World

Rickshaw driver Sora Suzuki is endlessly busy these days.

Tourism

Japan’s become the ‘new Bali’ for Australians. Not everyone’s thrilled

Travellers are descending on Japan in record numbers, eager to take advantage of a weak yen, but parts of the famously polite country are now struggling with the crowds.

by Lisa Visentin

The Israeli Iron Dome air defence system fires to intercept an attack from Lebanon.

Updated

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Israel and Hezbollah fire at each other amid fears of wider Middle East war

by Samia Nakhoul and Parisa Hafezi

US Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia.

US Votes 2024

Democrats united quickly around Harris. It’s a different story for her running mate

by Will Weissert

Protesters scuffle with police during the "Enough is Enough" protest in Whitehall, London, Wednesday July 31, 2024, following the fatal stabbing of three children at a Taylor Swift-themed summer holiday dance and yoga class on Monday in Southport. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)

Social media

The obscure Russian-linked ‘news’ website that is fuelling violence on Britain’s streets

by Lauren Shirreff

Analysis

US Votes 2024

Biden seeks diplomacy in prisoner swap, Putin may see different lesson

by Farrah Tomazin

Opinion & Perspectives

Trump left rattled by size of Harris’ crowds

The numbers game is everything to Donald Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris’ first big rally appears to have got under his skin.

Shawn McCreesh

Can a rookie PM stop the riots without adding fuel to the fires?

Labour has responded judiciously to the recent ‘far-right thuggery’. But can it fix the UK’s immigration issues without giving Farage political oxygen?

Tim Soutphommasane

Political philosopher and columnist

So what if Kamala is big on TikTok? You don’t have to yuck young voters’ yum

If politicians want Gen Z and Millennials to get excited about politics, they have to meet them where they’re at, and that’s exactly what Harris is doing.

Charlotte Mortlock

Journalist and political advisor

North America

Former president Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Analysis

US Votes 2024

Trump left rattled by size of Harris’ crowds

The numbers game is everything to Donald Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris’ first big rally appears to have got under his skin.

by Shawn McCreesh

US Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 30, where rapper Megan Thee Stallion performed.

Opinion

US election

So what if Kamala is big on TikTok? You don’t have to yuck young voters’ yum

If politicians want Gen Z and Millennials to get excited about politics, they have to meet them where they’re at, and that’s exactly what Harris is doing.

by Charlotte Mortlock

Kyrgyz hunters competes during the Traditional Eagle Hunting Festival Salbuurun near the Issyk-Kul lake on the southern shore of Issyk-Kul lake, 213 km southeast of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. — 8 images

World in pictures

World of photos, August 5, 2024

US Votes 2024

Democrats united quickly around Harris. It’s a different story for her running mate

by Will Weissert

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during the presidential debate hosted by CNN with President Joe Biden in June.

US Votes 2024

Trump pulls out of debate with Harris, wants them to face off on Fox News instead

by Meg Kinnard

Europe

Opinion

UK politics

Can a rookie PM stop the riots without adding fuel to the fires?

by Tim Soutphommasane

Anti-migration protesters riot outside the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, which is being used as an asylum hotel.

Protests

‘Far-right thuggery’: British rioters set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers

by Pan Pylas

Professional restorers have described the refurbishment as crude and cartoonish.

Religion

‘Vulgar’: Botched church refurbishment draws comparisons to ‘Monkey Christ’

by James Badcock

Social media

The obscure Russian-linked ‘news’ website that is fuelling violence on Britain’s streets

by Lauren Shirreff

A police car is set on fire as far-right activists rally in Sunderland, England.

Protests

Protests turn violent in Sunderland as UK unrest spreads after Southport killings

by Sachin Ravikumar and Catarina Demony

Russian President Vladimir Putin, foreground right, walks with released Russian prisoners and relatives upon their arrival at the Vnukovo government airport outside Moscow, Russia.

Putin's Russia

Spies’ children ‘didn’t know they were Russian’ until they arrived in Moscow for prisoner swap

by Joe Barnes

Asia

Men run past a shopping center which was set on fire by protesters during a rally against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government demanding justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide deadly clashes, in Dhaka.

Political unrest

Internet cut off, courts closed as deadly clashes with police leave almost 100 dead

Renewed anti-government protests have swept across Bangladesh, with protesters calling for the prime minister to resign.

by Julhas Alam

Tourism

Japan’s become the ‘new Bali’ for Australians. Not everyone’s thrilled

Travellers are descending on Japan in record numbers, eager to take advantage of a weak yen, but parts of the famously polite country are now struggling with the crowds.

by Lisa Visentin

Zhao Weixiang, 22, a biology student in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi, posted a digitally altered image of himself as a bird perched atop a telephone pole.

Inside China

Why are China’s youth pretending to be birds on social media?

by Yan Zhuang

Workers collect debris, some stained with oil from the sunken tanker MT Terra Nova, along a beach in Noveleta, Cavite province, Philippines. — 9 images

by Nicola Smith

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Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Israel and Hezbollah fire at each other amid fears of wider Middle East war

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has accused the US of supporting the attack that killed Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and is urging retaliation as Middle East tensions grow.