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Tuesday9 July 2024
  • Joe Biden<br>President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the 75th anniversary of NATO at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Tuesday, July 9, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    Nato
    Biden promises new air defenses for Ukraine in forceful Nato speech

    Critical step for president in convincing foreign leaders he remains up to task of leading 32-member military alliance
    • Daniel Olmo (centre) is congratulated after his deflected effort gave Spain the lead

      Euro 2024
      Lamine Yamal’s wonder goal leads Spain past France into final

    • Guardian investigation
      Wealthy Exclusive Brethren schools net almost $30m in disadvantage payments

    • Alexei Navalny
      Russia issues arrest warrant for Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Alexei Navalny

    • US
      White House releases more details on Biden’s health after press room row

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Israeli attack on Gaza City continues as Hamas says ceasefire efforts at risk

    • Wimbledon
      Novak Djokovic does the splits as latest victim of Wimbledon’s slippery courts

    • Sexual harassment
      More than 20% of Australians aged 18 to 45 have committed sexual violence in adulthood, report shows

    • Resources
      Is coal’s recent revival in Australia’s energy mix just a blip or something more?

News extra

  • Plains Wanderer Sanctuary owner Bill McGillivray on the porch of the old shearers' quarters on his property in Gunbower, Victoria, Australia. 2 July 2024.

    Conservation
    Protecting private land to save the plains-wanderer, a bird ‘teetering on the edge of extinction’

  • hand wearing silver ring and pink watch holds white fan with words 'Project 2025' and drawing of building in blue

    Donald Trump
    Project 2025: inside Trump's ties to the rightwing policy playbook

  • Bill shorten in an advertising truck

    Welfare
    Sex work services on the NDIS: is it a real issue or just a ‘red herring’?

    With NDIS costs predicted to rise from $44.3bn to more than $90bn by the end of the decade, Labor is trying to reform the scheme

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  • OneSchool Global sign

    Analysis
    Why Guardian Australia is investigating Exclusive Brethren schools

  • Ben Woodbury at his design store

    Sydney
    Years at Exclusive Brethren school were ‘darkest moments of my life’, former student says

    Ben Woodbury says school run by sect was not a safe environment for him, with limited access to external counselling services
  • Illustration of a computer

    Investigation
    Students under near constant surveillance at Exclusive Brethren-linked schools, insiders claim

    School laptops are allegedly monitored by a roster of church members, with parents sent summaries of their child’s internet use

Spotlight

  • Thousands of people gathered at the New Popular Front Rally after the first round of the early parliamentary elections at Place de la Republique in Paris, France, 30 June 2024.

    Full Story podcast
    France’s leftwing alliance beat the far right, but what now?

    A leftwing coalition snatched victory from the far right in the final round of the French parliamentary elections. But will France now fall into political deadlock? Angelique Chrisafis reports
  • Though the jury is out on my colleague’s controversial avocado-slicing technique, life abounds with nice, different and unusual techniques to prepare fresh produce.

    3:09

    Food
    Do these kitchen hacks cut it? Five new (and possibly improved) ways to peel, slice and juice your fruit

    From pith-free citrus to shaking your grapes, we put five techniques from fruit experts – and online renegades – under the knife
    • Parents help their little girl learn to ride a bike

      I photographed every moment of our toddlers’ lives. Now I wish I’d paid more attention instead

      Sunil Badami
    • This photo taken in Sept. 2007 shows a 20-year-old Lionel Messi, who had embarked on his legendary Barcelona career just over four years prior, cradling Lamine Yamal, who was merely six months old at the time during a photo session in the dressing room of the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain. Lamine Yamal is now a soccer sensation for both Spain and Barcelona and he is still only 16-years-old. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)

      Football
      ‘The beginning of two legends’: Messi photos with baby Lamine Yamal go viral

    • Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

      Harry is the divisive duke – and Meghan is making jam. Can the Sussexes escape their ‘flop era’?

      Arwa Mahdawi
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      Child marriage
      ‘I was handed to a complete stranger’: the survivors fighting to end child marriage in 37 US states

Sport

  • Novak Djokovic addresses the crowd after his victory over Holger Rune

    Djokovic’s handling of crowd chants shows winning mentality

    Tumaini Carayol
  • A Mooroolbark Lorne sausage roll

    I’ve been to every football ground in Australia. These are my favourite foods

    Les Street
    Les Street has ‘eaten a whole butcher shop watching live sport’ at 123 stadiums and grassroots venues to find that the most simple fare is usually best
    • Nathan Cleary of Penrith Panthers is tackled during an NRLmatch against Cronulla Sharks in 2023

      Rugby league
      NRL turns Las Vegas venture into nine-hour extravaganza

    • (Left to right) Jimmy Anderson celebrates taking the wicket of Aaron Redmond in 2008, a five-fer in the first Ashes Test of 2013 and bowling Rohit Sharma during the second Test against India in February 2024

      From Ponting to Sharma
      Picking out Anderson's best wickets for England

    • Oscar Jégou and Hugo Auradou

      Rugby union
      France players arrested on sexual assault charges

    • Ben Stokes and James Anderson of England walk back into the pavilion after a team photo at Lord's.

      Cricket
      Stokes admits focus is on an Ashes as well as West Indies

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Opinion

  • Marina Hyde

    Joe Biden now relies on instruction manuals, so here’s a good one: ‘Walk to podium, smile, wave goodbye’

    Marina Hyde
  • Owen Jones

    The left in France has beaten back the far right. This is how we do the same in the UK

    Owen Jones
    • Adam Morton

      Present Tense
      Climate protesters won’t be deterred by fines, jail or political mixed messages on the environment

      Adam Morton
    • John Crace

      The UK politics sketch
      PopCons reassemble and Jacob Rees-Mogg is the sanest person in the room

      John Crace
    • Gordon Brown

      Rage as Putin bombs a children’s hospital in Kyiv, but know there is a way to try him for his crimes

      Gordon Brown
    • white man wearing red hat and blue suit stands in front of microphone and points with left hand

      The media has been breathlessly attacking Biden. What about Trump?

      Margaret Sullivan

Lifestyle

  • Svalinn dog sits with its front legs on a car tyre, in the distance are snow-capped mountains, in front of them a grassy plain. The dog seems relaxed but looks straight at the camera with a focused, intense, one could say unnerving look.

    Pass notes
    The US$150,000 dog: meet the Svalinn – the gentle beast who can rip out an attacker’s throat

  • Many teens choose of their own free will to spend 10 or 20 hours a week playing games.

    It’s not them, it’s us: the real reason teens are ‘addicted’ to video games

    Keith Stuart and Keza MacDonald
  • Composite of an older woman resting her head on an older man’s bare chest

    Sexual healing
    I’m struggling to enjoy foreplay – but I want more from sex than just penetration

  • Woman holding hand of someone in hospital.

    Don’t fight with your siblings about inheritance, and 12 other tips for coping with the death of your parents

    Emily Thompson

Culture

  • Gladiator II film still<br>Paul Mescal plays Lucius in Gladiator II from Paramount Pictures.

    Film
    ‘Rage is your gift’: Paul Mescal battles Pedro, Denzel and a rhino in first Gladiator II trailer

  • JD Vance and Donald Trump standing near a podium during a rally.

    JD Vance is a rightwing troll disguised as a populist. He could be the next US vice-president

    Jan-Werner Müller
    Having called Trump an ‘idiot’ and a potential ‘American Hitler’, the Republican senator now fawns over him
  • 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards, Backstage, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA - 24 Feb 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by George Pimentel/REX/Shutterstock for SAG (14360611x) (L-R) Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards, Backstage, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA - 24 Feb 2024

    Film
    The Devil Wears Prada sequel in the works about declining advertising revenues for print media

    Original film’s screenwriter in talks for sequel which will see Miranda Priestly battling a luxury brand outfit headed by former assistant Emily Charlton
  • Behind the scenes with Joseph Fiennes as he prepares for his role as Gareth Southgate in Dear England, at the Prince Edward Theatre in London's West End. London. Photograph by David Levene 9/1/24

    Stage
    The mysterious art of the casting director: ‘When you see the truth in front of you, it’s the right person’

  • Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in Fly Me To the Moon.

    Film
    Fly Me to the Moon review – slinky Scarlett Johansson in cynical moon-landing conspiracy comedy

  • Missy Higgins plays the piano on stage

    Missy Higgins soundtracked my generation of queer teens. Seeing her live is euphoric

    Joseph Earp
  • Milan Kundera.

    Books
    Where to start with: Milan Kundera

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Across the country

  • A general view of Alice Springs

    Northern Territory
    ‘No evidence’ snap curfews will solve Alice Springs’ problems, advocate for Indigenous children says

    Three-night stay-at-home order issued for town after weekend violence, including a brawl involving 80 people
  • Queensland Greens member for South Brisbane, Amy MacMahon, speaks to media during a press conference

    Cost of living
    Queensland Greens unveil plan to cap grocery prices and ‘smash up’ Coles and Woolworths duopoly

  • Missing woman Amber Haigh and Robert Geeves, the father of her baby.

    Murder trial
    Amber Haigh wanted to make a will because she feared baby’s father would ‘end her life’, court told

    A paralegal gave evidence that the soon-to-be teenage mother had walked into the law firm wanting to safeguard her unborn child
    • The scene of a fatal collision at the intersection of Warrigal Road and Highbury Road in Melbourne

      Melbourne
      Police search for teenager bailed over alleged crash that killed 28-year-old

    • Antisemitism
      Criticism of Israel is ‘not always’ antisemitic, Mark Dreyfus says after envoy named

    • Social media
      Meta claims news is not an antidote to misinformation on its platforms

    • Morning Mail
      $30m ‘disadvantage’ funding for private schools, Uber fare squeeze, White House denial

    • Courts
      Woman trafficked from Australia to Sudan describes ‘agonising struggle’ to reunite with her children

    • Melbourne
      Man arrested after woman’s body dumped in rubbish bin

    • Lalor Park
      Hero neighbour ‘heartbroken’ about death of three children in Sydney fire

    • Exclusive
      Concerns for 13-year-old in Queensland watch house ignored days before alleged sexual assault

The rural network

  • Plains Wanderer Sanctuary owner Bill McGillivray on the porch of the old shearers' quarters on his property in Gunbower, Victoria, Australia. 2 July 2024.

    Conservation
    Protecting private land to save the plains-wanderer, a bird ‘teetering on the edge of extinction’

  • Woman holding hand of someone in hospital.

    Don’t fight with your siblings about inheritance, and 12 other tips for coping with the death of your parents

    Emily Thompson
  • Karen Mansbridge with her horse

    Kingaroy
    ‘Every step of the way, no one cared’: pensioner says solar farm next door has left her unable to sell her property

  • Katy McCallum, One Nation candidate for Gympie and vice-chair of the National Rational Energy Network, speaks at a meeting on renewable energy projects in Kilcoy

    Backlash
    ‘There’s angry people out there’: inside the renewable energy resistance in regional Australia

Around the world

  • Rupert Lowe seated at a press conference table

    Politics
    Reform UK MP accused of mounting ‘witch-hunt’ against local teachers

    Rupert Lowe says he has list of schools in Great Yarmouth who ‘pushed’ criticism of hard-right party to pupils
    • Design comprising closeup pic of Lucy Letby's eyes behind the scales of justice

      Exclusive
      Lucy Letby: killer or coincidence? Why some experts question the evidence

    • Rudy Giuliani
      Giuliani is treating his bankruptcy case like a ‘joke’, creditors say

    • Technology
      Meta expands hate speech policy to remove more posts targeting 'Zionists'

    • South Africa
      Spanish tourist trampled to death by elephants

    • US news
      ‘Like an oven’: death at women’s prison amid heatwave sparks cries for help

    • Florida
      Tree cactus becomes first local species killed off by sea-level rise

    • US
      Johns Hopkins medical students to get free tuition after $1bn Bloomberg gift

    • Italy
      Plan to rename Milan airport after Berlusconi sparks outrage in Italy

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  • A sloping sliver building on a hilltop at sunset

    Photography
    World Architecture festival 2024 shortlist – in pictures

    The shortlist includes projects from around the world spanning categories such as childcare, energy, transport and science

  • Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s new Stakhanovites

    UK opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s new Stakhanovites

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    First Dog on the Moon
    The unwritten rules of multiculturalism as explained by an older white man

  • 240709 Climate scientists' lament thumbnail

    Cartoon
    Why does being right on climate feel so wrong?

    Fiona Katauskas
  • David Squires on … England’s performance art on their run to the Euro 2024 semis

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    England’s performance art on their run to the Euro 2024 semis

  • ‘Amazing and often drunk’ … Funny Sonny packing with Zipco, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1965

    Photography
    Rebel riders: on the road with a 1960s biker gang

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    The art of the spectacular: Cirque du Soleil returns to Australia with Luzia

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    Child marriage
    ‘I was handed to a complete stranger’: the survivors fighting to end practice in 37 US states — and the people who want to keep it legal

    The country has seen hundreds of thousands of child marriages since 2000. As activists push for new laws, an unlikely cohort stands in their way
  • Parasol mushrooms in southern Spain

    The ‘wood wide web’ theory charmed us all – but now it’s the subject of a bitter fight among scientists

    Sophie Yeo
  • This photo distributed by the Peruvian National Police shows police carrying a body that they identify as U.S. mountain climber William Stampfl, on Huascaran mountain in Huraz, Peru, July 5, 2024. Peruvian authorities announced on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, that they have found the mummified body of the American man who died 22 years ago, along with two other American climbers, after the three were trapped in an avalanche while trying to climb Peru's highest mountain. (Peruvian National Police via AP)

    Peru
    US mountaineer buried by avalanche 22 years ago found preserved in ice, police say

  • Environment
    ‘Antidotes to despair’: five things we’ve learned from the world’s best climate journalists

    Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

  • Boris Johnson claims Britain is heading for ‘serfdom’ if Starmer changes our awful Brexit deal. Ignore him

    Naomi Smith

  • Cost of living
    Coffee prices will rise even higher, says Giuseppe Lavazza

  • Fascinating Olympians
    How Greg Louganis survived – and became the greatest diver of all time

  • My kids are holidaying without me – and I’m worried they’ll repeat my foreign faux pas

    Zoe Williams

  • UK
    Tourists rush to save ice cream van washed out to sea in Cornwall

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