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Wednesday7 August 2024
  • Lual Akech

    Victoria
    A father’s quest for answers after police botched investigation into son’s death

    ‘Are we not human?’ asks Lual Akech. He believes his son’s African background is one of the reasons Victoria police have not solved his alleged murder almost five years on

    • Ausmin
      US plans more frequent bomber deployments to Australia amid China’s ‘escalatory behaviour’

    • Exclusive
      Family violence and childhoods lost: census shows ‘horrifying’ plight of homeless youths in Melbourne

    • Gambling
      Anti-gambling advocates refuse to sign ‘ridiculous’ NDAs for Labor briefing on betting ads

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Hamas names Yahya Sinwar, architect of 7 October attack, as new leader

    • Russia-Ukraine war
      Moscow says Ukraine has launched cross-border attack inside Russia

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    • Liza Minnelli, pictured in Sex and the City 2 in 2010. The star’s first memoir will be released in 2026.

      Books
      Liza Minnelli announces memoir after documentaries about her life ‘didn’t get it right’

      Cabaret star says she felt ‘mad as hell’ after hearing stories from people who didn’t know her or her family, and will release untitled book in 2026
    • A selection of storebought chicken stocks, chicken stock powders and bone broths.

      Cooking
      Stock take: what’s the difference between liquid, cube and powder – and what exactly is ‘bone broth’?

    • Lual Akech, the father of the murder victim Aguer Akech, holds a photograph of his son

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      How a botched murder investigation left two families broken

      Courts and justice reporter Nino Bucci describes how police used flawed identification evidence against a 15-year-old boy after the 2019 stabbing of a Melbourne teenager
    • Two people sitting on a small jetty with two small structures on a still lake

      Travel
      Saunas, sledding and empty shores: Guardian Australia staff’s favourite east coast winter breaks

      Whether you plan on embracing the cold or warming your bones, these well-tested winter holiday spots lean into the best of the season
      • The film’s style is heightened – or rather magnified, as if seen through its protagonist’s big, plastic-rimmed frames.

        Stream team
        Welcome to the Dollhouse: Todd Solondz’s surprisingly tender tale of schoolyard misfits

      • Tom Cruise at the Cannes film festival.

        TechScape
        Why AI’s Tom Cruise problem means it is ‘doomed to fail’

      • A girl using ice-cream in a cone to paint a mess on a window

        Of course I love my children – just don’t assume I’ll like yours

        Sunil Badami
      • A man attempts take-off with his home-made wings

        Pass notes
        Be more avian! Why stressed Chinese students are pretending to be birds

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    • HexClad pans

      For the kitchen
      The best pans for every type of cooking – chosen by chefs

      Whether you are frying, boiling or braising, the right pan is vital. Fifteen of the UK’s finest cooks and restaurateurs tell us what they use
    • Ten times more durable … the innovative vessels.

      Design
      Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses

    • illustration of a woman sitting at a table writing a letter

      Why am I like this?
      I want closure – but do I have a hope of ever getting it?

    • An image of a man and woman lying side by side

      Sexual healing
      My wife has no libido. Should I sleep with other people, as she suggests?

    • 1-3 (2)

      Drugs
      The end-of-life patients finding solace in magic mushrooms: ‘What life after life could be like’

    • Fork twirling through bowl of garlic and chilli spaghetti.

      Food
      Faster pasta: Tipo 00’s spaghetti with garlic and chilli – plus two other speedy recipes

    Culture

    • A man surfing a barrel wave

      Film
      Crystal Voyager: the ultimate surfing film with a DIY spirit – and a Pink Floyd soundtrack

    • Byron Bay’s Splendour In The Grass is one of the more than 40 Australian music festivals that have been cancelled, evacuated, postponed or relocated in recent years.

      Arts
      Weather and a changing world — not large corporations — behind downturn in live music scene, inquiry hears

      Outgoing CEO of promoters’ body says inquiry has produced no evidence that companies have engaged in anticompetitive behaviour
    • Black spraypainted elephant heads face each other from two white-painted blocked-out windows, with their trunks reaching out towards each other

      Art
      Banksy reveals second animal artwork within 24 hours in London

      Two elephants painted on blocked-out windows in Chelsea after goat mural appears near Kew Bridge
    • The Influencer.

      TV
      The Influencer review – judging by these social media stars, humanity’s future is bleak

    • Man makes shocked face on stage while holding microphone

      Joe Rogan’s Netflix special is another tired, and unfunny, tirade

      Jesse Hassenger
    • Vultures 2 artwork.

      Music
      Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign: Vultures 2 review – some of Ye’s most jaded, degraded moments

    • A boy lying on his mother's back at the beach, both reading books.

      I fear books are going the way of vinyl records – a rarefied pursuit for hobbyists

      Gaby Hinsliff
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      Debt recovery
      A Centrepay report that found major failings was ‘ignored’ by successive Coalition governments, author says

      Anna Buduls says her 2013 report, which found major failings with controversial debit system, was mostly forgotten about
    • The vulnerable pig-nosed turtle.

      Environment
      Pig-nosed turtle and Pugh’s frog among new species added to Australia’s endangered species list

    • An auction sign hangs outside a residential property for sale in the Paddington suburb of Sydney

      Analysis
      The RBA left interest rates on hold – but don’t get your hopes up for a cut any time soon

      Governor Michele Bullock makes clear that any expectation of rate cuts this year ‘not aligned’ with bank’s present thinking
      • Linda Reynolds

        Defamation trial
        Reynolds tells court she sobbed ‘uncontrollably’ during Higgins media frenzy

      • Farewell speech
        Covid-19 vaccine mandates were ‘wrong’, former NSW premier Dominic Perrottet says as he exits politics

      • Diplomacy
        Iran’s ambassador rebuked by Albanese government after ‘abhorrent’ comments on Israel

      • Share market chaos explained
        What’s behind the stock meltdown and will there be a recession?

      • Sydney
        Three men raped a woman in her apartment after she arranged Tinder date, court told

      • Wieambilla shooting
        Radicalised killers used military-style defences to force police retreat during siege

      • Queensland
        Wife of doctor killed in crocodile attack says his last act was to save her life

      • Youth justice
        Queensland police launch review after revelations of ‘abominable’ treatment of children in watch houses

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    • Great Britain’s Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix during the women’s 10m platform final.

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      The best images from day 11 of the Games in Paris

      The best images from day 11, with diving, javelin, sailing, athletics, skateboarding and wrestling all in action
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      Finally! Good news from a coral reef

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      Don’t argue: Richmond great Dustin Martin’s career in pictures

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      ‘I never know what I’ll find’: under the influence of Italy

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    • A Pakistani woman holds a placard reading "there is no honour in killing" during a protest. Another sign says "no more honour killings"

      Gender equality
      She wanted a divorce so her father hacked her legs with an axe: how Pakistan fails women

      Sobia Batool Shah is being protected in hospital after a mob of male relatives attacked her in a harrowing case that highlights Pakistan’s epidemic of gender-based violence
    • Members of the Base at a gathering.

      Revealed
      US neo-Nazi terror group aims to revive activities ahead of election

    • President Putin greets Russians returning to Moscow after prisoner Artyom Dultsev, Anna Dultseva and their children, followed by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin

      Prisoner exchange
      How children of freed spies learned they were Russian on flight to Moscow

    • Therapy dogs
      The unsung hero of the Olympic-champion US women’s gymnastics team is a very good boy

    • When lots of your friends still live at home, renting isn’t just expensive – it’s lonely too

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    • New York
      RFK Jr will not be charged for dumping dead bear in Central Park

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      My weeks of reading hornily: sales of steamy novels have doubled – and I soon found out why

    • Is France scared of spicy food? I used to think so – but now it’s turning up the heat

      Alexander Hurst

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      ‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

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