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  • Bruce Lehrmann at the federal court in Sydney

    Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial live
    Lipreader allowed to testify about what Lehrmann, Brittany Higgins and others said in bar CCTV footage

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  • Map of Australia depicting heatwave conditions on Friday 8 December 2023

    Heatwave conditions
    Catastrophic fire danger as temperatures soar on Friday followed by scorching weekend weather

  • Former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews

    Australia news live
    Daniel Andrews fires up over ‘Dictator Dan’ moniker; festival-goers warned over heatwave conditions

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    • Tory Shepherd

      The weekly beast
      Chequed out: Channel Seven pays the price for Bruce Lehrmann Spotlight revelation

      Tory Shepherd

    • Michaelia Cash
      Senator claims PM denied her right to defend herself before government paid $2.45m to Brittany Higgins

    • Queensland
      Mother of four-year-old boy found dead in pool charged with murder

    • Melbourne
      Anna Schwartz gallery drops artist Mike Parr after political piece on Israel-Gaza war

    • Coles
      Supermarket apologises for prematurely raising prices on ‘locked’ items

    • Nick Kyrgios
      Australian tennis star joins OnlyFans to show 'all different sides of me'

    • Tropical cyclone Jasper
      Widespread Queensland weather warning as BoM considers evacuating staff

    • 'A new low'
      Police believe gasmask-clad graverobbers sought to intimidate Melbourne gangland rival

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News extra

  • BBC presenter Maryam Moshiri flips the bird live on air.

    BBC
    Presenter apologises after giving middle finger at start of live broadcast

  • Elephant seals on South Georgia in the snow with the sea in the background.

    Bird flu
    Mass deaths of elephant seals recorded as disease sweeps across the Antarctic

  • A tent with an operating table, monitor and anaesthetics inside

    Flatpack hospital
    India unveils portable medical unit that can be airdropped to disaster zones

  • Donald Trump in court with his attorneys Christopher Kise and Alina Habba on Thursday.

    Donald Trump trial
    Expert says ‘no evidence whatsoever’ of fraud as ex-president returns to court

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Spotlight

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    Pobblebonk! Tatterdemalion! It’s Guardian readers’ word of the year

    First Dog on the Moon
    We received more than 600 suggestions – incroyable!
  • A painting of a woman comforting a child in a pram

    Leading questions
    My parents and in-laws make inappropriate comments about my baby. Should I let them go?

  • The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, and the state's assistant treasurer, Danny Pearson, during a press conference at the Dublin Road level crossing removal site in Melbourne.

    Full Story
    Newsroom edition: Australia’s problem with building big

    Laura Murphy-Oates talks to head of newsroom Mike Ticher and national news editor Patrick Keneally about why building public infrastructure never goes as planned
  • Maria Callas in concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

    Maria Callas’s hologram concert
    Ersatz simulacrum of a dead diva is weird and depressing

    The legendary soprano was celebrated for her emotional connection. This moribund gimmick intended to bring her back – but in fact took her further away
    • Exclusive - Brittany Howard

      ‘Joni Mitchell said she felt as awkward as me’
      Brittany Howard on poverty, chaos and fame

    • Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow in Toronto

      ‘I’m concerned about my personal safety’
      Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow speaks about life in exile

    • Dellaram Vreeland, centre, and her family

      After growing up Iranian in Ballarat, I know it to be a welcoming place – a hate march won’t change that

      Dellaram Vreeland
    • Kainan, a coastal town in Japan that is trying to lure new residents with the surname Suzuki to address its declining population.

      Desperately seeking Suzukis
      Japanese town hopes to make name for itself with population boost

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Opinion

  • Rishi Sunak speaking to the media during a press conference at Downing Street

    Sulky Sunak solves everything with a panicky press conference

    John Crace
    Rishi Sunak had a full-blown toddler tantrum speaking to the media as he railed against an unfair world
  • ‘Trump holds an insurmountable and growing lead. Indictments and headlines have only boosted his popularity.’

    The Republican debate was another grim exercise in futility and attention-seeking

    Lloyd Green
    The winner of the last debate before the Iowa caucus was, yet again, an absent and resurgent Trump
    • The Matildas celebrating their winning penalty goal which took them through their match with France during the Women's World Cup

      My partner and I are on very different sports pages – and that’s probably OK

      Rebecca Shaw
    • Trump speaks at Republican fundraiser in Columbia<br>Former U.S. President and Republican candidate Donald Trump makes a keynote speech at a Republican fundraising dinner in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. August 5, 2023. REUTERS/Sam Wolfe TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

      Here’s what Trump 2.0 will bring: ignorance and vengeance in the US, chaos for world order

      Gordon Brown
    • Family members of people who died during the COVID-19 pandemic hold banners outside the UK COVID-19 Inquiry in London<br>Family members of people who died during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic hold pictures and banners as they wait outside the UK COVID-19 inquiry, where the former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is giving evidence, in London, Britain December 7, 2023. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska

      Far from cleaning up Boris Johnson’s Covid mess, Rishi Sunak is drowning in it

      Gaby Hinsliff
    • school whiteboard with 'ceasefire now' written across it

      How do the young see the massacre in Gaza? These students will tell you

      Aditya Chakrabortty
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Lifestyle

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    Ask Ugly
    Now that I’m a mother, I’m mourning my old, ‘pretty’ self. Is this normal?

    In her second monthly column about beauty culture, our columnist talks about the pressure to ‘feel like yourself again’ after having a baby
  • Composite showing four bottles of wine: the Sven Joschke, 2022 Chardonnay Pét Nat; Bulman Wines, 2023 Grenache Rosé; Unico Zelo, 2023 Jade & Jasper Fiano; and S.C. Pannell, 2021 Basso Garnacha

    Fun, fresh and fairly cheap
    Sommeliers’ 12 favourite Australian summer wines under $30

  • Carving Glazed Holiday Ham with Cloves

    ‘Delicious and budget-friendly’
    IGA’s Christmas ham tops Choice taste test

  • kitchen cabinet stocked with jars of beans, pasta, rice and flour etc

    ‘It’s kind of gross but we can do it’
    How a community learned to go zero waste

  • Nectarine fruit on a wooden table

    ‘Instead of mango salad, use nectarine’
    Australia’s best-value fruit and veg for December

  • Shoba (left) and Hania.

    How we met
    ‘When she walked past me it was like being covered in a soft blanket’

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Culture

  • Seth Meyers on Sean Hannity’s town hall with Trump on Fox News: “It’s not enough to say that Fox is pro-GOP anymore. They are the GOP. It’s the same entity.”

    Seth Meyers on Fox News
    ‘They are the GOP. It’s the same entity’

  • 'The Taste of Small Things' Premiere, Berlin, Germany - 12 Jan 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Action Press/REX/Shutterstock (13712895c) Gerard Depardieu 'The Taste of Small Things' Premiere, Berlin, Germany - 12 Jan 2023

    Gérard Depardieu
    Actor Hélène Darras files complaint of sexual assault

    Allegations French star actor groped Darras on set is second official complaint after Charlotte Arnould accused the actor of rape in 2018
  • Dave Chappelle and other comedians occupy a cultural space once held by public intellectuals, Fox argues.

    From Hannah Gadsby to Chris Rock
    The new book treating standup as fine art

    As our relationship with comedy has shifted, so has the role of comedian in mainstream culture, says author Jesse David Fox
  • Kids singing Christmas carols.

    Ranked
    The 20 greatest Christmas carols

  • Jordan Wolfson's new piece Body Sculpture, a cube with two robotic arms.

    Jordan Wolfson
    Robotic cube simulates sex and suicide. He says it is his most universal work yet

  • Grand Theft Auto 6.

    Grand Theft Auto
    Every game and controversy explained

  • Benjamin Zephaniah.

    Benjamin Zephaniah
    British poet dies aged 65

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Across the country

  • The minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Bill Shorten

    ‘Ironclad commitment’
    Advocates demand no NDIS participant will lose support before new services in place

    Disability organisations welcome proposed changes around foundational supports but urge Labor to give guarantee no participant will be worse off
  • Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allan

    Daniel Andrews
    The former premier still looms large, but Jacinta Allan is trying to move on

  • Signage for the Westconnex Rozelle interchange which has had Sydney drivers confused, Sydney, Australia. 27 November 2023.

    ‘Disaster’
    Frustration boils over at residents’ meeting about Sydney’s Rozelle interchange

  • Bruce Lehrmann

    ‘Bad vibes’
    Bruce Lehrmann wasn’t someone former colleague wanted to spend time with, court hears

    • 'Blood on their hands'
      Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest launches scathing attack on oil and gas industry

    • Mental health
      App that cost taxpayers $33m did not result in ‘clinical outcomes’, study finds

    • Day of reckoning
      How FBI came for Wieambilla suspect at an Arizona Dairy Queen

    • ‘Demonstrably false’
      Alan Jones may sue Nine newspapers over allegations of indecent assault

    • Teenage gambler
      Melbourne pub fined for taking bets from boy, 16, with nearly $100,000 in debts

    • Buried in sand
      Young man dies five days after ‘tragic accident’ on Queensland island

The rural network

  • An unvaccinated rescue kitten in foster care, unable to be admitted to an animal shelter.

    Cats
    NSW animal shelters reduce intake due to global vaccine shortage

  • Margooya Lagoon, on Murray River Country in north-west Victoria

    Murray-Darling Basin plan
    What Labor’s new ‘breakthrough’ laws mean for the environment and communities

  • Ian Durkin, Montain Valley Hereford Stud - Preserving Livestock Genetics<br>For a story on how farmers preserve livestock genetics during drought and other natural disasters. Hereford Stud owner Ian Durkin heads out to feed Hereford Bulls using a dry feed. NSW. Australia

    Preserving the herd
    When the farm burns or the grass runs out, it’s a battle to keep valuable livestock alive

  • Exterior of church with construction fencing preventing access and Warning signage. Snake Valley, Victoria, Australia. Shot on 24 November 2023.

    ‘A moral injustice’
    A small Victorian town is fighting to save its 130-year-old church

Around the world

  • Philip Sean Grillo at the capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

    New York
    Man convicted in January 6 riots running for Santos seat in Congress

  • Amie Harwick in Los Angeles.

    US
    Ex-boyfriend given life without parole for murder of Hollywood sex therapist

  • Kate Cox in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.

    Texas
    Judge rules woman with non-viable pregnancy can have an abortion

    • Revealed
      How top pop stars are used to ‘launder the reputation’ of Koch family

    • ‘He became everybody’s grandfather’
      How Nicholas Winton saved 669 children (and counting) from the Holocaust

    • US
      University presidents face firestorm over evasive answers on antisemitism

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Multimedia

  • The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, and the state's assistant treasurer, Danny Pearson, during a press conference at the Dublin Road level crossing removal site in Melbourne.

    Full Story
    Newsroom edition: Australia’s problem with building big

    Laura Murphy-Oates talks to head of newsroom Mike Ticher and national news editor Patrick Keneally about why building public infrastructure never goes as planned
  • 231207 Getting the politics out of the carpet thumbnail

    Fiona Katauskas
    It’s been a crappy year in Australia’s parliament. Won’t somebody think of the cleaners?

  • Former Conservative cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken arrives at the Old Bailey in 1999.

    Best podcasts of the week
    Jonathan Aitken’s fall from Downing Street hopeful to convicted liar

  • Composite of images from the book "We The Spirits"

    Primal dreams
    The world’s wildest winter masquerades

  • Models in the foreground and George Plimpton George Plimpton, Jared Paul Stern and Cameron Richardson January 1999

    ‘From the counterculture to high society’
    Larry Fink’s career in pictures

  • Black and white photo of a women with a long plaited ponytail, wearing a striped outfit and standing against a patterned background

    Women behind the lens
    I’ve photographed more than 2,000 people in my mobile studio

Guardian Labs

  • Polar bears observed from the outdoor deck of MS Fridtjof Nansen. Photo credit: Espen Mills.

    Polar bears, fjords and geothermal pools: the Arctic’s incredible destinations

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  • White sand beach in Thailand with beautiful landscape

    Why Australians are still splurging on travel – and where they’re going

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  • Person sitting on a blue armchair and smiling at the camera with a stethoscope around their neck.

    Health equity: meet the young doctor working to change the game for rural Australians

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    Small state, big taste: great conditions and passionate craftspeople drive Tasmania’s beer boom

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Explore

  • two images: left, woman looks down, right: golden gate bridge covered in cloud

    ‘It might have saved my son’s life’
    The Golden Gate Bridge is finally getting a safety net

    Parents who lost their children to suicide have spent years fighting for a barrier. Its completion brings reflection on heartbreaking loss – and a hope for a different future
  • Boris Johnson, wearing a bobble hat with the letters GTFC, walking by a policeman.

    ‘Serious disrepute’
    Grimsby Town fans react after Boris Johnson wears club’s hat

  • Carol and Charles Stuart in Murder In Boston: Roots, Rampage &amp; Reckoning

    ‘We failed the city of Boston’
    How a racist manhunt led to chaos in 1989

  • Analysis
    Biden infuriated by Ukraine impasse but Republicans refuse to bend over border

  • Johnson at the Covid inquiry
    Behind the veil of responsibility, the finger of blame

  • Megacities
    Life in the cities home to more than 10 million people – photo essay

  • ‘He controlled my life’
    New Orleans archdiocese ignored woman’s claims before priest’s abrupt dismissal

  • Visualised
    How all of G20 is missing climate goals — but some nations are closer than others

  • Chlorine attacks and daily harassment
    Why Mexico’s female delivery drivers are organising

The big picture

  • Lightning over the port city of Batroun, Lebanon

    Top shots
    Lightning in Lebanon and a misty Stockholm

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

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