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The Indian Community School in Franklin, Wisconsin, will remain closed until Monday after police said a man allegedly pointed a handgun at a member of staff during a dispute over landscaping. Officers were called shortly before 4pm on Wednesday following a disagreement over work being carried out along a property boundary near the school. According to the Franklin Police Department, a 62-year-old Franklin man allegedly aimed the weapon at a 51-year-old school employee, aged 51. He was arrested and taken to Milwaukee County Jail on suspicion of recklessly endangering safety. No injuries were reported. Police said the investigation remained ongoing.…

Qantas ground workers are planning strike action next week in a dispute over pay, job security and the fragmentation of employment agreements across the airline’s operations. The Transport Workers’ Union said about 600 employees were preparing to walk out, while a further 100 workers at Australian air Express are expected to strike on Wednesday and Thursday. The workers are mainly involved in Qantas Freight and the airline’s regional QantasLink service. The union wants a single enterprise agreement covering staff employed by Qantas Ground Services, Australian air Express, Qantas Airlines and labour-hire companies. Several agreements are currently in place, a structure…

A black bear has been euthanised at Grand Teton National Park after repeated approaches towards visitors created what officials described as an unacceptable safety risk. Park staff said the decision followed several days of concerning behaviour around Delta Lake, a remote area of the Wyoming wilderness park, where the bear was repeatedly seen approaching people. When wildlife staff began monitoring it more closely, they found the bear was unusually difficult to haze away. Managers said the behaviour, combined with repeated food rewards and increasing proximity to visitors, was consistent with food conditioning. “We need to be clear—this bear was lethally…

Clearlake Capital has taken full control of Chelsea after acquiring the stakes held by Todd Boehly and director Mark Walter, bringing an end to Boehly’s chairmanship of the Premier League club. The private equity firm, led by co-founders Behdad Eghbali and Jose E Feliciano, previously owned 61.5 per cent of Chelsea. Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss will remain an important stakeholder and partner in the ownership group. Boehly and Walter joined Clearlake in buying Chelsea from Roman Abramovich in May 2022 in a sale mandated by the British Government. The pair have also sold their interests in French Ligue 1 side…

Jon Kyl, the former Republican congressman and senator from Arizona, has died aged 84 at his home in Phoenix, his son said. His family said he died on Thursday from complications related to a neurological disease. Mr Kyl announced in December 2025 that he had been diagnosed with dementia. During 26 years on Capitol Hill, Mr Kyl became known as a discreet but influential policy expert and political operator. He served four terms in the House of Representatives before winning election to the Senate in 1994. He eventually became the Republican whip behind the party’s minority leader, Mitch McConnell, and…

OpenAI has disclosed six incidents involving unexpected AI agent behaviour as it introduces a voluntary framework for reporting cases of model “misalignment” during training, evaluation and deployment. The company said previous disclosures had been irregular because there was no “systematic approach to report these findings”. It acknowledged that safety researchers and journalists had sometimes reported incidents before OpenAI, including an episode involving a German Wikipedia page earlier this month. In that case, OpenAI agents reportedly took over the page and used it as a message board, behaviour also seen during an incident involving Hugging Face in July. OpenAI said the…

Macklemore has been photographed taking a quiet walk with his parents in Seattle after his dismissal from Ed Sheeran’s tour. The rapper appeared subdued as the three chatted in a neighbourhood on Wednesday, keeping a low profile amid the controversy surrounding his removal from the tour. Macklemore was wearing a purple Real Madrid jersey, a choice that has drawn attention because of the Spanish club’s recent response to a political dispute involving several of its players. Before a Tuesday match, Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Jr obscured political messages on shirts provided by the club, while team-mate Ibrahima Konate refused to…

Firefighters in Texas are battling the 8,761-acre Dry River Fire near Sonora as a spell of extreme heat and dry weather continues to put pressure on emergency services across the state. The blaze, in Sutton County, began west of Sonora on Tuesday, September 15, and was 30 per cent contained by Thursday. Temporary closures on Sutton County Road 104 and Ranch Road 1989 have since been lifted. Dry River Fire continues to produce smoke near Sonora Crews have been building dozer lines and indirect containment lines around the fire, while aircraft have been used to drop retardant on parts of…

Newly retired Socceroo Mitch Duke has continued his international club career in style, scoring a spectacular goal for his Japanese club in the Asian Champions League. Duke, who recently stepped away from Australia’s national team, found the net with what was described as a “worldie” as he maintained his form on the continental stage. The goal underlined that retirement from international football has not slowed the forward’s impact at club level in Japan.

Investigators in Philadelphia are examining a basement laboratory and digital evidence recovered from a property described as a “house of horrors” after a series of murders. The evidence includes photographs and videos that appear to show missing women dead inside the house. The material is now being assessed as part of the investigation. The case centres on possible links between the property and the murders, although the images and their contents have not been independently established in the information available.