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Friday24 May 2024
  • Daniel Edmund Duggan,

    Daniel Duggan
    Australian loses fight against extradition to US over allegedly training Chinese pilots, magistrate rules

    The former US marine pilot faces a potential prison sentence of up to 60 years on charges of arms trafficking and money laundering
  • Destiny Deacon’s work Over the fence, 2000

    Destiny Deacon
    ‘Superstar’ Indigenous artist and activist dies aged 67

  • ‘Eureka moment’
    Potentially habitable planet size of Earth discovered 40 light years away

    Queensland- and Scotland-based PhD students co-lead team celebrating spotting Gliese 12b
    • Amanda Meade

      The Weekly Beast
      News Corp editors try to impress as Rebekah Brooks and Lachlan Murdoch land in Sydney

      Amanda Meade
    • Australia news live
      Students at two universities pack up pro-Palestine camps; Queensland rejects carbon capture project over aquifer fears

    • Glencore
      Queensland rejects carbon capture and storage proposal for Great Artesian Basin

    • Eyeball ice cream
      Sydney eatery that cooks ‘most fascinating parts’ of fish makes World’s 50 Best Restaurants long list

    • Jarrad Antonovich
      Inquest halted for potential criminal charges over death at NSW spiritual retreat

    • ‘Long overdue’
      Victorian police make apology for their role in stolen generations

    • Mark Latham
      Homophobic tweet whipped up ‘frenzy’ of abuse towards Alex Greenwich, defamation trial told

    • Melbourne
      Sam ‘The Punisher’ Abdulrahim survives second shooting in two years

News extra

Spotlight

  • WombatBurrowsAgainpxiie

    First Dog on the Moon
    A wombat burrow is the food court of nature – and so much more

    It is like an Airbnb combined with an Aldi
  • Stephen Colbert on stage

    ‘Exactly much worse than we could’ve thought’
    Stephen Colbert on Trump’s classified documents trial

  • Opposition leader Peter Dutton at a press conference in Melbourne

    Full Story podcast
    Newsroom edition: why the Coalition’s nuclear policy makes no sense

    Gabrielle Jackson speaks to editor-in-chief Lenore Taylor and deputy editor Patrick Keneally about why a nuclear transition is the wrong path for Australia
  • FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Monday, May 20, 2024. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool, file)

    Trump’s ‘unified reich’ video was a message not a mistake

    Margaret Sullivan
    You’ll hear no apology, no disavowal, no expression of regret for what he did. And certainly no promise that this will never happen again
    • ‘Beyond misconceived’ … Saweetie with puppets in Sex: Unzipped.

      ‘I wanted to scrape it from my eyeballs’
      Critics on their zero-star savagings

    • Cat with paw on elderly hand over a keyboard

      Banning kids from social media isn’t the way – it’s the over-60s who need to get off the internet

      Miski Omar
    • Painting: Au café, dit l’Absinthe by Jean Beraud.

      Leading questions
      My wife has put on weight and I’m no longer attracted to her. What should I do?

    • Trumpeting his years … Paul Weller.

      Paul Weller: 66 review
      Sumptuous rumination on older age springs some surprises

  • Paul Daley

    The tiny rituals that bring comfort and joy in times of fear and uncertainty

    Paul Daley
  • Ukrainian National Guard 'Khartiia' brigade service member and a D-20 howitzer crew commander Ivan Liashko fires towards Russian troops in a front line in Kharkiv region<br>Ivan Liashko, service member of the 13th Operative Purpose Brigade 'Khartiia' of the National Guard of Ukraine and a D-20 howitzer crew commander, fires towards Russian troops, amid Russia's attack on Ukriane, in a front line in Kharkiv Region, Ukraine May 21, 2024. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

    Ukraine can still recover with bolder western support – but right now it’s on the ropes

    Timothy Garton Ash
    The Ukrainian world boxing champion came back against a giant opponent, but his country can’t defeat Russia on its own
    • Rishi Sunak outside No 10

      Editorial
      The Guardian view on the end of a parliament: five years in which Britain’s leaders showed they were not up to the job

    • Rishi Sunak takes part in a Q&A with workers on a visit to West William Distribution in Ilkeston, Derbyshire

      The UK politics sketch
      Rish!’s warehouse visit takes the biscuit for talking down to voters

      John Crace
    • Polly Toynbee

      Labour’s top brass know the election battle will be brutal, but they can hardly believe their luck

      Polly Toynbee
    • Who’s smiling now? The Mona Lisa and The Garfield Movie, one of which attracts millions of viewers a year, and one of which children want to see.

      Sorry Seth Rogen, but if cinemas are the new museums, the movies really are in trouble

      Stuart Heritage
  • Models in Dion Lee designs during Australian fashion week in Sydney this month.

    Dion Lee
    Australian fashion label goes into voluntary administration

    Move comes after retail chain Cue ends investment in brand that has dressed celebrities such as Taylor Swift and Dua Lipa
  • Graphic illustration of naked woman with one pant leg on, in shades of red, peach, light blue and olive.

    No sex drive and a ‘tanking libido’
    How I redefined intimacy in midlife

  • Flame-grilled whoppers (l to r): hispi in vinaigrette, mushrooms with pesto, leeks with pecorino sauce.

    Meat-free barbecue
    Ben Allen’s recipes for flame-grilled vegetables

  • Jeremy (left) and Tom

    Dining across the divide
    I thought we’d have a couple of Peronis – he launched into the Grey Goose

  • Hannah Fearn

    Eating out with a food allergy is stressful enough – but with a rare one, it’s a nightmare

    Hannah Fearn
  • Sarah (left) and Joanna posing with the flags of Antigua and Barbuda and St Vincent and the Grenadines respectively in London, 2021

    How we met
    We went straight into sharing a bed and a bathroom with no door

  • Doug Moran national portrait prize 2022 winner Graeme Drendel with fellow artist and subject of his portrait, Lewis Miller (left)

    Doug Moran prize
    Australia’s richest portrait award quietly ‘put on hold’

  • close-up of woman look scared

    Atlas review
    Jennifer Lopez learns to love AI in silly Netflix mockbuster

    The star plays an analyst forced to see AI’s benefits in a brash sci-fi adventure that plays like it was made two decades ago
  • A child pulls aside a net curtain as they look out the window of the red-brick terrace house, which has one upstairs and one downstairs window at the front and a black front door

    The Beatles
    George Harrison’s childhood home in Liverpool gets blue plaque

    Tribute to be unveiled at No 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, where the Beatle lived until he was nearly seven
  • Film Still: All We Imagine As Light. Directed By Payal Kapadia

    All We Imagine As Light review
    Dreamlike and gentle modern Mumbai tale is a triumph

  • Cher Tan and book Peripathetic composite

    Peripathetic by Cher Tan review
    Essays on punk, work and the internet are incredibly good fun

  • Jane Asher with her specially commissioned cake to mark Shakespeare’s 450th birthday in 2014

    Jane Asher
    Would I do another nude scene? Never say never!

  • Party on … Beastie Boys in 1987.

    Rap-rock beasts and drive-by eggings
    Beastie Boys’ 20 greatest tracks – ranked!

  •  Australian Taxation Office sign

    Exclusive Brethren
    Accounting firm controlled by church to close after extraordinary ATO raid

    It is not known if decision to shutter division of secretive sect’s umbrella company has any link to raid reportedly conducted ‘without prior notice’
  • David Marr will replace Phillip Adams as host of ABC radio’s Late Night Live after three decades.

    ABC radio
    David Marr to replace Phillip Adams as host of Late Night Live after three decades

  • Singapore Airlines
    Australian in intensive care with severe spinal injury after ‘horrifying’ flight, husband says

    Kerry Davis was flung to ceiling when flight SQ321 hit turbulence before falling motionless to floor of plane
    • Rick from Melbourne comes off a rock outcrop at centre valley on empty ski runs before the opening of the resort at Perisher in 2022

      Snow worries
      Ski resorts turn to snowmakers with slopes bare ahead of winter

    • Child sexual abuse
      Ex-NSW teacher has conviction quashed because old law didn’t cover women

    • ‘Rostering to the limits’
      Senior Virgin Australia pilots raise safety concerns over fatigue

    • ‘We were fish in a barrel’
      Australian tourist describes deadly Islamic State attack in Afghanistan

    • Christmas Island riots
      Serco fined for covering up use of fire extinguishers against detainees

    • Robotax
      People pressured into repaying unfair debts should be compensated, critics say

    • ‘Shallow and shambolic’
      Albanese accuses Dutton of fuelling division

    • Pro-Palestine camps
      Student protesters claim ‘major win’ as first university agrees to meet some demands

  • A group of brown hens eat from a chicken feeder

    Bird flu
    Virus detected at second Victorian farm as separate outbreak found in Western Australia

  • A line of people walk along the edge of a filed thickly planted with sunflowers. People can be seen among the flowers taking pictures.

    Nature’s ghosts
    How reviving medieval farming offers wildlife an unexpected haven

  • Cowra and Chifley district police car

    'Brazen'
    Livestock theft has cost NSW farmers more than $930,000 so far this year

  • Farmers from the 2024 season of Farmer Wants a Wife

    Does the farmer really want a wife? In the reality TV world, good farmers make bad husbands

    Eliza Spencer
  • Westminster official in role of parliament's Black Rod

    UK politics
    Tory MPs mull over their fate after Rishi Sunak’s election call

    Gloom, resignation, but also a show of fighting spirit as PM’s troops weigh up the odds on re-election
  • A resident at a roadblock waves a Kanak flag in New Caledonia.

    ‘Not our president’
    After Macron’s visit, New Caledonia’s Kanak demand more say in their own future

  • Supporters of the republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gather during a campaign rally in the South Bronx, in New York

    ‘Thrilled to be back’
    Trump swaps courtroom for Bronx in play for Hispanic and Black voters

    The Republican presidential candidate held a rally in the South Bronx, one of the most diverse and impoverished neighbourhoods in New York
    • Ukrainian air defence soldier watches the sky at the  frontline near Bakhmut

      Ukraine war briefing
      US-supplied glide bombs struggle against Russian jamming

    • Ahmad Farhad
      Pakistani poet was abducted because of human rights activism, wife says

    • Taiwan
      China testing ability to ‘seize power’ in second day of military drills around islands

    • Health
      Huge number of deaths linked to superbugs can be avoided, experts say

    • Abortion
      Gavin Newsom signs bill to help people in Arizona get procedure in California

    • Spain
      Building collapses at Mallorca beach killing at least four and injuring 21

    • New Orleans
      Frustration as trial of priest accused of rape further delayed

    • Republicans
      South Dakota governor Kristi Noem banned from all tribal lands in her own state