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ServiceNow president and chief financial officer Gina Mastantuono has urged business leaders to treat recovery and work-life balance as essential to performance, warning that long hours and minimal sleep can set a damaging example for employees. Speaking at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Santa Barbara, California, Mastantuono said the business world had not fully adopted the approach to rest long understood by athletes. She said some senior employees still appeared to value overwork as a sign of commitment, telling Deloitte’s US sports chief commercial officer and women’s sports leader Alicia Hatch: “There’s always been this—if you have to…

A Kacey Musgraves tour bus stopped to help a man after his pickup truck rolled over on a highway outside Kingman, Arizona. Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers responded to the crash on southbound US 93 at about 12.15pm on Friday. Witnesses said the Toyota Tundra veered off the road before overturning. One of Musgraves’ tour bus drivers pulled over and remained with the man until paramedics arrived. The driver was alert and responsive and was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries. The driver’s wife was travelling behind him in another vehicle with their dog, which was reported…

A married couple has been convicted of murder after a confrontation outside their home in Lexington Park, Maryland, ended with a man being shot dead. David Scott Jones, 59, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, while his wife, Djhonna Mari Jones, 47, was found guilty of first- and second-degree murder following a two-day trial before a judge. The convictions relate to the death of 38-year-old Carl Joseph Carpenter on October 27, 2025. The shooting happened outside the couple’s home on Bellevue Court, according to court records. Mr Carpenter had gone to the property to give someone a lift to work. As…

Australia are within reach of a landmark Test series victory in South Africa, with success in Gqeberha set to make them the first team to win a series there in seven years. Australian victory would mark a significant achievement for the side and begin a major 10-month period for the team.

A bystander who stopped the Silver Rail Elementary School shooting in Bend, Oregon, has identified himself as Kaylub Giamanco, a lifelong resident of the city with two daughters at the school. Police said Mr Giamanco pursued and fatally shot the 16-year-old attacker, ending an assault in which three children and a teacher were killed. A student and another teacher were critically injured. At a news conference, Bend police chief Mike Krantz also praised a teacher who threw her mobile phone at the gunman before tackling him and fighting to take his firearm. She was not injured. “In addition to the…

The death of 24-year-old William Chapman after he entered a tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park has prompted questions about his mental health care, while his family have condemned the circulation of abusive videos and memes depicting his final moments. Mr Chapman, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and suffered episodes of psychosis, was mauled by an Amur tiger named Altai at the wildlife park near Doncaster last Saturday. An inquest into his death was opened at Doncaster Coroners Court on Thursday. His family have raised concerns about the support he received from Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Trust…

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has warned that stronger economic growth alone will not resolve the United States’ $40.3 trillion national debt, urging Washington to bring down its budget deficit as well. Speaking at the International Monetary Fund’s annual meetings in Bangkok, Ms Georgieva said growth could help ease the pressure but would not deliver the necessary adjustment quickly enough. “Growth, of course, helps but it cannot deliver fast enough the necessary adjustments,” she said. Her comments were challenged by the US Treasury, which questioned the IMF’s record on economic forecasting. David Zervos, a counsellor to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, said…

Two victims of the Oregon elementary school shooting have been identified as 25-year-old teacher Meghan Lambert and five-year-old pupil Rhoam Summer. The pair were named by authorities during a press conference on Friday, a day after a 16-year-old gunman opened fire at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. Lambert grew up in Bend and had fulfilled her ambition of teaching in the school district she attended as a child. She graduated from Boise State University in 2023 and had previously worked at Silver Rail as a substitute teacher before taking her first full-time teaching post there. In a statement,…

Fresh details have emerged about the Oregon school shooting that left three children and a teacher dead at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, including the identities of one child and the teacher killed in the attack. Five-year-old Rhoam Summer was named by his family as one of the victims. His aunt, Swan Sheridan, described him as a lively child who loved stuffed animals, sharks, dinosaurs and creatures he considered “misunderstood”. “He never met a stuffie that he didn’t think needed to be rescued and cared for,” Ms Sheridan said. The other children killed were aged eight and 11 and…

Police have released CCTV images as they investigate a series of alleged sexual offences against women using walking trails in Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Three incidents were reported in the Narrabeen area between October 7 and October 8. Police allege that, in each case, a man approached women on walking trails, sexually touched them and rode away on an e-bike. One alleged incident was reported after a woman walking near South Creek Road, by Narrabeen Lagoon in Wheelers Heights, at about 4.30pm on October 1 was approached by an unknown man. He allegedly touched her sexually before speeding away on an…