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Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:30:42 +1100West Wing actor accused of child sex abuse on set
A criminal complaint says a child reported that Timothy Busfield touched him inappropriately on the set of a TV show directed and acted in.
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 11:27:58 +1100Trump says he’d accept Nobel Prize from winner. It doesn’t work like that
The US president said he’d heard that the Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, wanted to give him the prize and that it would be “a great honour”.
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:48:04 +1100ICE agent’s video shows moments before fatal Minneapolis shooting
Mobile-phone footage captured the moments leading up to the shooting of driver Renee Nicole Good and the immediate aftermath.
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:23:06 +1100ICE agent who shot Minnesota woman's video released
The mobile phone footage taken by the ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman Renee Good has been released.
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:31:00 +1100From Traralgon to Covent Garden: How Victoria’s ‘Billy Elliot’ became a Royal Ballet star
Now a principal with one of the world’s most prestigious ballet companies, Calvin Richardson has some advice for young dancers on how to stay true to themselves.
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:18:55 +1100Iranian authorities struggle to contain growing demonstrations
Iran’s supreme leader derided demonstrators as “vandals” and mocked President Donald Trump’s promise to intervene if protesters were killed.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:45:00 +1100NASA to bring astronaut home in first-ever space medical evacuation
The astronaut will return with the three other members of their mission, called Crew-11, which launched to the International Space Station in August.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:45:00 +1100‘Tool of repression’: Iran is cut off from the internet as protests intensify
The government has previously enforced internet blackouts during moments of crisis.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:19:12 +1100National outcry after second shooting by US agents in two days
Anger over the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis was compounded when border patrol agents shot a man and a woman in Portland, Oregon.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:55:07 +1100Arctic storm grips Britain and Europe
Arctic weather and plunging temperatures trigger public safety alerts and disrupt transport in the UK.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:50:00 +1100The new world disorder where might is right
The future is an unhappy picture of great power competition and serious risk for Australia.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:45:00 +1100When it comes to violence against protesters, this administration has a track record of lies
It is difficult to take ICE’s claims about Minneapolis seriously when it has already been called out for gross misrepresentations about its encounters with demonstrators.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:31:00 +1100A Presley tale, O.J. and the apocalypse: ’90s harbingers of Trump’s America
From being evicted at Graceland to a driverless ride into the future, a return to LA reveals the fault lines of a changing America.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:19:05 +1100How the day unfolded after ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good
The shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis sparked outrage from local politicians and protests in major US cities, while US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the woman “weaponised her vehicle”.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:22:08 +1100Trump says US oversight of Venezuela could last years
But the US president appears to have backed down on a threat of military action against Colombia. Meanwhile, the Senate has delivered a rare pushback against him.
Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:44:23 +1100ICE agent shoots driver in Minneapolis
A bystander has filmed an ICE agent shooting a driver in the US city of Minneapolis.
Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:45:00 +1100‘That’s on you’: This US mayor has a blunt message for Trump and his ICE agents
It is not the first time 44-year-old Jacob Frey has clashed with the Trump administration over its immigration crackdown.
Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:33:13 +1100Two wildly varied reports of the same incident reflect the two Americas of our time
A woman was shot dead, but in the US, it’s imperative to play the politics as hard as possible.
Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:32:29 +1100ICE officer shoots woman dead in dramatic escalation of Trump crackdown
Federal officials claim the shooting in Minneapolis was an act of self-defence. The mayor says he’s seen the footage and that’s just spin.
Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:03:12 +1100The record cocaine haul and a panicked ‘insider’: US outlines case against Maduro
For customs agents at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, what they found inside 30 suitcases was like nothing they had ever seen.