Wigan was a stronghold for the Labour Party for decades, but it swung hard to back populist leader Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party in the latest elections.

Australians will be among the last off the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship docked at the Canary Islands with a repatriation flight en route.

Tehran focused on ending the war on all fronts, especially in Lebanon, and safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, but it did not indicate how or when the vital waterway might reopen.

The swashbuckler and great rival of Rupert Murdoch once laughed about how he could pause his medication and see off his tycoon rival once and for all.

The vessel has arrived in the Canary Islands after the Spanish government overruled a local attempt to block its entry.

Two days before One Nation won Farrer, Farage’s Reform party triumphed in the UK.

A person who jumped a fence and was on a runway at Denver International Airport was struck and killed by a Frontier Airlines plane during takeoff.

A plane taking off from Denver International Airport was forced to make an emergency stop after it hit a person on the runway.

The incident sparked an engine fire and forced passengers to evacuate down emergency slides onto the runway.

Passengers disembark after Frontier Airlines plane hits and kills pedestrian at Denver airport

The operation to evacuate passengers stranded on the MV Hondius cruise ship, impacted by hantavirus, has been thwarted by the president of the Canary Islands.

The inimitable durian has a track record of waft “emergencies” in Australia, including evacuations of universities, libraries and hospitals. South-East Asian and Chinese people love the stuff.