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Sheffield-formed band also release swaggering new single Spike Island, their first new track since 2013• Review: Alexis Petridis on Spike Island, Jarvis Cocker and co’s joyous second comingPulp have announced their first album since 2001’s We Love Life, entitled More, trailed by a new single, Spike Island.“I was born to perform, it’s a calling / I exist to do this, shouting and pointing”, frontman Jarvis Cocker sings on the anthemic song, ushering one of the most successful British bands of the 1990s into a new phase. Continue reading…

They both support the underdog, but can they find common ground on Britain’s past?Frankie, 28, LondonOccupation Aid worker Continue reading…

Dramatic footage shows a group of criminals targeting several businesses across 17 suburbs in south-east Queensland. 

Claims by four women are filed at high court, including of rape, coercive control and assault and battery Andrew Tate told a woman he was “debating whether to rape you or not” before he strangled and forced himself upon her, according to one of four women suing the self-proclaimed misogynistic influencer.He is also accused of whispering “good girl” as he raped a woman he employed at his webcam business whom he had separately threatened with a gun, and strangling another so often that she developed spots from burst capillaries around her eyes. Continue reading…

Singapore Civil Defence Force arrived to find several people hanging on a ledge on the third floor as blaze ragedGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA 10-year-old Australian girl is dead and more than 20 other people are injured after a raging fire tore through a cooking school.Sixteen children and six adults were rushed to hospital, where a 10-year-old girl died, after a fire at the Tomato Cooking school in Singapore, according to local media.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading…

Imprisoned in Russia on treason charges, she was freed on Thursday, the woman’s lawyer and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

Camilla Hempleman-Adams, who says she is first woman to traverse Canada’s Baffin Island solo, accused of ‘privilege and ignorance’A British adventurer has apologised after her claims to be the first woman to traverse Canada’s largest island solo were dismissed by members of the Inuit population who criticised her dangerous “privilege and ignorance”.Camilla Hempleman-Adams, 32, covered 150 miles (240km) on foot and by ski while pulling a sledge across Baffin Island, Nunavut, in temperatures as low as -40C and winds of 47mph during the two-week expedition last month. Continue reading…

As demand for smartphones, laptops and electric vehicles has soared, so has demand for the minerals – such as cobalt and coltan – for the batteries that power them. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has vast reserves of these minerals, and their extraction is fuelling the country’s civil war. Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out more about how global demand for tech is causing human suffering in central Africa, and how we, and western powers and companies, are complicit Continue reading…

Man on trial for allegedly murdering Indigenous 15-year-old in Perth tried to frame an innocent man, jury toldGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA murder-accused man who blamed a friend for killing an Indigenous teenager has admitted he also attempted to frame an innocent man.Jack Steven James Brearley, 24, said prosecutors had it wrong and he did not strike Cassius Turvey in the head with a metal pole in Perth’s eastern suburbs on 13 October 2022.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading…

Mistake at Queensland fertility care clinic results in woman unknowingly giving birth to another patient’s baby after embryos mixed upGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA woman has given birth to another person’s baby after their fertility care provider mixed up their embryos.Monash IVF, which operates across Australia, has apologised after a patient at one of its Brisbane clinics had an embryo incorrectly transferred to her, meaning she gave birth to a child of another woman. Continue reading…