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    double quotation markI was a broke youth radio host who couldn’t afford a Beck ticket – then a listener called in

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  • ‘You’re a crackpot’
    How Sam Campbell became comedy’s oddball superstar

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    Exclusive
    The home affairs minister, the private prison contractor and the secret meeting

    Catastrophic security failures revealed in Australia’s immigration detention network
  • Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in a dark suit and tall top hat stands in a crowd at Royal Ascot in 2002

    UK news
    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor faces police investigation into ‘alleged inappropriate behaviour at Royal Ascot’

  • A general view of a Guzman y Gomez restaurant in Brisbane

    Fast food
    Guzman y Gomez faces class action from US workers over closed stores

  • A Kalshi digital ad in Times Square during the New York City mayoral election in November last year

    Gambling
    US-based prediction markets taking bets on Australian elections and Albanese’s word choices

  • Nigel Farage wearing a suit and tie with a blurred background

    UK politics
    Farage under mounting pressure to prove Russian hack claim

  • Five-time WSL Champion Carissa Moore of Hawaii surfs \

    New Zealand
    World Surf League event in put on hold after photographer bitten by ‘shark or a sea lion’

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    Ageism
    Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds

In focus

  • Ali Hamka with father Sami Hamka​ ​in the back yard of his home in Kingsgrove, Sydney, Australia

    Family
    ‘Sad, mad and disheartened’: for the diaspora, the bombardment in Lebanon is a special kind of loss

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    Canada
    Echoes of Brexit as Alberta blunders towards vote on separation from Canada

Soccer

  • Tottenham’s João Palhinha roars with delight after opening the scoring against Everton.

    Premier League
    Spurs secure survival as Palhinha goal seals West Ham’s fate

  • West Ham's Jarrod Bowen is consoled by a member of the club’s coaching staff.

    Premier League
    West Ham relegated to Championship despite emphatic win over Leeds

  • Manchester City fans with a banner that says: 'Our hero forever you made us great and changed football' at the Etihad Stadium

    Premier League
    ‘He will be for ever our boss’: Man City fans pay tribute to Guardiola

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    Kindness of strangers
    double quotation markI was a broke youth radio host who couldn’t afford a Beck ticket – then a listener called in

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    Music
    Paul McCartney: The Boys of Dungeon Lane review – at 83, his gift for melody still astounds

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  • Illustration of a sad woman seated in a puddle of her own tears

    The modern mind
    double quotation markFamily estrangement is more common than people think, but research shows the effects on wellbeing are mixed

  • Participants in the full beard natural 20cm to infinity category gather before going on stage to be judged in the Ballarat Beard & Stache competition

    In pictures
    By a whisker: the Ballarat Beard & Stache competition

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    Holidays
    Why it seems like everyone is travelling to Vietnam

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    Galaxy Robot Park
    K-pop androids and automated artists: welcome to South Korea’s strange and ambitious robot theme park

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    This is how we do it
    double quotation markI thought I’d never want to have sex again – then I gave myself a pep talk

  • Editorial
    The Guardian view on Erdoğan’s tightening grip on Turkey: the next election is already being decided

    The removal of an opposition party leader and closure of a liberal university show an authoritarian democracy moving closer to one-man rule

More opinion

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    double quotation markJim Chalmers is talkin’ ’bout generations – but is the message resonating with Australians?

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  • Norman Solomon

    double quotation markThe Democrats’ 2024 autopsy fails to confront the truth

    Norman Solomon
  • An illustration of flights of steps inside the human mind.

    double quotation markI avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human

    Wendy Liu
  • Helen Pilcher

    double quotation markThe hill I will die on: If Hollywood blockbusters must dabble in science, can’t they get the small stuff right?

    Helen Pilcher

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    Enhanced Games
    Proud denies Enhanced Games will encourage young people to try doping

  • Defending WSL champion Yago Dora of Brazil takes to the air in his quarter-final at the Corona Cero New Zealand Pro.

    Surfing
    Dora sends World Surf League into meltdown with perfect 10 aerial

  • Jalen Brunson shoots the ball near the basket during a game, with defenders nearby

    NBA
    Knicks are within one win of finals after Game 3 win over Cavaliers

  • Tottenham supporters celebrate after the 1-0 win over Everton secured their top-flight status.

    double quotation markDe Zerbi breaks Tottenham out of a jail they should never have been in

    Jonathan Wilson
  • military service members in camouflage uniforms stand on a wet city street with police vehicles and buildings behind them

    Washington DC
    Gunman who opened fire near White House was known to Secret Service

  • Composite image of semis parked at a truck stop beneath an American flag (left) and a large metal white and red sign that says Iowa 80 (right).

    Gas
    ‘It’s taking all of our money’: truck drivers in Iowa lament gas price surge sparked by Trump’s Iran war

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  • Helen Haines

    National anti-corruption commission
    Labor urged to use anti-corruption commission appointment to restore public confidence in watchdog

    Helen Haines says ‘the clock is ticking’ on replacing deputy commissioner Nicole Rose
  • Stock image of the Great Barrier Reef

    Queensland
    Shark attack: man dies on Great Barrier Reef in far north Queensland

  • A medical worker in blue protective clothing and orange gloves gestures outward in a rural village setting

    DR Congo
    Number of suspected Ebola cases passes 900 as health workers face attacks and shortages

  • Riz Ahmed posing with hands together at a Cannes film festival photocall

    Film
    Riz Ahmed says UK spies tried to recruit him on three occasions

  • A rocket launches at night, with bright flames and billowing smoke at the base of the launch pad

    Space
    China launches three-crew spaceflight as part of lunar ambitions

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Explainers & analysis

  • A First Nations elder and receiving a vaccine in Redfern, Sydney

    Health
    Why did it take so long for governments to act on Australia’s largest recorded diphtheria outbreak?

  • The Melbourne skyline and rooftops of buildings are seen in Melbourne

    Explainer
    The biggest budget myths: why claims of ‘massive tax bills’ and an investor exodus fall short

  • Students walk in front of a neoclassical Ohio State University building with large columns and arched entrances

    US analysis
    Ohio State reels from multiple scandals amid wider crisis in higher education

  • Hands of nurse in blue protective gloves with syringe and vial

    Immunology
    What is immunotherapy and how does it treat cancer and other conditions?

More Australia news

  • Housing
    ‘They’ve taken all my stuff’: councils across Australia threaten homeless people with fines and confiscation of belongings

  • Morning Mail
    Immigration detention security failures revealed; alarm over ‘prediction market’ bets; Spurs secure survival

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  • Candace Owens
    No refunds for 15,000 Australian ticket holders after Candace Owens’ tour cancelled

  • Energy
    Australian government plans for ‘worst-case scenario’ retail fuel rationing, documents reveal

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  • Pakistan
    Suicide bombing near railway track in Pakistan kills at least 23 people

  • California
    Overheated chemical tank in southern California ‘will fail’, EPA chief says

  • UK politics
    Andy Burnham seeks advice from Sue Gray on forming future Labour government

  • Animals
    Lion’s aid: blood ice lollies keep big cats cool at London zoo

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  • Sam Campbell holding a small camera

    TV comedy
    ‘People are like: you’re a crackpot’: how Sam Campbell became comedy’s oddball superstar

  • Bruce Springsteen raises arm while holding a guitar.

    double quotation markBruce Springsteen is a model for how celebrities should resist Trump

    Steven Greenhouse

What to watch

  • Joseph Fiennes as Gareth Southgate points at the camera in a scene from Dear England

    Television
    Dear England review – Joseph Fiennes’s Gareth Southgate is a total caricature on TV

  • man in suit looks up and pulls electrical lever marked 'late show'

    US television
    The show might go on: what happens to late-night TV without Stephen Colbert?

  • A knife cuts between bride and groom figurines standing on opposite sides of a pink wedding cake

    Reality TV
    ‘It’s just not safe. It’s not OK’: can Married at First Sight ever be risk-free?

  • Cristian Mungiu with his Palme d'Or, next to cast members Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve

    Cannes film festival
    Cristian Mungiu wins second Palme d’Or at Cannes for child abuse drama Fjord

What to listen to

  • Bebe Rexha in sunglasses

    Bebe Rexha’s honest playlist
    double quotation markGrowing up, you couldn’t play Bon Jovi – that’s what our parents listened to

  • L-r: Tove Lo, Slayyyter and Cobrah.

    Music
    Trash hits! Why a wave of hedonistic, feral female pop stars are rejecting respectability

  • Boards of Canada

    Music
    Boards of Canada: Inferno review – after 13 years away, their prodigal return is a big disappointment

  • Miles Davis en concert en 1973Miles Davis en concert au Palais des Sports lors du Festival 'Newport à Paris' le 14 novembre 1973 (Photo by Michel ARTAULT/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

    Jazz
    The Guardian view on 100 years after Miles Davis’s birth: why he still shapes modern music

What to read

  • Protesters dressed as handmaids in Washington DC

    Books
    From Gilead to Ladyland: how the rebellious women of literature offer hope in dark times

  • Mako Nishimura poses for a photograph in Gifu, Japan

    Five Great Reads
    The only female yakuza, a playbook for reputation rehab, and design rules for small spaces

    Newsletter
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    Books
    ‘I laughed out loud dozens of times’: authors choose books to make you fall back in love with reading

  • Ban Ban’s Bakery by Elena Hiroko Magee

    Children's book roundup
    The best new picture books and novels

What to play

  • Race cars in a rural area driving fast in Forza Horizon 6

    Games
    Driving sims were once all the rage – will Forza Horizon 6 get them back on track?

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  • Forza Horizon 6.'s animated racing cars compete on a track with spectators, a Horizon Festival banner, and a snow-capped mountain backdrop

    Games
    Forza Horizon 6 review – classic open world racing sim roars beautifully into Japan

  • Forza Horizon 6 screenshot

    Games
    How Forza Horizon took on Japan with deep research – and 360-degree cameras

  • A still from the video game Star Fox. Its four anthropomorphic heroes (from left to right: a falcon, a toad, a hare and a fox) walk towards the camera, off a runway and into the large opening of a space craft, wearing white space jackets. There are mountains in the distance.

    Pushing Buttons
    Star Fox 64, a game I loved in my childhood, is returning – but I have mixed feelings

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More culture

  • Cristian Mungiu in a tuxedo holds up the Palme d'Or trophy in its presentation case

    double quotation markCannes got it wrong this year by awarding Palme d’Or to Cristian Mungiu’s very moderate Fjord

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Cristian Mungiu with his Palme d'Or, next to cast members Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve

    Cannes film festival
    Cristian Mungiu wins second Palme d’Or at Cannes for child abuse drama Fjord

  • A middle-aged man at a public access TV set with a map behind him on a screen.

    Television
    Stephen Colbert hosts Michigan public access show day after last appearance on Late Show

  • Tom Burke wearing a cornflour-blue unbuttoned suit over a pale-blue, long-sleeved top, standing with his hands clasped in front of him against a pale-pink background

    The Q&A
    Tom Burke: ‘The worst job I’ve done? A movie. Does it have a name? It might do’

  • Daisy Buchanan wearing a lilac, lace-trimmed dress standing with her hands clasped in front of her next to a painting of a dark-haired woman wearing a red neckerchief

    double quotation markI was punched on the school bus. Being violently bullied changed me – and affected one of the biggest decisions of my life

  • FOR ONLINE. Flashback: Victoria Pendleton. Styling: Andie Redman. Hair/makeup: Celine Nonon at Arlington Artists

    Flashback
    Victoria Pendleton: ‘At school I discovered the traits that make an Olympic champion do not make for a popular teenage girl’

Food

  • A person holds an iced coffee drink with a straw at a restaurant table with plates and food

    Drinks
    Move over matcha lattes: horchata is cold, creamy and coming to a menu near you

  • Two bowls of creamy fish stew with shrimp and vegetables, alongside bread and a bowl of sauce.

    Felicity Cloake's masterclass
    How to make Provençal fish stew

  • Rows of young grapevines stretch across a green field with a church and buildings visible on a hill behind

    Wine
    How an Essex valley became one of the UK’s most exciting new wine regions

  • Meera Sodha's crispy one-pan spaghetti with gochujang and mozzarella.

    Food
    Meera Sodha’s vegetarian recipe for crispy one-pan spaghetti with gochujang and mozzarella

Wellbeing

  • Abby Dow of England clashes heads with McKenzie Hawkins of the US as Bulou Mataitoga of the US makes a tackle during the Women's Rugby World Cup 2025

    Sports science
    Pioneering study aims to find out how repeated blows to head in women’s rugby affects brain

  • A figure sits hunched over on the floor

    Health & wellbeing
    ‘My body is fat, not wrong’: how body neutrality – not positivity – helped me shed a lifetime of shame

  • Ultrarunner Joanne Walker on the move

    Ultrarunning
    ‘Maybe the suffering is the point’: what does it take to run 163km up and down a mountain?

  • Painting of a woman sitting on the edge of a creek in an orange top and skirt, bathing her legs and feet.

    Leading questions
    double quotation markI’m 21 and anxious about the future. How do I take care of myself without living in a bubble?

Advice

  • An illustration of a woman speaking with her arms crossed, while another woman sits on a chair crying

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    double quotation markI’m worried my colleague is lying about having cancer

  • A cartoon image of a woman with lots of letters pinned on a wall and on a desk

    Becky Barnicoat on millennial life
    Sort your life out in four increasingly complicated steps

  • An illustration of a man leaping out of one black and white mobile phone surrounded by angry and sad emojis, and into one with a yellow screen surrounded by happy emojis

    Life and style
    Screentime swaps: how to quit doomscrolling without quitting your phone

  • A bright living room with a white dog on a sofa, wooden furniture, bookshelves, plants and a paper lantern

    Design
    Open plan is not the answer: professionals on the dos and don’ts of small space living

Fashion & beauty

  • Two women sit together at a press conference

    Fashion
    The devil owns Amazon: big tech has infiltrated the fashion world – will we see a revolt?

  • Isaaq Tomkins holding up a mobile phone showing a radically altered image of his face

    Technology
    ‘You can’t control everything’: the rise in plastic surgeons asked to create ‘AI face’

  • Mona Lisa

    Weight-loss drugs
    From high BMI to the ‘GLP-1 look’: how weight-loss jabs are changing the face of beauty

  • The singer Olivia Rodrigo stands on stage at her Spotify Billions Club Live performance in Barcelona, Spain. She is holding a microphone that is in a stand and is wearing a pink, floral babydoll dress.

    Fashion
    double quotation markThe babydoll is back – and so is the moral panic

    Newsletter

Travel

  • Visitors look through temporary viewing panels during restoration works in central Rome.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Tour groups, temporary routes and toilets: the reshaping of Rome

  • Old village in mountains at dusk with ancient bridge over a river

    France holidays
    The return of France’s train of marvels: from the Côte d’Azur to the Southern French Alps

Relationships

  • Joe and Eddie chatting at a restaurant table

    Dining across the divide
    ‘If we decriminalise drugs, I’m scared which way the population will go’

  • Couple sitting on couch with remote control and smartphone, partial view. After more than a decade in family law, Gabriella Pomare has seen certain catalysts for ‘silent divorce’ – and the strategies that can help

    Relationships
    A divorce lawyer on signs of relationship breakdown: ‘One of the biggest red flags – when you no longer argue’

  • Emma Beddington

    double quotation markTo the new couples ‘turbulence testing’ their relationships: just relax and enjoy good times instead

    Emma Beddington
  • Antonio and Monika Ruggerino

    The moment I knew
    double quotation markI’d quit my job and was newly single – then he smiled and I felt like I was home

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    The big idea
    Could nature itself hold the solution to climate change?

  • Anthony Burke, architect and TV presenter, at the new Sydney Fish Market building

    Walk with ...
    Anthony Burke: ‘It won’t be uncommon in 20 years to have four houses sharing one back yard’

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