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Sydney chef to close Lucky Kwong, saying she wants to focus on ‘sharing other people’s stories’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Kylie Kwong has announced she is quitting the restaurant business after 24 years as a restaurateur and will close her Sydney eatery Lucky Kwong in late June. The news comes …

Lai represents an historic third term in power for the pro-sovereignty Democratic Progressive party (DPP) and will replace incumbant Tsai Ing-wen Who is Lai Ching-te? Taiwan’s new president to take office See all of our Taiwan coverage Lai was one of seven children born to a working-class mining family in Wanli, a small hillside village near Taiwan’s north-east coast. His father, Lai Chao-chin, d…

Helicopter carrying Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian reportedly crashed in mountainous area amid bad weather Full report: helicopter carrying Iran’s president crashes in mountains Profile: Ebrahim Raisi: Iran’s hardline president dogged by execution claims Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the search for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi after a helicopter cras…

Pent-up demand from would-be buyers pausing their plans last year has led to price rise despite mortgage rates remaining elevated The average British house price reached a record high of £375,131 in May, according to Rightmove. The average prices of properties coming to market rose 0.8%, or £2,807, month on month. Pent-up demand from would-be buyers who paused their plans last year is a key drive…

Ability to preserve tissue in a special gel solution for at least a week will help doctors identify most effective drug treatments Scientists say they have a made a potentially “gamechanging” breakthrough in breast cancer research after discovering how to preserve breast tissue outside the body for at least a week. The study, which was funded by the Prevent Breast Cancer charity, found tissue cou…

Man declared dead shortly after becoming unwell at Gablecross police station, with incident referred to police watchdog A man in his 30s has died while in custody at a police station in Swindon, Wiltshire police said. The man had been in custody at Gablecross police station since Saturday morning, before becoming unwell on Sunday morning. Continue reading...

Operation Amarok VI ran from Wednesday to Saturday across the state. Follow the day’s news live Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast ACTU lodges submission for right to disconnect to be incorporated into awards The Australian Council of Trade Unions has today lodged its submission to the Fair Work Commission on the right to disconnect being incorporated into …

Coup leader killed and 50 people, including Americans, arrested after men reportedly attacked presidency in capital Kinshasa The leader of an attempted coup on Sunday in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been killed and some 50 people including three American citizens arrested, a spokesperson for the Central African country’s army told Reuters. Gunfire rang out around 4am in the capital …

A country already in political transition could soon be forced to replace more than one leader The Iranian helicopter crash comes at a time when the country, faced by unprecedented external challenges, was already bracing itself for a change in regime with the expected demise in the next few years of its 85-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the country’s hydra-headed leadership …

Taliban says four arrested over attack at Bamiyan heritage site that killed three Spanish visitors and an Afghan Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack by gunmen in Afghanistan’s central Bamiyan province that killed three Spanish tourists on Friday. The Taliban’s interior ministry spokesperson, Abdul Mateen Qani, said on Sunday that four people had been arrested over the attack. O…

Labour sees no electoral gain in flagging sector’s funding crisis – but losses cannot be sustained much longer Ex-ministers say universities will go bust without higher fees or funding Why are universities in such financial dire straits? According to one sector leader, it’s because they are losing money on two of their three income streams, while their third source is under attack by the governme…

Exclusive: EPA chief executive says ‘foundational’ rule changes put climate impacts ‘front and centre' of planning process Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast New coalmines, gas fields and other big sources of greenhouse gases in New South Wales will need to provide more rigorous plans to minimise pollution and reduce carbon emissions before they are approve…

Exclusive : Vice-chancellors suggest fee rise of £2,000 to £3,500 a year, but others say that is ‘politically impossible’ Vice-chancellors and former ministers are warning that the cash crisis facing universities is so serious that the next government will have to urgently raise tuition fees or increase funding to avoid bankruptcies within two years. They said the state of university finances was…

Le Pen, Orbán and Meloni rail against socialism and ‘massive illegal migration’ at ‘great patriotic convention’ in Madrid International far-right leaders, including France’s Marine Le Pen, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Argentina’s Javier Milei, came together in Madrid to rail against socialism and “massive illegal migration” three weeks before hard-right parties are expected …

Labour leader sought to curry favour with chat-show audiences who might never bite on a political interview When Keir Starmer appeared on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch to cook his favourite tandoori salmon recipe, host Tim Lovejoy had a question: “What on earth are you doing here? You should be on the BBC with Laura Kuenssberg.” “This is so much nicer!” replied Starmer. Continue reading...