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A jury in Australia has found Erin Patterson guilty on three counts of murder and one of attempted murder. The murder weapon: Toxic mushrooms. Prosecutors argued Patterson intentionally served four of her family members with meal portions containing toxic death cap mushrooms in 2023. Patterson denied being guilty, originally telling police she had used store-bought mushrooms from a supermarket, then an Asian grocer in Melbourne. A search of such stores found no evidence that poisonous mushrooms had ever been sold.  During the trial, Patterson said she may have foraged for the mushrooms but could not say for certain where she had obtained the…

More than a year after being accused of “inappropriate, controlling behavior” by a female colleague, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has been sacked with immediate effect. The Formula One team released a statement on July 9, saying that Christian Horner would be released of his role after 20 years in the job. Red Bull did not give a reason for Horner’s departure, but former RB Leipzig CEO Oliver Mintzlaff thanked him for his work, saying he would “forever remain an important part of our team history.”  French engineer Laurent Mekies, of sister F1 team Racing Bulls, will replace Horner…

The bridge that connects the German city of Frankfurt an der Oder and the Polish city of Slubice is quite a strange sight these days. Rows of EU flags have been hoisted on it and on either side of it. Those crossing from the German side see a sign that reads “Frankfurt Oder – Slubice” and the words “Ohne Grenzen. Bez Granic” — “without borders” in German and Polish. But the slogan, which both cities have been using in their joint marketing campaign for years now, no longer applies the way it used to. Germany began carrying out spot checks…

South Korea’s disgraced ex-President Yoon Suk-yeol returned to prison on Thursday as prosecutors investigate accusations of insurrection after he declared martial law last December. He is being held in a solitary cell at the Seoul Detention Center, where he spent 52 days earlier in the year before his release four months ago on technical grounds. The Seoul Central District Court said it approved a second warrant because of concerns Yoon could seek to destroy evidence. What is Yoon accused of? Yoon triggered months of political turmoil in South Korea after declaring martial law in early December, and then sending armed soldiers to parliament…

US President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on 14 countries on Monday night, the majority of them in Asia. He said the tariffs would kick in on August 1 but left the door open for further negotiations, saying the suggested tariffs were “more or less” final offers. “If [countries] call with a different offer, and if I like it, we’ll do it,” he said. Which countries has Trump targeted and why? Among the countries that Trump hit were Japan, South Korea, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos and Myanmar. Analysts say the focus on Asian countries is part of a move by the…

When incoming US president Donald Trump moved to revoke birthright citizenship, stripping people born in the country of their US nationality if their parents are non-citizen immigrants, some saw echoes of Nazi Germany. However Germany, a nation formed in 1871 from diverse independent states, never gave automatic citizenship to those born in the country. Citizenship was ruled by the right of blood, based on the idea that German nationality was inherited, meaning one or two parents had to be German. Yet citizen rights did not depend on race and religion. Some 400,000 Jews in the country, or 80% of the population,…

A jury in Australia has found Erin Patterson guilty on three counts of murder and one of attempted murder. The murder weapon: Toxic mushrooms. Prosecutors argued Patterson intentionally served four of her family members with meal portions containing toxic death cap mushrooms in 2023. Patterson denied being guilty, originally telling police she had used store-bought mushrooms from a supermarket, then an Asian grocer in Melbourne. A search of such stores found no evidence that poisonous mushrooms had ever been sold.  During the trial, Patterson said she may have foraged for the mushrooms but could not say for certain where she had obtained the…

For the second game in a row, Lea Schüller was substituted with 20 minutes remaining. This was not a reflection of poor performance but Germany coach Christian Wück’s way of protecting his striker, who had done her job once again. Schüller scored the second, just as she had against Poland in Germany’s opener, to complete a 2-1 comeback against Denmark. Until fairly recently, it has been the Bayern Munich star who was the one coming on. But the retirement of Alexandra Popp last year has made Schüller Germany’s undisputed starting striker.Sjoeke Nüsken scored Germany’s equalizer after a shaky startImage: Frank…

07/08/2025July 8, 2025Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize, hails attacks on IranIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Donald Trump on Monday that he was nominating the US president for a Nobel Peace Prize as the pair hailed their recent strikes on Iran’s key nuclear facilities. Netanyahu and Trump sat down with their top aides for a dinner in Washington to mark the Iran operation and discuss a 60-day ceasefire proposal aimed at halting the 21-month conflict in Gaza. “He’s forging peace as we speak, and one country and one region after the other,” Netanyahu said as he presented Trump with a nominating letter, adding that he…

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday handed President Donald Trump yet another victory as the judiciary gave the go-ahead for his administration to pursue the slashing of federal jobs, potentially numbering in the hundreds of thousands. In doing so, the top court in the United States overrode lower court orders that temporarily froze the cuts, carried out by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which was initially headed by billionaire Elon Musk.Trump policies, job cuts spark street protests across USTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video What does the ruling mean? The judges, in a…