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Sheffield Crown Court in South Yorkshire, UK, sentences Thomas Birley, a British man who set fire to a hotel that housed asylum seekers in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, to nine years in prison for arson with the intent to endanger life, the longest sentence related to the riots so far.
2024-09-6

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces that the Australian Indigenous Voice referendum will be held on 14 October.
2023-08-30

Australian MP Peter Dutton claims that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has lost the support of the majority of the Liberal Party and calls for another leadership vote. Turnbull states that he will resign if another spill is called.
2018-08-23

U.S. President Barack Obama, in an op-ed in London's "Daily Telegraph", urges Britons to keep the U.K. in the European Union. Tomorrow, Obama is scheduled to have lunch with Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, who celebrated her 90th birthday today. He then will hold talks with Prime Minister David Cameron.
2016-04-21

New Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announces knights and dames will no longer be part of the nation’s honors system. He said Queen Elizabeth signed off on the decision.
2015-11-2

Two British VICE News journalists, Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, arrested on 28 August in Diyarbakir Province in southeastern Turkey on terror charges, are released while their colleague, translator Mohammed Ismael Rasool, remains in custody.
2015-09-4

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott participate in the first of three televised leaders debates ahead of September's federal election.
2013-08-11

Among the foreigners at the funeral are Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, former Apartheid-era South African President F. W. de Klerk, former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former United States Vice President Dick Cheney, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard and current Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
2013-04-17

The Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom reaches its peak with a pageant on the River Thames.
2012-06-3

An audience member throws shoes at former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard during an appearance on Q&A on ABC1.
2010-10-25