The main suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been pictured after leaving a German prison for the first time, stopping off at a McDonald's restaurant nearby.

His first meal after leaving prison following a seven-year sentence for the rape of an American woman was a cheese burger, nuggets, German outlet Bild reported. He accompanied his meal with a cigarette, with photos from the publication showing his ankle monitoring bracelet on his right leg.

Brueckner's lawyer plan on appealing the strict rules of his release, which include wearing the ankle monitor for five years.

Police in the UK, Germany and Portugal, who have all identified Brueckner as their main suspect, have long sought evidence to link him conclusively to the case. Portuguese and German police spent four days digging for evidence in the Algarve in June.

Hundreds more Queensland coalmining jobs are set to be axed in a grim week for the state’s resources sector.

Anglo American is the latest miner to cut staff, eliminating jobs at its Bowen Basin operations and Brisbane head office.

Isaac Regional Council, which covers the coal-rich Bowen Basin region of central Queensland, expects 200 jobs to go.

In a statement, Anglo American Australia corporate relations executive Ben Mansour said the job losses were to “ensure the long-term sustainability of our business”.

“These changes are essential to secure the future of our steelmaking coal operations in central Queensland.

“Our focus is on supporting safe, core operations and simplifying our business to adapt to ongoing market pressures, including lower coal prices and rising costs.”

It is expected the job cuts will hit the Grosvenor mine near Moranbah.

The underground mine has been shut since a fire in June 2024 and workers there are being offered redundancies.

Anglo’s move comes one day after BHP announced it would axe 750 jobs.

Coal Australia chief executive Stuart Bocking said on top of almost 1000 jobs being cut in 24 hours, thousands more supplier and contractor jobs were at risk.

“Coal Australia has consistently warned of job and investment losses as a result of the crippling royalties regime introduced by the former (state) Labor government in 2022,” he said.

“These warnings risk becoming a dangerously cascading reality without urgent action from the state government."

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Outspoken radio host and former teacher Alan Jones has pleaded not guilty to dozens of sexual abuse charges after several charges against him were withdrawn.

The 84-year-old had been accused of historical sex offences against 11 people - the youngest of whom was 17 at the time - over two decades when he dominated Sydney's airwaves.

He was facing a total of 35 charges of sexual abuse before prosecutors added charges against him earlier this week.

But the landscape of the case changed again on Thursday when prosecutors withdrew more than a dozen charges and amended remaining counts in the Downing Centre Local Court.

Jones now faces 25 charges of indecent assault and two of sexual touching against nine alleged victims.

Prosecutors did not explain in court why the charges related to two victims are no longer being pursued.

The move removed any allegations of aggravated conduct or that any of the alleged victims were under Jones' authority at the time of the alleged abuse, Jones's lawyer told the court.

"They are not fresh allegations," Bryan Wrench said.

"It is a downgrade."

Jones formally pleaded not guilty to all the charges through Mr Wrench, with the matter set to proceed to a local court hearing in 2026.

Read more here.

Australia has announced its long-awaited 2035 emissions reduction target which the government has set at 62 to 70 per cent. It comes three days after the Albanese Government released the nation’s first-ever National Climate Risk Assessment, which projected that 1.5 million Australians are at risk of rising sea levels if emissions were not dramatically cut.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he was acting on the independent advice of the Climate Change Authority when he set the target.

"Our government knows that climate change is real," he said, before adding that he had listened to the science.

"It's the right target to protect our environment, to protect and advance our economy and jobs, and to ensure that we act in our national interest and the interest of this and future generations."

Read more from our environment editor Michael Dahlstrom here.

US President Donald Trump has hailed the decision to remove Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show after remarks he made about the accused killer in the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Kimmel had earlier been criticised by the government-run Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair for saying Trump supporters were trying to “score political points” by calling alleged gunman Tyler Robinson a left-wing radical.

“The MAGA Gang [is] desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving," he said.

FCC chair Brendan Carr accused Kimmel of trying to "mislead the American people about a very core fundamental fact".

In the wake of Carr's criticism, the ABC confirmed it was "indefinitely" pulling Kimmel's show.

Trump has now commended the network for pulling Kimmel off the air on Wednesday night.

“Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done,” he wrote in a post on Truth Social.

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Kmart has been found to have breached customers' privacy by collecting personal and sensitive information via a facial recognition technology system.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) found that Kmart did not notify shoppers or seek their consent to use the technology to collect their biometric information.

The watchdog said that Kmart deployed the technology to capture the details of every customer who entered 28 of its retail stores between June 2020 and July 2022.

Kmart's parent company Wesfarmers has long supported the use of facial recognition technology to fight rising crime in stores, with its other retail giant Bunnings fighting a similar ruling.

While the Albanese government denied a multi-billion dollar defence top-up was tactically planned ahead of a meeting for the prime minister with Donald Trump, there were plenty who saw it as just that.

And now it's King Charles who has been sweetening up Trump with uncertainty continuing to linger around the US's commitment to the costly AUKUS defence deal.

"Our countries have the closest defence, security and intelligence relationship ever known. In two world wars, we fought together to defeat the forces of tyranny," King Charles said in his address at the lavish UK banquet put on for Trump's state visit.

"Today, as tyranny once again threatens Europe, we and our allies stand together in support of Ukraine, to deter aggression and secure peace.

"And our AUKUS submarine partnership, with Australia, sets the benchmark for innovative and vital collaboration.

There are obviously a range of factors that'll influence a supermarket budget, but it wasn't too long ago that a family's weekly shop without any obvious splurges could come under $100.

While one mum told Yahoo Lifestyle this week she's able to manage it at Aldi, we're well aware that's just impossible for most. So how much are you now spending on your weekly shop? Let us know below.

It's probably the most talked about show at the moment, and soon after the finale of The Summer I Turned Pretty (we won't spoil anything), fans have been given some pretty exciting news.

During the series finale red carpet celebration in Paris on Wednesday, Jenny Han, the author behind the hit show, announced that a feature-length film is in the works.

“There is another big milestone left in Belly’s journey, and I thought only a movie could give it its proper due,” Han said.

Read all about it here.

Tesla has rolled out its highly-anticipated self-driving technology across Australia – a first for the EV giant.

Australia and New Zealand are the first markets to have a national rollout of the tech for right-hand drive vehicles which basically drives your EV for you as long as you're sat there.

Tesla says it will "take care of the most stressful parts of daily driving while helping make the roads safer for you and others".

Owners of the Model 3 and Model Y vehicles can download the update, and use of the tech will require a subscription.

Read more about it here.

As we all know the internet can be an unforgiving place, and Melania Trump's bold fashion choices for her husband's state visit to the UK have come under intense scrutiny online.

Hours after appearing in an oversized plum-coloured wide-brimmed hat that almost completely hid her face, the first lady opted for a bright yellow number with a large pink belt, The Independent explains.

It was images of the first choice that really got people going, with one person likening her to a "coat and hat rack". We'll let you decide.

The main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann was released from a German prison on Wednesday after serving a seven-year sentence for an unrelated sex crime.

German prosecutors first named Christian Brueckner as a suspect in 2020, when he was already serving the sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman in the same part of Portugal's Algarve region where McCann went missing.

His lawyer drove him out of the prison grounds in an Audi, escorted by a police van.

Brueckner's lawyer denies any connection with the McCann case. He did not immediately respond to a request to comment on his client's release.

Brueckner, 49, has convictions for child abuse and drug trafficking in addition to the rape of the woman, who has since died.

Strict rules of suspect's release

Prosecutors said he would need to wear an electronic tag for five years, meet his parole officer at least once a month and declare to the court any changes to his domicile or temporary residence.

"Any violation of these conditions could lead to a fine or up to three years in prison," prosecutor Christian Wolters added.

Der Spiegel said Brueckner's passport had been cancelled and quoted a legal analyst describing the conditions as an attempt to keep him "in a kind of investigative detention".

McCann, then aged three, disappeared from her bedroom in a holiday resort as her parents dined metres away.

Police in Britain, Germany and Portugal, who have identified Brueckner as their main suspect, have long sought evidence to link him conclusively to the case. Portuguese and German police spent four days digging for evidence in the Algarve in June.

British police said on Monday that Brueckner declined their request for an interview in connection with the disappearance. They said they would continue to pursue any viable lines of enquiry.

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