A populist New Zealand minority coalition party has introduced a bill to define women and men by biology.

It follows the UK’s landmark decision last week, which ruled only biological and not trans women meet the definition of a woman under equality laws.

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Spain is looking to amend its Customer Service Law to block unwelcome cold-calling from businesses, something which the government promised to implement months ago. 

Under the reform companies will have to use a specific digital code/prefix when calling customers, allowing telecom operators to block any unauthorised calls from companies without the code. 

Minister of Social Rights, Pablo Bustinduy said that blocking unsolicited calls would protect “the well-being and privacy of consumers.” 

Bustinduy said the measures would be introduced via amendments to the consumer rights bill which will be debated in parliament “in the coming weeks”.

According to a 2023 study carried out in 39 countries by US security company Hiya, 42% of calls in Spain in the third quarter were spam, the second-highest percentage in Europe.
 
So the question is, would you like to see spam calls banned in Australia?

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As an Olympic gold medalist and Champions League winner, Almuth Schult was one of the top goalkeepers in women’s soccer, but she believes her career ended early because clubs were reluctant to sign a player with children.
The 34-year-old announced her retirement in March, three months after her contract ended with the Kansas City Current in the National Women’s Soccer League in the US. 
In an interview published by Germany’s Kicker magazine on Tuesday, she said she felt she could have played another “one, two years at the highest level” and that she believes being a mother was “the main reason” talks didn’t work out.
 
Schult gave birth to twins in 2020 and a third child in 2023.
 
“I was already out of contract after my second pregnancy,” said Schult, who played 66 times for the German national team. “No club believed I could still help, even though I had already proven it after my first pregnancy.”
 
Reporting by AP.
 
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Anthony Albanese tells News Breakfast about working on a date for a face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump after the prime minister was stood up by the US president last month at the G7 summit.

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