Two Carlton players treated in hospital after off-season night out 11. October 2026 (07:05) Club issues brief statement about Lachie Cowan and Will Hayward, saying latter suffered minor cut to head after a fallAn off-season night out for Carlton football club teammates ended with two players admitted to hospital for treatment on Sunday morning, in what the club says are “separate circumstances”.The club released a statement on Sunday confirming that AFL players Lachie Cowan, 21, and Will Hayward, 27, had been treated and discharged, after reports in several media outlets about the aftermath of an off-season night out.
Guardian Australia understands both players were both part of a larger group that had been socialising on Saturday evening. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
‘Restore the authority’: the challenge for the BBC’s new director of news 11. October 2026 (07:00) Rachel Jupp takes role as corporation grapples with digital transformation, a cash crisis and its public service roleWith looming job cuts and an ongoing pay dispute, there has not been much to smile about for BBC journalists working in “the pit” – their pet name for the newsroom deep in the belly of New Broadcasting House.On Monday afternoon, however, they were greeted by a grinning figure conducting a tour of the news floor. She was Rachel Jupp, the BBC’s newly appointed director of news and current affairs. Jupp engaged in a series of polite if brief conversations with her new troops. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Retrofit schools and consider moving exams to beat extreme heat, says teaching union leader 11. October 2026 (07:00) NEU’s Daniel Kebede says earlier start times and longer summer breaks may be needed to help pupils and teachersSchools should consider changing start and finish times, reordering holidays and moving exams from the summer months in an effort to adapt to the UK’s increasingly severe heatwaves, according to the leader of the country’s biggest education union.Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said this summer’s repeated bouts of extreme heat had a devastating impact on teachers and pupils, as classroom temperatures topped 40C and hundreds of thousands of young people were sent home. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Capital punishment is surging in the US – but after Christa Pike’s botched execution, what is its future? 11. October 2026 (07:00) Trump has used the full might of the presidency to supercharge executions, but an avalanche of mishaps has put the system’s flaws in the spotlightIt took more than an hour to establish the two intravenous lines through which Christa Pike would be injected with a giant and normally lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital, and in that time she did everything she could to assist those who were attempting to kill her.“Please try here,” she said over and over again to Tennessee’s execution team, pointing to specific parts of her body where she thought they might find a vein as they repeatedly stabbed her with needles. “Please try here, I think it will be OK. Please try up on my shoulder, higher.” Continue reading...(The Guardian)
‘My body is still peaking’: Eliud Kipchoge wins first marathon in three years 11. October 2026 (04:54) Kenyan breaks Melbourne Marathon record by two seconds‘I’m happy to run with the gen Zs,’ 41-year-old saysMarathon’s greatest competitor, Eliud Kipchoge, has sent a message to the next generation declaring that he’s not done yet.The 41-year-old Kenyan revelled in his Melbourne Marathon debut on Sunday, breaking the race record and delighting thousands of fans at the MCG finish. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Five people shot and killed in apparent murder-suicide, Georgia police say 11. October 2026 (02:01) Deceased were all members of the same family, officials say, and one of victims placed the initial emergency callFive people were shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide at a residence in Georgia on Friday, authorities say.The deceased were family members who lived at the home in Douglas, a city in south Georgia. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Skies across the UK illuminated by the northern lights 11. October 2026 (00:30) Though mostly visible near the Arctic Circle, the natural phenomenon dazzled sky-gazers as far south Devon, Hampshire and KentThe northern lights illuminated the skies across the UK on Friday and Saturday evening.Sky-gazers as far south as Devon, Hampshire and Kent were treated to the dazzling natural phenomenon, also known as the aurora borealis. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Despair after 200-year-old ‘grandmother’ tree toppled for Trump’s border wall: ‘It crushes your heart’ 10. October 2026 (22:57) Protesters spent months occupying an ancient cottonwood. Then a tense standoff with US border patrol came to a headA 200-year-old cottonwood tree near the US-Mexico border, known as the “grandmother”, has been destroyed to make way for the construction of Donald Trump’s border wall, despite a months-long effort by protesters trying to save it.In late July, land defenders began a tree-sit in the ghost town of Lochiel, Arizona, taking turns occupying a platform high in the tree’s canopy. The group remained there for more than 70 days. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Man with gun kills one Philadelphia police officer and injures another 10. October 2026 (22:12) 10-year police veteran Shane Seiber was killed after responding to a report of a man with a gunA Philadelphia police officer was fatally shot and another was wounded on Saturday after responding to a report of a man with a gun, authorities said.Shane Seiber, 40, was killed early on Saturday morning in West Philadelphia, according to the city’s police commissioner, Kevin Bethel. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
US man shoots off-duty ICE agent who allegedly attacked him and daughter 10. October 2026 (21:03) ICE official, who was sleeping on man’s lawn and appeared ‘intoxicated’, faces felony charges, California police sayA 72-year-old man shot an off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official in California early on Friday morning after the “intoxicated and agitated” official assaulted him and his daughter on their property, local authorities allege.The Fresno police department said that the ICE official was receiving medical care after being shot in the midsection. The official, identified as David Gonzalez, is facing felony charges for assaulting the father-daughter duo, Fresno police said. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
