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Sep 30, 2026 - World

Shoebridge to stand on a joint ticket with Steph Hodgins-May – a first-term senator from VictoriaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastNew South Wales senator David Shoebridge has joined the race to become the Greens’ new leader, with an increasingly crowded field revealing splits among the 11-member party room.Shoebridge said on Wednesday morning he would stand on a joint ticket with Victorian senator Steph Hodgins-May as his proposed deputy, facing off with the deputy leader, Mehreen Faruqi, and communications spokesperson, Sarah Hanson-Young.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here Continue reading...

Sep 29, 2026 - World

‘Yellow 2120’ has been driven out of other Altadena neighborhood crawlspaces, but he just keeps coming backHe’s back: the 550lb bear made famous after he took up residence under an Altadena home in November 2025 is wandering the Los Angeles neighborhood again after he moved in and out of the crawlspace of another home.“Yellow 2120”, as the black bear has been tagged, was spotted in the crawlspace of a home on Minoru Drive on Monday. Continue reading...

Sep 29, 2026 - World

More than 400 detained as police and students clash over class sizes, exhausting timetables and staff shortagesMore than 400 people, most of them children, have been detained in France on Tuesday after teenagers across the country blockaded their schools in protest at class sizes, teacher shortages and long timetables.Interior minister Laurent Nunez told BFM TV: “440 were detained across national territory. We don’t have the final tally yet, but I’m told two-thirds led to police custody.” Continue reading...

Sep 29, 2026 - World

The company on Monday said it abandoned plans for GPT-6.1 Astra because the model frequently ignored instructions.

Sep 29, 2026 - World

The private document is part of a so-called "whisper network" used by women in Silicon Valley to warn one another about alleged sexual misconduct, according to several insiders who have seen it.