View image in fullscreen Above: Newstead and Hepburn meet in a Castlemaine & District Cricket Association match at the self-made ground at Cricket Willow. Cricket Willow was opened in 1999, in time for Ian’s 50th birthday, and has been filling up with miscellaneous – mostly cricketing – items ever since. “They host functions here and, with all the history, I really don’t know whether there’d be anything else like it.”Will Cricket Willow bat on? View image in fullscreen Ian Tinetti stands with a bat at Cricket Willow in Shepherds Flat. These days, the families are fracturing as young people move away, and the conversation turns to the fate of Cricket Willow.

Gopichand Hinduja, listed at his death aged 85 as the richest man in Britain, was one of four brothers who took their father’s Indo-Iranian trading business and turned it into a vast international conglomerate. Gopichand worked closely with SP, head of the family until his death in 2023, when Gopichand took over as chair. View image in fullscreen Gopichand, left, Prakash, centre, and Srichand Hinduja outside a court in New Delhi in 2001, after a hearing on the ‘Bofors affair’. Born in India, Gopichand was in fact the third of five sons of Parmanand Hinduja and his wife, Jamuna – Girdhar, the eldest, died in 1963. More outgoing than the publicity-shy SP, Gopichand was happy to front for the company.

Nearly a century ago, scientists proposed that a mysterious invisible substance they named dark matter clumped around galaxies and formed a cosmic web across the universe. What dark matter is made from, and whether it is even real, are still open questions, but according to a study, the first direct evidence of the substance may finally have been glimpsed. Scientists have searched for dark matter particles ever since, but so far ground-based detectors, space-based telescopes and vast machines such as the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva have drawn a blank. To search for potential dark matter signals, Totani analysed data from Nasa’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which detects the most energetic photons in the electromagnetic spectrum. The signal “closely matches the properties of gamma-ray radiation predicted to be emitted by dark matter,” Totani told the Guardian.

Spain, Argentina, France and England – the top four in descending order – are to be split into different brackets in the 48-team finals tournament, with the aim of preventing Spain from facing Argentina, or England from playing France, before a possible final. The seedings leave England and France in line each to play one of Spain and Argentina in the semi‑finals. Fifa said the pathways would be drawn randomly, meaning it would not necessarily be Spain (No 1) v France (No 3) and Argentina v England. after newsletter promotionQuick Guide The four pots for the World Cup draw Show Pot 1: Canada, Mexico, US, Spain, Argentina, France, England, Brazil, Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany. One day after the draw, on 6 December, Fifa will announce the match schedule for the finals tournament.

South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, closed the G20 summit in Johannesburg by banging a gavel, having rejected a US proposal for him to hand over to a relatively junior embassy official for the next summit in Florida in a year’s time. South Africa presented the two-day event as a triumph for multilateralism but it was marred by a boycott by the US, which has repeatedly accused South Africa of discriminating against white-minority Afrikaners, a claim that has been widely discredited. South Africa had offered to arrange for an equivalent “junior” diplomat to formally hand the G20 presidency to the US at the foreign ministry. South Africa’s foreign minister, Ronald Lamola, told reporters: “From us, the ball has moved. Putin is wanted by the international criminal court, to which South Africa is a signatory.

Foreign minister Penny Wong has warned any peace plan for Ukraine must not hand new territory to Vladimir Putin, amid furious international backlash to Donald Trump’s proposal. The US president’s plan prompted a furious response from Ukrainians at the weekend, before the country’s European allies released an alternative plan during talks in Geneva. That plan omits some of the pro-Russia provisions included in the original, US-backed document and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respected. On Monday, Wong echoed that call and said a resolution to the nearly four-year war was needed. It also rules out a European peacekeeping force and sanctions for Russian war crimes.

A Russian drone strike on the major Ukrainian city of Kharkiv killed four people and wounded 17 on Sunday, its mayor said. Four people have died,” Igor Terekhov said, reporting the evening strike in a message on Telegram. The attack came as US, Ukrainian and European officials were in Geneva to discuss a proposal to end the nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine. The emergency services said the drone strike on two districts of Kharkiv had caused fires and the destruction of buildings. US secretary of state Marco Rubio said high-stakes talks in Geneva were “very worthwhile” and constituted the most productive day in “a very long time”.

Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that Russia would “betray” its promise and “come back” if Ukraine was forced to reduce its army, as proposed under Donald Trump’s plan. He also said any plan “requires broader consultation” and had to allow for peace for Ukrainians and “security for all Europeans”. US senators critical of the plan said Saturday that US secretary of state Marco Rubio told them the peace plan Trump is pushing Kyiv to accept is a “wish list” of the Russians. Ukrainian and American officials will meet in Switzerland on Sunday for talks to discuss the plan, after Washington sent Kyiv the plan. “If Ukraine loses this war and possibly collapses, it will have an impact on European politics as a whole, on the entire European continent.

“I think the American people should say, ‘Wait, what, who’s looking out for the service members here?’ Not the Dems. What is unusual now is the heightened anxiety among service members who normally operate without questioning the legality of typical orders. Facing a questionable order, a service member’s first responsibility is to get clarification from their chain of command, she said. Kevin Courtney, an attorney with the Military Law Center and a former Marine captain, warns that the current political discourse around unlawful orders puts junior service members in a dangerous position. “The reason the public honors veterans and service members so highly and puts them in high regard is because they represent all of America.

From 3h ago 14.36 GMT Trump says Ukraine's 'leadership' has expressed 'zero gratitude' In a post on his Truth Social platform, the US president Donald Trump said the Ukrainian “leadership” has “expressed zero gratitude” for US efforts to bring an end to Russia’s war. Ukraine “leadership” has expressed zero gratitude for our efforts, and Europe continues to buy oil from Russia. The Ukrainian president wrote: There is an understanding that the American proposals may include a number of elements based on Ukrainian perspectives and critical for Ukrainian national interests. Share3h ago 14.26 GMT Germany 'sceptical' a deal to end war in Ukraine can be reached by Thursday German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said he is “sceptical” a deal on Ukraine can be reached by Donald Trump’s Thursday deadline. View image in fullscreen German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is “sceptical” a deal on Ukraine can be reached by Thursday.

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But there’s a reason why Farah gravitated towards Elizondo (who also serves as an executive producer on the film). “None of them would ever want to participate in a big commercial documentary,” Farah explained. “But that begins to ramp out of control,” he notes, leading to a lack of transparency that might give US adversaries a head start by analyzing UAP technology. The geopolitical arms race to reverse engineer UAP technology is, what Farah came to see, one of the biggest reasons behind the alleged cover-up. He says this race escalated when the US found out that other countries, like Russia, were capturing and retrieving UAP technology.

Donald Trump said on Saturday that his “peace plan” was “not my final offer”, after a furious backlash from Ukrainians who described it as reminiscent of Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 Munich agreement with Adolf Hitler. Trump’s peace plan came from the same “recognisable genre”, with the victim invited “to formulate his own defeat so everyone else can live easier”. ‘I think that this peace deal is a try to break Ukraine and force unjust conditions on Ukraine,’ he said. It belongs to Ukraine.” She said Zelenskyy was a “smart person” and predicted he would not give up Ukrainian land. ‘I am very grateful to President Trump for him taking part in helping Ukraine and creating peace,’ she said.

Food waste collected from local markets is fed to the fly larvae, which can eat double their body weight in a single day. Luke Wheat is the founder and managing director of Arvela, a company that breeds black soldier fly larvae for the wider market. The target market for the dried larvae, Wheat say, is aquaculture, but live larvae can also be fed to poultry in some Australian jurisdictions. Dried larvae, marketed as BSF protein, has been approved for use in specialty dog food, which advertises it as a “hypoallergenic novel protein”. That company said its palatability testing showed “canine satisfaction” with the insect protein was equivalent to other animal protein sources.

“Right now, our people are losing their lives and livelihoods from storms of unprecedented strength which are being powered by warming seas. Our coral reefs, the lifeblood of our islands’ food systems, culture and economies are at a tipping point in dieback. “We are dangerously close to a 1.5C global warming overshoot, driven by the actions of bigger countries,” he said. The $120bn (£92bn) a year promised by 2035 must also be compared with the $360bn they are projected to need. That makes a huge difference to countries with overstretched budgets that are already spending on climate defence instead of health and education.