KATE Middleton and Prince William today met the Ukraine President in the first royal engagement at Buckingham Palace in seven months. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge welcomed the President of the Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Оlena at in the palace's Throne Room. The engagement marks the first royal event at Buckingham Palace since lockdown first hit in […]

Will Boris Johnson’s ‘Generation Buy’ pledge leave the taxpayer liable for £44BILLION? Plan to help two million people onto the housing ladder could see Government underwriting chunk of mortgage cost in ‘state guarantee’ PM pledged to help millions on to housing ladder in conference speech  He said he wanted to help first-time buyers get 95% mortagages  But that may have to […]

Yet another global temperature record tumbled last month, when the world experienced its hottest September.  Globally, surface air temperatures 0.05C warmer than the same month in 2019, making it the warmest on record, scientists said. It was also the hottest September Europe has seen, beating the previous record for the continent, set in 2018, by around 0.2C, according to the […]

QANON, a bizarre conspiracy theory that gained rapid popularity on social media platforms, has been banned outright from Facebook. The theory alleges a group of paedophiles behind a global child sex-trafficking ring is plotting against President Donald Trump. Its supporters claim the President is communicating about "covert battles" between himself and the Deep State. What is QAnon? QAnon is a […]

Summary Victoria has recorded six new cases of coronavirus and two more deaths in the past day as the Chadstone cluster grew to 31 people and hundreds of Kilmore residents came forward for testing. Three Sydney cases are under ‘urgent investigation’ as NSW’s streak of no cases ended. None of the cases are currently connected to previous outbreaks and they […]

For Melbourne to move to step three of the state government's road map for easing restrictions on October 19, Victoria's 14-day average for new coronavirus cases has to be driven below five and there needs to have been five or fewer mystery cases, in total, over the previous fortnight. We are now within that crucial fortnight meaning that the case […]

A man has been charged with contaminating goods after he allegedly inserted a used needle into a loaf of bread on the shelves of a Woolworths supermarket in Roxburgh Park. Court documents allege that Fue Yang, 33, poked the bread with a "soiled hypodermic needle". A police summary of the incident alleged Mr Yang, who sat quietly in court during […]

Elections are all about contrasts and, when it comes to Biden vs. Trump, the contrasts are plentiful and sharp. On taxes, the economy, Iran, race relations, the environment — the candidates don’t just disagree, they are close to polar opposites. There is also a chasm between them on the coronavirus. Their different approaches sometimes make it seem as if they […]

On November 3, Starbucks (SBUX) is giving all of its nearly 200,000 U.S. employees a Lyft (LYFT) to their local polling place. On Tuesday, Starbucks said it would provide all of its employees, known internally as “partners,” a free one-way Lyft ride up to $75 to the polls to cast votes in the presidential election, or volunteer as a poll […]

Lawyers for E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996, say the president can’t use his job as a shield in her defamation suit Carroll’s lawyers made the argument in Manhattan federal court filing Monday ‘Only in a world gone mad could it somehow be presidential, not personal, for Trump to […]