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Average one- or two-bedroom home is £119,000 in Scottish city, as Liverpool tops list in England and Blaenau Gwent in WalesBoost for UK borrowers as Santander ‘fires starting gun’ on mortgage price warAberdeen in Scotland is the most affordable city for single people to buy a home in Great Britain, analysis of national property data shows, with the average one- or two-bedroom home valued at just under £120,000.Monthly mortgage payments in the city came in at £510 a month – about 16% of the area’s average monthly salary – for such a property valued at £119,350, according to research from

Peter Navarro’s comments to US media, which follow president’s 25% tariff announcement, were shared on an official Trump administration account on XFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDonald Trump’s trade adviser claims Australia is “crushing” and “killing” America’s manufacturing sector with its imports of aluminium, as the Albanese government scrambles to try to secure exemptions to the president’s 25% tariffs on metal.Anthony Albanese said he was still hopeful the local steel and aluminium industry could be spared from the tariff regime, even after escalating comments from the Trump

ABC manager who had approached Lattouf for temporary hosting role told the court she had ‘tried to stop them’ from firing journalistFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThere was pressure from “higher up” in the ABC to sack Antoinette Lattouf from the very first day she was on air, Lattouf’s line manager has told the federal court.Elizabeth Green, the ABC manager who had approached Lattouf for the temporary hosting role, told the court she had “tried to stop them” from firing Lattouf but that “there was pressure coming

PM has condemned footage as ‘sickening’ as police and the healthcare watchdog investigate the incidentFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo New South Wales hospital workers who appeared in a social media video appearing to threaten to refuse to treat and to kill Israeli patients have been identified as nurses at a Sydney hospital and have been “stood down immediately”, the state’s health minister says.The video has attracted widespread political condemnation, with the prime minister quickly labelling the footage “sickening and shameful.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/12/sydney-nsw-health-nurses-stood-down-alleged-antisemitic-video-threats-israel-bankstown-hospital-ntwnfb

Agency says its reporter wasn’t allowed into event in effort to ‘punish’ style guide on upholding use of Gulf of MexicoThe Associated Press said it was barred from sending a reporter to Tuesday’s Oval Office executive order signing in an effort to “punish” the agency for its style guidance on upholding the use of the name of the Gulf of Mexico, in lieu of Donald Trump’s preferred name for the geographic landmark as the Gulf of America.AP’s executive editor, Julie Pace, said in a statement: “As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs billions of people around the world

Lattouf’s unlawful termination claim against ABC examines how and why she was sacked after posting on social media about Israel-Gaza war. Follow the hearing live.Green disagrees with Boncardo over whether she used the word “impartial” in her conversation with Lattouf.Boncardo: “Do you agree that you said something to the effect that it was probably best she keep a low profile on social media? Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2025/feb/12/antoinette-lattouf-vs-abc-unlawful-termination-hearing-live-news-updates-ita-buttrose-day-seven-elizabeth-green-simon-melkman-ben-latimer-ntwnfb Author : Amanda Meade Media correspondent Publish date : 2025-02-12 00:14:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Total of 89 contracts ended, essentially wiping out agency’s research arm, the Institute of Education SciencesElon Musk and the Trump administration’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has terminated nearly $1bn in US Department of Education contracts, in effect eliminating a research office that tracks US students’ progress.After announcing $101m would be slashed from 29 DEI training grants on Monday, the Doge account on Twitter/X said that Musk’s team terminated 89 contracts worth a total of $881m on Tuesday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/doge-education-department-cuts-trump Author : Erum Salam Publish date : 2025-02-11 22:11:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

President dismisses Biden-appointed chair of Federal Labor Relations Authority to advance ‘America-First agenda’US politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump has fired a top official at the independent agency responsible for labor relations with the federal government.Susan Tsui Grundmann, one of three board members at the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), has been dismissed, a White House official told the Guardian. She served as the agency’s chair. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/trump-labor-flra-firing Author : Michael Sainato Publish date : 2025-02-11 21:08:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Deputy prime minister says government has ‘hit the ground running’ with Trump. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastR&D review makes for ‘sobering reading’: HusicAustralia is at risk of “being left behind” because of a failure to leverage research and development for economic gain, an expert panel has warned.The panel says there’s an over-reliance on our good fortune, leaving us unprepared to achieve sustained economic growth.They describe our economy as one of the least differentiated in the world. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/feb/12/australia-politics-live-marles-trade-tariffs-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-steel-aluminium-question-time-election-campaign-ntwnfb Author : Krishani Dhanji Publish date : 2025-02-11 20:09:00

Marc Fogel, 63, had been convicted of smuggling marijuana in to Russia and was sentenced to 14 years in prisonMarc Fogel, a Pennsylvania schoolteacher who has been held in Russia since 2021, has been released after a visit to Moscow by US special envoy Steve Witkoff, the White House said on Tuesday.“Today, President Donald J. Trump and his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff are able to announce that Mr. Witkoff is leaving Russian airspace with Marc Fogel, an American who was detained by Russia,” the White House said in a statement. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/russia-us-prisoner-trump-marc-fogel Author : Guardian staff

Matildas and Chelsea star had denied charge and was cleared at Kingston crown courtSam Kerr has been found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment after calling a police officer “fucking stupid and white” after he doubted her claims of being “held hostage” in taxi.Kerr showed no emotion during the reading of the verdict, which the jury delivered after a little over four hours of deliberation, but gave a thumbs up to her barrister Grace Forbes. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/feb/11/sam-kerr-found-not-guilty-of-racially-aggravated-harassment-of-police-officer-ntwnfb Author : Sammy Gecsoyler Publish date : 2025-02-11 17:24:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

More than 1,200 officers involved in dawn raids in and around Palermo, reportedly biggest operation against Cosa Nostra since 1984Italian police have arrested almost 150 people in a significant operation against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, areas of which remain in the grip of powerful Cosa Nostra clans.Warrants were issued against a total of 183 people on Tuesday, 36 of whom were already in custody, for crimes including mafia-type criminal association, attempted murder, extortion, drug trafficking and illegal gambling, police said. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/sicily-police-palermo-mafia-crackdown-cosa-nostra Author : Agence France-Presse in Rome Publish date : 2025-02-11 15:53:00 Copyright for

Democrats and scholars fear Trump will create a constitutional crisis by defying the courts blocking the administration’s efforts to upend federal governmentConcerns that the Trump administration would ignore court orders were heightened yesterday, when a federal judge said that the White House had ignored his ruling ordering an end to a freeze on federal funding. Here’s more on that, from the Guardian’s Anna Betts:A federal judge said on Monday that the Trump administration had defied his order to unfreeze billions in federal funding and issued a directive demanding that the government “immediately restore frozen funding”.We call upon our elected representatives

Confirmation of snub comes after JD Vance criticises Europe’s ‘excessive regulation’ of technologyThe US and the UK have refused to sign the Paris AI summit’s declaration on “inclusive and sustainable” artificial intelligence, in a blow to hopes for a concerted approach to developing and regulating the technology.The two countries did not immediately explain their reasons for not adding their names to a document backed by 60 signatories on Tuesday, including China, India, Japan, Australia and Canada. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/11/us-uk-paris-ai-summit-artificial-intelligence-declaration Author : Dan Milmo in Paris Publish date : 2025-02-11 13:11:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the

Countries have not immediately explained their reasons for not signing declarationJD Vance continues, talking about “revolutionary applications” of AI and the need to deregulate to allow for its fast development and its roll out.Our administration, the Trump administration, believes that AI will have countless revolutionary applications and economic innovation, job creation, national security, health care, free expression and beyond, and to restrict its development now will not only unfairly benefit incumbents in the space, it would mean paralysing one of the most promising technologies we have seen in generations.I’m not here this morning to talk about AI safety, which was

Danny Kruger says those who backed the bill did so under false premise after change to safeguards announcedYesterday President Trump praised Australia’s prime minister as a “very fine man” when he said he would consider exempting the country from his new 25% tariff on steel and aluminium imports.But perhaps he does not consider Keir Starmer a “very fine man”. At the same press conference, asked if the UK might also get an Australian-style steel tariff exemption, Trump replied:Well, we have a huge deficit with the UK. Big difference. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/feb/11/assisted-dying-bill-high-court-judge-kim-leadbetter-danny-kruger-keir-starmer-labour-uk-politics-live-news Author : Andrew Sparrow Publish date

MP defends removal of scrutiny by high court judge, as critics say change is ‘rushed and badly thought out’Kim Leadbeater has said her assisted dying bill for England and Wales will still have the strongest safeguards in the world despite the removal of scrutiny from a high court judge, as opponents derided the change as “rushed and badly thought out”.The Labour MP’s decision to replace the signoff by a court with an expert panel including a lawyer, psychiatrist and social worker caused significant alarm among MPs who had voted for the bill on the basis that a high court judge

Murray Auchincloss reports fall in annual profits to $8.9bn last year from almost $14bn in 2023Business live – latest updatesThe chief executive of BP has defended its tumbling profits as the board braces for a campaign by an activist investor to overhaul the troubled oil company.Murray Auchincloss reported a sharp slump in BP’s annual profits to $8.9bn (£7.9bn) last year from almost $14bn in 2023, just days after it emerged that the activist hedge fund Elliott Investment Management has taken aim at the oil major by building a stake in the company. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/11/bp-chief-profits-murray-auchincloss-elliott Author :

Canada says response to 25% aluminium and steel tariff will be ‘clear and calibrated’; Hong Kong to file complaint with World Trade Organization over tariffs imposed on cityTrump announces 25% tariffs on foreign steel and aluminiumDonald Trump announced 25% tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum on Monday, ramping up his controversial bid to boost the US economy by hiking taxes on imports from overseas.The modified US duties will be enforced “without exceptions or exemptions”, the president declared, dashing the hopes of countries that hoped to avoid them. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/feb/11/canada-calls-trump-metals-tariffs-totally-unjustified-as-hong-kong-to-file-complaint-with-wto-live Author : Helen Sullivan Publish date :

Britain’s ambassador to Washington says Starmer government can influence president and UK’s economic future depends in large part on investment from the USBritain must respect Donald Trump’s “strong and clear mandate for change”, Peter Mandelson has said, but Keir Starmer’s government could “always make our views known privately and directly” to the US president.Lord Mandelson, Britain’s ambassador to Washington, said that in dealing with Trump, the government must “understand what drives him”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/11/donald-trump-tariffs-uk-starmer-government-response-peter-mandelson Author : Guardian staff and agencies Publish date : 2025-02-11 05:08:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

She was called the worst child serial killer in Britain in modern times. So why are medical experts saying her conviction is unsafe? Josh Halliday and Felicity Lawrence reportLucy Letby was convicted for the murder and attempted murder of more than a dozen babies. She has been called the worst child serial killer the UK had seen. But even before the trial was over experts had begun raising concerns about her conviction.Then, last week, came a bombshell press conference in which a panel of renowned neonatal experts said they believed not just that Letby’s conviction was unsafe - but that

Sydney-headquartered company hedged against Trump tariffs by moving production of coffee machines away from China after US electionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHome appliance manufacturer Breville is ramping up sales of beans to home baristas, in a bid to undercut supermarkets, which it accuses of stocking “stale” coffee products.While the Sydney-headquartered company has profited from surging sales of espresso machines around the world, it told investors on Tuesday it was also recording strong interest in its bean platform, with per kilogram sales up more than 70% over the past year.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking

Lattouf’s unlawful termination claim against ABC examining how and why she was sacked after posting on social media about Israel-Gaza warDay six of the unlawful termination claimRedacted version of Chris Oliver-Taylor’s affidavit released Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2025/feb/11/antoinette-lattouf-vs-abc-unlawful-termination-hearing-live-news-updates-ita-buttrose-day-six-steve-ahern-ntwnfb Author : Amanda Meade Media correspondent Publish date : 2025-02-11 00:59:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

US president said it was ultimately up to Israel but he warned that ‘all hell is going to break out’ if the remaining hostages aren’t released on SaturdayOne of the reasons Hamas says it is postponing the next scheduled release of Israeli hostages is what they say are violations of the ceasefire deal, including delaying the return of displaced Palestinians to the north.Egypt rejected on Monday “any compromise” that would infringe on Palestinians’ rights, in a statement issued after foreign minister Badr Abdelatty met with his US counterpart in Washington. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/feb/11/middle-east-crisis-live-blog-donald-trump-gaza-ceasefire-hostages Author : Kate Lamb

Anthony Albanese says he had ‘great conversation’ with US president amid growing tariff threat. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGreens push for world heritage nomination for Great Australian BightThe Greens will introduce a bill proposing to increase protections for the Great Australian Bight from oil and gas exploration.The Great Australian Bight is a South Australian icon with global and environmental significance worthy of world heritage status and protection from oil and gas drilling forever.World heritage protection is a priority for South Australia and the Greens will push for it in a hung