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Australia news live: Bunnings topples Woolworths as most trusted brand; autumn heatwave to scorch southern states | Comparisons between 14 largely retired environmental protesters unfurling banners in Queensland’s parliament and the January 6 US Capitol riots are “odious”, one of the protesters has said. On Thursday, Queensland’s parliamentary ethics committee handed down its findings, which cleared Greens MP Michael Berkman of inc... |
New Zealand v Australia: second Test, day one – live | WICKET! Williamson lbw b Hazlewood 17 (New Zealand 84-5) Blundell uses a delightfully retro old Kookaburra. It could be the Ridgeback or maybe even the Bubble. Childhood memories of Alec Stewart twirling away with that between deliveries in the 90s. Blundell gets a lesser spotted single to rotate the strike. Hold on… ... |
Orlando makes Barbra Banda second most expensive female player in world | Orlando Pride have completed a deal to sign Zambia forward Barbra Banda for the second-highest transfer fee in women’s football. Recruited from Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shengli for $740,000 (£582,128), Banda has signed a four-year contract with the NWSL side. The price tag makes her the second most expensive ... |
Imaginary review – a shoddy and unimaginative creepshow | It’s yet another sub-par day at the Blumhouse factory, production line operating at full, breakneck speed, yet machinery on the perilous verge of total collapse. The house of horror, behind hit franchises like Insidious, Paranormal Activity and The Purge, has become something of a franchise in itself, a branded string ... |
‘Outrageous and disgusting’: Greens MP condemns comparison of Queensland climate protests to US capitol riots | Comparisons between 14 largely retired environmental protesters unfurling banners in Queensland’s parliament and the January 6 US Capitol riots are “odious”, one of the protesters has said. On Thursday, Queensland’s parliamentary ethics committee handed down its findings, which cleared Greens MP Michael Berkman of inci... |
‘We can be a role model’: the activism of Hazara women in regional Australia | Zara Khademi fled Afghanistan in the late 1990s when the Taliban attacked the capital of Kabul. “They were looking for the Hazara people,” she says. “My daughter was four and my son was 18 months. We had to walk through the mountains at night until we reached the (Iranian) border.” After living in Iran for three years,... |
Fifth mass coral bleaching event in eight years hits Great Barrier Reef, marine park authority confirms | The Great Barrier Reef is in the grip of a mass coral bleaching event driven by global heating – the fifth in only eight years – the marine park’s government authority has confirmed. The authority, together with scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, have completed aerial surveys across 300 reefs o... |
The US will build a port off Gaza to get aid to Palestinians. Too little, too late? | The US plan to build a floating port off the Gaza coast is a bold move, reminiscent of the Mulberry harbours built after D-day in Normandy, but there are serious concerns that what relief it brings will be too little too late for Palestinians facing starvation. “When we talk about the sea route, it’s going to take week... |
The MH370 families seeking closure, justice and a fresh search | Ten years on, Jiang Hui still hopes he will one day find the answer to what happened when his mother disappeared in 2014. “My mother was a very normal person. She came from a working-class family. She was very resilient, persistent,” says Jiang, 50, from Beijing. His mother, Jiang Cuiyun, was a 72-year-old retired pict... |
Government failing targets to fix UK railway system, watchdog reports | Government plans to overhaul the country’s ailing railway system are significantly delayed while promised savings have yet to be achieved, according to a highly critical report by the government’s spending watchdog. The National Audit Office (NAO) assessment of how ministers’ plans were progressing found the government... |
Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend | United must match ambition with effort Bruno Fernandes lamented that last week’s Manchester derby defeat came down to “individual quality from the players of City”. Difficult to argue with, but the most frustrating part of United’s loss was the failure to commit for the full 90 minutes. At 2-1 down even some senior pla... |
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You be the judge: should my best friend get a dog when he works such long hours? | The prosecution: Janette The poor dog will spend five days a week living with the sitter. So what’s the point of having one? I don’t think my best friend, Pádraig, should get a dog because he works too much. I have a dog myself and know how much it entails. He’s a corporate lawyer who works all the hours God ... |
Biden to announce US will build port on Gaza shore for large-scale aid delivery | US forces will build a temporary port on the Gaza shoreline to allow delivery of humanitarian aid on a large scale, Joe Biden will announce in the State of the Union speech, amid warnings of a widespread famine among the territory’s 2.3 million Palestinians. “We are not waiting on the Israelis. This is a moment for Ame... |
Rupert Murdoch, 92, to wed retired molecular biologist Elena Zhukova, 67 | Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is engaged for a sixth time, it emerged on Thursday, this time to Elena Zhukova, a retired scientist. Related: Rupert Murdoch met Rishi Sunak five times in 12-month period Murdoch’s office announced that the 92-year-old is set to marry Zhukova, a 67-year-old retired molecular biologist, accor... |
‘We need to do a deal’: PGA Tour’s Webb Simpson calls for LIV Golf agreement | A player director of the PGA Tour has admitted it would be “very dangerous” for the organisation not to complete a deal with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund. Webb Simpson, speaking after the first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, believes the “good of the game” would be harmed if the PGA Tour does not ... |
Australian women are chalking up some wins in the workplace – yet our male leaders remain out of touch | This International Women’s Day, ladies, put out your cupcakes for the 9-to-5 white collar working week. Recent changes to Australia’s industrial relations laws and public sector bargaining agreements suggest we just might be achieving some real progress towards more gender-equal workplace structures – and the blokes wh... |
MH370: Australia offers Malaysia support for new search on 10-year anniversary | Australia has offered the Malaysian government support for a renewed search for MH370, on the 10-year anniversary of the aircraft’s disappearance. On Friday, Australia’s foreign minister, Penny Wong, and transport minister, Catherine King, said the government’s “sincere sympathies” remained with the loved ones of those... |
State of the Union: what to watch for as Joe Biden addresses the nation | President Joe Biden will address a joint session of Congress Thursday night in his last state of the union speech of his presidential term. He’s expected to highlight his legislative record in office, with the rapidly-approaching election raising the stakes. How to watch Biden’s State of the Union address: Biden’s stat... |
Matt Dufty’s late try gives Sam Burgess’s Warrington victory over Hull KR | Sam Burgess will know that nothing is won at this stage of a rugby league season but a month into his first head coaching role, you suspect he will be satisfied, if nothing else, with the way his Warrington Wolves team are progressing. Burgess has made no secret of his desire to strengthen the mental resolve of a side ... |
Cranbrook school principal resigns over allegations he knew about teacher’s ‘extremely concerning past conduct’ | The headteacher of the prestigious Cranbrook school in Sydney has resigned after it emerged he allegedly knew one of his teachers had engaged in “extremely concerning past conduct” and kept him in his position. An emergency meeting of the school council was held on Thursday to investigate Nicholas Sampson’s response to... |
Freiburg 1-0 West Ham, Benfica 2-2 Rangers, and more: Europa League – as it happened | Thank you for joining me. Here is the report from Lisbon. Related: Rangers squander lead twice as Goldson gifts Benfica Europa League draw Philippe Clement: “I am not happy. I think we were really close to rewriting happy against a team who have never lost a Europa League game at home. I am really proud of my team. We... |
Liverpool owners hope to lure Michael Edwards back for post-Klopp rebuild | Liverpool’s owners met Michael Edwards in Boston on Sunday in their attempts to convince the club’s former sporting director to shape the post-Jürgen Klopp era at Anfield. Fenway Sports Group’s principal owner, John W Henry, and president, Mike Gordon, were among the senior executives who held talks with Edwards about ... |
Steve Borthwick’s England feel ‘weight’ of shirt before tough Ireland test | Steve Borthwick believes the England jersey has been weighing heavy on his players as they seek to salvage their Six Nations campaign against Ireland on Saturday and suggested inconsistent team selections during Eddie Jones’s reign were a contributing factor. As England prepare to face what Borthwick believes is “the b... |
‘It’s a penalty’: Moyes fumes at spot-kick snub as West Ham go down to Freiburg | The burning sense of injustice that coursed through West Ham after being denied the chance to wipe out Freiburg’s slender advantage should not make them look past the failings that left their hopes of salvaging a draw from the first leg of this last-16 tie dependent on the whims of a referee with a curious interpretati... |
Kathryn Scanlan wins Gordon Burn prize for novel Kick the Latch | American author Kathryn Scanlan has won this year’s Gordon Burn prize for her “desperately consumable” novel about horse training. Kick the Latch is based on a series of interviews with Sonia, a horse trainer from the midwest. The novel is “a thundering achievement, liberated from hard lines of genre and form by a lase... |
England hope ‘Super Manny’ can help break cycle of underachievement | It is not just England who are seeking to put the past behind them. In Australia they have conducted a lengthy review into the Wallabies’ failed World Cup campaign and come up with a list of recommendations almost as long as the Great Barrier Reef. Along with a massive “unapproved” overspend of A$2.6m [£... |
Israel to compete at Eurovision song contest after changing lyrics to its entry | Israel will be allowed to compete at the Eurovision song contest after changing the lyrics to its song, organisers have confirmed. Eden Golan, representing Israel at this year’s competition, originally submitted a ballad called October Rain, widely thought to reference the Hamas attacks of 7 October. However, the entry... |
James sinks Manchester City to set up Chelsea v Arsenal Continental Cup final | Chelsea reached the Women’s League Cup final for the fifth time in succession with a slender victory over Manchester City. Lauren James’ early goal was enough to see them set up a meeting with Arsenal on 31 March despite coming under significant pressure from their title rivals. It was a dogged performance from Emma ... |
Emma Raducanu off to impressive start at Indian Wells with confident win | Emma Raducanu moved into the second round of Indian Wells with a composed performance and no significant problems, confidently closing out a 6-2, 6-3 win over the qualifier Rebeka Masarova. A much tougher battle against Dayana Yastremska, the 30th seed, awaits Raducanu on Saturday. Related: ‘I can’t lie to myself’: Raf... |
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