Legal experts say a ‘carve-out’ clause in the law relating to extraditions could let the attorney general decline to enforce arrest warrants issued under international lawGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIn 2002, a little-known backbencher by the name of Peter Dutton rose in parliament to ask the then prime minister,...

Actor, who played campaigner Alan Bates in TV drama, calls Horizon scandal a ‘Hitchcockian nightmare’ at Hay festivalThe post office operators prosecuted in the Post Office Horizon scandal have “extraordinary dignity” after living 20 years in a “Hitchcockian nightmare”, according to actor Toby Jones.Jones played Alan Bates, a former post office operator...

Pro-Palestinian students staged the walkout as school withheld degrees of four seniors pending disciplinary review over protestsDozens of students protesting Israel’s ongoing military strikes in Gaza walked out of the University of Chicago’s commencement on Saturday as the school withheld the diplomas of four seniors over their involvement with a pro-Palestinian...

Twelve-year-old among eight now bailed after attack on teenage girl reported in Newark on 25 MayFour more boys including a 12-year-old have been arrested on suspicion of the rape of a teenage girl in Newark.Nottinghamshire police received a report that a teenage girl had been attacked on Yorke Drive playing fields, Nottinghamshire, between 5.30pm and...

Former Australian prime minister issues warning that young men’s thinking on the issue is going backwardFormer Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has said global progress on gender equality is “really glacial and slow” as she warned that it is going backwards among young people.Gillard cited recent polling by King’s College London’s Global Institute...

Myra Coutinho-Lopez, 82, who had dementia became confused at bank counter, leading to altercation with Courtney Richman, 26A 26-year-old woman who killed an elderly pensioner with dementia during a row over a long queue at a bank has been given a suspended sentence.Courtney Richman had been waiting behind 82-year-old Myra Coutinho-Lopez when the argument...