A paedophile teacher who abused former Australian of the Year Grace Tame will not face trial on charges he harassed his former student on social media after a judge ruled he was unfit due to mental impairment.
Nicolaas Ockert Bester, a former teacher at Hobart private schools, was convicted of sexually abusing Ms Tame when she was his student in 2011.
Anthony Albanese has tried to draw a line under the ISIS brides debate in a way that will satisfy almost nobody.
In a radio interview this morning, the Prime Minister restated the government's political message: it will not assist the 'wives of foreign fighters' and their children to leave the Kurdish run camps in northern Syria.
More than 14 million Australians are set to be impacted by a major change to superannuation rules, despite the majority of workers being unaware of the news.
From July 1, businesses must pay superannuation at the same time as wages, rather than quarterly.
A baby boy has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother who received a womb from a dead donor.
Hugo Powell was delivered by C-section at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, London, in December, weighing 6lb 13oz (3.1kg).
The transplant marks the first birth in the UK using a womb from a deceased donor, with only two previous cases ever reported in Europe.
Interest rate hikes hitting mortgage holders may be based on flawed inflation data, with a leading international economist accusing the Reserve Bank of Australia of misreading the true cause of rising prices.
Canadian labour economist Jim Stanford said Australia's economic conditions do not justify further rate hikes, arguing the Reserve Bank is repeating mistakes made during the first wave of post-pandemic inflation by relying too heavily on higher interest rates.
Shoppers have taken aim at Coles and Woolworths amid claims of price gouging, as grocery staples like bread and fresh fruit become a luxury for many households.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is seeking significant penalties for alleged breaches of Woolworths' 'prices dropped' and Coles' 'Down Down' promotions across a 15-month period from late 2021 to early 2023.
The man who was riding in the car with Ruben Ray Martinez when he was shot and killed by a federal agent last March and planned to challenge ICE's account of the incident has died in a car crash.
Joshua Orta was a passenger when Martinez, 23, was fatally shot in South Padre Island, Texas, on March 15, 2025, according to newly-released documents viewed by the Daily Mail and first reported by Newsweek.
It's a little before 5am and the impact of the first Russian ballistic missile of the night resounds along the Dnieper River below my hotel window. Cruise missiles and Shahed drones will arrive before breakfast is served.
In the room next door, a soldier on leave and his girlfriend are engaged in unabashedly noisy lovemaking – as if there will be no tomorrow, as well there might not. Death is always in the shadows here, if not waiting up the road, particularly if you're in uniform.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor enjoyed a private naked massage in a bedroom at Buckingham Palace - all paid for using a cheque from the Palace, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The shamed former prince snuck professional masseuse Monique Giannelloni into the late Queen's official residence after she was recommended to him by Ghislaine Maxwell.
The mysterious masked figure who was seen trying to obscure Nancy Guthrie's Nest doorbell camera on the night of her abduction had apparently visited the house before.
Federal investigators released eerie footage of the unidentified suspect standing at Guthrie's front door in the upscale Catalina Foothills neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona in the early morning hours on February 1.
Punch, a six-month-old Japanese macaque monkey with enormous round eyes, long spindly arms and an adorable potbelly, has no idea that outside the four walls of his enclosure he’s a global celebrity.
On February 5, Ichikawa City Zoo – 20 miles outside Tokyo – posted a picture online of Punch clinging desperately to an orangutan soft toy from Ikea alongside a heartbreaking caption that revealed the infant had been abandoned by his mother.
It seemed like the flat-share of my dreams. Just 30 minutes from work, only £850 a month (bills included) and in chi-chi Hampstead, north London, with its bars and restaurants and the glorious heath a stone’s throw away.
I snapped the letting agent’s hand off and moved in last summer.
