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Morning show host’s fall from grace exposes Britain’s strange obsession with celebrity
It never seems to matter that it never matters: more British people know who the fallen TV personality Phillip Schofield is than know who David Attenborough and Stephen Fry are.
- by Rob Harris
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Unplanned encounter: Man slips into German chancellor’s convoy, hugs him
Tabloid newspaper Bild reported on Friday that Olaf Scholz’s bodyguards only realised their mistake later, and chased the man down.
Abbott laments Albanese government’s lack of new support for Ukraine during speech in Kyiv
Tony Abbott is the first former Australian prime minister to visit Ukraine since Vladimir Putin’s invasion.
- by Latika Bourke
‘Irresponsible behaviour’: Russia moves tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus
Russia has acted on a promise to send nuclear weapons to its ally and neighbour, after President Vladimir Putin announced the plan on state television in March.
- by Guy Faulconbridge
Samples dug up in Madeleine McCann search ‘could take weeks to analyse’
The focus of the search suggests officers had used ground radar and metal detectors to target specific locations, with holes dug around recent pits.
- by Steve Bird
Opinion
Russia-Ukraine war
‘Mobs with pitchforks’: The coming Russian revolution will unleash horrifying new demons
One thing we should not expect to see is an emergent regime that wants to end the war, usher in a new democracy and establish cordial relations with the West.
- by Colonel Richard Kemp
From the Archives, 1953: Queen Elizabeth is crowned
On June 2, 1953, large crowds flocked to London to see Queen Elizabeth crowned in Westminster Abbey. At the moment of the crowning, the crowd outside the Abbey rose in a great body. Hats came off, heads were bowed. Then down came the rain.
- by Staff Writers
A migrant scandal, a victorious PM and divine islands – where am I?
It’s a tough gig, but someone’s got to do it.
- by Latika Bourke
The Swiss oasis that took Tina Turner in and pulled a curtain down around her
In her adoptive hometown, neighbours didn’t gawk at Tina Turner or ask for autographs – and she repaid them by turning up to switch on the annual Christmas lights.
- by Boris Heger and Arnd Wiegmann
A paralysed man can walk naturally again with brain and spine implants
Gert-Jan Oskam was left paralysed from the hips down after a motorcycle accident in 2011. Now, with a combination of devices, scientists have given him control over his lower body again.
- by Oliver Whang
‘Grossly unfair’: Australian child sex abuse survivors offered 1% of promised settlement
The children were abused at farm schools in Australia and other Commonwealth nations. Ex-ABC MD David Hill, a former Fairbridge child, is outraged.
- by Rob Harris