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Russell Brand has posted a video online saying he ‘absolutely’ denies unspecified criminal allegations.

Brand’s comedy style has always relied on shock tactics but a look back at his story prompts uncomfortable questions. Katie Rosseinsky writes

A “faster-than-planned” rollout of Covid booster vaccines is underway in England amid controversy over denying the shots to healthy adults under 65. 

Former ‘Pointless’ star Osman has since responded to ‘Vicar of Dibley’ actor’s claim

A visiting Chinese professor had his laptop and mobile phone seized by the AFP and ASIO after reportedly being offered $2000 to provide intel on his networks in China, and independent NSW MP Alex Greenwich’s defamation case against Mark Latham could make history by being heard by a Federal Court…

King Charles III has released a brief tribute to Elizabeth II to mark the first anniversary of his mother’s death.

We were promised “ad nauseam” that England under new coach Steve Borthwick would peak at the right time, said Oliver Brown in The Daily Telegraph. “All the low-water marks” of recent times – November’s capitulation to South Africa; March’s record loss to France – were “passed off with the blithe…

The Spanish soccer boss could possibly face criminal charges for the kiss.

The sale of North Korean weapons to Russia is likely to be high on the agenda when the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, travels to Moscow later this month to meet Vladimir Putin.