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Charles Perrottet told the NSW corruption commission he did not ask his brother, then becoming premier, to appoint a cabinet minister to benefit a property developer, disputing claims made in an intercepted phone call.
Seven alpine resorts are ending ski operations up to a month ahead of schedule after a winter that broke heat records, with limited snowfall washed away by rain amid El Niño and global heating.
The National Audit Office says the government should work more closely with households, communities and businesses so food supplies can withstand increasingly common shocks, including climate pressures and cyber-attacks.
Businesses in England draw about 2.6bn litres a day from the public supply, around 30% of use, and many are not required to report consumption even as households face hosepipe bans.
The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would strip private schools and colleges of tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on race.
The group, which includes Audi, Porsche and Skoda as well as the VW brand, plans to reduce its workforce by a total of 100,000 positions by 2030.
An officer will work on misconnections, where incorrectly installed plumbing sends household waste water into surface drains and on into rivers.
A 10-year-old boy looking for fossils along the shore at Islandmagee spotted the back of a whale skull, which may be the remains of a Bronze Age meal.
Renewable generation in Northern Ireland has consistently exceeded non-renewable generation since January, a first for the region.
A roundup of positive stories: a powerful new tool to help spot heart disease, France moving to slow fast fashion, and a species coming back from the brink.
Demand for avocados is rising quickly in India, and local growers hope to capture a larger share of the growing market.
A look at how some mayors have managed to hold on to voters' trust, and what national leaders could learn from their success.
Argentina's president reiterated his country's claim to the British overseas territory and threatened to sanction oil firms, saying the 'winds of change' favour Argentina.
New Zealand's medicines regulator has approved two psychiatrists to prescribe pharmaceutical-grade MDMA for severe post-traumatic stress disorder, making it the second country to do so after Australia in 2023.
More than 27,000 EVs were sold in August, a monthly record and 24.9% of new car sales, exceeding petrol vehicles for the first time amid high fuel prices and supportive government policy.
A hot meat pie from a roadside bakery is a staple of long Australian road trips, and bakers compete for the honour of making the country's best.
President Javier Milei has intensified Argentina's claim over the British territory, while President Trump has raised questions about longstanding US neutrality on the dispute.
Galaxy Robot Park, a 16,500-square-metre venue in South Korea, offers attractions including humanoid robots dancing to K-pop hits, raising the question of whether robots are theme parks' future.
A Togo-sponsored resolution backed by African Union member states asks the UN to phase out the traditional Mercator map in favour of one that displays Africa's size more accurately.
China is boycotting the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, saying the festival misrepresents Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, as an independent nation.
Prosecutors accuse Republican legislative candidate Thomas Ross and his former campaign manager of planning to plant drugs in primary opponent Louise Secker's purse or vehicle; Ross was arrested on Wednesday.
A sea eagle that confounded experts by surviving with a broken wing has been spotted flying above Scotland's west coast once more.
Milk is running short in Kenya, with supermarket shelves emptying, sellers rationing supplies and prices rising, to the dismay of the country's chai lovers.
The girl group received a hero's welcome in London, delivering a dazzling show even with two members absent from the tour.
Adam Telle, currently assistant army secretary for civil works and a legislative affairs aide in Trump's first term, takes over as acting army secretary following Dan Driscoll's departure.
The Trump administration is creating lists of adult citizens eligible to vote in each state ahead of the midterms, though it will miss its own deadline of 60 days before Election Day.
A major US oil deal with Venezuela's interim president is being rejected by the opposition and by some in her own party. Venezuelan Canadians with oil industry experience call the deal illegitimate and expect it to be repudiated.
A genetically modified pig kidney kept a 66-year-old man off dialysis for a record nine months and served as a bridge to a human transplant, a world first for the approach.
The carmaker will shed 15% of its workforce and halve its product line in the sector's biggest restructure, citing US tariffs and competition from Chinese rivals. Management and unions agreed the cost-cutting plan.
A digital rights group says at least 14 people across Serbian civil society, including student protesters, were targeted with advanced spyware this year, the largest documented wave in the country. The government denies spying.
The London mayor will have his texts and emails searched as part of a legal battle with Palantir, which sued after he blocked the company's £50m deal with the Metropolitan police.
Preliminary research in mice suggests psilocybin may prevent nerve damage caused by chemotherapy. Scientists are optimistic the results will apply to humans, and clinical trials begin this month.
Norway captured the vessel in the high Arctic as part of a global effort to seize Russian assets, acting on an international court order. Russia denounced the move as piracy.
A Channel 4 News investigation filmed members of Nigel Farage's team appearing to plot ways around electoral laws on foreign donations, drawing criticism on the eve of the Reform UK conference.
The administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a temporary block on a Postal Service plan connected to restricting mail-in voting for the midterm election.
The Netherlands moved some 90 tons of gold out of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, citing geopolitical unrest, becoming the second European nation this year to reduce US gold holdings.
The new environment secretary, Angela Eagle, says nothing is off the table in dealing with Thames Water, confirming ministers are prepared to take the company into public ownership.
The US president says he will ask European nations to pay back the cost of aid previously sent to Ukraine, and appeared to signal a halt in sales to allied nations.
A home in India uses clever clay architecture and the laws of thermodynamics to resist heat without air conditioning, part of a wider movement of firms designing auto-cooling buildings.
British police are trying to recover about 70,000 pints of Guinness taken in two truckloads.
Data centres are expanding rapidly in Australia. Advocates say they will bring jobs, while others worry they will consume resources while providing little local advantage.
New research connects climate policies and cleaner air with improved early-childhood development.
Fox News abruptly announced it has cut ties with the anchor after more than a dozen years at the network.
Israel is expected to release Lebanese prisoners, a move seen as a rare sign of progress amid difficult talks between the two countries.
This year's Ig Nobel winners include a study finding wealthier people are more likely to take children's sweets. Laureates were showered in paper planes and given a phased-out Zimbabwean 10tn dollar note.
The annual Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded this week for humorous yet thought-provoking research, and this year's ceremony came with a twist.
The sister of an Ontario university student arrested in an FBI counter-intelligence investigation says her brother is not knowingly involved in espionage for Beijing. He was arrested while attempting to cross the US border.
The deal gives Nvidia control of a leading open-source AI platform and its developer community.
Researchers analysing more than a million genomes identified DNA variants linked to extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and other traits, and measured how those traits influence how people live.
Researchers spent over a decade reconstructing the calls of nine species of ancient insects to create the first accurate Jurassic soundscape.
The US Mint has issued a special edition $1 coin stamped with a portrait of Trump alongside the words "LIBERTY" and "IN GOD WE TRUST", making him the first living president on American currency in a hundred years.
Researchers at the University of Tübingen surveyed birdsong and concluded the blackbird's is the most pleasant, crediting the plain-looking bird's wide repertoire for its appeal.
Scientists are comparing the brains of male and female flies, work that could transform understanding of how genes shape behaviour, including in humans.
A Guardian critic finds Bucking Fastard, Werner Herzog's fiction feature starring real-life sisters Rooney and Kate Mara as closely interdependent twins, aimless and disappointing despite a few laughs.
The Japanese currency rose more than 2% against the dollar to a one-month high of 155.57 amid speculation that the Bank of Japan is set to raise interest rates.
A Guardian review says the 22-year-old's debut, Prima, is strikingly frank about the music industry and the pursuit of fame, putting a distinctive spin on 2000s pop hedonism.
The film-maker's new movie stars John Malkovich as a regretful CIA agent in 1970s Chile. McDonagh says the agency's history of intervening abroad deserves more public scrutiny.
Answering readers' questions, the Canadian singer-songwriter says the minimalism and stillness of the prairies shaped all her art, and discusses Patsy Cline, spirituality and collaborations with Neko Case and Laura Veirs.
After the US vice-president mused with a Christian podcast host about end-times beliefs, a friend told the BBC that such views are widely held.
The Billion Oyster Project on Governors Island recycles restaurant shells to rebuild about 100 acres of historic oyster reefs, which filter pollutants from the harbour and absorb wave energy.
Spain's prime minister told parliament there is no evidence Morocco planned or facilitated the mass crossing into Ceuta, after a police report claimed border forces helped about 70,000 people cross in late July.
A new UN report concludes the 1.5-degree warming goal is out of reach, and says combining carbon removal with emissions cuts is the remaining path to limit further warming.
Amelia Dimoldenberg is closing her YouTube interview series, which drew 34m hours of views, reached nearly every country and helped establish YouTube as a serious rival to television.
MOONS, built by a team led from Scotland, has started work at the Very Large Telescope in Chile, where it could reveal new details about the stars.
The Spanish prime minister said it is absurd to suggest his government knew in advance about the mass border crossing and did nothing, as thousands joined protests in Spanish cities.
The billionaire's relocation to Buenos Aires coincides with proposed laws that opponents say would entrench the power of US tech billionaires. Protesters gathered outside his mansion this week.
Marking 300 years of Gulliver's Travels, critics count down film's most memorable giants, from a stone colossus to Spielberg's take on Roald Dahl's BFG.
A yearlong São Paulo clinical study found omega-3 supplements taken with low-dose aspirin worked about as well as antibiotics for severe gum disease, suggesting an alternative as resistance to antibiotics grows.
A visual history traces how Washington's relationship with Caracas has long been bound up with oil, going back to a blunt 1950 State Department memo on securing petroleum supplies.
This year's El Niño is expected to be the strongest in living memory, and meteorologists are weighing its possible effects on the UK, including a stormier autumn and a colder winter.
Amid record temperatures on the continent, Italian households and businesses that long resisted cooling units are increasingly installing them.
Theatre-makers Emily Lim and Dan Canham, who staged a similar project in Sunderland, are working with New York's Public Theater on a one-of-a-kind performed tribute to the city.
The director behind Dark Souls and Elden Ring talks about connection and game design as FromSoftware's new multiplayer title nears release.
Glen Powell is back as the quarterback in disguise in his sports comedy, which the reviewer finds naughty, lovable and disarmingly unique.
Chevron's $7bn investment deepens US ties to Venezuela's oil industry, and critics argue the arrangement poses risks to democracy and could stir discontent over Washington's stance.
Ties between the Trump administration and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have cooled since a truce with Iran, with Trump seeking diplomatic progress while Netanyahu takes a defiant stance before an election.
The actor helps launch the annual secondhand fashion campaign, as research finds 57% of UK adults tried to buy less clothing in the past year.
The Gretsch Synchromatic acoustic guitar strummed in the 1987 Faith video is expected to sell for up to £120,000, a nod to the song that anchored his solo career.
As millions of Canadian children return to school, medical experts say staying healthy through the autumn takes more than just a flu shot.
Giorgia Meloni's government marks 1,413 consecutive days in office, overtaking Silvio Berlusconi's record, raising the question of how long that stability will last.
BBC Verify uses satellite imagery to follow the mysterious phenomenon of an island that appeared to vanish before turning up 20 miles away, surprising people around the world.
A BBC correspondent rides in Uber's self-driving robotaxi as the service rolls out in London.
China's president makes his first trip to Egypt in a decade, a visit that illustrates Beijing's growing ambitions across the region.
Guy Ritchie's caper is back for a second season, and the reviewer finds its geezers in tweed irritating, stupid and very funny, with Theo James fascinating in his blandness.
The three-time Olympic gold medallist in halfpipe snowboarding celebrates a birthday; he was the first person to compete in and win both the Summer and Winter X Games in two different sports.
The former Venezuelan president and his wife argue the drug trafficking indictment against them should be dismissed because they held immunity as a foreign leader and first lady.
The World Meteorological Organization warns that the natural weather phenomenon, described as supersized, could bring disruption to economies as countries prepare.
Caleb Stein has spent more than a decade photographing a swimming creek community in Poughkeepsie, New York; his book Down by the Hudson arrives with an exhibition opening on 10 September.
Guardian journalists discuss why fixing methane super-leaks is called the climate emergency brake, as Turkmenistan begins plugging its worst leaks while other countries lag behind.
At 74, the star discusses a new Netflix documentary about his life and explains why he left the spotlight, saying chasing money never drove him.
The outdoor apparel maker joins environmental and Native American groups in challenging President Trump's shrinking of the Utah national monument.
The ride-hailing app introduces 15 self-driving taxis in the UK, each carrying a safety driver, and a reporter describes what riding in one is like.
The US military issues detailed guidance requiring testosterone deficiency screening for active-duty and reserve members aged 30 and older, following a July announcement.
Following an executive order from Donald Trump amid a trade spat with Canada, Apple Maps now displays Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the US. Users outside the country still see the original name.
A conversation with journalist Jonathan Swan about how foreign leaders use leverage, strength and personal dynamics to manage the president.
President Trump implied that the Bank of Canada, a Crown corporation based in Canada, was a commercial bank with branch locations in the United States.
At a signing ceremony at the UN mission in Tripoli, Libya's rival factions agreed to hold elections, a breakthrough ending a six-year standoff after more than two years of UN-led negotiations.
Ink, premiering at the Venice film festival, dramatises Rupert Murdoch's purchase of the Sun newspaper and editor Larry Lamb's transformation of it into a circulation powerhouse, with Jack O'Connell praised in the lead role.
A Mexican court issued arrest warrants for a man and woman accused of defrauding a Canadian couple of their retirement savings through an alleged condo-flipping scheme.
Uber says the restructuring, which will cut over 3,000 roles worldwide, is intended to make its operations simpler and faster.
China's leader Xi Jinping is seeking closer ties with Egypt, a longtime US security partner, as Beijing looks to project a larger role in the region.
HBO released a second trailer for its adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, starring newcomer Dominic McLaughlin, showing life at Hogwarts ahead of the show's Christmas debut.
In Mayday, Ryan Reynolds plays a 1980s American fighter pilot who teams up with Kenneth Branagh's retired KGB officer in a goofy but entertaining adventure set in Soviet Russia.
Researchers say they may have found the first hint of dark matter, a mysterious material that has eluded scientists for nearly a century.
An internal report from the International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran's refusal to grant access to its inspectors is an urgent concern, leaving the program's status uncertain.
A stray cat nursed back to health by railway staff in Japan has been promoted to stationmaster, continuing a quirky tradition that raises eyebrows and lifts spirits.
Leading medical organisations jointly issued shot guidelines urging people to get flu and Covid-19 vaccinations this fall, hoping to ease confusion caused by the administration's changing immunization advice.
Physicists say a lone signal from an experiment in South Dakota does not fit the profile of any known particle, intriguing scientists hunting for dark matter.
Members of the House of Lords are calling for powers to shut down runaway AI systems, saying such a measure would provide a vital safety net.
A Milwaukee landlord cleaning out a vacant apartment found an original Pablo Picasso work that had been stolen eight years earlier.
A photo essay shows designers rethinking a heavily polluted Brooklyn site with climate adaptation and community benefits in mind.
Data belonging to 8.7 million people was published following last month's hack of the company that owns Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports.
Complainants from Bangladesh allege the bank breached international guidelines by underwriting companies behind the Rampal coal power project, citing pollution and climate risks to the Sundarbans, a world heritage site.
BBC Verify fact-checks President Trump's claims about how much money he is supplying to Nasa.
Provisional results show 70% of voters approved sweeping constitutional changes ahead of December elections. Critics say fewer parliamentary seats and new candidate rules will undermine democracy.
Conservationists say there are now 325 kakapos in New Zealand, the largest population of the giant flightless parrot species in decades, after a successful breeding season.
A look at what Brazil's oldest citizens can teach about longevity, suggesting the answer may lie in a simple life rather than billion-dollar tech ventures.
Good News Network marks the birthday of Keanu Reeves, often called one of the nicest people in show business, whose career runs from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure to The Matrix trilogy.
A new 30km/h limit, down from 60km/h, now applies to residential roads without centre lines or speed signs, covering about 70% of general roads, to make crowded urban streets safer for pedestrians.
The prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, 29, admitted conspiring to urge foreign powers to impose sanctions and other measures against Hong Kong and China.
In an interview, Italy's hard-right leader describes how pragmatism is reshaping her approach to European politics.
At a summit meant to showcase President Trump's economic policies as a model for the world, European leaders voiced complaints about tariffs.
A court dismissed money laundering and fraud charges against former president Juan Orlando Hernández, effectively making him a free man after his release in December.
A consumer group called Booking.com unfit after a fake 10 Downing Street listing appeared on the site; the company said the limited test does not reflect the experience of millions of listings.
A global bond sell-off reflects anxiety about debt levels, deficits and inflation, and could raise costs for mortgages, business loans and other credit around the world.
Self-flying crop-spraying planes are at the forefront of autonomous aviation, prompting the question of whether pilot-free aircraft could transform the skies.
The Academy of Natural Sciences, a nearly 200-year-old museum known for its T. rex and affiliated with Drexel University, cited attendance struggles and higher costs in its decision to close.
For only the sixth time in history, a team of two women completed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
The programme looks at how AI can only communicate in languages it has been trained on.
The measure would have required energy companies to pay $75 billion to the state, but the court found it conflicted with federal law.
Amid the trade dispute, Canada's Liberals swept three special votes, and new polling suggests strong support for Prime Minister Mark Carney and his retaliatory tariffs against the US.
Danish farmers protested a proposed crackdown on fertilizer use, which the government says is needed to protect its waters from overexposure to nitrates.
A high-stakes dispute over data centers in Pennsylvania pits the promise of AI jobs against worries about the environment.
Officials in British Columbia say a small island that had appeared and vanished drifted toward a local lake's shoreline, though its origins remain a mystery.
After a child lost his most valuable cards in a fraudulent trade with an adult at a San Francisco convention, the Pokémon community came together to help him.
The former UK prime minister, who left Downing Street in July after pressure from his own party, says he will quit his seat to focus on a role in international affairs and defense.
About 30 million people are now under hosepipe bans because of higher demand and low rainfall.
Researchers are using improving technology to decode the distinctive wails, clicks and squeals of different whale species, knowledge that could help efforts to protect whales.
Seven years after London introduced its Ultra Low Emission Zone, researchers measuring its impact on children's health link it to healthier lung development.
The sighting is believed to be one of only a handful recorded in England this year.
Governor Andrew Bailey told the G20 that volatility around AI, driven by energy shocks, could cause a global economic downturn.
Democrats and Republicans in Troy, N.Y., joined forces against a national Catholic health system and kept the county's last birthing center open.
Born 881 years ago in Moorish Spain, Ibn Jubayr made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 1183 and wrote a valued first-hand account of the places and people he encountered, including Acre and Norman-ruled Sicily.