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One year in, Anthony Albanese is betting big on Australia’s better angels | Anthony Albanese

Shortly after Anthony Albanese was sworn in as prime minister, I watched him arrive at the Bogor Palace in West Java in a motorcade....

‘We’re starting a new era’: Thailand’s giant-killing MP Ice on her election upset | Thailand

At the small Bangkok shophouse that Rukchanok Srinork uses as an office, the floor is cluttered with stacks of campaign signs and leaflets. There...

Sheffield Wednesday stun Peterborough with jaw-dropping playoff comeback | League One

Sheffield Wednesday pulled off a stunning comeback to book their place in the League One playoff final with a 5-3 win on penalties after...

LIV rebel DeChambeau muscles his way into early lead at US PGA Championship | US PGA

It has been easy to forget the permanent theatre that surrounds Bryson DeChambeau. Not so long ago, golfers both professional and amateur were trying...

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny review – Harrison Ford cracks the whip in taut sequel | Cannes 2023

So the boulder of intellectual property and franchise brand identity rolls on … bringing us Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth...

Driver forces entry into Vatican palace grounds by ramming gate | Vatican

A car driven by a man apparently suffering from psychiatric problems has rammed through a Vatican gate, speeding past Swiss Guards into a palace...

West Ham into Conference League final after Fornals finishes off AZ Alkmaar | Europa Conference League

When it was over most of the statistics pointed to a night of AZ Alkmaar dominance. They had more possession, more shots, more territory...

Ceramicist Eriko Inazaki wins the Loewe Foundation craft prize | Art

Fran Lebowitz is on stage in the courtyard of New York’s Noguchi Museum, presenting the 2023 Loewe Foundation craft prize to Japanese ceramicist Eriko...

Europa League and Europa Conference League semi-final second legs – live | Europa League

Sevilla 0-0 Juventus (1-1 agg)11 min: Juventus are coming back into it. Gatti is unmarked in Sevilla’s penalty box, but the Juve defender can...

San Francisco names first drag laureate as LGBTQ+ rights under attack in US | San Francisco

Anti-trans legislation is roiling the nation. Bills prohibiting drag performances are cropping up in statehouses. Violence and vitriol are turning children’s drag story hour...

The great British baby drought has a simple cause. And it’s not ‘cultural Marxism’ | Polly Toynbee

Miriam Cates, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, launched her own culture war at the National Conservative populist rave this week. Her central point, which...

Two teenagers jailed for life for stabbing boy, 15, to death in Huddersfield | Huddersfield

Two teenage boys who stabbed to death a 15-year-old boy as he walked home from school have been given life sentences.Khayri Mclean was murdered...

At least 11 dead and 20,000 homeless in Italy’s worst flooding in 100 years | Italy

Older and disabled people were trapped in their homes as rescuers worked under pounding rain throughout the night to save people in the most...

Covid contracts: messages reveal extent of Tory donor access to Matt Hancock | Matt Hancock

Newly released WhatsApp messages and emails between Tory donors and the former health secretary Matt Hancock reveal the extent of ministerial access they enjoyed...

Family of missing teenager have lost trust in Met after Levi Bellfield confession | Metropolitan police

The family of the missing teenager whom the convicted murderer Levi Bellfield claims to have kidnapped and murdered, say they have lost trust and...

Dining across the divide: ‘She is a big conspiracy theorist – I came out thinking, what was that?’ | Life and style

June, 75, HelensburghOccupation Self-employed, a trained chefVoting record Once voted SNP, but never again. Used to vote Conservative, but decided three years ago to...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Kyiv officials decry ‘unprecedented’ recent missile strikes; one killed in Odesa attack | Ukraine

Attacks 'unprecedented', says Kyiv City Regional City AdministrationThis morning’s strikes on Kyiv are the ninth in a series of recent raids by Russia that...

Rishi Sunak indicates he’s no longer committed to manifesto pledge to bring net immigration below 2019 levels – UK politics live | Politics

Rishi Sunak indicates he’s no longer committed to manifesto pledge to bring net immigration below 2019 levelsGood morning. Rishi Sunak is in Japan, where...

Royal Mail posts £1bn loss; BT cutting up to 55,000 jobs – business live | Business

Royal Mail posts £1bn loss after year of strifeRoyal Mail has reported a loss of over one billion pounds, after a year hit by...

‘We’ve done so much damage’: Beatriz Milhazes’s carnivalesque odes to nature | Art

Navigating Beatriz Milhazes’ febrile reinvention of geometric abstraction can feel like trying to make headway through a carnival crowd. Hoops, mandalas, flowers and other...

The best childcare in the world? Maybe so, but new parents in Iceland are holding out for better | Global development

In a bright, bunting-filled community hall in central Reykjavik, Eggert Arason bounces his 17-month-old son, Mosi, on his lap as they sing the Icelandic...

The law is gone but they are still in jail: who will free Britain’s most wronged prisoners? | George Monbiot

There are those of us who exist in a more or less free society. And there are those who, while also living within the...

New Zealand police to begin removing bodies from Wellington hostel two days after fire | New Zealand

New Zealand police are to begin removing bodies from the Wellington hostel where at least six people were killed after a fire broke out...

Pentagon leaks suspect was warned off viewing classified material – prosecutors | Pentagon leaks 2023

Jack Teixeira, the US air national guard member charged with being behind the so-called Pentagon leaks of highly classified military documents, was warned repeatedly...

Once admired, now reviled, Hong Kong police force failing to attract new recruits | Hong Kong

Kevin Wan*, in his 40s, resigned from the Hong Kong police force after a career of over two decades.“I no longer felt proud being...

Hamer blow fells Middlesbrough to put Coventry in Championship playoff final | Championship

No one can argue that Mark Robins does not deserve his new four-year contract extension. Not content with leading his team from League Two...

Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction review – the Busted bassist is frequently in tears | Television & radio

Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction begins with the Busted bass players’ wife, Emma. In their big, light-filled house in Hertfordshire, the TV presenter opens a...

Manchester City in Champions League final after Silva leads rout of Real Madrid | Champions League

It was not even close, which was surely the most impressive thing from Manchester City’s point of view as they roared into the Champions...

Devastating floods in Italy claim lives and leave thousands homeless | Italy

Nine people have died and thousands have been evacuated from their homes after heavy storms wreaked havoc in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna,...

Middlesbrough v Coventry: Championship playoff semi-final, second leg – live | Championship

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureManchester City lead Real Madrid in their Champions League semi-final, 1-0, the goal...

Manchester City v Real Madrid: Champions League semi-final, second leg – live | Champions League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureManchester City v Real Madrid line-upsManchester City: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Dias, Akanji, Rodrigo,...

England’s Jonny Bairstow feared he might not walk again after golf injury | England cricket team

Jonny Bairstow feared he might not be able to walk again but newly fit after last year’s horrific leg break and restored to the...

Police apologise to man falsely accused of killing Nikki Allan 30 years ago | UK news

A police force has formally apologised to a man who three decades ago was wrongly accused of killing a seven-year-old girl, after the real...

Giro d’Italia: Tao Geoghegan Hart crashes out of race on slippery stage | Giro d’Italia

The former Giro d’Italia winner Tao Geoghegan Hart was forced out of the race on stage 11, before Pascal Ackermann won a dramatic sprint...

County cricket’s long-form stories offer something IPL just can’t match | Cricket

Psst. This bit is between just us, please. It isn’t something I’d want to get out in public, especially not when I’m in this...

‘He assaulted me in 1977 but I remember it like yesterday’: why blind, disabled Lin Berwick denounced Rolf Harris | Rolf Harris

When Lin Berwick held her hand out to greet Rolf Harris, who was the special guest on her hospital radio show, she didn’t feel...

Check-in time for Salisbury’s peregrine falcon chicks | Birds

High above the ancient stone floor of Salisbury Cathedral, in a landing at the foot of the spire, a curious secular ceremony was taking...

Labour NEC to decide next Birmingham city council leader after damning report | Birmingham

The national Labour party has announced it will appoint the next leader of the city council in Birmingham, taking the decision away from councillors,...

Norway under pressure to scale back fossil fuel expansion plans | Fossil fuels

The Norwegian government is facing growing pressure to scale back its huge global fossil fuel expansion plans – including the development of a controversial...

Vauxhall-maker bosses to meet UK minister to discuss claims Brexit rules could destroy car industry – business live | Business

Vauxhall-maker to meet UK minister amid Brexit rule concernsGood morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world...

How mifepristone became a target of the US anti-abortion movement | Abortion

The future of mifepristone, a crucial abortion drug, is currently under question as US courts consider a challenge brought by anti-abortion groups. Considering...

This 9/11 suspect and ‘torture prop’ has spent 20 years in Guantánamo. Is he nearing a deal with the US? | Guantánamo Bay

On 29 April 2003, 25-year-old Ammar al-Baluchi was snatched off the streets of Karachi by Pakistani authorities and handed over to the CIA.While in...

Glimpse of first North Korean ‘spy satellite’ in new Kim Jong-un pictures | North Korea

Kim Jong-un has inspected North Korea’s first military spy satellite and given the go-ahead for its “future action plan”, according to state media.Kim met...

Vaping boom and bust: from bans to starter kits, how the world is responding | E-cigarettes

The vaping industry turns 20 this year, but Ira Simeonidis fears the golden age of e-cigarettes is already wafting away. “It’s a bit destroyed,”...

Luton turn tables on Sunderland to reach Championship playoff final | Championship

Nine thousand home fans sounded like a dozen times the number and it will be a wonder if, upon waking up on Wednesday, any...

Lautaro Martínez finishes off Milan to put Inter in Champions League final | Champions League

For Internazionale, the road to Istanbul was paved with bad intentions. The exuberance and colour of their first-leg victory gave way to something darker...

Cool response in Iceland as Rishi Sunak urges Europe’s leaders to back Rwanda plan | Council of Europe

Rishi Sunak has sought to convince European leaders to support his plans to detain and remove people to Rwanda – using a summit address...

Jeanne du Barry review – Cannes kicks off with Johnny Depp’s purring and peculiar royal dandy | Cannes 2023

The rosebud lips of Johnny Depp in this film are pursed in a strange expression of irony, stupefied entitlement and droll, martyred awareness of...