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Aussie small business owner has bank account cleaned out after ‘really scary’ call  Yahoo Finance Australia

It is important to understand just how effectively perpetrators of abuse have used lawyers as their shields. A challenge to that can’t come soon enough

There will be empty shelves in many bedrooms this weekend, where the David Walliams books once stood. For parents of a certain era, there was no escaping that particular publishing-industrial complex, and I certainly did my share of wearily reading Gangsta Granny or Mr Stink on repeat. At his peak, Walliams was the bestselling children’s author in Britain for 100 weeks straight, to say nothing of the spin-off theatre productions, Christmas specials, countless World Book Day costumes, and that family-friendly stint as a judge on Britain’s Got Talent during which we now learn he was reportedly inviting teenagers to his dressing room.

“What I try and do most of all in my books is encourage reluctant readers,” he told breakfast TV’s Lorraine Kelly in 2024, the year before publisher HarperCollins finally dropped him after allegations over his behaviour towards junior female staff. But it’s parents who would have been reluctant to bring his books anywhere near bedtime had we known earlier about the young girls claiming that Walliams exploited his fame to prey on them, and then threatened legal action if they tried to speak out.

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Kurt Gödel left 1,009 pages of densely written text – much of it in an obsolete shorthand – which is now said to contain hundreds of proved theorems

The Austrian logician Kurt Gödel was one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century. His two incompleteness theorems, published in 1931, transformed mathematics and paved the way for the digital age.

After his seminal results of the 1930s, Gödel published only a few papers. His unpublished work, however, runs to tens of thousands of pages, and is of great interest to historians of science.

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Saintly heir to the throne breaks his hectic schedule for a magazine lowdown on life in the country

Country Life: Guest Edited by HRH the Prince of Wales

Front Cover: Photo of me outdoors. I love the country, me.

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VIDEO: Friday Finance with David Chau  ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Texas Democrat Senator-elect James Talarico has urged his party to work with President Trump.

Microsoft is currently experiencing an outage affecting its email and cloud services due to server failures. Nearly 130,000 users worldwide have reported connectivity issues with Outlook and Teams. The company has identified elevated load as a contributing factor but not due to increased user traffic. Federal agencies in Australia have also reported disruptions in communication due to the outage.

Van Hollen is known for his anti-war positions and championing progressive causes.

US envoys Witkoff and Kushner have shuttled between Dublin and Moscow in efforts to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal.