
Anthony Albanese vows to take the nation in a new direction, creating a renewable energy superpower.
Politics will now be greener, more feminine, and more emphatically Australian, writes Nick Bryant.
Those expected to be identified in the report on No 10 gatherings have until Sunday afternoon to respond.
The royals will join the residents of Albert Square for a Platinum Jubilee street party.
It comes after a draft bill was approved in Spanish parliament to allow three days of leave a month.
Eve Senior's photograph after the Manchester Arena bomb five years ago was seen around the world.
BBC Sport takes a detailed look at everything at stake at the top, bottom and everywhere in between on the Premier League's final day.
Managing director Kristalina Georgieva says state subsidies can help with the cost of living.
Five were injured when parts of stands collapsed at a rehearsal for an event the Queen will attend.
Canan Kaftancioglu has been convicted for insulting President Erdogan and the Turkish state.
Scientists say we need to future-proof our diets in a warming world by eating little-known plants.
The expected fallout from the Sue Gray report and plans to provide tuition to every pupil in need lead the papers.
Geraldina Guerra tracks cases of femicide in Ecuador and maps victims' lives online so people can learn about their life as well as their death.
A selection of striking images from our readers around the world.
After starting her career on the track as a grid girl, Laura Jones is set on driving her own car.
Liam is non-verbal and communicates with his teammates using a mixture of symbols, signs and speech.
The marks were a way of identifying the lineage of people, but the practice has been outlawed.
Elian Lopez hoped his life-changing journey would go smoothly - then the wind changed and sun went down.
A selection of powerful images from all over the globe, taken in the past seven days.
The woman stripped on the Cannes red carpet to show the words "stop raping us" and the Ukrainian flag.
The cartoonist William Heath Robinson became so famous that his name earned a dictionary entry.
The BBC goes on patrol with the Taliban's "moral police", whose job it is to enforce hard-line rule.
Forty years after it opened, the legendary nightclub is credited with changing music and Manchester.
Capt Kidane Cousland is helping ensure Rastafarians can express their faith while serving in the military.
Shagufta Ahmed's first job was to get justice for her father, a lecturer murdered after he blew the whistle on a colleague.
As the UK spent countless hours online during lockdown, how much has it changed us?
We are facing an unusual and unprecedented monkeypox outbreak but how worrying is it?
A veteran politician, Anthony Albanese will lead the first Labor government in almost a decade.
How to follow the Premier League's final day on the BBC, including watching goals from seven matches.
Mito Pereira emerges with a three-shot lead at the US PGA Championship as England's Matt Fitzpatrick plays his way into contention.
Tiger Woods withdraws from the US PGA Championship following the third round at Southern Hills in Oklahoma
Keely Hodgkinson's meteoric rise continues, but there are bigger challenges to come across the Atlantic.
Watch the key moments of Rangers' 2-0 extra-time Scottish Cup final win over Hearts at Hampden.
World number one Iga Swiatek has returned as a BBC Sport columnist at the French Open, where she looks to continue her recent dominance and win a second Grand Slam title.
UK inflation rises to its highest rate for 40 years in the year to April, jumping to 9% from 7%.
How long is UK inflation likely to remain high, and what can the government do to fight back?
People working and living in rural Norfolk talk about the cost of living crisis.
The company says it has to act to cover higher costs, including wages, energy and fuel expenses.
Big increases are due next April but charities say soaring prices mean people need the money now.
UK inflation is rising at 9%, its fastest rate for 40 years, and could go even higher.
There are ways the chancellor could tackle the strain on people's pockets - but what do they cost?
Brian Turner, who lives alone after the death of his partner, is trying to live on £642 a month.
Why is the government facing growing pressure to announce a windfall tax on oil and gas companies?
Chain Trevor Sorbie says they are now spending thousands more each month.
As prices rise to a 40-year high, BBC News NI hears from families struggling to make ends meet.
We asked people across the country how they are coping with the rising cost of living.
Labour are calling for a windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies.
BBC Newsnight launches its Global Tracker to assess the impact of the cost of living across across the world.
Miners in eastern Ukraine on how a difficult job has become even more dangerous.
The conflict has become a grinding and bloody affair, with both sides making gains and losses.
Drivers describe evacuating people from Russian-held areas under threat of mines and military attack.
Ukraine wants to exchange them for Russian prisoners of war, but some in Russia want them put on trial.
Russian forces are continuing their slow advance in eastern Ukraine after using heavy firepower to weaken defences there.
Olena Zelenska opens up about the war, and President Zelensky says only talks can end the conflict.
Russia occupies Europe's biggest nuclear plant and now wants to sell power from it back to Ukraine.
Dmitry Skurikhin has listed the Ukrainian towns attacked by Russia on the side of his shopping centre.
Moscow says it has destroyed a drone with a laser, but Kyiv says it can't mask battlefield failure.
The government has launched two schemes to let Ukrainian refugees come to the UK.
Russia wants to sell energy from a seized plant and a man paints anti-war slogans on his shop.
The fast food giant says the new owner of its 850 Russian restaurants will operate them under a new brand.
The 21-year-old serviceman has pled guilty to killing her husband in a village in Ukraine's north-east.
UN chief Antonio Guterres warns that developing countries face disaster due to rising prices.
The social media platform says it will put false claims from official accounts behind warning notices.
Katerina spent more than two months beneath the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine.
If Russia has carried out war crimes in Ukraine how could Putin or his army generals be prosecuted?
David Barnes and Neil Goldsmith died fighting a fire in Elgar Road, Reading, in September 1977.
Adhya started dancing Bharatanatyam aged nine with a performing arts group in Reading.
Junctions 6 for Slough/Windsor and 8/9 for Maidenhead are closed until 06:00 on Monday.
A bus burst into flames as it was travelling through Binfield Heath.
It would see the biggest move of the museum's collections since the 1880s.
Donald Robertson is also sentenced for the kidnap and rape of a 16-year-old girl in 1981.
PC Hafeez Javeed allegedly touched a female colleague without her consent while he was on duty.
The underpass at Pangbourne train station features bees, honeycomb and wild flowers.
The police car crashed into a Volvo as officers pursued another car that failed to stop in Slough.
The blue-glazed vase had been estimated to sell at auction for between £100,000-£150,000.
A group of women and children are welcomed in Reading after month-long visa wait in Ireland.
Thames Valley Police says the electric stun guns proved to be "effective" in preventing violence.
Social media users have posted video and pictures of a fireball over southern England.
The coalition is set to include 23 Lib Dems, three Labour councillors and two independents.
Berkshire Care Home provides support for 58 elderly people, some of whom have dementia.
Experts want countries to adopt targets to reduce emissions to net zero by 2050.
Check the environmental impact of what you eat and drink.
Explore the data on coronavirus in the UK and find out how many cases there are in your area.
As Covid continues to spread rapidly, are many people catching Omicron for a second time?
Significant numbers of people have had long-term problems after recovering from coronavirus.
A bus burst into flames as it was travelling through Binfield Heath, after a passing motorist flagged it down.
Samantha Amend ran the distance on a track in a time of 14 hours and 10 minutes.
The Queen's Guard play an arrangement of Happy Birthday during the Changing of the Guard ceremony.
Kate Glover has worked as a thatcher for 35 years, including on the roof of the Globe Theatre.
Vitaly Shevchenko's family fled Ukraine with the help of two BBC audience members.
A power socket that helps you save electricity and tells you if it's from renewable sources.
Championship side Reading are yet to formally offer top scorer John Swift a new contract at the club.
Reading appoint former England midfielder Paul Ince as their manager on a permanent basis.
Notts County head into the National League play-offs in winning form after ending the regular season with a 1-0 victory over Maidenhead.
After a dramatic Women's Super League campaign, BBC Sport assesses how each club fared in 2021-22.
Manchester City secure the third Champions League spot from the Women's Super League with a 4-0 win over Reading.
1. How to say no to pointless meetings. The corporate world loves meetings. For employees whose schedules are chock full of them, the sentiment is more complicated: Every hour dedicated to discussing work is time spent not actually doing it. While breaking the cycle of too-many meetings can feel daunting - especially if you’re not the boss - it is possible. 2. The Queen’s Speech. This year’s speech contained details of almost 40 proposed bills. These included a Public Order Bill, to grant the police more powers to stop protesters blocking roads and other infrastructure; a Media Bill, to privatise Channel 4; a Genetic Technology Bill, to enable more gene editing of plants and animals; and a Transport Bill, to create a state-run agency to simplify and improve UK railway services. The Government plans to give councils the power to force landlords to rent out empty shops. It also said that it would overhaul the Human Rights Act – to give more democratic oversight to the “expansion of the rights culture” – and introduce a Brexit Freedoms Bill, to make it easier to amend and repeal retained EU laws. The Guardian 3. No plans for an emergency budget. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research says rising food and energy bills could cause a further 250,000 households to “slide into destitution” next year, taking the total number in extreme poverty to 1.5 million. The think tank has called for a boost to benefits of £25 a week, and a one-off payment of £250 for the poorest households. A No. 10 source said there were no plans for an emergency budget. Rather than making big changes to tax and spending plans, ministers were considering various ways they might ease the cost of living by tweaking regulations – they might, for instance, require vehicle owners to only get MoTs every other year. BBC 4. The most popular day of the week. The middle child of the workweek is finally getting its chance to shine. Wednesday has overcome the indignity of its “hump day” phase and turned into the most popular day of the hybrid workweek — 46% of office workers were at their desks on Wednesdays in March, The Wall Street Journal reports. You might alternatively know it as Wellness Day, Whiskey Wednesday or Woof Day (for dog owners), as employers and neighbouring businesses roll out all the stops for workers who’ve left their homes. Mondays, by comparison, drew an attendance rate of just 35%. When is the best day to work in the office? Let us know in our latest poll. 5. The benefits of a brisk walk. A lifetime of brisk walking can knock years off a person’s biological age, a study has found. Researchers at the University of Leicester examined genetic and other data on 400,000 adults, with an average age of 57, included in the UK Biobank. Around half reported walking at an average pace, classed as three to four miles per hour; one in 15 walked at a slow pace (less than 3mph); and four in ten said they were brisk walkers (more than 4mph). The researchers found that faster walkers, regardless of how much they exercised, had longer telomeres – the “caps” at the end of chromosomes that protect them; these shrink over time and are regarded as a strong marker for biological age. The difference in telomere length between the fastest and slowest walkers was said to be equivalent to 16 years of age-related difference. Daily Mail |
6. Our next meeting is at Tesco. What if your desk was next to the baked beans and tinned tomatoes? That could be the reality as Tesco has announced a deal with flexible office operator IWG. Starting at its New Malden location in London, the supermarket chain will offer 30 co-working spaces, a meeting room and 12 private desks. It's part of a boom in non-traditional working spaces, with property firm JLL estimating that by 2030 as much as 30% of the UK office market could be flexible working spaces. These new offices join other community spaces that have sprung up on high streets around the country to replace stores that closed during the pandemic. Metro 7. The rise of the silent meeting. Many organisations know that employees sometimes fear speaking up in meetings, while others may just prefer to stay quiet. Research shows that the same two people can monopolise the entire hour of a six-person meeting – making it impossible to have fruitful discussions that span a wide variety of viewpoints. This is why the "silent meeting" has become so popular. It requires participants to stay silent for a certain amount of time, allowing them to add questions and comments to a document for later discussion. It, in essence, allows everyone to be heard. Editor 8. Oil giant overtakes Apple. Apple has lost its position as the world’s most valuable company after it was usurped by Saudi Arabian oil and gas producer Aramco. The oil giant traded near its highest level on record yesterday, reaching a market capitalisation of about $2.4 trillion (£1.9 trillion), while the iPhone maker fell 4.4% in New York to $147.53, for a valuation of $2.3 trillion. 'Even if the move proves short-lived and Apple retakes the top spot again”, the role reversal “underscores the power of major forces coursing through the global economy”. The Telegraph 9. Jubilee pudding announced. A lemon and Swiss roll amaretti trifle will be the official pudding of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations. The dessert – made with layers of lemon curd and custard, St Clement’s jelly, a mandarin coulis, and amaretti biscuits – was inspired by the lemon posset served at the Queen’s 1947 wedding to Prince Philip. Jemma Melvin, who made the dish, won the nationwide competition to craft a new pudding to commemorate the Queen’s 70-year reign. Some 5,000 people, aged between eight and 108, entered the baking challenge. BBC 10. The bottom line. Should smacking be illegal in the UK? NSPCC revealed that more than two-thirds of adults in England say that physically disciplining a child, for instance by smacking them, is wrong. 64% would like England to follow Scotland, and more recently Wales, in making smacking children a crime; by removing the defence of “reasonable punishment”. Daily Mail |
Liam is non-verbal and communicates with his teammates using a mixture of symbols, signs and speech.
After starting her career on the track as a grid girl, Laura Jones is set on driving her own car.
Two former foster children say their experience shaped their decision to help others.
Chef and campaigner Jamie Oliver has been protesting over delays to the government's obesity strategy.
Why is the government facing growing pressure to announce a windfall tax on oil and gas companies?
Kate and Charlie say they've already stopped socialising, and have nothing else to cut back on.
Among the tens of thousands of Rangers fans in Seville are the grandsons of the Ibrox legend.
A police officer outlines to the home secretary difficulties with the cost of living for workers.
The monarch made a surprise visit to Paddington station, ahead of the opening of the much delayed train line.
Dan hosted his final edition of BBC Breakfast this morning, six years after joining the programme.
Within a week, Sean Dilley was told in two Tesco stores he wasn't allowed to take in his guide dog.
Hull's Roy Gelder had not seen John Peach since the pair parted at the end of World War Two.
The prime minister described the EU as being "over-zealous" in its application of the post-Brexit trade arrangements.
A host of stars including Tom Cruise, Katherine Jenkins and Omid Djalili were also in attendance.
Melanie Barratt wants to become the first blind woman to cross the English Channel solo.
Sam Ryder met Eurovision commentator Graham Norton backstage and the two shared a hug.
The business secretary says it would be "self-defeating" if the EU went into a trade war.
The stone helped guide allied pilots into wartime airfields in use in Belfast during the war.
Aimee says the book will help her son understand why he "should be proud" of his heart surgery scar.
Eurovision host Rylan Clark tells us what to watch out for on Saturday night.
A student inspired by a BBC TV show about 19th Century lesbians wears Victorian clothing full-time.
Ros Atkins explains why the issues surrounding a key part of the UK’s Brexit deal with the EU are not resolved.
Des Paul Lee from Derbyshire died unexpectedly while on holiday in Spain.
Residents on Anglesey, in Wales, are split on the proposals for a new nuclear reactor on the island.
Ahead of the final on Saturday, the BBC put Sam Ryder's Eurovision knowledge to the test.
The monarch has mobility problems and has had to cancel a number of recent public appearances.
Jemma Melvin from Southport, Merseyside made the official pudding for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
Willow's parents drove her to hospital and were told she should not have been moved due to her injuries.
The Queen was absent from the State Opening of Parliament for the first time in 59 years.
The You, Me and the Big C presenter is receiving end-of-life care at home for bowel cancer.
At the age of 13 Luke woke up in horrific pain and a decade on his condition is still undiagnosed.
The levelling up minister says the cost of living issue does not require an emergency budget.
Michelle is the only girl to win gold in the UK's 10 categories of World Maths Day Global Challenge.
Prince Charles stands in for the Queen for the first time to open a new session of Parliament.
How a meal while Covid restrictions were in place became a political headache for Sir Keir Starmer.
The Labour leader says he will stand down if he is fined over the so-called Beergate allegations.
Stars of the small screen gather in London to celebrate the Bafta TV Awards 2022.
Staff at a £14m recycling facility help manually sort through 85,000 tonnes of waste each year.