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Thursday25 April 2024
  • A view of the US supreme court as justices hear arguments on the immunity of former US president Donald Trump.

    Live
    Special counsel attorney warns of ‘sea change’ if supreme court expands presidential immunity – live

    Conservative judge signals some election interference charges could be brought by special counsel regardless of court ruling
    • MasterChef stainless steel cookware range

      MasterChef Australia
      Environment groups accuse show of greenwashing after gas sponsorship deals unveiled

    • Bondi Junction stabbings
      Westfield security guards in Victoria say they requested additional protection months before

    • Economics
      Stock markets fall after sharp US growth slowdown

    • ‘Can’t be the internet police’
      Dutton backs Musk and contradicts Ley on ‘silly’ demand for global removal of stabbing footage

    • Tanya Plibersek
      Minister rejects claims renewable projects are being held up by approval delays

    • Skills gap
      Mechanics shortage forcing insurers to write off electric vehicles after minor accidents

    • Road not taken
      The moment Andrew Giles passed on chance to shut down detention court case

    • A way to make a livin’
      Jennifer Aniston set for 9 to 5 reboot

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Spotlight

  • Conan O'Brien

    Conan O’Brien is going viral for all the right reasons – hot wings and spewed milk

    Rebecca Shaw
    While other comedians spend more time complaining than cracking jokes, the former Late Show host remains gloriously unhinged and hilarious
  • Topview of a pot of angel hair pasta tinged golden with saffron, and topped with cherry tomatoes, burrata and basil.

    Pot of gold
    Alice Zaslavsky’s recipe for one-pan angel hair pasta with tomatoes and burrata

  • A person looks at an iPhone screen showing various social media apps including TikTok, Facebook and X

    Full Story
    Newsroom edition: Musk, Meta and TikTok – can governments control big tech?

    Nour Haydar speaks to editor-in-chief Lenore Taylor and deputy editor Patrick Keneally about the trouble with regulating global social media giants, and how it’ll affect the future of journalism
  • A person demonstrates using a syringe during a tour of medically supervised injecting room North Richmond.

    I started using heroin decades ago. The rejection of a Melbourne CBD injecting room feels like a rejection of me

    Anonymous
    The government seems to want teams to go scoop up drug users and put them in treatment – whether they’re ready for it or not
    • Australian band Regurgitator, 2024

      Regurgitator: Invader review
      The new stuff is as good as the old stuff

    • Composite for The Pyramid of Needs by Ernest Price

      The Pyramid of Needs by Ernest Price review
      A wickedly funny take on wellness

    • ‘I learn a lot every single time I work’ … actor and director Bryce Dallas Howard

      Bryce Dallas Howard
      ‘I can’t be trusted around famous people’

    • Nas<br>American rapper and actor Nas, London, circa 2000. (Photo by David Tonge/Getty Images)

      Ranked
      Furious, funny and potentially fatal: hip-hop’s 20 greatest diss tracks

Sport

  • Cartoon illustration of Leigh Broxham flying with seagulls and a Melbourne City fan being pooed on by a bird

    David Squires on Australian sport
    The endurance of Leigh Broxham’s A-League career

    Our cartoonist looks at the Melbourne Victory veteran’s 18 years in Australian top-flight football as he finally hangs up the boots
  • Nick Hind of the Bombers reacts with his hands on his head after the Anzac Day match ended in a draw

    Collingwood and Essendon’s Anzac Day draw a tortuous but fitting result

    Jonathan Horn
  • Philadelphia Eagles offensive tackle Jordan Mailata, a 6ft 8in Australian who was deemed too big for rugby.

    Touching down
    NFL to open academy in Australia to identify and develop young prospects

    The NFL will expand its international search for talent by opening an academy in rugby-mad Australia to develop promising teenagers in the Asia-Pacific region
  • A Chinese flag is unfurled on the podium of a swimming event final at the 2020 Summer Olympics

    Olympics
    Australia joins calls for review of Chinese swimming’s doping saga

    SIA boss David Sharpe seeks clarity and reassurance from Wada as Australian cyclist Chloe Hosking says athletes face ‘different anti-doping realities’
    • Jürgen Klopp apologised for his side’s defeat to Everton.

      Liverpool
      Injuries have deflated the team – not Jürgen Klopp’s early wave goodbye

    • Graham Potter looks into camera.

      Ajax
      Dutch show interest in former Chelsea manager Graham Potter

    • Xavi is embraced by Barcelona’s president, Joan Laporta

      Barcelona
      Xavi’s U-turn shows breaking up is hard to do despite tough times

    • An artist's rendition of new Chicago Bears lakefront stadium.

      NFL
      Chicago Bears to seek public funding in $5bn plan for new lakefront stadium

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Opinion

  • Heritage Foundation: Former Prime Minister Liz Truss on Fighting the Global Left

    Fair to say America isn’t gripped by Liz Trussmania. Here’s what she can learn from Mr Bean

    Emma Brockes
    Our former PM has a dire warning and a book to sell, but it isn’t really cutting through. A bit more Brit-style bumbling might help, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
  • Moira Donegan

    The US supreme court heard one of the most sadistic, extreme anti-abortion cases yet

    Moira Donegan
    • Simon Jenkins

      That sinking feeling: why long-suffering Venice is quite right to make tourists pay

      Simon Jenkins
    • John Crace

      Humza Yousaf forgot the rule: leaders who want to look tough look stupid

      John Crace
    • Hussein Julood

      I’m asking BP to take its share of responsibility for my son’s death, and will take it to UK court if I have to

      Hussein Julood
    • Vicente Valentim

      In Portugal, we’re celebrating 50 years of freedom. So why is the far right creeping back?

      Vicente Valentim

Lifestyle

  • Sian (left) and Pam

    Dining across the divide
    She felt our generation shouldn’t be held responsible for the massive imbalance between us and young people’

    Could they agree on immigration and housing? And why did the conversation turn to pigeon racing?
  • Natalie and Beccy in 2023.

    How we met
    ‘She accosted me and told me she’d looked me up on Facebook’

  • ‘Long before my son was born, I dreamed of him’ … Suzanne Scanlon and her son

    The forever wound
    How could I become a mother when my own mother died so young?

  • A group of people walking

    Grey wave
    Walkers spearhead record activity levels among England’s over-55s

  • An illustration of a female stretched across in her living room holding an iPad-like device watching a show

    Well actually
    How brilliant female British TV detectives helped me understand myself

  • Illustration of a librarian holding out a book

    The experts
    Librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books

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Culture

  • Laurent Cantet looks at the camera with a jacket over his shoulder

    Laurent Cantet
    Film-maker who tackled diversity and class in France dies aged 63

  • Back to black … St Vincent

    St Vincent: All Born Screaming review
    The unmasking of a great American songwriter

    Are we finally seeing the real Annie Clark? Replacing alter egos with raw immediacy, she delivers one of her best albums: restlessly inventive and packed with ideas
  • Keely Hawes, left, and Rachael Stirling wearing top hats and suits while sitting on a velvet sofa

    Five of the best
    Books about queer relationships

    From James Baldwin to Sarah Waters, writers have been telling rich, nuanced LGBTQ+ tales for decades – here are some good titles to try
  • Miriam Rivera

    ‘She was tough, but it broke her’
    Why There’s Something About Miriam was reality TV’s most shameful low

  • Andrée Bernard in What (Is) a Woman

    What (Is) a Woman review
    London play is like #MeToo never happened

  • Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes.

    28 Years Later
    Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes cast in sequel

  • In the whacking trade … Liam Neeson as Finbar Murphy in In the Land of Saints and Sinners

    In the Land of Saints and Sinners review
    Liam Neeson finds cowboy spirit in Donegal

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Across the country

  • Supplied photo of Emma Bates.

    Emma Bates death
    Family pay tribute to Cobram woman’s ‘biggest heart’ after John Torney charged with assaults

    Torney, 39, due to face Shepparton magistrates court on Friday after woman found dead
  • 2024 AACTA Awards Ceremony Presented By Foxtel Group - Red Carpet<br>GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 10: Rebel Wilson attends the 2024 AACTA Awards Presented By Foxtel Group at HOTA (Home of the Arts) on February 10, 2024 in Gold Coast, Australia. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for AFI)

    Rebel Wilson memoir
    Entire chapter on Sacha Baron Cohen redacted from book in Australia

  • A crew member is seen onboard the USS Asheville, a Los Angeles-class nuclear powered fast attack submarine at HMAS Stirling in Perth

    Aukus
    US passes foreign military aid package with $5bn boost for defence pact with Australia

  • Pilot whales beached

    Western Australia
    Twenty-six pilot whales dead after mass stranding on beach

    • Sydney
      Five teenagers charged with terrorism offences after police raids

    • ‘Chilling’ precedent
      Activist groups not directly involved in Tiwi Island lawsuit must hand over documents to Santos, court rules

    • Qatar Airways
      Australian women alleging ‘unlawful’ treatment at Doha airport launch appeal

    • Bruce Lehrmann’s trial
      AFP reviewing whether police leaked material from case

    • 'Hold on to their names, hold on to their deeds'
      Thousands gather for dawn services and marches to mark Anzac Day

    • Queensland
      Woman pleads guilty to manslaughter of baby daughter who drowned in bath

The rural network

  • Middle aged man standing in grassland with a high voltage power line tower behind him

    ‘Leave politics to the politicians’
    Why rural Queensland is a hotbed of renewable energy

  • Man standing holding bee hive frame

    Biosecurity levy
    Primary producers say they ‘can’t afford’ to pay proposed measure

  • Gabrielle Chan

    If Australia has reached ‘peak milk’, what does that mean for our food security?

    Gabrielle Chan
  • A tree strewn with bras in an outback setting

    ‘An unexplained phenomenon’
    The Australian obsession for putting stuff in trees

Around the world

  • An electric car parked up and plugged in at a row of charging sockets

    Energy
    Global battery rollout doubled last year – but needs to be six times faster, says IEA

    Energy watchdog warns pace must accelerate to hit targets after new batteries increased capacity by 130%
  • Laurence Fox libel case<br>Laurence Fox makes a statement outside the the Royal Courts Of Justice, central London, after a High Court judge has ruled that he libelled two men when he referred to them as "paedophiles" on social media. The actor turned political activist was sued by former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal, also known as Colin Seymour over comments on social media. Mr Fox is countersuing the pair, along with actress Nicola Thorp. Picture date: Monday January 29, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Fox. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

    Laurence Fox
    Actor ordered to pay £180,000 to two people he called ‘paedophiles’

  • Polish Parliament meets For the 10th session in Warsaw - 24 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (14449088i) W?adys?aw Kosiniak-Kamysz, Minister of defence speaks during the 10th session of Polish Parliament in the Parliament building on Wiejska Street. The parliament discusses controversial issues of the rule of law. Polish Parliament meets For the 10th session in Warsaw - 24 Apr 2024

    Ukraine
    Poland and Lithuania pledge to help Kyiv repatriate citizens subject to military draft

  • Humza Yousaf.

    Scotland
    First minister in peril as Greens say they will back no confidence motion

    • Analysis
      Decline of gender stereotypes could be factor in drinking and smoking among girls in Great Britain

    • Paris
      Moulin Rouge windmill blades collapse

    • Spain
      Madrid prosecutors ask judge to shelve investigation into PM’s wife

    • Haiti
      New government sworn in during secret ceremony

    • 'This is all about copper'
      BHP moves to buy Anglo American mining group

    • Meta
      Value falls $190bn as investors balk at AI plan

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  • War Veteran John Murphy poses for a photograph at the Shrine of Remembrance during the dawn service on April 25, 2024, in Melbourne

    Anzac Day
    Thousands gather for dawn services across Australia and New Zealand

    Across cities and towns in both countries, crowds gathered at Anzac Day dawn services to remember fallen soldiers and servicepeople
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    How to pick your battles this Anzac Day

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  • a banner reads "Encampment for Gaza! Divest now!"

    US protests
    Students are demanding universities divest from Israel. What does that mean?

    Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are calling on universities to sell investments in companies they say are complicit in war in Gaza
  • Commuters line a platform as a metro train arrives

    ‘Confined to this little island’
    Britons criticise rejection of EU youth mobility deal

  • A former domestic worker in Beirut. About 250,000 African and Asian migrant women work in Lebanon. An average of two domestic workers a week die there.

    ‘Every day I cry’
    50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system

  • 'Symbol of British decline'
    Labour plans to renationalise railways

  • Spain
    Why is Pedro Sánchez considering resigning from office?

  • ‘In the US they think we’re communists!’
    The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living

  • 'People would show up and make a lot of noise'
    Chicago’s infamous sidewalk ‘rat hole’ removed by officials

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  • James Cleverly standing on a wooden step on a pier and holding onto a gangway that is being extended out to him from a boat

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    Dancing in Haiti and a pink moon

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