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Sarah Todd and Declan Cleary have denied rumours that they have separated, with a source close to the MasterChef Australia couple saying they remain together and are planning their future as a family. The pair, who met while filming MasterChef: Back to Win in 2024, have attracted speculation after largely disappearing from one another’s social-media posts. They have shared few photographs together since a European holiday in September 2025. Questions about their relationship intensified after Todd did not interact with a Father’s Day post Cleary shared on Sunday, 6 September. The post was his first since the couple welcomed twin…

An 11-year-old girl suffered minor injuries after being hit by a car while crossing Tiny Road in Winter Garden, Florida. The collision happened on Wednesday afternoon, 9 September, near Bridgewater Middle School, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said the girl had been walking south along the pavement on the northbound side of Tiny Road, south of Bridgewater Crossing Boulevard, when she tried to cross the road. Investigators said she entered the carriageway without seeing a southbound 2020 Honda Accord. The left side of the car struck her. She was taken to Orlando Health Horizon West for treatment. Her…

Australia’s Labor government has introduced a package of tougher laws aimed at dismantling the illegal tobacco trade, as the Coalition and One Nation press for steep cuts to tobacco excise. The proposed Combatting Illicit Tobacco Bill would create new offences for large-scale activity linked to organised crime and increase penalties for importing, possessing, buying, selling, producing or manufacturing illicit tobacco. It would also give prosecutors more scope to establish that tobacco had been imported unlawfully. Suspiciously low prices, missing supply records, concealed products and packaging that breaches Australia’s plain-packaging rules could all be taken into account. Assistant Minister for Customs…

Australian comedian Dave Hughes has delivered a cutting reality check to convicted murderer Erin Patterson after reports that she has been approved for taxpayer-funded Ozempic injections while in prison. Patterson, 51, is being held at Melbourne’s Dame Phyllis Frost Centre as she awaits the outcome of an appeal against her convictions for murdering three relatives and attempting to kill a fourth. She was sentenced to life imprisonment in September 2025, with a non-parole period of 33 years, after being found guilty of serving beef Wellingtons containing deadly death cap mushrooms at her home in Leongatha, Victoria, in July 2023. Her…

Walmart China is outperforming the retailer’s other international operations after adapting its traditional supermarket business to a market where shoppers increasingly expect groceries to arrive within minutes, rather than days. Christina Zhu, president and chief executive of Walmart China, said the company’s sales in the country rose by 20.7 per cent in the latest quarter, compared with 2.6 per cent growth in the US. She was speaking at the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on 8 September. “Customers everywhere want similar things—they want assortment, value, convenience and emotional experiences,” Zhu said. “But in China, there’s a whole different degree of…

Temporary protected status for nearly 232,000 Salvadoran immigrants in the United States remains in force while the Department of Homeland Security decides whether to extend or end the designation. The protection was due to expire on Wednesday, 9 September, but DHS has said Salvadoran nationals covered by TPS will retain their status until the department makes a formal announcement. The uncertainty has left families who have lived in the US for decades waiting to find out whether they can continue working and living lawfully in the country. Congresswoman Luz Rivas, who represents California’s 29th District, said the lack of clarity…

Victoria’s proposed work-from-home laws will be delayed and revised to give employers greater scope to reject remote-working requests under changes being advanced by Premier Ben Carroll. The legislation, which would give eligible employees a legal right to work from home for two days a week, will not take effect until 1 July 2027. Businesses with fewer than 15 employees will receive a further six-month grace period, with the rules applying to them from 1 January 2028. The Victorian Government is expected to introduce the amendments to state parliament on Thursday, after Mr Carroll paused debate in the upper house shortly…

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas has defended Australia’s skilled migration programme, arguing in a speech at the Sydney Institute that migrants with valuable qualifications can deliver a greater economic benefit than Australian-born residents. Speaking in Sydney on Wednesday night, the Labor premier warned against reducing migration levels in response to pressure from One Nation and said decisions about immigration should be guided by economic needs rather than political competition. Mr Malinauskas said skilled migrants were typically of working age, able to enter well-paid employment and contribute to government revenues through taxation. He cited a 2021 Treasury calculation that placed the…

Jaclyn Smith has described the moment she discovered that her first husband, actor Roger Davis, had allegedly been having an affair with the couple’s real estate agent. The Charlie’s Angels star, now 80, recounts the episode in her memoir, I Once Knew a Guy Named Charlie, recalling how a chance encounter with Warren Beatty became entwined with the painful revelation. Smith married Davis in 1968 after meeting him at a casting call. She wrote that they had initially appeared to be perfectly matched, sharing an abstinence from alcohol, a love of architecture and similar tastes in food. “We both didn’t…

Relatives of an Arizona family of four killed in a head-on crash near Heber on Labor Day have spoken of their grief and the lives they shared. Kiah Jae Begaye and Giovanni Uballe Huerta, both 26, died alongside their two young children when their Nissan collided with a pickup truck on State Route 260 in Navajo County on 7 September. The crash happened at about 12.30pm near Camp Shadow Pines, a few miles west of Heber. The two children, Dakota, four, and Malakai, two, were travelling with their parents after a visit to Begaye’s grandparents. According to court documents, the…