'Our hearts are broken,' says Zoe Daniel, the independent MP for Goldstein, following news that Melbourne teenager Bianca Jones had died on Thursday. 'This is every parent's very worst fear and a nightmare that no one should have to endure,' says the prime minister, Anthony Albanese. Jones spent the last week in hospital after a suspected methanol poisoning incident which left several young people critically ill, including her best friend Holly Bowles who remains in hospital.

The pronatalist movement in the US is gathering pace once again, rekindled by Silicon Valley personalities and hard-right conservatives who are becoming increasingly vocal about whether or not women are having enough babies. But it's not just in the US, some governments in other countries have launched marketing campaigns encouraging people to have more children, while others have offered financial incentives. But while many of these policies claim to be about halting population decline, there are other factors at play. Josh Toussaint-Strauss interrogates efforts around the world to boost birth rates, as well as the underlying political motivations, from bodily autonomy to immigration

Making clear we would be monitoring whether he breaks with his past of working for the fossil fuel industry. 2100 of you across Europe flooded him with emails, asking him to kick the fossil lobbyists out. Not only did he listen to us and not take fossil fuel lobbyists to the climate talks. 113 fossil fuel lobbyists infiltrated this year’s climate talks through national delegations from countries like Italy, Greece, and Belgium. [6] With all deciding climate talks in just one year, and time to tackle the climate crisis running out, there’s no room for error.

Martin Zubimendi’s Liverpool transfer snub has proved to be a blessing in disguise, according to Ian Wright. At the time, it was regarded as a major blow, with new boss Arne Slot seemingly left with a gaping hole in his midfield. Wright said Gravenberch’s form has been like having a new signing. Image: Getty Images) Getty Images)Anfield legend Steve Nicol believes the Reds even owe their position at the top of the table to Gravenberch’s form. "Absolutely I would argue that, without Gravenberch, Liverpool might not be top of the league.”Join our new WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Mirror Football content.

In association with Schmidt Science Fellows, the THE Interdisciplinary Science Rankings was created to recognise, incentivise, and celebrate interdisciplinary science in higher education across the globe. This reflects three years of consultation with the sector and the importance of and global appetite for interdisciplinary research. Phil Baty, THE’s chief global affairs officer, said: “The Interdisciplinary Science Rankings launch is the largest in the history of the global THE rankings, with 749 institutions across 92 countries ranked. This is in stark comparison to its performance in the THE World University Rankings as one of the best-performing countries. View the full Interdisciplinary Science Rankings 2025 results and see the Interdisciplinary Science Rankings 2025 methodology.

John Prescott, who has died at 86, served as deputy prime minister for more than a decade under Tony Blair, and was seen as a custodian of the Labour party’s traditional values in the face of a modernising leadership. Blair and Gordon Brown led tributes, with Blair telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was 'one of the most talented people I ever encountered in politics'

The prime minister, Keir Starmer, has hit out at the lack of Conservative support for climate targets and said it shows 'just how far the party has fallen'. 'It’s a shame,' he said. 'When Cop was in Scotland, there was a real unity across the house about the importance of tackling one of the most central issues of our time,' Starmer said in Commons after returning from the G20 and Cop29

Major British media coverage is being blamed over Cynthia Erivo 's exclusion from the big forerunners ahead of film premiere 'Wicked' in 2024, and once again, the prevailing discussions the UK has been termed as ill-treatment Meghan Markle went through. One frustrated Twitter user said that although Erivo featured as the main character, her contribution was being overshadowed. Meghan and husband Prince Harry previously addressed the racism they faced from the UK media during their 2021 Oprah interview. Some commenters quoted that Meghan had actually "pre-warned" the public on racist tendencies within the UK media, and with this current treatment of Erivo, she was right to be worrying. Support for Erivo has picked up as fans call out the media on its discriminatory patterns.

Today, the watchdog concluded there had been repeated instances of misconduct by Mrs Ingram-Moore and her husband, Colin. Alongside her chartered accountant husband, Colin, Mrs Ingram-Moore co-founded business recruitment agency Maytrix and both are co-directors of private limited company Club Nook. But just three years later she and her husband had been banned by the Charity Commission from being charity trustees. Mrs Ingram-Moore also accepted she had been paid £18,000 for attending the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards in 2021. 'The publisher paid Captain Sir Tom a fee, it was his and he decided what to do with it.'

More infoPaul Pogba is set to make his long-awaited return to football at the end of this month. The former Manchester United midfielder will take part in a friendly match at the King's Cup on November 30 in Dubai. The same rule applies for Roberto Carlos, who's playing for King's XI, with both players wearing an exclusive 'King's Guard' shirt. Confirming that on The Overlap's Stick to Football podcast, Scholes said: "I'm away, I am playing a game in Dubai for charity. It means that Pogba is free to resume training in January and make his return to competitive action from March.

Infrastructure minister Catherine King alleges in a speech to parliament that Liberal backbencher Tony Pasin filmed a conversation between them on a GoPro. King characterised the interaction as a 'serious breach of the rules' and has asked for the issue to be referred to the parliament’s powerful privileges committee. A spokesperson for Pasin told Guardian Australia that Pasin 'denies the accusations' and that he 'intends to respond to them in Parliament when he returns from leave'

Here are the morning’s top stories on Wednesday, November 20, 2024…Several California tribes are renewing their push for the federal government to protect their ancestral lands. On Wednesday, unions representing tens of thousands of healthcare, professional, service and technical employees at the University of California launched a two-day strike. There’s desert landscape along the California-Arizona border that is the ancestral land of the Quechan Tribe. That’s why this year the Quechan Tribe is asking the Biden administration to make this land a new national monument — an area of protected public land similar to a national park. The members’ vote passed with 98% support, according to the University Professional and Technical Employees Local 9119, which represents more than 19,000 physician assistants, optometrists, clinical lab scientists and other UC employees statewide.

(You can now subscribe to our(You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channelUkraine has fired long-range British Storm Shadow missiles into Russian territory for the first time, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed Western official.A spokesperson for Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his office would not be commenting on reports or operational matters.Britain had previously said Ukraine could use Storm Shadow cruise missiles within Ukrainian territory but the government has been pressing the United States for permission to allow their use to strike targets inside Russia for several months.U.S. President Joe Biden changed its policy to allow Ukraine to use U.S.-made weapons to strike deep into Russia this week.

This is the fifth year that Insurance Times has conducted the MGA survey, investigating brokers’ opinions, attitudes and levels of satisfaction with the services they receive from their MGA partners. In addition, for the fifth consecutive year, Insurance Times has given a star rating out of five, linked to performance score. This provides a more practical tool to help brokers assess MGAs and for MGAs to benchmark performance more easily. The 2024/25 MGA survey was open to UK brokers throughout July and September 2024. The MGA survey focused on how brokers rated the overall service provided to them by their MGA partners over the past 12-month business period.

Ellen DeGeneres, left, and Portia de Rossi have left Montecito for the British countryside, according to new reports. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi flippin’ love Montecito. They love it so much they have reportedly owned and/or flipped at least 21 properties there. DeGeneres and De Rossi are now at home in the U.K. They have bought and sold a number of properties around L.A., yet the Santa Barbara area was a particular favorite.