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Jim Chalmers is putting a positive spin on the economy, but is the outlook for Australia grim?

The economy was slowing even before the Middle East conflict and interest rate hikes started to bite, while the boom in datacentres was a rare bright spot Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The economy slowed sharply in early 2026 and Australians’ living standards are once again going backwards. At the risk of upsetting the treasurer by “talking down the economy”, as he put it, there wasn’t all that much to love in the latest national accounts. Continue reading...

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Here’s the impact of Trump’s Iran war on your household budget

Economists warn the financial strain will weigh heavily on middle and lower-income families

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New study reveals how much increased costs from Trump’s Iran war have hit your household

Economists warn the financial strain will weigh heavily on middle and lower-income families

The Guardian World

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New York police investigate mysterious cases of people coming out of manholes

Investigation follows circulation of videos showing groups climbing out of sewer systems across the city at night New York police are investigating a bizarre mystery involving groups of people emerging from the city’s manholes in recent weeks. The investigation follows the circulation of multiple social media videos showing people climbing out of sewer systems across the city, all in the middle of the night. Continue reading...

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Trump ‘shouted and cursed Netanyahu over threat to resume Beirut bombing’

Angry phone call took place after Iran said it would suspend talks with US over Israel’s Lebanon campaign, Axios reports Middle East crisis – live updates Donald Trump angrily confronted Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s threats to resume airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, according to a report. “What the fuck are you doing?” the US president shouted at the Israeli prime minister during the phone call on Monday, according to Axios, a US website that has frequently published reports on high-level conversations between the two leaders. Continue reading...

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Trump's war on Iran has changed the Middle East forever. It just might have changed the shape of Europe, too

The genie is out of the bottle. Iran has the capacity to close down the supply of oil, jet fuel and fertiliser, through the world's most important hydrocarbon shipping route, the Persian Gulf.

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Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day review – dreamy adaptation reaches for the stars

SXSW London Wolf’s novel about a headstrong young Edwardian woman takes flight under Tina Gharavi’s direction, with Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders among the ensemble cast Here is an adaptation, written by Justine Waddell, of Virginia Woolf’s peculiar and tonally elusive work that is all about the quarterlife crisis of a headstrong, well-born young woman in Edwardian London faced with the necessity of getting married. What emerges is a wayward, unworldly fantasia, a four-leaf clover of a film – or even five-leaf; rather beautifully designed and photographed, flavoured with a wistful, unexpectedly Germanic kind of romanticism. Waddell and Iranian-born director and Bafta nominee Tina Gharavi have creatively gone against the grain of the novel, amplifying Woolf’s single glancing reference to astronomy and making that the centre of the heroine’s yearning, perhaps playfully implanting a subconscious memory of Cole Porter’s lyrics to the song of the same title: “You are the one, only you beneath the moon, under the sun ….” And – thankfully, in my view – the film removes Woolf’s supercilious condescension towards the self-betterment of newly educated lower and middle classes, and instead focuses on a sweet-natured story, performed with conviction by its all-star ensemble cast, interspersed with dreamlike set pieces. The result is not precisely Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day; maybe more EM Forster’s Night and Day or even Ronald Firbank’s Night and Day. Continue reading...

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Aipac affiliate has funded lavish trips to Israel for dozens of Congress members since 7 October, filings reveal

Revealed: AIEF, a charitable affiliate of pro-Israel lobby Aipac, has spent millions on travel for lawmakers from both parties, even as voters’ support for Israel plummets Dozens of members of Congress and Capitol Hill staffers have enjoyed lavish gifted travel to Israel funded by an Aipac affiliate since 7 October 2023, amid Israel’s expanding wars on its neighbors and despite plummeting levels of support among Americans for the country’s policies, a Guardian analysis has found. Congressional ethics filings and other public records show the trips, led by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), revolved around one-sided briefings on Middle East politics and Israeli domestic and foreign policy. Lawmakers and their staffers from both parties met Israeli officials, military contractors and civil society figures, including Benjamin Netanyahu and advocates for the annexation of the West Bank and the displacement of Palestinians from Jerusalem. Continue reading...

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Middle East crisis live: Conflict continues in Lebanon despite Trump hailing Israeli-Hezbollah de-escalation

Israeli military says it intercepted missiles from Lebanon this morning while Netanyahu says his forces will continue operating in the south of the country Trump says Hezbollah and Israel have agreed to ‘stop all shooting’ Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. Donald Trump has hailed an agreement to de-escalate the fighting in Lebanon, which has killed thousands of people and inflamed tensions in the broader US-Israeli war with Iran. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) threatened to open “new fronts” and keep the strait of Hormuz closed over Israel’s offensive in Lebanon, state media reported. “Iran considers crossing the red lines in Lebanon and Gaza to mean direct war,” state TV quoted the IRGC’ intelligence organisation as saying. The ceasefire already in place between Iran and the US is unequivocally a ceasefire on all fronts, including in Lebanon, Iran’s top diplomat said yesterday after Netanyahu ordered attacks on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut. “Violation on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts. The US and Israel are responsible for the consequences of any violation,” foreign minister Abbas Araghchi wrote on X. US secretary of state Marco Rubio will face questions at Congress today for the first time since the Iran war began. He will testify before House and Senate committees on the state department’s 2027 budget request, where he is expected to face questions about Trump’s war efforts and shifting diplomatic goals. Oil prices jumped and equities slid as Middle East peace talks stumbled and tensions mounted between Iran and the US. Crude futures shot more than 5% higher yesterday as an Iranian news agency announced Tehran had suspended the negotiations with the US via mediators, AFP reported. US forces intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles targeting American forces based in Kuwait late on Sunday, the US military said yesterday. No American personnel were harmed, it added. Continue reading...

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I devoured classic novels as a teenager. In a world of distractions, can I relearn how to read them?

In less than a decade, surrounded by screens, I lost my ability to read some of the best books ever written. But, inspired by the Guardian’s 100 best novels list, I was determined to get it back It is a privilege to be surrounded by books. My parents hail from the literary working class, a subsection of society that believes great works lead to a richer life. Reading for them was an inverted form of class snobbery. My dad could read as well as anyone. He’d prove it on package holidays, sitting on the balcony the entire time, head bowed, cigarette in hand, flicking through the pages of Jane Austen or Herman Melville. The only difference between my old man and an old Etonian was the drudgery of employment. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: work is the bane of the reading class. As for my own reading life, my mum wore me down, shouting “Read a book!” any time I dared say I was bored. I soon capitulated. I was nudged towards the classics, defined by Italo Calvino as books people say they should “reread” because they’ve either read them or do not want to admit they have not. In my late teens and 20s, I worked my way through the greats. I fell in love with a woman called George and thought Middlemarch was magic. I was a smart lad, prone to bad decisions, unsure of my place in the world. It is perhaps no surprise that I identified with Dorothea. Continue reading...

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About 3 million workers on minimum wage to receive 4.75% pay rise in Fair Work Commission ruling

Unions had demanded a 6% pay increase for those on minimum wage after war in the Middle East pushed inflation higher Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Nearly 3 million workers will receive a 4.75% pay rise, while about 100,000 of the country’s lowest paid will receive a higher 6% increase, after the Fair Work Commission handed down its annual minimum wage decision. Announcing the 4.75% decision on Tuesday morning applicable to the roughly 2.8 million workers on award wages, the Fair Work Commission’s president, Justice Adam Hatcher, announced that the lowest ongoing wage rate for employees would climb from nearly $24.95 an hour, to $26.44 – a lift of just under 6%. Continue reading...

Daily Mail (News)

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Gangster 'Indian Dave' 'was after middle-class London schoolboy's £200million inheritance' on night teen plunged from a luxury flat to his death into the Thames, family say

When Zac Brettler created the fake persona of the son of a late Russian oligarch set to inherit £200m it was a fateful decision that would bring him into the orbit of a gangster 'Indian Dave'.

The Guardian World

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University of Manchester to investigate sexual harassment of female medical students

About 20 students report anonymous late-night phone calls from men who ‘intimidated, demeaned and belittled’ them The University of Manchester has launched an investigation after about 20 female medical students complained of receiving anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night from male callers who intimidated and sexually harassed them. The calls have been going on for at least three years, according to Charlotte Buttercase, a final-year medical student and one of those targeted. Continue reading...

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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The people of Makerfield (and Britain) deserve better than cynical, self-serving spiv Andy Burnham. We're in the middle of an anti-democratic stitch-up

Extra, extra, read all about it! Andy Burnham is 'wargaming' a snap general election after his 'honeymoon' period on becoming Prime Minister. No he isn't.

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‘A shock to all Lebanese’: Israel sends a message as it takes ancient fort

Conquering of Beaufort Castle for first time in 26 years bring back memories of occupation of south Middle East crisis – live updates When Hussain Alawieh used to take tourists to Beaufort Castle, they would marvel at the view. The ancient hilltop fort, captured nearly 1,000 years earlier by Crusaders, still offered the same sweeping panoramic views of south Lebanon and the Litani River that empires fought over for a millennia. On Sunday, the view from the castle was obscured by white phosphorus smoke, the toxic incendiary munition providing a smoke-screen for advancing Israeli soldiers. Out of the fog rose an Israeli flag, and the castle, for the first time in 26 years, was once again conquered. Continue reading...

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Defence chiefs order £36million of new missiles to defend Middle East interests after shooting down more than 100 drones

Stockpiles of Lightweight Multirole Missiles used to intercept Iranian drones will be built up as part of a £36 million deal with arms manufacturers, it was confirmed today.

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Queensland police shoot pet dog after running it over as distressed residents watch on

Graphic videos on social media appear to show upset onlookers after police accidentally ran over animal in Mount Isa street Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Confronting footage has emerged of police shooting dead a pet dog as it lay prone in the middle of a street in front of screaming onlookers, after they accidentally ran over the animal in an outback mining city. The graphic videos, posted to social media on Sunday afternoon, appear to show one resident in distress and being led away wailing and pulling at her hair in distress as a shot rings out. Continue reading...

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Iran targets American base in region after US strikes Iranian air defences

Attacks reported in Kuwait – home to a US military base – and around the strait of Hormuz in latest exchange of fire as peace negotiations continue Middle East live – latest updates The US said it struck Iranian military sites at the weekend and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said on Monday it had targeted a US base in response, the latest in a series of exchanges amid negotiations to end the three-month-old war. The strikes on Iran’s Gulf coast were in response to “aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a US MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters”, the US military’s central command (Centcom) said on X. Continue reading...

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Middle East crisis live: Kuwait reports missile and drone attack; US says it struck Iran radar sites over weekend

Kuwaiti state media report sirens sounding across the country, as officials say air defences active over the country European leaders condemn Israel’s deepening incursion into Lebanon More from the Kuwaiti army, which has announced that its air defences are intercepting missile and drone attacks. The General Staff of the Army wishes to advise that any sounds of explosions heard are the result of air defense systems intercepting these hostile attacks.” Continue reading...

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Why is Lidl opening a pub?

The debate about about what seems like a bizarre idea of having a cold pint after exploring the store's well known middle aisle.

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Jim Chalmers is putting a positive spin on the economy, but is the outlook for Australia grim?

Here’s the impact of Trump’s Iran war on your household budget

New study reveals how much increased costs from Trump’s Iran war have hit your household

New York police investigate mysterious cases of people coming out of manholes

Trump ‘shouted and cursed Netanyahu over threat to resume Beirut bombing’

Trump's war on Iran has changed the Middle East forever. It just might have changed the shape of Europe, too

Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day review – dreamy adaptation reaches for the stars

Aipac affiliate has funded lavish trips to Israel for dozens of Congress members since 7 October, filings reveal

Middle East crisis live: Conflict continues in Lebanon despite Trump hailing Israeli-Hezbollah de-escalation

I devoured classic novels as a teenager. In a world of distractions, can I relearn how to read them?

About 3 million workers on minimum wage to receive 4.75% pay rise in Fair Work Commission ruling

Gangster 'Indian Dave' 'was after middle-class London schoolboy's £200million inheritance' on night teen plunged from a luxury flat to his death into the Thames, family say

University of Manchester to investigate sexual harassment of female medical students

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The people of Makerfield (and Britain) deserve better than cynical, self-serving spiv Andy Burnham. We're in the middle of an anti-democratic stitch-up

‘A shock to all Lebanese’: Israel sends a message as it takes ancient fort

Defence chiefs order £36million of new missiles to defend Middle East interests after shooting down more than 100 drones

Queensland police shoot pet dog after running it over as distressed residents watch on

Iran targets American base in region after US strikes Iranian air defences

Middle East crisis live: Kuwait reports missile and drone attack; US says it struck Iran radar sites over weekend

Why is Lidl opening a pub?