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HelloFresh is being sued in Federal Court by the ACCC over tricking consumers into subscriptions.

ACCC sues meal delivery giant HelloFresh

This is the latest of a slew of alleged breaches globally for the meal kit company, which has been fines for spam texts to undisclosed auto-renewal plans.

People take part in a vigil at Parliament Square in London.

Jewish expats now have conflicted feelings about their Aussie homeland

Surging antisemitism in Sydney and Melbourne had convinced some Australian Jews it was safer for them to live in Israel.

Yesterday

People have left cards, candles and flowers for the victims of the Bondi terrorist attack.

Michael Vaughan: Being this close to Bondi shooting was terrifying

We’ve become used to these events in Europe, but you don’t get stuff like this in Australia, writes the former English cricket captain and commentator.

NSW forensics working on the pedestrian bridge, part of the crime scene at Bondi Beach.

How mass immigration transformed Australia and opened up divisions

Australians will now be asking themselves what has happened to transform a society that has long had an open door to migration, and prided itself on tolerance.

This Month

Liz Truss, who was Britain’s shortest-lived prime minister, says the new club is focused on business, not leisure.

It costs $1m to join this club (and has an unusual backer)

Undeterred by reports of an exodus of the wealthy from the UK, a new breed of institution for the well-heeled is opening its doors around the country.

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A Ukraine drone hits a Russian oil tanker in this video supplied by the Security Service of Ukraine.

How Ukraine is going after Russia’s shadow fleet

The new move involving unmanned drones targeting tankers marks a fresh front in Kyiv’s war of resistance against Vladimir Putin’s invasion.

Why Jeremy Clarkson is calling last drinks for MPs

The popular TV personality has joined a nationwide ban of Labour MPs in pubs calling out the government for ignoring the struggling hospitality sector.

According to Dealogic, just 15 businesses this year joined the London Stock Exchange’s three trading markets via IPOs.

London’s stock exchange struggles for relevance as IPOs dry up

Stock markets around the world are drying up as companies tap widening and deepening pools of private capital, consolidate, delist or rationalise dual listings.

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ASX leaps; Reddit challenges ban; 9 inequality fixes from CEOs

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

A blue Rolls-Royce is removed from Grosvenor Square in Mayfair, London.

Supercars towed away from Mayfair after rich owners ‘ignore fines’

Guests of the Chancery Rosewood Hotel, which charges thousands of pounds each night, are clogging up streets and pavements with “mostly foreign registered” vehicles.

Britain’s hospitals are overloaded amid a flu crisis.

British anger (and culture wars) erupt over face masks for flu crisis

Hospitals are battling an unprecedented level of cases for this early in winter, and politicians have seized on a return to face masks.

Airwallex’s Jack Zhang.

Airwallex to splash $1.1b on UK base as it seeks global growth

Fresh off a huge $590 million funding round, the Melbourne fintech has pledged to invest more than $1 billion in the UK while rolling out new products.

Deputy Prime Minster and Defence Minister Richard Marles speaks on the sidelines of the AUKUS Defense Ministers’ Ministerial meeting at the Pentagon on Wednesday.

AUKUS ministers discuss slimming down $368b security pact

Defence Minister Richard Marles and his UK and US counterparts have talked about narrowing the focus of ambitious plans under the second pillar of the deal.

Clare Bailey Mosley during the British Podcast Awards in September 2024.

Michael Mosley’s widow: ‘I hoped he’d been kidnapped’

Clare Bailey Mosley says her husband’s death last year was “one of those freak, crap things that happen”, and is coping with his loss by continuing his legacy.

Jaguar’s Type 00 coupe was unveiled at Miami Art Week in Florida last December.

How Jaguar’s ‘woke’ rebrand could destroy the company

The luxury British carmaker’s challenging year is ending in more turmoil after its design supremo’s exit, amid real fears the brand will be sold off entirely.

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President Donald Trump speaks as France’s President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, right, listen during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders in August.

Trump attacks Europe as ‘decaying’ and its leaders as ‘weak’

US President Donald Trump has widened a trans-Atlantic rift, saying European leaders are too politically correct to act on illegal migration.

Leaders in other countries, especially in Europe, are closely watching Australia’s social media ban.

Australia’s social media experiment under global spotlight

Australia’s all-out ban on the use of common social media apps by children under 16 is a world first, but other countries have either tried or plan restrictions.

Donald Trump wants allies like Australia to challenge China’s state-subsidised economic model that produces many more goods than it needs at home and sends them around the world.

Trump sees China more as an economic rival than a military threat

The US is more inward-looking, more disdainful of multiculturalism and no longer a defender of democratic values. But it still has its eye on China.

A graphic depicting the difficulties of accessing crypto from a will: a hammer attempting to break a block of ice with Bitcoin inside.

It’s evident which way bitcoin is headed

Readers’ letters on the bitcoin craze, investor diligence, psychological injury claims, the Nats’ views on renewables ‘costs’, and solutions to the energy crisis.

Jamie Pherous is the founder of Corporate Travel Management.

Exiting Jamie Pherous should be the easiest decision ever

In the middle of each night, when Corporate Travel chairman Ewen Crouch gets up for a pee, he must silently acknowledge that he’s got absolutely no idea.

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