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This blog is now closedASX 200 sheds $100bn in biggest one-day fall in five years as Trump tariffs send shares tumblingAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastAlbanese...

Other times when ASX dropped by more than 4% include during pandemic, 2008 global financial crisis and 1987 stock market crashFalling Australian dollar spells bad news for travellers and shoppersGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastElection 2025 live updates: Australia’s federal election campaignThe Australian share market has recorded its biggest one-day fall in almost five years after fears of a...

Partner confirms death of prolific author, criminal lawyer and playwright after illness in her home city of MelbourneAustralian author Kerry Greenwood, best known for her Phryne Fisher murder mystery novels, has died at the age of 70 after an illness.She was given “a suitably royal send-off” at a small service in Melbourne’s Yarraville on Sunday, according to her partner, writer David Greagg. Continue reading...

Combatants’ testimonies describe how areas were destroyed to create ‘a death zone of enormous proportions’ Israel’s military razed huge swathes of land inside the perimeter of Gaza and ordered troops to turn the area into a “kill zone” where anybody who entered was a target, according to testimony by soldiers who carried out the plan.Israeli combatants said they were ordered to destroy homes, factories...

The value of one Australian dollar dropped to a low of 59.64 US cents, its lowest point since April 2020‘Bloodbath’ market opening sees ASX shed $160bnGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastElection 2025 live updates: Australia’s federal election campaignConsumers and travellers will face higher prices after the Australian dollar fell to Covid-era lows, as markets reel from Donald Trump’s “liberation...

In today’s newsletter: Why the global sell-off continued in earnest this morning – and why it mattersGood morning. The markets might have been closed over the weekend, but the break has offered little respite for those who might have hoped for some sign that Donald Trump would consider a change to his tariffs policy.With White House officials and the president himself insisting that their...

Exclusive: Met to be handed dossier of evidence alleging crimes including killings of civilians and aid workersA war crimes complaint against 10 Britons who served with the Israeli military in Gaza is to be submitted to the Met police by one of the UK’s leading human rights lawyers.Michael Mansfield KC is one of a group of lawyers who will on Monday hand in a...

Despite its links to oral cancer, people in Hainan have for centuries produced and eaten betel nuts, which give a natural high. But sales are fallingMany cities across southern China are known for the art of relaxing. Chengdu in Sichuan province is the tea house capital. Guangzhou is the birthplace of dim sum, a time to share steamed dumplings and chew the fat with...

Omar Mohammad Rabea, 14, killed alongside two other teenagers in West Bank town as settler violence escalatesA Palestinian teenager with US citizenship was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, Palestinian officials said on Sunday, with the Israeli military saying it shot a “terrorist” who was allegedly endangering civilians by hurling rocks.The incident is the latest in a surge...

Pam Bondi, Trump loyalist and top law enforcement official, expresses skepticism about recent third-term talkPam Bondi, the US attorney general, has expressed skepticism about the idea of Donald Trump serving a third term in the White House, saying that when her boss’s current presidency ends on 20 January 2029, he is probably “going to be finished”.Bondi’s comments come just a week after Trump gave...

Officials reportedly didn’t publicly acknowledge death until inquiries were made about woman, 52, who overstayed visaA woman being detained in Arizona by US border patrol for overstaying her visa has died by suicide, according to Democratic congresswoman Pramila Jayapal.The woman, a 52-year-old Chinese national, had first been picked up in California after it had been determined that she had overstayed her B1/B2 visitor visa,...

Far-right leader tells supporters she is victim of ‘witch-hunt’, while radical left says RN’s mask has slipped• What is Marine Le Pen guilty of in National Rally embezzlement case?The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has told supporters in Paris she would fight “a political, not a judicial ruling” that could bar her from the next presidential election, as a rival rally denounced an...

Erez Reuveni no longer on Kilmar Abrego Garcia case after not ‘vigorously’ defending Trump administrationA federal justice department attorney has been placed on leave by the Trump administration for purportedly failing to defend the administration vigorously enough after it says it erroneously deported a Maryland man to El Salvador, which a US judge called a “wholly lawless” detention.The action against justice department lawyer Erez...

Power and gas shut off in regions as flooding worsens, threatening waterlogged and badly damaged communities After days of intense rain and wind killed at least 18 people in the US south and midwest, rivers rose and flooding worsened on Sunday in those regions, threatening waterlogged and badly damaged communities.Utility companies scrambled to shut off power and gas from Texas to Ohio while cities...

Energoatom CEO, Petro Kotin, says ‘major problems’ need to be overcome before it can safely generate powerIt would be unsafe for Russia to restart the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and would take Ukraine up to two years in peacetime if it regained control, the chief executive of the company that runs the vast six-reactor site has said.Petro Kotin, chief executive of Energoatom, said in...

Phone footage contradicts IDF claims vehicles were not using emergency lights when troops opened fireIsrael’s military has backtracked on its account of the killing of 15 Palestinian medics in Gaza last month after footage contradicted its claims that their vehicles did not have emergency signals on when Israeli troops opened fire. The military said initially it opened fire because the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously”...

Pontiff makes first public appearance in the Vatican since his release from hospital two weeks agoPope Francis has made a surprise appearance in St Peter’s Square during a special jubilee mass for the sick and health workers, marking his first public appearance at the Vatican since his discharge from hospital two weeks ago.The pontiff waved at the crowd that stood and applauded as he...

David Lammy says it is ‘unacceptable’ the parliamentary delegation had been detained and deportedThe UK’s foreign secretary has criticised Israeli authorities for denying two Labour MPs entry into the country and deporting them. Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed were rejected because they were suspected of planning to “document the activities of security forces and spread anti-Israel hatred”, according to a statement from the Israeli...

Darren Jones says age of ‘fast-fashion or cheap TVs’ is over and people should be prepared for tougher times to come amid market turmoilStarmer orders economic reset amid Trump’s tariff mayhemBritish ministers have been suggesting for weeks that the UK could be spared from Trump’s tariffs with a bespoke trade deal with the US. But Trump did not exempt the UK from 25 per...

The film, combined with The Little Mermaid, created more carbon emissions than some major airports do in a yearAt a screening of the new Snow White movie in London last month, influencers walked through an artificial fairytale forest, complete with a full-size thatched cottage filled with models of furry animals. In the US, Disney paraded an actual bunny in a brown knitted jumper down...

Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Sikh women say bill has ‘insufficient safeguards’ to protect those who are vulnerableThe legalisation of assisted dying in England and Wales could create “a new tool to harm vulnerable women”, particularly those subject to domestic violence and coercive control, say female faith leaders from different traditions.More than 100 women from Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Sikh groups have warned in an...

Labour and Tories’ reluctance to criticise US president could pave way for gains in May’s council and mayoral ballotsThe Liberal Democrats are stepping up their anti-Donald Trump messaging this weekend in the hope of using dislike of the US president among Tory and Labour voters to make big gains in England’s council and mayoral elections on 1 May.Ed Davey’s party believes it could overtake...

Peter Reynolds, 79, detained with his wife Barbie since February, says prison is ‘nearest thing to hell I can imagine’A Briton held captive by the Taliban for more than nine weeks has said he is living in dire conditions in a prison in Kabul, describing it as “the nearest thing to hell I can imagine”.In a recording of a phone call from Pul-e-Charkhi maximum-security...

Australian federal police say the man, 46, allegedly tried to open the rear emergency exit door of the plane from Malaysia on SaturdayElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA Jordanian national has been charged after he allegedly attempted to open the doors of a Sydney-bound plane mid-flight.Australian federal police (AFP) said the man,...