headlines
Monday
20 February 2017
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What does the future hold for students starting university today?New Australian undergraduates will contend with an uncertain world of climate change, job insecurity and unaffordable homes. So what are their chances?
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Trump's Sweden comment referred to 'rising crime', White House saysPresident appeared to refer to a non-existent terror attack in the country during a rally on Saturday in Florida, prompting questions from Swedish officials -
Management push to have staff work until 5pm dropped after backlashAustralian Taxation Office management’s attempt to have staff work another nine minutes a day deemed too controversial -
spotlight
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Inside Trump's super-rich south Florida social setHow the 1% lives in the town now dominated by Trump’s lair Mar-a-Lago, where glitzy parties and rounds of golf can lead to business deals and ambassadorships
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There is no ‘rule of six’You wait longer when other people are behind you, we should stand on both sides of an escalator, and we usually get away with pushing in. Psychology professor Adrian Furnham explains what studies show us about standing in line
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The six ages of sexSix women across six decades talk about how their sex lives and sensuality have changed, and what they have learned about the politics of pleasure
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Has Finland found a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages?Both left and right are promoting the idea of a basic wage for everyone, currently on trial, as a solution to the new world of work
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Gunaratne does for Australia in final-ball T20 thrillerFor the second time in as many days, Sri Lanka beat Australia on the final ball of a T20 international, as the tourists secured the series 2-0
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Wigan turn on style against Sharks to win World Club ChallengeGeorge Williams excelled as Wigan produced an outstanding performance to beat Cronulla 22-6 and secure a clean sweep for the Super League in the World Club Series
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FFA flounders as spectre of tipping point becoming vanishing point loomsWhile the current stoush might manifest as a power struggle, at its core is a perhaps necessary debate on the best way to generate and distribute money
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Ibrahimovic comes off bench to complete comebackZlatan Ibrahimovic came on after an hour and scored the winner for Manchester United in 2-1 defeat of Blackburn Rovers in the FA Cup fifth round
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Despite growing evidence of the difficulties facing first-time buyers, the Coalition looks unlikely to shift the tax system in their favourHousing affordability off the agenda again as Turnbull shirks the tax challenge
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Trump’s fragile male ego craves the dangerous drug of adulationThe president’s hyped-up behaviour at his Florida rally was an alarming display of his neediness. Maybe he should have his own theme park
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video and pictures
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Search and rescue in the MediterraneanPhotographer David Ramos was onboard the rescue vessel Golfo Azzurro, operated by the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms
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Trump’s first month of liesThe Guardian examines Donald Trump’s most egregious falsehoods in his first month as president
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20ft sinkhole swallows car amid California ‘weather bomb’A minivan collapses into a 20ft sinkhole in the Studio City suburb of Los Angeles, California, as the state continues to experience its heaviest rainfall in six years
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Palm Springs by moonlightThe Australian photographer Tom Blachford discovered a dark side to the desert oasis of Palm Springs, shooting its modernist housing by moonlight
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Comedians mock Trump's press conferenceDonald Trump’s first solo press conference provided the bulk of material for late-night hosts on Thursday
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Jennifer Hawkins, diversity and a dazzling lightshow launch Myer collectionA University of Melbourne car park is transformed into an underground bunker for the department store’s autumn 2017 collection
Wisdom of Ages
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Bill Shorten sets up Indigenous caucus in push to improve representationParty’s federal and state leaders, Indigenous MPs and Indigenous affairs ministers and shadow ministers meet in Brisbane
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Coalition says it may change Clean Energy Finance Corporation rules to fund coal plants
Fossil fuels Coalition says it may change Clean Energy Finance Corporation rules to fund coal plants
Josh Frydenberg says rules could allow CEFC to invest in projects that do not reduce emissions by 50% or more -
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John McCain says suppressing press is 'how dictators get started'Despite ‘hating the press’, Republican senator says media is necessary after president calls media ‘the enemy of the American people’
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Malaysian police looking for four North KoreansInvestigation looking for four men who flew out of Malaysia on day Kim Jong-un’s half-brother was poisoned at an airport
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explore
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If Trump hates leaks, he needs to give up his phoneThe leader of the free world’s ‘invincible ignorance’ about cybersecurity is worrying in the extreme
people
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Presenter pulls out of hosting Royal Television Society awardsPresenter cites a campaign that claims his hosting show would be ‘damaging’ as his reason for quitting
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Norma McCorvey obituaryPlaintiff known as Jane Roe in the groundbreaking 1973 US legal case over the right to abortion
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Maybe to beat Chinese divers you have to eat like themBritain’s Olympic diver on childhood broccoli dinners, training camp chicken claws and why wine is like a doughnut
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Far-right provocateur to speak at CPACBreitbart news editor joins speakers including vice-president Mike Pence at influential Washington gathering
the big picture
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Venice carnival and snow horse racingThe Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world
Exclusive Images of new bleaching on Great Barrier Reef heighten fears of coral death