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Feb 11, 2026 - World

The US Justice Department opened the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files to review by members of Congress on Monday as several lawmakers expressed concern that some names have been removed from the publicly released records.

Feb 11, 2026 - World

The 85-year-old magazine will return to the city for which it was named after a successful bid by Queensland University of TechnologyFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe literary journal Meanjin will return to the city it was born in that bears its Indigenous name.The Queensland University of Technology announced on Wednesday it had acquired the 85-year-old journal, whose life was cut short by Melbourne University Press in September. Continue reading...

Feb 11, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump is set this week to scrap a landmark scientific finding that greenhouse gases jeopardize public health by driving climate change -- the bedrock of US regulations to curb planet-warming pollution.

Feb 11, 2026 - World

Finding over abuse in Newcastle-Maitland diocese signals major shift in church’s liability to victim survivorsThe high court has delivered a landmark win for survivors of clergy abuse, finding the Catholic church had a duty of care to protect a child from one of its paedophile priests.A man known only as AA sued the Catholic church’s Newcastle and Maitland diocese over abuse he suffered at the hands of Father Ron Pickin in 1969, when he was aged just 13. Continue reading...

Feb 11, 2026 - World

Proposed legislation, named after Virginia Giuffre, a survivor of Epstein’s abuse, also tackles jurisdictionDemocrats in Congress were joined on Capitol Hill by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse to introduce legislation to end the statute of limitations and restrictions on jurisdiction in civil sexual abuse cases.The move comes less than two weeks after the justice department released 3.5m pages of heavily redacted documents related to Epstein, as ordered by the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act. Continue reading...