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Ready, aim, misfire: the Brits just aren't as good as Australians at leadership coups
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Analysis

Ready, aim, misfire: the Brits just aren't as good as Australians at leadership coups

Theresa May has clung on for more than two years now – in Australian terms, three quarters of a Turnbull, four-fifths of a combined Rudd, or 1.1 Abbotts.

  • by Nick Miller

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Skripal poisoning suspects not criminals: Putin
Russia probe

Skripal poisoning suspects not criminals: Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia knows the real identity of two men accused by British prosecutors of trying to murder former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

A spy story: Sergei Skripal was a little fish, but he had a big enemy
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A spy story: Sergei Skripal was a little fish, but he had a big enemy

He was significant in the eyes of one man - Vladimir Putin, an intelligence officer of the same age and training.

  • by Michael Schwirtz & Ellen Barry
Aussie Ewan nails Tour of Britain stage, Alaphilippe takes overall win

Aussie Ewan nails Tour of Britain stage, Alaphilippe takes overall win

Australian rider Caleb Ewan won the final stage of the Tour of Britain on Sunday as Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe claimed overall victory.

Former boss of QBE Australia John Neal named Lloyd's of London CEO
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Former boss of QBE Australia John Neal named Lloyd's of London CEO

Lloyd's of London has named John Neal as its new chief executive officer, succeeding Inga Beale at the helm of the world's oldest and biggest insurance market.

  • by Gavin Finch
'Bonking Boris' affair news prompts leadership whispers
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'Bonking Boris' affair news prompts leadership whispers

'Johnson out' says The Sun, as former foreign secretary announces his divorce after a reported affair.

  • by Nick Miller
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Sergei Skripal said to have worked with Spanish intelligence
Russia probe

Sergei Skripal said to have worked with Spanish intelligence

The account of Skripal's activities in Spain adds new details to a case that has inflamed relations between Russia and the West.

  • by Michael Schwirtz & Jose Bautista
More 'prejudice in general': creeping anti-Semitism stalks Europe
Germany

More 'prejudice in general': creeping anti-Semitism stalks Europe

Since the GFC, the rise of Islamist terrorism and the migrant crisis in Europe, there has been an increase in xenophobia on the continent, researchers say.

  • by Nick Miller
Planes, trains and perfume: how CCTV tracked Novichok to the Skripal's door
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Planes, trains and perfume: how CCTV tracked Novichok to the Skripal's door

Britain is one of the most heavily surveilled nations on Earth. And then there are the 'super recognisers'. This is how they found their men.

  • by Ellen Barry
Scallop Wars: French navy put on alert for more clashes
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Scallop Wars: French navy put on alert for more clashes

French naval ships will "step in" if there are further clashes between scallop fishermen in the channel, a French minister has announced.

  • by Kate McCann
'Two steps forward one step back' in Labour's anti-Semitism row
Jeremy Corbyn

'Two steps forward one step back' in Labour's anti-Semitism row

Corbyn's Labour party has finally agreed that criticising Israel can be anti-Semitic. But it did so with a caveat.

  • by Nick Miller