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Students at Trinity College Dublin have ended a five-day encampment after the university pledged to cut ties with Israeli companies. Student leaders claimed victory on Wednesday night for a US-style campaign that had disrupted the campus and blocked access to the Book of Kells. Senior management made a deal with protesters, the university said in… Continue reading Trinity College Dublin agrees to divest from Israeli firms after student protest | Ireland

There was a story that Steve Albini liked to tell about his senior year in high school. Aged 17, he was involved in a serious road accident: hit by a car while riding his motorcycle, he badly broke his leg. It was while recuperating that he learned his first instrument, the bass guitar, but that… Continue reading Steve Albini was a button-pushing musician of uncompromising brilliance | Steve Albini

In the lead-up to the federal budget on May 14, 9news.com.au and Joel Gibson are helping bust the budgets of Aussie families. The state of the paid parental leave scheme, RBA interest rate increases and the often exorbitant cost of groceries have meant mums and dads are doing it extraordinarily tough. The Sandhu family live… Continue reading The $1150 weekly cost that hurts this Aussie couple’s bank account despite slashing grocery spending

Nearly a decade after it broke ground on a controversial plan to build a canal linking the Atlantic and the Pacific, Nicaragua has canceled a concession granted to a Chinese businessman to complete the project which critics said would endanger the environment and displace rural communities. Despite a symbolic “ground-breaking” in 2014, no work was… Continue reading Nicaragua cancels Chinese plan to complete controversial canal | Nicaragua

A court has heard how one of the three Mexican nationals charged over the murder of two Australian brothers told his then girlfriend that he killed them and their American friend. Three Mexican locals were arrested over the weekend after the bodies of Perth men Callum and Jake Robinson, and their American friend Jack Carter… Continue reading Mexican man appears in court over deaths

An empty winner’s enclosure after the feature race was a miserable way to open Chester’s May Festival, after Charlie Appleby’s Hidden Law, who had just taken the Chester Vase by three lengths, had to be euthanised as the result of a serious injury suffered shortly after crossing the line in an incident that was also… Continue reading Chester mourns death of Hidden Law after serious injury follows victory | Horse racing

A woman who shouted and waved at a cyclist, causing her to fall into the path of a moving car, has had her manslaughter conviction overturned. Auriol Grey, 50, was seen on CCTV shouting at the 77-year-old cyclist, Celia Ward, to “get off the fucking pavement” as she approached her in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, in October… Continue reading Woman who caused cyclist to fall into car’s path has manslaughter conviction quashed | Cambridgeshire

Kristi Noem, the South Dakota governor and Republican vice-presidential hopeful, is “scarier than any horror movie villain”, the animal rights pressure group Peta said as it unveiled a Halloween costume inspired by Noem’s stunning campaign-book admission that she once shot an “untrainable” 14-month-old dog called Cricket. “Anyone cruel enough to blow a rambunctious puppy’s brains… Continue reading Peta unveils Kristi Noem ‘ghoulish monster’ Halloween costume | Republicans

The Tory MP Philip Davies has got a new £500-an-hour job as a consultant for a company in the Merkur group, which is behind slot machines in hundreds of high streets across the UK. Davies, who was recently knighted on the recommendation of Rishi Sunak, will provide “strategic advice” to Merkur Gaming, earning £1,000 a… Continue reading Tory MP Philip Davies takes £500-an-hour job at slot machine company | Gambling