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The majority of the Australian public have voted for new legislation for gay marriage, the 'Yes' vote winning 61.6%. The Australian Senate will now be asked  to support a bill to permit same-sex couples to get married on Thursday. The proposed bill will be debated in both houses of parliament but Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull remains insisted the historic law could be passed by both houses by the end of this year. "The Australian people have spoken in their millions,"...

Following legal action by HOPE not hate, Nigel Farage has withdrawn claims that Britain's largest anti-racism organisation pursued "violent and undemocratic means". The result is a major victory for HOPE not hate, which took Mr Farage to court for the unacceptable comments he made on LBC radio on 20 December last year, responding to a Twitter exchange with Jo Cox's widower, Brendan Cox. Mr Farage made his comments on the Nick Ferrari At Breakfast programme on LBC radio following the...

The 17-year-old boy may have been plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack at a JUSTIN BIEBER concert, the court heard. The lad searched for details of the venue's security just days before the Canadian popstar was due to play at the city's Principality Stadium, jurors were told. He also conducted more than 2,000 searches over a year including "Cardiff terrorist attack", "how to create a terror attack" and "how to pledge allegiance to ISIS". The defendant may have also been looking...

Royle Family actor Ralf Little outed Jeremy Hunt for lying to the public over a boast that he has overseen the "biggest expansion of mental health provision in Europe". Health Secretary Hunt bragged on the Andrew Marr Show that other countries are looking at we're doing in terms of mental health provision, in particular on anxiety and depression where he claims Britain is now considered a "world leader". But the statements have since been disputed by renowned actor Ralf Little, who...

Proposals to reduce the effects of global warming by imitating volcanic eruptions could have a devastating effect on global regions prone to either tumultuous storms or prolonged drought, new research has shown. Geoengineering – the intentional manipulation of the climate to counter the effect of global warming by injecting aerosols artificially into the atmosphere – has been mooted as a potential way to deal with climate change. However new research led by climate experts from the University of Exeter suggests...

Millennials in the US have it worse than previous generations on almost every conceivable metric, according to new statistics. Measured on wealth, debt, student loans, home ownership and inheritance members of Generation Y come off worse than the Baby Boomers and other ages that precede them. The statistics, compiled by Credit Suisse, found that wealth per adult was woefully low for younger generations while student debt is among the highest for this cohort. House ownership was also depressingly low for younger generations,...

Britain's last remaining mud-horse fisherman says his business is sinking - because of building work on a new nuclear power station. Dedicated Adrian Sellick, 59, is the fifth generation of his family to use the method - which sees him push a wooden sledge across the treacherous mudflats. The age-old technique allows him to get to the tide's edge where he sticks stakes into the mud and hangs nets between them to catch shrimp and fish in Bridgwater Bay. He...

A partially blind woman who can barely walk is no longer eligible for a free NHS service to take her to hospital appointments - because she is "too healthy". Pamela Midgley, 61, has up to three check-ups a month at different hospitals as she battles a degenerative eye disease, chronic arthritis, asthma and ulcers. The legal bookkeeper, who was forced to give up work when she started losing her sight five years ago, has also been diagnosed with clinical depression....

This is the first picture of a SECOND lynx to die at a British zoo - after it was strangled to death in a freak accident. Bosses at Borth Wild Animal Kingdom confirmed that a second lynx from the zoo had died - a week after another was shot dead after making an escape. Nilly, an adult female Lynx, died from asphyxiation after she became twisted in a catch-pole a keeper was using. The employee in question is apparently devastated...