January 2025

Auschwitz survivor warns against ‘a huge rise of antisemitism’ Marian Turski speaks during commemorations at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland to mark 80 years since the liberation of the concentration camp on 27th January 1945. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA Marian Turski, member of the International Auschwitz Council and Auschwitz survivor, has been speaking in the last few minutes….

A young Antarctic minke whale has treated ferry passengers to a rare spectacle after surfacing beside a wharf to the south of Sydney. Christine Hack, the manager of Cronulla and National Park Ferry Cruises, which manages the Cronulla ferry, said the whale began following the vessel as it approached Bundeena wharf at about 10am on…