News 14/12/25

New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon says authorities are not looking for any more offenders following the incident.

He says the two gunmen involved were father and son, aged fifty and twenty four. The father was shot and killed by police, while the son remains in hospital. Searches found six firearms were licensed to the fifty year old, with six weapons recovered at the scene. He had held a gun licence for around a decade. Mr Lanyon declined to comment on questions around ideology or motive.

With the holiday break approaching, twenty one year old student Mia Tretta was in her dorm with a friend studying for final exams.

Like other students at Brown University, she was left distraught after receiving an active shooter alert from the university’s department of public safety. She says the difference for her is that she has lived through this before. Mia was shot in the twenty nineteen mass shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California. She says the experience shattered her sense of safety and innocence.

The number of people confirmed killed in the Bondi Beach shooting has risen to sixteen, according to police.

The number of people injured and in hospital has also increased, from twenty nine to forty.

A bystander has been hailed a hero after tackling and disarming one of the gunmen during the Bondi Beach shooting.

The man, identified by a relative as forty three year old Ahmed al Ahmed, is a shop owner. Video footage shows him running up behind the attacker and grabbing a shotgun from his hands, before pointing the weapon back towards him. The footage later shows the attacker moving towards a bridge where another gunman was located, while the bystander placed the gun beside a nearby tree.

A shiny new red post box has been given as a gift from King Charles the Third to staff at a remote Antarctic research station.

The Royal Mail lamp post box was sent to the Cambridge based British Antarctic Survey station at Rothera. Featuring the King Charles the Third cypher, it was delivered after station support assistant Kirsten Shaw, who runs the British Antarctic Territory Post Office for staff, requested an upgrade to replace their handmade box.

Five men have been arrested in Germany over a suspected plot to drive a vehicle into people at a Christmas market.

Three Moroccans, an Egyptian and a Syrian were detained on Friday over plans to target a market in the southern Bavarian state. Authorities said they suspected an Islamist motive. Prosecutors said the fifty six year old Egyptian was alleged to have called for a vehicle attack aimed at killing or injuring as many people as possible, with the Moroccans allegedly agreeing to carry out the attack. Officials remain on high alert following previous Christmas market attacks, including one in Magdeburg last December that killed six people.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Wexham Park and Frimley Park hospitals, has called for the wearing of face masks amid a flu outbreak.

From December ninth, the trust advised all visitors to wear masks in hospital wards and other clinical areas, adding they will be required in some locations. It said the measure is temporary and aims to reduce transmission due to high numbers of flu cases in hospitals and the local community.

Sir Keir Starmer has described an attack targeting the Jewish community at a Hanukkah event in Australia as sickening.

Police say at least eleven people were killed in the shooting at Bondi Beach on Sunday, with a further twenty nine taken to hospital. In a statement on X, the prime minister said the United Kingdom will always stand with Australia and the Jewish community. He added the government is working with the Community Security Trust on policing for Hanukkah events in the UK. The Metropolitan Police said it is increasing police presence, carrying out extra patrols and engaging with the Jewish community to understand what more can be done.

A revamp of train timetables has come into effect across the country, bringing some of the most significant changes in more than seven years.

Rail operators say passengers should see more services and faster journeys on some routes, with the East Coast Main Line expected to benefit most. People are being advised to check the new timetables before travelling. The scale of change has not been seen since May twenty eighteen, when an update caused major disruption and cancellations.

Kemi Badenoch says the Conservatives will scrap the planned ban on petrol and diesel vehicles if they win the next election.

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the party leader said the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate was well meaning but ultimately destructive. From twenty thirty, all new cars must be electric or hybrid to help meet a legally binding aim of achieving net zero by twenty fifty. Her comments follow talks with Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, who has lobbied the European Union to water down similar plans.

A manhunt is continuing in the United States after a shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island.

The campus in Providence stayed in lockdown for hours after the incident, which happened in a building where students were sitting exams. The city’s mayor says there’s no specific ongoing threat to the public, but around four hundred officers from police and other agencies are still searching the surrounding area as a precaution.

Police in New South Wales have issued an urgent update following a developing incident at Bondi Beach in Australia.

Officers are asking people to avoid the area, with anyone already there being told to take shelter. Police are on scene and say more information will be shared as soon as it becomes available.