Peter Dutton says legislation creates ‘broad power’ to overrule minister but Keneally says this has been ‘misconstrued’ Kristina Keneally has reaffirmed Labor’s support for the medevac legislation after Peter Dutton claimed the opposition is looking to repeal or amend the law which facilitates medical transfers from offshore detention. On Sunday the home affairs minister said that more than 30 people have come to Australia under the medevac bill and gave new details about the refugee swap deal with the United States, including

US leader calls London mayor a ‘disaster’ after three men killed in separate attacks in 24 hours

New UK research predicts extremes of weather will hit food productionGlobal heating could bring many more bouts of severe drought as well as increased flooding to Africa than previously forecast, scientists have warned. New research says the continent will experience many extreme outbreaks of intense rainfall over the next 80 years. These could trigger devastating floods, storms and disruption of farming. In addition, these events are likely to be interspersed with more crippling droughts during the growing season and these could also damage crop and food production.

Police were sent to a house on Grazing Avenue in Morphett Vale in Adelaide's south on Sunday around 5am, after a Toyota sedan smashed into the front bedroom of the home.

Jan Broberg from Abducted in Plain Sight tells BBC Radio 5 Live how abuser lied to control her.

Acquitted woman says media created story about her role in death of Meredith Kercher

New mayor shrugs off criticism, saying nothing is illegal about decision to work with Vox Madrid’s city council has swung sharply to the right after the conservative People’s party (PP) and the centre-right Citizens party enlisted the controversial support of the far-right Vox to take control of the Spanish capital. On Saturday morning, the PP’s José Luis Martínez-Almeida was sworn in as mayor, with Citizens’ Begoña Villacís as his deputy.

Italian equally celebrated as director of films, theatre and opera over 60-year career

A man was stabbed to death in Wandsworth on Friday and another was shot in Greenwich Police have arrested 10 people over two murders that occurred only minutes apart in London on Friday afternoon. One man was stabbed to death in the street in Wandsworth in south-west London shortly before 4.45pm, while another man was shot dead in Greenwich, south-east London, at about 5pm.

Efforts to pass a controversial law in Hong Kong which would have allowed suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial have been indefinitely suspended, Carrie Lam announced on Saturday. The move followed a week of mass protests and street violence over the bill

Deputy Chief Constable Jason Harwin, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for drugs, said people are using cocaine as a recreational drug, usually once or twice a month or every few months.

Mother-of-one Donna Thistlethwaite (pictured) was pulled from the Brisbane River after she jumped off the Story Bridge on August 12, 2012.

The supermodel turned mental-health activist on how battling dyslexia, drugs and depression helped her find her voice

In anticipation, Cal Fire has identified 35 top-priority projects to thin vegetation in vulnerable communities Last November, the deadliest wildfire in California history killed 85 and

Carrie Lam says legislation that would allow suspects to be sent to mainland China had ‘caused a lot of division’ Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam has suspended indefinitely government efforts to pass a

Exclusive: We felt an obligation to share our story, Melania Geymonat and Chris tell the Guardian “We are pretty tired of talking about getting punched in the face,” says Chris, a 29-year-old American woman whose second name you don’t know but whose face – distressed and covered in blood – is likely to have become shockingly familiar in the past week. Chris and Melania Geymonat, who is 28 and a doctor from Uruguay, were travelling home on a night bus, late on the evening of 30 May. They must have kissed, they think, or otherwise given away that they were on a date. To a group of young men, also sitting on the upper deck of the almost deserted N31 to Camden, that was taken as permission to shout abuse, ask how they had sex, demand, in Chris’s words, that they “perform”.

But for policies to be effective we must keep in mind how US actions affect the debate within China, where there is vigorous struggle over the country’s future

Carrie Lam to speak on Saturday afternoon for first time since protest crisis erupted in earnest Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam is expected to announce a halt in efforts to pass a

Gebran Bassil claims many refugees are not living in political fear, but stay for economic reasons As many as three quarters of Syrian refugees in Lebanon could return to Syria because they face no fear of political persecution or threat to their security, Lebanon’s controversial foreign minister has said. Gebran Bassil also urged the UK to rethink how it was spending aid money on keeping 1.5 million refugees in Lebanon, where he said they were taking the jobs from the Lebanese, and undercutting wages.

Two boys, aged 15 and 16, and an 18-year-old man are already due to face court over the death of the aspiring musician A 15-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of teenage aspiring musician Tashaun Aird. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is the fourth teenager to be charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of the 15-year-old.

Children with parents face less certain future, with countries reluctant to repatriate supporters of violent jihad Six Belgian children of Islamic State members were returned to Belgium on Friday from camps in Syria where US-backed militia are holding thousands of militants and their family members. The children, ranging in age from six to 18, were left parentless in Syria, making their repatriation less complicated than that of dozens of other Belgian children of Isis members held in Syria’s northern Kurdish region.

NBC announces pairings for debates later this month, the first of the 2020 presidential campaign season The first 2020 presidential debate will be divided into two nights later this month, with senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker going up against the former congressman Beto O’Rourke in the first session. The former vice-president, Joe Biden, will face off with South Bend’s mayor, Pete Buttigieg, and senators Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders on the second evening. NBC announced the lineup on Friday for its two-night debate, which will begin 26 June in Miami, and is set to be the first direct showdown between the Democrats vying to take on Donald Trump.

Carlos Eugenio Irarrazaval stands down, weeks after appointment by pope to clean up church’s public image A Chilean auxiliary bishop appointed by Pope Francis less than a month ago has resigned, just weeks after he made controversial comments about the lack of women in attendance at the Last Supper. Carlos Eugenio Irarrazaval was appointed by the pope in an effort to rebuild the church’s credibility following a

Yovanny Jadiel Lopez, who had been on life support since being brought to the hospital on 23 April, died from a severe brain injury An infant boy who was

Trio drawn together for split NBC debate on 26-27 June, while Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren and Beto O’Rourke to meet in other group

In their second year as White House aides, couple took in funds from real estate holdings, stocks, and a book deal Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner took in as much as $135m in income during their second year as aides to Donald Trump, generated from their vast real estate holdings, stocks and bonds and even a book deal, according to their financial disclosures released Friday. Ivanka Trump’s stake in her family’s Washington DC hotel down the street from the Oval Office generated $3.95m in revenue in 2018, barely changed from a year earlier. The hotel, a favorite gathering spot for foreign diplomats and lobbyists, is at the center of two federal lawsuits claiming Trump is violating the constitution’s ban on foreign government payments to the president.