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Record number of Chinese tourists expected to visit Australia this summer as market passes pre-pandemic peak
Australia is expected to welcome a record number of Chinese tourists this summer amid a surge in new air routes between the two countries, adding to what is already set to be a busy – and potentially chaotic – holiday period.
On Tuesday, Juneyao Airlines became the eighth carrier based …
Amazon-hosted AI tool for UK military recruitment ‘carries risk of data breach’
Whaling activist Paul Watson celebrates release from jail after Denmark refuses extradition to Japan
Paul Watson, the anti-whaling campaigner, has spoken of delight that he will be reunited with his young children for Christmas after Denmark rejected Japan’s extradition request and released him from prison in Greenland.
After 150 days in jail on the Danish autonomous territory, Watson, 74, was told by his lawyer …
For richer or poorer? BrewDog co-founder may delay marriage to max-out tax relief
Sara Sharif murder: ‘sadist’ father and stepmother jailed for life
Sara Sharif’s mother has called her daughter’s murderers “sadists and executioners” as they were jailed for life.
Olga Domin joined the Old Bailey hearing remotely as Urfan Sharif, 43, and Beinash Batool, 30, were sentenced for the 10-year-old’s murder.
On Tuesday the judge, Mr Justice Cavanagh, described the campaign of …
Man to stand trial in May accused of murdering Lincolnshire woman
A man accused of murdering a woman whose body was found in her Lincolnshire home is due to stand trial in May.
Kristine Sparane, 37, was discovered in Winsover Road, Spalding, at 7.30pm on 26 November.
When officers arrived they arrested Brian Simpson, 64, of Nene Court, Spalding. He was …
Man, 84, appeared in Scottish court last week charged with murdering wife
An 84-year-old man appeared in court last week in connection with the death of his wife at their home in Galashiels.
Police confirmed that at 3.05am on Monday 9 December, officers were called to a report of the death of a woman at a property on Wood Street, where 84-year-old Margaret …
Dozens of Lords defend Tory peer who called colleague ‘Lord Poppadom’
Dozens of members of the House of Lords have signed a letter protesting about the treatment of Catherine Meyer, the Conservative peer who is facing suspension for calling a British-Asian peer “Lord Poppadom” and touching a black MP’s braids without permission.
The Tory peer Michael Forsyth and the cross-bencher Ruth …
Pope says he was almost assassinated in Iraq in 2021
Pope Francis has said he escaped a double suicide bombing during a visit to Iraq three years ago after the attempts on his life were foiled by British intelligence and Iraqi police.
Francis made the revelation in his upcoming autobiography,
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(Hope), excerpts of which were shared with Corriere …Post Office inquiry witnesses driven by ‘self-preservation’, says Vennells lawyer
Paula Vennells’ legal team has told the Horizon IT inquiry to treat the evidence of some witnesses “cautiously”, as a desire for “self preservation” means that they were trying to scapegoat the former Post Office chief executive for the scandal.
Samantha Leek KC, delivering the closing statement on behalf of …