Bud Cort, star of cult classic Harold and Maude, dies aged 77

More foreign criminals will be deported before their appeals against their removal are heard as the Home Office adds 15 new countries to its “deport now, appeal later” scheme. The policy allows the government to send foreigners who commit crimes in the UK back to their home countries before they can appeal against the decision….

Anti-government protests have continued in Iran with thousands feared dead after the government crackdown on demonstrators. One protester, 26-year-old Erfan Soltani, will reportedly be “executed tomorrow”, with the Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights saying they “have never witnessed a case move so quickly”. The protests, which began in Tehran on 28 December, were sparked by…

One of Australia’s biggest telecommunication companies sent emails about a deadly outage to the wrong email address at the Department of Communcations where they remained unread for over a day, parliament has heard. Optus’ emails also underplayed the severity of the 18 September outage, which has been linked to four deaths, including that of an…