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    Step up, Walking Dead fans! This is the most moving zombie show ever

    Revival on Netflix

  • Politics books
    Betrayal by Luke Harding – is Donald Trump a Russian asset?

    Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump shaking hands while standing in front of an aeroplane.

  • Kindness of strangers
    I was a young tourist when a taxi driver became aggressive – then two men stepped in

    A woman stands by a car with two men in Egypt.

  • AFL
    Sydney Swans’ tears flow after AFL football’s week in the sewer

    Swans captain Callum Mills embraces head coach Dean Cox after the win over North Melbourne at the SCG.

  • Jorja Smith
    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดPeople say things about my appearance – it’s not normal

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News

  • A bright orange CFMEU flag flies near the Mater Hospital Springfield construction site

    Trade unions
    Two men charged and drugs, guns and cars linked to CFMEU seized as police investigate alleged corruption

    Police arrest five men and search six properties including the union’s Victorian headquarters
  • Berlin’s Volksbühne theatre said it had extended the invitation in the hope of dismantling some of the barriers that kept Black children away from the pool.

    Germany
    Scrapping of Berlin swimming day for Black children becomes latest in long list of race-linked pool rows

  • US-ENTERTAINMENT-FILM-TELEVISION-AWARD-GLOBES-ARRIVALSUS actor Mark Ruffalo and his wife actress Sunrise Coigney attend the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on January 11, 2026. (Photo by Michael Tran / AFP via Getty Images) / -- IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE --

    Film
    Mark Ruffalo fires back at Paramount Skydance after it accuses him of using ‘antisemitic tropes’

  • Charles Perrottet leaves Icac in Sydney.

    Icac hearing
    Dominic Perrottet’s brother allegedly shared ‘dirt’ including secret phone recording of minister, Icac hears

  • Luis Manuel Aviles gives a thumbs up beside his stepson Joshua in Navy uniform outdoors

    US immigration
    Father of USS Lincoln sailor taken into ICE detention while son deployed in Middle East

  • Donald Trump speaks with Kevin Warsh at the latter's swearing-in ceremony

    US economy
    New Fed chair faces critical test at Jackson Hole as inflation fears mount

  • AFL CEO Andrew Dillon pictured at the official launch of finals series on Monday. He said the five banned Sydney Swans players will not be invited to the Brownlow medal ceremony.

    Sport
    Banned Sydney Swans players not welcome at Brownlows as AFL delays inquiry

  • Jared Kushner and Hakeem Jeffries composite.

    US news
    Democrats incredulous over Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner meeting

    The meeting comes ahead of the November midterm elections. House Democratic leader Jeffries says he aims to 'stop the madness', adding American voters 'want bold change'

In focus

  • A vaccination team member holds a little penguin, illuminated by red light at night

    Bird flu
    How do you vaccinate 1,000 tiny penguins against bird flu in the wild? It’s ‘really tricky’ but there is a way

    Phillip Island’s ‘iconic’ little penguins get first bird flu vaccinations in what is thought to be largest program of its kind
  • Alan Jones arriving at Sydney’s Downing Centre courts on Monday. A witness at a restaurant luncheon said guests joked the young staffer and shock jock looked ‘like a great couple’.

    Alan Jones trial
    Guests joked Alan Jones and alleged victim looked ‘like a great couple’ at luncheon, court hears

  • Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump shaking hands while standing in front of an aeroplane.

    Politics books
    Betrayal by Luke Harding – is Donald Trump a Russian asset?

Features

  • Revival on Netflix

    TV review
    Step up, Walking Dead fans! This is the most moving zombie show ever

  • Gabriele Keenaghan sitting on a brown leather sofa in her living room, holding a teddy bear

    Kindertransport
    ‘Emotional’: Holocaust survivor's return to Austria at 99

More features

  • Hannah Richell standing in front of a rock on Tamarama Beach, Sydney, Australia, where her husband was killed in a surfing accident

    Memoir
    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดWhen my husband died in a surfing accident, life as I knew it was destroyed. Ten years on, this is what I’ve learned about grief

  • Jorja Smith lying down lokoing at the camera

    Music
    ‘So many people say things about my appearance – it’s not normal’: Jorja Smith on burnout, body-shaming and finding freedom

  • A man loads a large ice block on to an open backed truck.

    Global development
    No fridge, no fans, just blocks of ice: improvising to survive in Pakistan’s searing heat

  • Red laptop floating in the air

    Tech
    After more than 15 years of laptops in the classroom, do Australian schools need a rethink?

  • A woman stands by a car with two men in Egypt.

    Kindness of strangers
    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดI was a young, solo tourist when a taxi driver became aggressive – then two men stepped in

  • Full Story podcast
    Who is Natalie Harp? Trump’s most devoted aide is in the spotlight

    Podcast19:03
  • One Nation leader Pauline Hanson

    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดOne Nation is targeting a WA seat in Labor heartland. It could be a defining moment for Australian politics

    Narelle Miragliotta for the Conversation
    The Secret Harbour byelection has the potential for an electoral upset, given the many characteristics conducive to a One Nation win
  • Marine Le Pen in focus in foreground, next to slightly blurred Jordan Bardella

    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดMarine Le Pen’s career has been resurrected – and she is a bigger threat than ever

    Mujtaba Rahman
    No longer banned from next year’s presidential election, Le Pen is a far more formidable force than her understudy, Jordan Bardella, says Mujtaba Rahman of Europe at Eurasia Group

More opinion

  • Iman Amrani

    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดThe hill I will die on: A music festival isn’t a music festival without children

    Iman Amrani
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    Making sense of it
    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดSurviving desire: what Buddhist thought teaches us about our war on want

    Nadine Levy
  • aerial view of a data center

    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดIs there a pending AI ‘debt bomb’ crisis? No. This isn’t Enron 2.0

    Gene Marks
  • A woman lying on a hammock with a straw hat on her knee

    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดIs a French Sunday the secret to a healthier, happier life?

    Polly Hudson

Cartoon

  • Ella Baron on AI and the drought – cartoon

    Ella Baron
    AI and the northern hemisphere drought

    While the use of water-hungry AI becomes normalised, many areas of Britain are suffering from drought

More sport

  • Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso with Enzo Fernández

    Football
    Chelsea change course with Alonso primed to banish the chaos of youth

  • Lewis Hamilton in racing gear, wearing headphones

    Formula One
    Frustrated Hamilton claims Ferrari strategy cost him Dutch GP podium

  • Matt Brennan crosses the finish line in Manosque

    Cycling
    Britain’s Brennan leaves Pogacar in wake to win stage two of Vuelta

  • Manchester City head coach Enzo Maresca talks to Erling Haaland after their win over Bournemouth

    Football
    Maresca concedes Manchester City ‘a work in progress’ after hair-raising escape

  • Michael JeffriesFILE - Michael Jeffries, former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, leaves following a hearing at the Paul G. Rogers Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, in West Palm Beach, Fla., Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

    US news
    Former Abercrombie CEO mentally fit for sex-trafficking trial, judge says

  • a courtroom sketch shows a man sitting between his attorneys

    Brian Thompson shooting
    Double jeopardy? Luigi Mangione state case unlikely to proceed, experts say

More news

  • Barnaby Joyce and David Farley enter the house of representatives

    One Nation
    One Nation described as ‘all over the shop’ with migration targets as Joyce says MP made rookie mistake

    Liberal senator says rightwing party ‘falls down on the details’ after David Farley claimed it wanted additional 100,000 migrant workers
  • Ukraine's foreign affairs minister Andrii Sybiha (left) greets UK prime minister Andy Burnham upon his arrival by train in Kyiv this morning.

    Europe live
    Andy Burnham arrives in Ukraine with plans to share UK blueprints for long-range missiles

  • Sydney apartments

    Rental costs
    Apartment rents now cost more than half a typical worker’s take-home pay in all capital cities

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  • Donald Trump and Mark Carney in a composite photograph

    Analysis
    The lesson from Canada’s collapsed trade talks with the US: negotiation may be futile

  • A man with white hair and beard playing guitar in a kitchenVello Senkel

    Society
    Finland tried to end homelessness. What can we learn from its runaway success – and recent failures?

  • More than 2,000 people have died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the first case of this epidemic was recorded in May

    Explainer
    Ebola day 100: why this outbreak could become the deadliest in history – video

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    Environment
    London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?

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  • Gambling
    ‘Absurd’: children to see gambling logos on sports jerseys until 2032 in transition period condemned by Pocock

  • Sydney
    Sydney Marathon admits ‘unfortunate error’ as finisher’s medal depicts Munich stadium as race highlight

  • Victorian politics
    Liberal plan to split Victorian appeals court attacked as ‘thought bubble’ that would politicise judiciary

  • Bird flu
    Fur seal's death marks first Australian mainland mammal fatality from spreading H5 bird flu strain

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  • Animals
    Wild beavers born in Norfolk for first time in more than 500 years

  • Immigration and asylum
    Woman stranded in Spain after UK’s eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister

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    New Zealand to consider banning children under 16 from social media

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    Nord Stream bombings were not us, Zelenskyy insists

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    Film
    On Different Grounds review – Cupid’s-conspiracy romcom brings Nollywood and Bollywood together

  • Nick Haymes, from Chronograph (SPBH Editions, 2026). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

    Photography
    ‘I didn’t miss a thing’: How Nick Haymes photographed his sons’ entire lives from verrucas to homemade hamster coffin

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  • A young disciple with shaved head and forehead markings prays with hands pressed together in a procession

    Film
    Disciples review – fresh-faced boys are sucked into a nightmare of extremism in India

  • A man in a brown jacket and a man in a black T-shirt looking intently at each other

    TV review
    The Terror: Devil in Silver review – this psychiatric hospital horror is scary on so many levels

  • one boy hugs another who is crying

    Film
    Stand By Me at 40: Rob Reiner’s seminal coming-of-age saga remains a bittersweet triumph

  • America’s Next Top Model series four.

    Television
    When TV turns sour: the shows we simply can’t stomach any more

What to listen to

  • Full Story podcast
    David Pocock on the ‘real betrayal’ of Labor’s deal on gambling reforms

    Podcast28:59
  • Two young women lie on a bed laughing, listening to music on a CD player

    Music
    ‘It brings me joy’: how young people are making CDs cool again

  • Rapper Fat Papi, bearded and in glasses, wears a patterned scarf over a white shirt outdoors

    Music
    Meet Fat Papi, the little-known NZ rapper catapulted to Billboard 100 fame

  • Back to Back Barries
    Political stitch-up or compromise? A tale of two political deals

    Podcast26:43

What to read

  • Pages of an old manuscript with text in black ink

    Guernsey
    Manuscript fragments hiding in plain sight shed light on medieval Guernsey’s literary life

  • Marlon James.

    Fiction
    The Disappearers by Marlon James review – a scorching exposé of homophobia in Jamaica

  • Book Column for August

    Bookmark this
    Best Australian books out in August: new Meg Mason, musicians tell all and a time-travel tale by ‘a master storyteller’

  • Fiction
    Readers’ top 100 novels of all time

What to play

  • The interior of a train, with a few passengers. An absurdly extended light-skinned arm wraps several times around the handrails.

    Games
    My Arms Are Longer Now – comedy stealth game sends lawlessness into new territory

  • A still from Halloween: The Game of a silhouetted hand holding a knife, while a woman stands at a kitchen counter with her back turned to the camera

    Games
    Illicit deeds have just gotten a new Halloween video game banned – but it’s not because of the violence

  • A young male zombie in a baseball cap with a letter R, headphones around his neck.

    Games
    Stupid Never Dies – a zombie fights for the love of a frozen corpse

  • A character in a helmet with mouth wide open, holding up hands with metal claws protruding from the knuckles, surrounded by flames

    Games
    Marvel’s Wolverine: Spider-Man developers turn to a more cutthroat character

More culture

  • Meg Mason.

    Fiction
    ‘I was scared I was going mad’: Meg Mason speaks to fellow authors about the parasocial relationships that begin on the page

  • A group of teenagers at the drive-in cinema

    Film
    Drive-in cinemas are rare these days. But the last one in Melbourne’s north still draws a faithful crowd

  • Shabana Azeez

    10 Chaotic Questions
    Shabana Azeez: ‘The most disgusting thing I’ve seen on The Pitt? American coffee’

  • Aardman Animation’s Peter Lord and David Sproxton in 2026, with their puppets of Fowler and Babs from Chicken Run, and Morph

    Flashback
    Aardman’​s Peter Lord and David Sproxton: ‘At the Oscars, I went to the gents and had a pee with Jack Nicholson!’

  • A woman stands by a car with two men in Egypt.

    Kindness of strangers
    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดI was a young, solo tourist when a taxi driver became aggressive – then two men stepped in

  • A man sitting among fruit and veg

    A new start after 60
    I became a grocer – and feel stronger physically and quieter mentally

Food

  • Šárka Otevřel Camrdová's courgette kraut.

    Food
    Courgette kraut and fermented pepper sauce: Šárka Otevřel Camrdová’s Czech pickle recipes

  • A dropped ice-cream spraying out across a dark floor, sprinkles and red sauce on top, and a chocolate flake sticking out of it

    Food
    ‘It exists only for pleasure’: does ice-cream have a future in the age of wellness fads and weight-loss drugs?

  • Felicity Cloake's zaru soba. Overhead view of zaru soba noodles served with dipping sauce, seaweed, wasabi and spring onions

    How to cook the perfect ...
    Zaru soba, or cold soba noodles

  • A wine glass with a clear, bubbly liquid, garnished with lime and mint

    Drinks
    Quench your thirst! 20 perfect spritzes and shandies to try now – from kumquat to portergaff

Wellbeing

  • A woman reading a book to two children in a bed

    Childbirth
    ‘My ability to cope was unravelling’: how I navigated ADHD and childbirth – and seven things I learned

  • An ear suffering tinnitus

    Health
    I’d heard ringing in my ears before. This time, it didn’t stop

  • A man and woman asleep in bed.

    Health
    Poor sleep can cost over-50s nine months of career, study finds

  • An illustration of alphabet letters and two pieces of paper around a cutout photograph of Tim Dowling, with a background of different coloured circles and pen strokes

    The Tim Dowling column
    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดMy working holiday just isn’t working

Advice

  • An illustration of a woman speaking with her arms crossed, while a person in the background sits on a bench crying

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดA childhood sexual abuse allegation has rocked our family – what should we do?

  • Illustration showing a man and a woman at a restaurant table. He is eating lobster and drinking champagne while she looks disconsolately at the bill

    Social etiquette
    ‘Why do you never buy a round?!’ 20 mortifying money conversations with friends – and how to handle them

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    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดThe hill I will die on: Packing light is for cowards. Pack heavy

    Max Olesker
  • Angry face on a yellow kettlebell against an orange background

    Workout etiquette
    Hogging weights, loud grunting and sweaty benches: 11 gym dos and don’ts from fitness experts

Fashion & beauty

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    Fashion
    Icons, new stars and First Nations excellence: 10 key shows from New Zealand fashion week

  • Andie MacDowell, Pharrell Williams, Brad Pitt, and Jennifer Lopez pose in contrasting colorful outfits

    Life and style
    Ditch the giant handbag, don’t overdo the botox and 16 other ways to extend your ‘hotspan’

  • Green dress with dashed cut lines and scissors cutting around the silhouette

    Sizing
    Where did all the XXL clothes go? Fashion brands in the US scrapping plus sizes in the GLP-1 era

  • Sarah Matthews wears a glowing pink LED face mask while holding the Shark Cryoglow handheld control

    The Filter
    I tested the viral Shark CryoGlow LED face mask 100 times – it’s not right for everyone

Travel

  • People relax at outdoor cafe tables under umbrellas in a piazza

    Italy holidays
    ‘Everything you’d want from Italy, all in one place’: Brescia, Lombardy’s hidden gem

  • Ancient monument on clifftop at sunset

    Travel
    Island-hopping through stone-age history in Ireland, Wales and the Isle of Man

Relationships

  • Illustration of two tiny people sliding joyfully between giant legs

    This is how we do it
    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดSince having cancer, I’m more open – before I was straight, now I’m queer

  • Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier eloping on our wedding day, Mohonk Mountain House, upstate NY, 2001.

    The moment I knew
    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดDays after September 11, we flew through turbulence – all I could say was ‘I love you’

  • A smiling woman with short blue hair standing by a river

    The ideas interview
    ‘If you’re just interested in answers, you are missing out’: philosopher Lani Watson on the power of asking questions

  • A smiling woman in a blue tie-dye dress and a smiling man in a light coloured suit and shirt

    Blind date
    🔥 ข่าวด่วน: preference/edition/au - สรุปดราม่าล่าสุดThere was a mature, polite peck on departure at a busy Manchester Piccadilly station

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    Russia
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    The road to Konstyantynivka in Donetsk, Ukraine, is a perilous journey for the Khyzhak brigade – a mobile unit tasked with shooting down Russian drones to cover soldiers’ rotations or moving armoured vehicles

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