Four women are suing influencer at high court but CPS rules legal test for criminal prosecution not met
Andrew Tate will face no criminal charges over allegations made by four women who are suing him in a civil case at the high court in London.
The women accuse the self-proclaimed misogynist influencer of sexual violence, including grabbing one by the throat on several occasions in 2015, whipping her with a belt and pointing a gun at her face.
Performance of the once controversial poem was planned for its 40th anniversary but will now double as a tribute to writer who died last week
Tony Harrison’s state-of-the-nation poem V is to be performed in the Leeds cemetery that directly inspired the Yorkshire writer, who died last week.
The seeds of V, first printed in the London Review of Books (LRB) in 1985, were sown when Harrison visited his parents’ graves at Holbeck cemetery in Beeston and found the graveyard to be vandalised and daubed with racist graffiti. In the poem Harrison used this location of “the family plot”, where he envisions his own epitaph, to represent a divided and dejected society, juxtaposing the inscriptions on tombstones with spray-painted expletives.
Three high-profile female members speak out as the party publicly fractures over its climate and energy policy
The Liberal party will alienate more women and young people if it abandons net zero, several Liberal women have warned, as the party publicly fractures over its energy policy.
Weeks after Andrew Hastie threatened to quit the frontbench if the Coalition embraced net zero, three high-profile current and former senior Liberal women have warned going backwards on climate action will only hurt the party more with key demographics.
Exclusive: Turkey’s climate minister says country is working on ‘innovative solutions’ as Labor privately downplays expectations impasse can be broken
Turkey says it is pursuing “innovative solutions” in the race with Australia to host the Cop31 UN climate talks, arguing both countries can win from drawn-out negotiations over next year’s summit.
After talks with the climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York last week, Turkey’s climate minister, Murat Kurum, said he was optimistic about a resolution.
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Value of shares in eight companies rockets amid sharpest increase in military spend since cold war
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Australia’s $250bn sovereign wealth fund has secured huge returns on investment in weapons and defence companies in less than two years, despite long-running criticism of its support for the industry.
The value of shares held in eight companies increased by $76m between October 2023 and June 2025 amid wars in the Middle East and Ukraine and the sharpest increase in military spending since the cold war.
Document outlines negotiations over contentious extension of gas giant’s development after conditional approval in May
The Albanese government agreed to weaken conditions it had proposed to protect world heritage-listed Indigenous rock art from Woodside’s giant North West Shelf gas development after the fossil fuel company argued it could be forced to shut the plant.
The change is explained in a “statement of reasons” document setting out why the environment minister, Murray Watt, approved an application to extend the operating life of one of the world’s biggest and most polluting gas export developments until 2070.
A Trump appointee emailed Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy employees last week with a long list of banned words.
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The new safety features come after numerous incidents of ChatGPT validating users’ delusional thinking instead of redirecting harmful conversations — including the death of a teenage boy by suicide.
The chancellor says choices have been made “harder” by international events and the “long-term damage” done to the economy.