with babyA 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman as she pushed her baby in a pram in Bradford city centre.West Yorkshire police said officers had detained him after a four-day manhunt across the north of England. Continue reading...

Higgins says any question about her evidence in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation case should take into account her trauma and the possibility she may have been drugged Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBrittany Higgins has told the federal court the suggestion by an AFP officer that she might have...

Police keeping open mind over motive after victim was discovered with multiple stab injuries in Bayswater propertyA murder investigation is under way after a woman was found dead with a number of stab wounds in her home in west London, the Metropolitan police has said.Officers were contacted on Sunday by friends of the woman, who were concerned about her welfare. Continue reading...

Controversial investment bank could play important role in fate of Britain’s biggest water firmBusiness live – latest updatesThe Australian investment bank Macquarie, which has been criticised for its role in the privatisation of England’s water industry, is understood be among lenders to Thames Water’s troubled parent company.The former Thames Water shareholder could, along with other lenders, play an important role in determining the fate...

This blog is now closed.Brittany Higgins questions whether she was drugged on night of alleged rape in new court submissionMona ordered to allow people ‘who do not identify as ladies’ into Ladies Lounge exhibitGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA search will resume this morning for a woman who went missing while bushwalking at Belmore Falls in New...

PA Burns Reserve in Altona the latest site to have ‘small amounts of asbestos’ discovered, environment watchdog saysGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastVictoria’s environment watchdog has confirmed traces of asbestos at six parks and reserves across Melbourne, as it probes the sources of the contamination.In a statement on Tuesday evening, the Environment Protection Authority confirmed small amounts...

Walker Corporation had proposed 3,000 apartments, marina and shops for the site, which is a critical habitat for the endangered eastern curlew • Toondah Harbour: should a wetland home to endangered birds become $1.3bn worth of shops, high-rises and a marina?• To the moon and back with the eastern curlewThe environment and water minister, Tanya Plibersek, has announced she will reject an apartment and...

Emergency services dealing with incidents in Littlehampton and ‘severe flooding’ at a holiday parkThe River Arun has overflowed in West Sussex with rescue operations under way in the seaside town of Littlehampton and warnings of severe flood waters as a result of Storm Kathleen.“Our crews are supporting rescue operations in Littlehampton near Ferry Road and Rope Walk where the River Arun has burst its...

Exclusive: Abdellatif released to join family after years of struggling to overturn denial of visa as a result of being convicted in Egyptian trial that used evidence obtained under tortureFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Egyptian refugee Sayed Abdellatif has been freed after almost 12 years in Australia’s immigration...

Star Wars actor says he believes actors should be free to ‘do anything you want to do’, in a discussion about Laurence Olivier’s performance in OthelloBilly Dee Williams has said that actors should be able to perform in blackface, with the Star Wars actor revealing that he believes, “If you’re an actor, you should do anything you want to do”.Speaking to Bill Maher on...

Winning ticket comes from convenience store after long winless streak in game, which offers a one in 292.2m chance of victoryA Powerball player in Oregon won a jackpot worth more than $1.3bn on Sunday, ending a streak of more than three months without a winner.The single ticket – revealed after a delay of more than three hours to the drawing – matched all six...

Walter Huang was killed when his car steered in to a highway barrier and Tesla will avoid questions into its technology in a trialTesla has settled a lawsuit over a car crash which killed an Apple engineer in 2018 after his car veered off a highway near San Francisco, court documents showed on Monday.The settlement was made as the trial was about to start...

This live blog is now closed. You can read our latest stories on the total eclipse below:If you missed today’s total solar eclipse just wait … until 2044Millions across US, Mexico and Canada witness rare total solar eclipseFirst contact is when the moon’s outer edge first appears to touch the sun, creating the beginnings of a partial eclipse and a crescent sun reducing in...

Lawyers had argued trial should be postponed while they seek a change of venue to move it out of heavily Democratic ManhattanSign up for Trump on Trial: a free newsletter on all the latest court developmentsA New York appeals court judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his 15 April hush-money criminal trial while he fights to move the case out...

Dublin politician says he is looking forward to a ‘different chapter’ after tendering resignation to presidentLeo Varadkar has said he has “no regrets” about standing down, as he officially resigned as Ireland’s taoiseach.The Dublin politician, who has been the country’s prime minister for four years, said he was looking forward to a “different chapter”. Continue reading...

Proposed penalty, intended to boost creaking health service, is criticised by doctors’ unions and patients’ groupsPatients in France who fail to turn up to a doctor’s appointment without a good excuse will be fined €5 (£4.30) under a proposal from the government.Gabriel Attal said on Monday that medical professionals reported an estimated 27m no-shows every year, adding: “We cannot allow this to continue.” Continue...

In annual letter to investors, Jamie Dimon warns ‘wars in Ukraine and Middle East could become far worse’The boss of the US bank JP Morgan has warned that the world could be facing the most dangerous moment since the second world war, putting lives and economic growth at risk.In his annual letter to investors, Jamie Dimon said the world had been “generally on a...

Rafael Grossi says three direct hits against the main reactor containment structures ‘significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident’See all our Ukraine war coverageThe head of the UN’s atomic watchdog agency has condemned a drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine, saying such attacks “significantly increase the risk of a major...

Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book revealsShortly after Charles Darwin published his magnum opus, The Origin of Species, in 1859 he started reading a little-known 100-year-old work by a wealthy French aristocrat.Its contents were quite a surprise. “Whole pages [of his book] are laughably like mine,” Darwin wrote to a friend. “It is surprising how candid...