Masterful Root best in business The rankings are yet to update at the time of writing but after two masterful centuries at Lord’s – his third and fourth this year – Joe Root’s lead at the top will only have increased. Right now, utterly glowing with form, he is the best in the business. Although … Read more
Morning, everyone. There could be more trouble ahead for the Albanese government after the latest statistics showed the number of Palestinians applying onshore for protection has continued to grow. We also report on a survey of teenagers that found a link between poor mental health and vaping, Joe Biden chides Israel’s prime minister over peace … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Tamsin Rose NSW government to announce changes to procurement policies The New South Wales government will announce today changes to policies governing procurement to support more jobs and businesses in the state. Domestic manufacturing and government procurement minister Courtney Houssos said … Read more
Leaders of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland have demanded that their party be included in coalition negotiations in two states where it won nearly a third of the vote in elections on Sunday, in results that have scrambled the political landscape a year before a general election. Although the political earthquake from the elections in … Read more
In his beginning is his end; now the night falls. Two years ago, before their third game of the season, against Liverpool, having lost one of the games they’d played 2-1 to Brighton, Manchester United presented Casemiro before an adoring crowd at Old Trafford. At the weekend, before their third game of the season, against … Read more
Joe Biden has said that Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure a ceasefire deal with Hamas, as protests against the Israeli leader’s government suffered a blow when a court ordered an early end to a general strike. The demonstrations, which broke out over the weekend, were prompted by the grim discovery of the … Read more
It was, Sahra Wagenknecht declared on the social media platform X on Sunday, “a historic result” achieved from almost a standing start. Within eight months, her leftwing-conservative Sahra Wagenknecht Allianz (BSW) has gone from an upstart party of breakaway populists to a decisive player with the potential to upend the German political scene. The BSW … Read more
On my way to Hard Graft, a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, I sat beside an employee with a lanyard round her neck like a chain whose exhortatory instruction read, “straightforward, purposeful, collaborative behaviours” – but to what end I had no idea. Jobs come with added sententiousness these days, as employers … Read more
The acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has called for euthanasia to be legalised worldwide. Almodóvar was speaking ahead of the world premiere of his first English language feature, The Room Next Door, which stars Tilda Swinton as a journalist with cancer who decides to end her own life and asks an old friend, played by … Read more
A non-blind person leading Vision Australia is “nothing unusual”, its chair has said, as the organisation faces criticism for seeking a new chief executive through internal expressions of interest only. Bill Jolley’s comments come in the wake of a petition launched by Vision Australia’s founding chair, the former disability discrimination commissioner Graeme Innes, urging the … Read more