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Monday8 July 2024

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  • Young woman sitting on couch looking at mobile phone

    Love and theft: why is Australia’s online dating app safety code only voluntary?

    Lisa Portolan
    Realistically, we don’t just need self-regulation but a comprehensive societal approach
  • a side-by-side image of Joe Biden and Andrea Lawful-Sanders

    Joe Biden
    Radio host resigns after admitting aides gave her questions for interview

  • Keir Starmer holds his first press conference as UK PM

    Full Story podcast
    Is Labour’s landslide win in the UK election a reason for hope?

    Reged Ahmad and Helen Sullivan speak to Nour Haydar about what Keir Starmer’s first challenges are
  • Composite image featuring (L-R) Thermal wear by Australian label Merino Country and icebreaker SS24 Women Siren Cami

    Closet clinic
    Winter wear enthusiasts recommend their favourite thermal brands

    Fashion insiders – and an Alone Australia contestant – share the importance of good thermals, and the brands they rely on
    • Wild dingoes near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia<br>Wild dingoes near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

      Dingoes
      Modern-day dingoes already established across Australia thousands of years ago, research finds

    • One of our finest chroniclers of transformation: Missy Higgins

      Missy Higgins soundtracked my generation of queer teens. Seeing her live was euphoric

      Joseph Earp
    • A pen lies beside a notepad on which is written: 'Don't date a bartender'

      Advice
      The memo: could one missed message have saved me a lifetime of regret?

    • Emma Beddington

      Do you struggle to accept rejection? We could all learn a lot from American cheerleaders

      Emma Beddington

Sport

  • The EF Education EasyPost team car, a pink Cadillac Lyriq, navigates one of countless dust clouds

    Tour de France
    Dust and drama: my day crossing the gravel in a pink Cadillac

    With stage nine’s gravel roads providing a brutal challenge for riders, it was a mercy to watch from the passenger seat
  • Lulu Sun celebrates victory against Emma Raducanu

    Wimbledon
    Lulu Sun: New Zealander's rise lighting up Wimbledon

    • Felix Zwayer points.

      Euro 2024
      Uefa backs semi-final referee Zwayer despite Bellingham furore

    • Jimmy Anderson poses for a portrait in the Long Room at Lord's.

      Cricket
      Anderson insists he ‘could still do a job’ for England before farewell

    • Lewis Hamilton shows off his winner’s trophy to the fans at Silverstone after his record 9th British Grand Prix victory.

      Formula One
      ‘Fairytale’ win inspires Hamilton to believe again

    • Rohan Browning of Australia wins the 200m men's final at the 2024 Maurie Plant Meet

      Paris Olympics
      Browning squeaks into 100m event as Australia’s athletics team finalised

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Opinion

  • A rally at Place de la République, Lyon, after the results of the second round of the 2024 legislative elections were announced.

    The Guardian view on the French election: time to build a republican future

    Editorial
  • Justine Greening

    Leaderless, rudderless, purposeless – the Tories have just one chance to stave off extinction

    Justine Greening
    • Joe Biden boards Air Force One to depart at Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin.

      Democrats don’t just need a new candidate. They need a reckoning

      Osita Nwanevu
    • row of flags on grass in front of a building

      The Nato alliance should not invite Ukraine to become a member

      Open letter
    • Polly Toynbee

      Cleaning up our fetid politics is Keir Starmer’s toughest task yet. Here’s how he can do it, fast

      Polly Toynbee
    • Paul Taylor

      In a referendum on Le Pen, French voters said ‘non’. This opportunity must not be squandered

      Paul Taylor

Lifestyle

  • Illustration of a person lying on their back with a ball between their knees

    Halfway there
    First my left knee, then my right: my middle-aged body’s betrayal

    I won’t ‘bounce back’ from my injuries. But it is a privilege to live – to walk, dance and even fall – in an ageing body
  • Illustration of woman running past people waiting at a bus stop that is in front of big letters saying 5am

    Sleep
    The cult of 5am: is rising at dawn the secret of health and happiness?

  • Megan Burslem

    Three things
    ABC Classic’s Megan Burslem: ‘My earplugs are handy for gigs and when a dad sneezes’

  • A silhouette of a couple embracing at dusk as they looking out a window on to a cityscape

    We often turn to loved ones for support but relationships can falter if our feelings are ignored

    Gaynor Parkin and Amanda Wallis
  • The lesser-spotted Rachel Roddy flatbread.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for flatbreads with yoghurt

  • A closeup of the face of a red fox in a meadow.

    The pet I'll never forget
    The fox I invited into my home – but never quite trusted

Culture

  • Jesus Speaks to the Daughters of Jerusalem by artist Philjames

    Sydney
    Artwork featuring Christ overlaid with Looney Tunes characters removed by council after threats of violence

  • Man in blue suit speak into microphone to people seated in room with bust and bookshelves

    Italy
    Milan’s Brera Modern gallery to open in December after 50 years of delays

    Museum has been plagued by numerous delays and has seen off almost 40 Italian governments
  • Fiendish … Freddie Fox as Gwayne Hightower and Fabien Frankel as Ser Criston Cole in House of the Dragon.

    Recap
    House of the Dragon: season two, episode four – dragons rain hell in a truly terrific hour of TV

    It’s the wing-flapping, fire-breathing, blood-splattering action we’ve been waiting for! And it’s so magnificent it will make you want to claw your own eyes out
  • man dressed in costume with a crown photographed in blue-ish light

    Film
    ‘Opened my whole world up’: inside Oscar-tipped prison theater drama Sing Sing

  • Neil Dudgeon as DCI John Barnaby, Nick Hendrix as DS Jamie Winter and Kate Robbins as Lyra Kaine in The Blacktrees Prophecy.

    Pass notes
    ‘Some violent moments’: does Midsomer Murders really need a trigger warning?

  • Kate Wilson

    Arriving in Hollywood with a dream to be a producer, I underestimated the toxic culture waiting for me

    Kate Wilson
  • Coldplay "Music of the Spheres" World Tour

    Music
    WA government gave $8m to Live Nation Entertainment to subsidise Coldplay concerts

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Across the country

  • Climate protester Laura Davy

    Blockade Australia
    Climate activist sentenced to three months in jail over Port of Newcastle protest

    Laura Davy, who travelled from Tasmania to take part in a protest at a coal terminal, will appeal prison sentence
  • An artist's impression the proposed above-ground Melbourne airport train station in Tullamarine.

    Victoria
    Melbourne airport backdown on station paves way for long-awaited train link

  • Ben Woodbury at his design store

    Guardian investigation
    Years at Exclusive Brethren school were ‘darkest moments of my life’, former student says

    Ben Woodbury says school run by sect was not a safe environment for him, with limited access to external counselling services
    • A screengrab from CCTV of missing woman Renee released by Victoria Police

      0:40

      Ballarat
      ‘She has never been gone for this long’: police release video in hope of finding missing woman

    • NSW
      Man arrested after woman allegedly stabbed to death in Sydney home

    • Northern Territory
      Police impose three-night curfew on Alice Springs after more violence

    • Morning Mail
      Watch house alarm ignored, dingo DNA discovery, De Minaur wins again

    • Murder trial
      Amber Haigh showed cousin bruises on wrists she said were from being tied up by Robert Geeves, court hears

    • Newcastle
      Teenager felt ‘scared and anxious’ before alleged bucks party rape

    • Media
      Vice, Kotaku and Refinery29 to no longer publish in Australia after Pedestrian Group announces restructure

    • Youth justice
      Mandatory life terms for Queensland children who murder would breach Human Rights Act, lawyers say

The rural network

  • Karen Mansbridge with her horse

    Kingaroy
    ‘Every step of the way, no one cared’: pensioner says solar farm next door has left her unable to sell her property

  • Katy McCallum, One Nation candidate for Gympie and vice-chair of the National Rational Energy Network, speaks at a meeting on renewable energy projects in Kilcoy

    Backlash
    ‘There’s angry people out there’: inside the renewable energy resistance in regional Australia

  • Blockade Australia spokesperson Brad Homewood with climbing apparatus

    Climate crisis
    Blockade Australia plans more protests disrupting Newcastle trains, saying disobedience is the only option

  • The avian influenza outbreaks in Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT have resulted in the destruction of about two million chickens

    Explainer
    Egg shortage: why the avian influenza outbreak has left shoppers and farmers shell-shocked

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  • Keir Starmer holds his first press conference as UK PM

    Full Story
    Is Labour’s landslide win in the UK election a reason for hope?

    Reged Ahmad and Helen Sullivan speak to Nour Haydar about what Keir Starmer’s first challenges are
  • A blurred picture of people passing through a station with arrows pointing in different directions on the floor.

    Japan
    Tokyo’s oldest train line – in pictures

  • Rules Of Multicuralism pixie

    Opinion cartoon
    The unwritten rules of multiculturalism as explained by an older white man

    First Dog on the Moon
  • 1 Carbon offsetting schemes/Waiting for people to comment on your new haircut - Less impact than previously thought

    Cartoon
    From carbon offsetting to my toothbrush head: Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams

  • People sheltering from rain under a Wimbledon towel.

    Tennis
    Rain, set and match: a day at Wimbledon 2024 – in pictures

  • Nicola Jennings on the big cleaning-up job facing Labour – cartoon

    UK opinion cartoon
    Nicola Jennings on the cleaning-up job facing Labour

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    The art of the spectacular: Cirque du Soleil returns to Australia with Luzia

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Explore

  • The British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

    Indian Ocean
    Purgatory in paradise: how a shipwreck off Diego Garcia led to three years of hell and horror

    In 2021, 60 Tamils were fleeing Sri Lanka for Canada when their boat sprang a leak. They were taken to Diego Garcia by the British navy. Three years later, they remain there in desperate, dangerous limbo
  • Jacqueline Crooks pictured among a collage showing children in a park, a library sign, Tower Bridge, a for rent sign, social housing blocks, and headlines about energy bills

    UK election
    My home town: how London changed under Conservative rule

  • A plane flies over a sign that reads ‘Welcome to Heathrow’

    UK
    Man who slipped in puddle of Baileys on way to BA flight could get £4m

  • Book of the day
    Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan review – a lacerating exposé

  • Entertainment industry
    Hollywood studio Paramount agrees US$28bn merger with Skydance

  • Florida
    Satanists to volunteer in schools in protest at DeSantis religious bill

  • Ukraine
    Elina Svitolina wears black ribbon at Wimbledon after Kyiv hospital attack

  • Russia
    Playwright and director given six years in jail for ‘justifying terrorism’

  • Sculpture
    ‘We want to ruffle a few feathers’: Liverpool gallery confronts colonial past

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  3. ‘Every step of the way, no one cared’: Queensland pensioner says solar farm next door has left her unable to sell her property

  4. Students under near constant surveillance at Exclusive Brethren-linked schools, insiders claim

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