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Friday20 September 2024
  • Socceroos coach Graham Arnold at Parramatta Stadium in March.

    Australia news live
    Graham Arnold to quit as Socceroos coach, report says; Myer profit falls as fashion brands flop

    Follow today’s news live
  • a man in a suit and tie speaks into a microphone

    US politics
    Senate leader Schumer moves to avert shutdown after House speaker’s ‘flop’

  • Gisèle Pelicot.

    France
    ‘I am part of this nightmare’: man admits guilt in Gisèle Pelicot rape trial

  • a bright moon against the dark night sky

    Astronomy
    Earth will soon have a second ‘mini moon’ – for a limited time

    • Tasmania
      Privacy experts shocked as Hobart council agrees to beam live CCTV footage into police station

    • Hot property
      ‘Worth considering’ whether realestate.com.au engaged in anti-competitive practices, Rod Sims says

    • Lebanon blasts
      Israel bombards southern Lebanon after Hezbollah chief vows ‘punishment’

    • Capital punishment
      ‘He didn’t do it’: days before execution in South Carolina, key witness says he lied

    • Cricket
      Travis Head hammers career-best hundred as Australia rout England

    • LGBTQ+ rights
      Georgian trans model murdered after parliament passes ‘anti-LGBTQ+’ law

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Spotlight

  • Painting by Louisa Starr Canziani (1845 - 1909) depicting an elderly man comforting a crying young woman after seemingly having read a devastating report in a newspaper about an overseas battle (possibly something Boer War-related?). He is wearing a patriotic ribbon. It is titled after lines from The Battle of Blenheim of After Blenheim, a poem by Robert Southey written in 1796, 'But things like that, you know, must be after a famous victory.'<br>2C876DK Painting by Louisa Starr Canziani (1845 - 1909) depicting an elderly man comforting a crying young woman after seemingly having read a devastating report in a newspaper about an overseas battle (possibly something Boer War-related?). He is wearing a patriotic ribbon. It is titled after lines from The Battle of Blenheim of After Blenheim, a poem by Robert Southey written in 1796, 'But things like that, you know, must be after a famous victory.'

    Leading questions
    My 80-year-old dad is unrealistic about his future. Why can’t he move into a retirement village?

    It is difficult for adult children to navigate these changes, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But it is difficult for your father too
  • A woman laughing while using her smartphone

    Too many ‘candid’ social media videos are obviously, agonisingly fake. So why are viewers laughing?

    Rebecca Shaw
  • Anthony Albanese speaks to media, backed by Clare O’Neil

    Full Story
    Labor and the Greens hit an impasse on housing

    Paul Karp speaks to Nour Haydar about the reforms voters want the government to prioritise and how a double dissolution election would change parliament
  • Ken Done showing a young girl a picture at a table, surrounded by artwork

    In pictures
    Ten children drew their favourite sea creatures. Then Australia’s leading artists responded

    Ken Done, Jonathan Zawada, Blak Douglas and others created companion pieces to children’s works celebrating sharks and rays. They’re now on display at the Australian Museum
    • Andrew and Josella met through Tinder in 2021

      Dating
      Andrew and Josella met online – it’s now the norm for more than half of young Australians

    • A two-month-old female pygmy hippo named Moo Deng bites her keeper Atthapon Nundee at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand

      A baby pygmy hippo named Moo Deng: she is all we want to look at

      Helen Sullivan
    • Sophia Loren in Legend of the Lost (1957)

      Cinema
      Happy 90th birthday Sophia Loren! Her greatest films – ranked

    • PR shot of Nelly Furtado in a fur coat.

      Music
      Nelly Furtado: ‘Flames shot out of the speaker when I started making Maneater’

Sport

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Opinion

  • Anatol Lieven

    I’ve studied geopolitics all my life: climate breakdown is a bigger threat than China and Russia

    Anatol Lieven
  • Permanent ambassador of Israel, Danny Danon, speaks during an emergency special session on illegal Israel actions in East Jerusalem

    Will the historic UN vote for sanctions on Israel change reality for Palestinians?

    Omar Barghouti
    Palestinians have never given up hope in our decades-old resistance to Israel’s ruthless regime of oppression
    • Margaret Sullivan

      JD Vance is factually challenged – and morally deficient

      Margaret Sullivan
    • Huw Edwards leaves court after his sentencing.

      Huw Edwards, and the ludicrous arguments bad men make in defence of the indefensible

      Emma Brockes
    • Ursula von der Leyen

      Von der Leyen has tightened her grip on the EU’s steering wheel – and is moving it subtly to the right

      Paul Taylor
    • A for sale sign in front of an apartment building

      The severity of Australia’s housing affordability crisis is obvious - this is how politicians could fix it

      Nicki Hutley

Lifestyle

  • Ilya and Amy (right) in 2022.

    How we met
    She had an eyebrow piercing – I thought that was very edgy

    Ilya and Amy, both 49, met at a student party in the 90s when Amy was playing drums in a band. They now live on opposite sides of Canada but are in touch almost daily
  • A black father with son in baby carrier doing laundry.

    Great men do wear their babies – the days of criticising a father for carrying his child are over

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Liz Haigh-Reeve, leaning on a fence post with a field behind her in Kent.

    How we survive
    The rollercoaster I was on hurtled backwards and crashed. My friend didn’t make it – and my life changed for ever

  • Waterford, Ireland, historic waterfront showing Reginald's tower and churches<br>G3JCKB Waterford, Ireland, historic waterfront showing Reginald's tower and churches

    Ireland
    Waterford revival: the reinvention of Ireland’s oldest city

  • A bowl of cauliflower and asparagus mac 'n' cheese.

    You've got this
    Easy and cheesy: Alice Zaslavsky’s cauliflower and asparagus mac ‘n’ cheese – recipe

  • Google Pixel 9 review showing the back of the phone and its distinctive camera bar.

    Technology
    Google Pixel 9 review: a good phone overshadowed by great ones

Culture

  • Book review comp. Kylie Mirmohamadi

    Books
    Diving, Falling by Kylie Mirmohamadi review – death of the artist, husband, monster

  • Kylie Minogue on stage.

    Music
    ‘I am beyond excited’: Kylie Minogue announces biggest tour in a decade

    Twenty dates announced for Tension album tour so far, which will begin in Australia and visit several UK cities
  • A large painting in black and white, featuring a rhizomatic patterning, hangs on a white gallery wall, with a person walking in front of it.

    Art
    ‘Impossible task’: NGV to take largest international exhibition of Indigenous art to US

    The show, which will tour for three years across North America beginning in 2025, will feature the gallery’s ‘absolute masterpieces’ – including works by Emily Kam Kngwarray and Albert Namatjira
  • film still of a woman in the woods with a crossbow

    Film
    Never Let Go review – Halle Berry takes hold of uneven woodland horror

  • Sally Rooney.

    Books
    Intermezzo by Sally Rooney review – surprise moves in love, loss and chess

  • Flipping the script … Jamie xx.

    Album of the week
    Jamie xx: In Waves review – bright, blissful bangers for 3am on big speakers

  • Ruth Wilson as Emily Maitlis and Michael Sheen as Prince Andrew in A Very Royal Scandal.

    Television
    A Very Royal Scandal review – Michael Sheen is excellent as Prince Andrew in THAT interview

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Hot property

  • Illustration of monopoly houses falling into a white smartphone

    Hot property
    ‘The bear at the door’: estate agents say they fear speaking out about realestate.com.au ‘price gouging’

    • Guy Moore standing under a clothes line in a suburban backyard

      Hot property
      The Australian tenants who are charged to pay their rent

    • Illustration of a board game with a man running across it.

      Revealed
      Criminals and unlicensed agents operating across Australia’s real estate sector

    • Dimitri Chrisis at his house in Marrickville in Sydney's inner west. Thursday 22nd August 2024. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Guardian Australia

      Real estate
      The ‘symbiotic relationship’ that makes selling a house in Australia so damn expensive

    • Closeup on a for sale sign

      Full report
      Australians pay more than anyone in the world to sell their homes online

Across the country

  • Feral deer in Grampians national park, Victoria, Australia

    Environment
    ‘Australia’s next rabbit plague’: calls for feral deer in Victoria to be considered a pest instead of wildlife

    Victoria is home to perhaps the largest population and the only mainland state with ‘legislative relic’ of protections
  • The Alvin W Vogtle electric generating plant in Waynesboro, Georgia

    Energy
    Coalition’s nuclear plan will add $665 a year to average power bill, report warns

  • Greens senator Larissa Waters

    Law
    Jail threat could ‘gag’ whistleblowers going before parliament’s new workplace watchdog, critics warn

  • Dulip Samaraweera looks on during a WBBL match

    Victoria
    Cricket Australia issues 20-year ban to batting coach for ‘utterly reprehensible’ conduct

    • Population
      Australia passes 27 million people milestone after post-pandemic migration boost

    • LGBTQ+ rights
      NSW police reopen two investigations after landmark gay hate crime inquiry

    • Federal politics
      Dutton suggests apology for calling Lebanese-Muslim migration a ‘mistake’ made to ‘senior person’ in community

    • Victoria
      Judge throws out ‘weak’ case against driver at centre of Daylesford pub crash that left five people dead

    • Sydney
      High-profile man threatened to use naked footage of woman ‘against’ her, rape trial hears

    • Defamation trial
      Moira Deeming kept ‘Liberal party mentor’ Peta Credlin in the loop ‘at all times’ amid Nazi stoush, court hears

The rural network

  • Feral deer in Grampians national park, Victoria, Australia

    Environment
    ‘Australia’s next rabbit plague’: calls for feral deer in Victoria to be considered a pest instead of wildlife

  • Bert Stevens from Henty, NSW, has attended every year since 1963, except one. He now volunteers on the gate and spends his spare time cruising around reconnecting with old friends.

    New South Wales
    A lot of good people there: Henty Machinery Field Days 2024 – in pictures

  • A sign saying 'SAVE THE RIVER' on the banks of the Belubula River near Blayney

    Criticism of sacred site decision shows we have learned nothing from Juukan Gorge

    Calla Wahlquist
  • In May, Agnico Eagle struck a profit-sharing deal with the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation over the expansion of Fosterville goldmine. But not everyone is happy.

    Resources
    Expanding Victoria’s largest goldmine could affect nearby houses and contaminate groundwater, locals say

Around the world

  • Twitter's office in New York on 26 October 2022. Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on 23 October 2019.

    Technology
    Social media and online video firms are conducting ‘vast surveillance’ on users, US agency finds

    Agency accuses Meta, Google, TikTok and other companies of sharing troves of user information with third-parties
  • A building damaged by Ukrainian strikes, following the invasion of Ukraine forces into the Kursk region

    Ukraine war briefing
    Offensive in Kursk diverted 40,000 Russian troops, Zelenskyy says

    Moscow says it has captured another village in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. What we know on day 940
  • A person's hand holding a wireless communication device

    Analysis
    Israeli front-controlled manufacturing process likeliest explanation for attacks on Hezbollah

    Reports that sabotaged pagers and walkie-talkies were made by Israeli front company with links to Europe
    • The seal of the US Department of Justice featuring a bald eagle and the American flag

      Civil rights
      US opens civil rights investigation into Mississippi sheriff’s office after torture of Black men

    • Stock markets
      Wall Street hits all-time highs after Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut

    • Pakistan
      Police in southern Pakistan shoot dead blasphemy suspect

    • UK
      PM’s £35k in free tickets puts football regulator plans under scrutiny

    • Social media
      Brazil top judge accuses X of ‘willful’ circumvention of court-ordered block

    • Al-Qaida
      Jihadist assault on Mali’s capital killed scores of people, say security sources

    • Europe
      Two missing and 1,000 evacuated as Storm Boris devastates northern Italy

    • Climate crisis
      Car industry calls for shift in EU emissions targets amid slowing EV sales

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  • Anthony Albanese speaks to media, backed by Clare O’Neil

    Full Story
    Labor and the Greens hit an impasse on housing

    Paul Karp speaks to Nour Haydar about the reforms voters want the government to prioritise and how a double dissolution election would change parliament
  • 240919 US interest rates thumbnail

    How Australians feel when the US cuts interest rates

    Fiona Katauskas
  • An aircraft flies past the supermoon as it rises in Brisbane, Australia.

    Astronomy
    Glowing September supermoon lights up the sky – in pictures

  • Plucky Squire

    Games
    The Plucky Squire review – jolly adventures on and off the page

  • Lupita Nyong’o, host of diaspora podcast Mind Your Own.

    Best podcasts of the week
    Lupita Nyong’o and friends tell tales of the African diaspora

  • A man standing by the sea, holding large sticks over his shoulders

    Mediterranean
    No hospital, no cars … and only three school pupils: life on a remote island

Guardian Labs

  • Fly fishing at Granite Lake in the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness in Montana.

    Watch: Montana’s wild culinary spirit

  • Three images: Image of woman smiling; bowl of pho; alligator hiding in wetlands with a boat in the background.

    Florida: from excellent eats to the Everglades

  • A young woman hiking through Glacier National Park in Montana on a beautiful summer day.

    Watch: Wellness retreats in Montana

  • Aerial View of Florida Everglades

    Watch: Awesome Everglades adventures

Explore

  • A huge spider with yellow stripes hangs out on a web

    US
    Giant invasive joro spiders spotted for first time in Pennsylvania

    Intimidating looking but relatively harmless arachnids native to east Asia spread across US north-east
  • Painting of Mozart sitting at a piano

    Classical music
    Previously unknown Mozart music discovered in German library

  • An illustration of a Celsius can on its side, surrounded by psychedelic lines in hot pink, green and black with a silhouette of a person drinking a beverage

    Food & drink industry
    ‘A troubling halo of health’: how Celsius became Red Bull for women

  • Art
    Comedian turned artist Joe Lycett: ‘If it’s too earnest a painting, it’s a failure’

  • Medicine
    ‘You feel omnipresent’: bringing city care to India’s country hospitals

  • United Nations
    ‘Art changes people and people change the world’: the artists targeting UN’s general assembly

  • Undercover as a hotel cleaner in Ireland: ‘Lifting the heavy mattress, I cry tears of rage and exhaustion’

    Saša Uhlová

  • Migration
    The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia

  • Hilary Mantel was my mentor. Here are seven things she taught me about writing – and life

    Katie Ward

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  • Construction workers walking on the roof of the Sagrada Família

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    Soaring spires and floods in Europe

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