Senate staffers rest on the U.S. Capitol steps at sunrise as Republican lawmakers struggle to pass U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping spending and tax bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 1, 2025.
Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters
This week, RFK Jr announced the US would stop funding the global vaccine alliance, Gavi - the Vaccine Alliance that helps vaccinate more than half the world’s children against deadly infectious diseases.
GAVI says it has helped vaccinate more than 1.1 billion children in 78 low-income countries since its founding in 2000, preventing 18.8 million future deaths.
A security guard stands on a street, during early hours of ceasefire, in Tehran, Iran, June 24, 2025.
Nato leaders have agreed to ramp up defence spending to 5% of their countries' economic output by 2035, following months of pressure from Donald Trump.
The Spanish prime minister (far right) appeared to stand by himself in the Nato "family photo".
A court has heard NSW state MP Gareth Ward's alleged sexual abuse victim was spurred to action after learning the politician had been appointed as families minister, which he likened to a vampire running a blood bank.
He is accused of inviting a drunk 18 year old man -who was 17 at the time they met - to his South Coast home in February 2013.
The man told the jury Ward plied him with drinks before indecently assaulting him three times in one night.
Ivanka Trump walks with her children and husband at the airport, before getting into a water taxi, ahead of the wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, in Venice, Italy.
REUTERS/Yara Nardi
The Hague, Netherlands
A service staff sets a table as preparations are underway in the Oranjezaal ballroom in the royal palace Huis ten Bosch for the NATO dinner that King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands are offering to participating heads of government.
President Trump is open to appointing Elon Musk to a new position after his 'special
government employee' designation expires.
"Elon is fantastic, he's a patriot," Trump told
reporters, adding Musk can stay at the White House "as long as he'd
like" and that he personally wants him to stay "as long as
possible."
Source: Fox News
President Donald Trump threatened to cut $400 million in federal grants to Colombia University for
"continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish
students."
Interim president Katrina
Armstrong, issued a letter on Friday that said the university takes the cuts
"very seriously" and is prepared to work with the government on its
"legitimate concerns."
James Harrison, the ‘man with the golden arm’, whose rare
blood saved 2.4m babies, has died at age 88.
His blood contained precious anti-D, used to make medication for at-risk
newborns.
Photograph: Australian Red Cross
ICE officers raided the Kebab
restaurant in New Jersey and arrested, Emine Emanet and her husband, Celal
Emanet, who moved to the US from Turkey in 2008 on an R1 visa.
“No Other Land,” which chronicles
Israel’s demolitions in the Palestinian West Bank village of Masafer
Yatta, won the Academy Award for best documentary feature on Sunday night.
Israel’s culture minister bemoaned the win as a “sad
moment.”
European leaders during a summit on Ukraine at Lancaster
House in London.
Photograph: Christophe Ena/EPA
Nathan Cleary stole the show in Las Vegas yesterday, leading from the front in the Panthers’ 28-22 win over the Sharks at Allegiant Stadium.
He met up with Mary Fowler who was in California with the Matildas for a 24-hour catch-up before he flew back to Vegas to re-join his Panthers team.
Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong raised Australia's expectations around "safe and professional military conduct" with her Chinese counterpart, Wang Li, on the sidelines of G20 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Source: Getty / Per-Anders Pettersson
It has been a frantic process for German Australians looking to get their ballot papers in on time for the German election this weekend. (Polls open from 8am to 6pm local time on Sun 23 Feb)
Of the 29 parties on the ballot, it is likely between five and eight of will get enough votes to win seats in the 630-seat parliament, the Bundestag.
Pakistani student Haider Ali died yesterday after his e-bike exploded in his bedroom. He used the bike for nightly Uber and Doordash deliveries.
Almost all of exploding e-bikes will be due to the lithium-ion
batteries yet shonky, cheap batteries are still being sold.
The UK Telegraph reported that the US is seeking to control
Ukraine's critical minerals, travel ports and natural resources in exchange for
protection from Russia.
European officials believe Donald Trump is likely to
withdraw troops from the Baltics, leaving the continent vulnerable to Russia.
At least 124 people have died in Ankara and Istanbul in the past six weeks after drinking bootleg raki, and dozens more are in intensive care. The strong aniseed flavoured raki is considered a national drink in Turkey.
A major operation is under way to withdraw
millions of bottles of the strong alcoholic aniseed drink in shops and markets.
The Russian delegation led by foreign
minister Sergiei Lavrov is now in Riyadh ahead of
tomorrow’s talks on bilateral relations with the US, which are also expected to
include first exchanges on a potential peace deal on Ukraine.
Merz stands with Angela Merkel after she was elected as new
party chairwoman in 2000.
Buried deep in a Welsh landfill, beneath layers of years-old
garbage, there is a hard drive that holds the key to almost $800 million in
bitcoin after accidentally throwing the drive away in 2013. And now, after years of battling the local
authority in court to retrieve the hard drive, James Howells has come up with a
new plan: to simply buy the landfill.
NSW government officials are investigating after nurses at
Bankstown Hospital, Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, wearing their NSW Health
uniforms were filmed declaring they refuse to treat Israeli people and would
"kill them" if they present to their ward.
Police allegedly found a vial of morphine in Nadir’s
personal locker at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in Sydney. He allegedly asked a former colleague to
empty his locker. But that staff member
claimed they felt uncomfortable and instead called the police.
Warren Buffett sold a big stake in a healthcare provider on
Tuesday, causing the share price to sink 11 per cent. He offloaded
billions of dollars of stock in DaVita, a dialysis provider.
Thousands of investors follow and mirror his market moves
and DaVita's stock is the latest victim.
Officers from Strike Force Pearl reportedly raided the home
of Bankstown Hospital nurse Ahmad Rashad Nadir last night (Friday), just hours
after the man was hospitalised over mental health concerns.
Bankstown hospital nurses Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh have both hired lawyers but are still refusing to talk with police.
As packages pile up at US customs, President Trump pauses repeal
of duty-free low-cost packages from China yesterday after the rapid change
sparked chaos for customs inspectors, postal and delivery services and online
retailers.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton said a video of two NSW nurses claiming they
would kill Israeli patients was related to the "inadequacies" of
Australia's migration system. It shows
the need for a "national conversation" on migration and citizenship”
he said.
Ahmad “Rashad” Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh have now been
banned from practising “anywhere in Australia, in any context”. They were deregistered by the Nursing and
Midwiferey Council of NSW, effective from February 13.
Two men abused by George Pell in 1970s granted compensation
by the federal government.
Accounts of the two men were accepted by decision-maker of
national redress scheme with $45,000 and $95,000 awarded respectively......................
An Australian mum of six with a deadly brain tumour has
ignored critics and followed her gut, travelling to China for surgery with
“banished” neurosurgeon Charlie Teo.
Brendan Stevens, the Australian Christian cult leader that
killed an eight-year old girl who disavowed birthdays, schooling and medicine –
including the insulin that would have saved Elizabeth Struhs’ life.....
Yesterday, Timothy Malcolm Rowland, 40, was found not guilty
of having non-consensual sex with a woman at his Sydney apartment
on 26 August 2022, after the pair spent a night out together…..
David Beckham, who turns 50 this year, has released pictures
of himself modelling his new bodywear collection for Hugo Boss.
Toyota Motor sold 10.8 million vehicles in 2024, it said on
Thursday, remaining the world’s top-selling automaker for a fifth straight
year.
Second-ranked German rival Volkswagen Group earlier this
month reported a 2.3 per cent decline in unit sales last year to just over 9
million vehicles, as it seeks to cut costs at home and fight a price war in key
market China......
Female Israeli soldier Agam Berger is released from captivity
in Gaza. Dressed in military clothes,
she was paraded on a stage by Hamas militants before being handed over to
officials…..
