Partisan X posts boost political polarisation among users, research finds
Study shows small changes to tone of posts in ‘for you’ feed increase unfavourable feelings towards political opponents
UK retailers urge faster end to tax break on low value imported goods
Primark, Currys and Boohoo have criticised government for 2029 deadline to phase out exemption on customs duties
Arrest warrants issued for Miss Universe co-owners in latest twist in pageant saga
Raúl Rocha Cantú is under investigation for drug, gun and fuel trafficking while Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip is accused of fraud
Wes Streeting calls BMA ‘impossible’ and says they made ‘misleading’ claims
Health secretary responds to speech given by GP committee leader accusing Labour of ‘gaslighting’ behaviour
The chancellor’s growth mission is missing in action
Businesses grumble about lack of ambition and urgency as Rachel Reeves continues to shy away from meaningful tax reform
Anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe claims her employer gave her immunity from complaints by pro-choice campaigners
University of Adelaide, who employs Joanna Howe as a law professor, states that it ‘considers each matter on its merits’
‘How far is it going to escalate?’ Fear Santos gas plan in Beetaloo basin could be start of NT fracking rush
Environment group warns of ‘major risk’ to groundwater, which supplies 90% of Northern Territory water supply
The Rot by Evelyn Araluen review – headlong language and bitter truths imbued with tenderness
Award-winning poet offers seductive beauty, deadly analyses, desolations and joys in the follow-up to her acclaimed debut Dropbear
State Library of Victoria faces job cuts as staff accuse management of pursuing ‘digital vanity projects’
Under the plan, 39 jobs would be lost and the public-facing workforce of reference librarians would be cut from 25 staff to 10
Venezuela bans six international airlines as tensions with US escalate
Carriers accused of joining ‘actions of state terrorism promoted by US’ after they suspended flights to Venezuela
Australian diet set to worsen as national food policy is drawn up by profit-driven industry, experts warn
Many industries on new council are ‘associated with significant health harms’, one academic says
Italy’s rape law stalls as Matteo Salvini claims it could be used for ‘vendettas’
Parliament delays debate over law defining sex without consent as rape, after comments by far-right deputy PM
‘There should have been an alarm’: in air thick with acrid smoke, people in Hong Kong are reeling and angry
As apartment complex still blazes more than 24 hours after fire began, police suspect cause is owing to ‘grossly negligent’ action
US navy accused of cover-up over dangerous plutonium in San Francisco
Advocates allege navy knew levels of airborne plutonium at Hunters Point shipyard were high before it alerted officials
US midwest and north brace for storm as nearly 82m people travel for holidays
Several flights are delayed and parts of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan could see six to 10 inches of snow
Cornwall girl who died after tonsil surgery should have been readmitted, coroner says
Amber Milnes, five, who had cyclical vomiting syndrome, was not kept in hospital overnight after tonsil operation
Europol seizes 8m fake and harmful toys in pre-Christmas crackdown
Agency warns shoppers to be vigilant online and on the high street, with counterfeit items often posing health risks