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Sunday5 May 2024
  • Col Blanch

    Perth stabbing
    Police shoot dead boy, 16, after alleged attack that has ‘hallmarks’ of terror incident

    WA premier Roger Cook suggests teenager who allegedly stabbed man in Bunnings car park in Willetton may have been radicalised online
  • Queensland police emblem

    Queensland
    Two charged with murder after allegedly torturing Brisbane man at property

  • Madonna performs during a concert at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro

    Madonna
    Free concert draws crowd of 1.6m to Brazil’s Copacabana beach

  • Rain at Sydney Opera House

    Big wet
    Sydney on track to receive month’s worth of rain in first week of May, bureau warns

    • ‘Craziest 30 minutes ever’
      Unknown singer stands in as last-minute Take That support in Glasgow

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Three Ukrainian regions attacked as Zelenskiy says Russian Su-25 bomber shot down

    • Kevin Spacey
      Actor hits back at fresh allegations in new documentary

    • ‘A complete 180’
      How a trial treatment in Sydney for heroin addiction is changing lives

    • UK politics
      Sadiq Khan’s win ‘bucks trend’ of Muslim voters rejecting Labour over Gaza, say party figures

    • The far right
      EU at risk of ‘implosion’ as rightwing politicians seek scapegoats, minister warns

News extra

  • Relatives of Israeli soldiers killed in the conflict in Gaza demonstrate calling for the continuation of the war.

    Live
    Middle East crisis live: Netanyahu says he cannot accept ending war in Gaza now as that would keep Hamas in power

  • File photo of the University of NSW campus in Sydney, Australia

    ‘It’s very unfair’
    How visa crackdown is disrupting international students and hitting university finances

  • A covered stadium full of people, with multiple, giant side-by-side screens of an older white man in a suit speaking from what appears to be an office.

    ‘Woodstock for Capitalists’
    They wait in the rain to see Warren Buffett. Will they still flock to Omaha when he’s gone?

    Berkshire Hathaway’s billionaire CEO, 93, steels shareholders for new era at the annual meeting

Spotlight

  • Jennifer Connelly

    ‘I get a little stir-crazy’
    Jennifer Connelly on David Bowie, working with family and going back to college

    Growing up on set put the Oscar-winning actor on the fast track to Hollywood fame. But one of her regrets was not finishing college – and it’s still on her to-do list …
  • Bare human steps<br>Steps of bare human feet on wet sand of sea beach

    Ask Philippa
    I have no children and have started to fear for my legacy. What can I do?

  • Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian leaning against a pick-up.

    Love Lies Bleeding review
    Kristen Stewart keeps it real in deliciously lurid outlaw romance

    Rose Glass’s follow-up to her acclaimed Saint Maud is a scorchingly sexy, darkly violent tale of a gym manager’s love affair with a bodybuilder
  • 1980s airbrush-style illustration of a man catching a drink can against a California landscape in silhouette

    ‘Every Dylan song could be improved’
    Is perfection possible, or even desirable?

    Much art, from Bob Dylan to Robert Frank, derives its greatness from its flaws. But sporting perfection is a whole different ball game
    • Best books column composite. From left to right: 12 Rules for Strife by Jeff Sparrow and Sam Wallman, Ghost Cities by Siang Lu, Ela! Ela! by Ella Mittas, Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey, A Very Secret Trade by Cassandra Pybus, Peripathetic by Cher Tan, Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran and All the Beautiful Things you Love by Jonathan Seidler.

      ‘My favourite book of the year so far’
      The best Australian books out in May

    • Josh O'Connor in a striped top, holding one hand to his head

      ‘I love work but I also love tending to my plants’
      Josh O’Connor on gardening, reluctant stardom and getting ripped for Challengers

    • Some teenagers were angry adults dodged uncomfortable conversations about sex.

      From doomscrolling to sex
      Being a boy in Britain in 2024

    • A brown hen and an egg isolated on a white background

      Chicken or egg?
      One zoologist’s attempt to solve the conundrum of which came first

Sport

  • Australia’s fastest women Torrie Lewis anchored the 4x100m relay team that booked a spot at the Paris Olympics

    Paris Olympics
    Australian sprinter Lewis helps relay team break 24-year drought

    Women’s 4x100m squad book a spot at the Paris Olympics with Australia’s fastest woman as their anchor at the World Relays meet
  • Runners begin their training session in Kaptagat, Kenya, at dawn

    ‘We’re looking at losing 20% of Olympic nations’
    How the climate crisis is changing sport

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Opinion

  • Nighttime view of police in helmets and riot gear on urban street.

    I remember the 1960s crackdowns against war protesters. This is a repeat

    Robert Reich
    The mistakes made at one point in time have an eerie way of re-emerging as memories fade
  • Sonia Sodha

    Sometimes our take on human nature trumps our political allegiances. Good

    Sonia Sodha
    • A mayor with a question mark for a face

      From mayoral elections to Rwanda removals, Sunak won’t let the truth jeopardise his mission

      Stewart Lee
    • Van Badham

      As Australia screams for action against lethal male violence, this is a culture war for survival

      Van Badham
    • Rishi Sunak in Teesside on 3 May to mark Ben Houchen’s mayoral victory in Tees Valley.

      Editorial
      The Observer view on the local elections: Rishi Sunak is a busted flush, it’s time to call a general election

    • Rally to end violence against women in Canberra<br>epa11306249 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese leaves after addressing a rally calling for action to end violence against women, in front of the Parliament House in Canberra,

      Anthony Albanese was determined to show solidarity with women. Instead he became the story

      Karen Middleton

Lifestyle

  • Gemma Cafarella and Sam Elkin with their dog Tibby in 2021

    The moment I knew
    She stood up in court and put on the performance of a lifetime

    Watching Gemma advocate for a vulnerable client, Sam Elkin knew he could tell her about his desire to transition – and that she’d always have his back
  • The view from the bedroom to a ‘junglette’ balcony.

    ‘It was a one-way journey’
    The couple whose flat changed with their life

  • A plate of food on a board including picanha steak, roast potatoes, carrots and yorkshire pudding, with a gravy boat

    Peruvian steak and Yorkshire pudding with mint?
    How the British Sunday roast went global

  • Eva Wiseman

    Baby Reindeer and how a compelling TV drama reflects the stalkers in us all

    Eva Wiseman
  • A man stands in the Thames by Tower bridge, he is holding a bucket

    ‘I see cocaine in wild shrimp in Suffolk’
    Meet the scientist who analyses Britain's wastewater

  • Guardian writer George Monbiot (on left) standing alongside artist and conspiracy theorist Jason Liosatos at Dartington House in Devon, March 2024

    ‘You’re going to call me a Holocaust denier now, are you?’
    George Monbiot comes face to face with his local conspiracy theorist

Culture

  • Cara Delevingne attends the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM Credit: Abaca Press/Alamy Live News<br>2RX0AGH Cara Delevingne attends the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM Credit: Abaca Press/Alamy Live News

    Cara Delevingne
    ‘It’s a lot easier now I’m not the new hot young thing’

  • Dua Lipa.

    Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism review
    A banger-filled missive from dating land

  • AC Grayling, philosopher and writer at home in South London .

    AC Grayling
    Who would I like to fight? Boris Johnson. And I’d win

    Asked 10 random questions, the philosopher and author shares the strangest thing he’s done for love, his famous hair and his fears for the future of the moon
  • Nicholas Galitzine and Anne Hathaway in The Idea of You.

    The Idea of You review
    Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine spark in crowd-pleasing romcom

  • American artist Frank Stella

    Frank Stella
    Influential American artist dies aged 87

  • Drew Barrymore, hair parted in the middle and pulled back and wearing a satin shirt with a big bow, bracelets and a suit jacket, smiles as she stands with her hands in her trouser pockets in a school hallway with lockers

    Ditzy, unfiltered
    Why Drew Barrymore is Hollywood’s great survivor

  • R. F. Kuang - Portraits - Boston MA - 21 Mar 2023<br>Novelist R. F. Kuang poses for a portrait in the Back Bay area of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on Tue., March 21, 2023. Kuang is the author of, most recently, "Yellowface," which she calls a "psychological thriller and satire about the publishing industry," published in May 2023. "Yellowface" is Kuang's fifth novel.

    Rebecca F Kuang
    I like to write to my friends in the style of Joan Didion

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Across the country

  • Mexico
    ‘High degree of probability‘ bodies found in north of country are missing Perth brothers

    Siblings Callum and Jake Robinson and US citizen Jack Carter Rhoad were travelling on a surfing holiday when they were reported missing
  • Minister for Education Jason Clare

    Hecs/Help
    Labor to wipe $3bn from student debts through indexation changes

  • Renee Gatt looking out window

    Cost-of-living crisis
    Renee’s three adult children live with her – and they’ll probably be there for years

    A tight rental market is pushing more people into overcrowded homes, with some sleeping in lounge rooms, laundries or sheds to make do
    • Minister for Finance Katy Gallagher

      Family violence
      Only 30 of 500 support workers promised by Labor have been delivered, minister says

    • Australia and the Nutbush
      The quest for the origin of a cultural phenomenon goes on

    • An ‘avalanche of demand’
      Australians’ need for charity rises just as donations drop

    • ‘It’s going to be messy’
      Advocates balance climate action and conservation amid Queensland’s green energy boom

    • AI
      Experts hope tool can cut use of restraints and seclusion on NDIS participants

    • Brittany Lauga
      Queensland MP claims she was drugged and sexually assaulted

    • A jaffle maker, a leaf blower and an autographed photo of Lionel Messi
      What travellers left behind at Sydney airport

    • News Corp
      Media group quotes anti-immigration TikToker but fails to reveal ex-One Nation MP adviser role

The rural network

  • Participants at the Nutbush dance world record attempt at the Big Red Bash 2021

    Australia and the Nutbush
    The quest for the origin of a cultural phenomenon goes on

  • Kate Berry is the founder of OK Motels, a contemporary music festival company founded in 2018 to celebrate some of the state’s lesser-known rural destinations

    ‘A little pocket of joy’
    Regional festivals get creative – and rope in the CWA – to survive

  • Cattle in a saleyard at Silverdale, Queensland, Australia

    Climate crisis
    Australian red meat industry has recorded 78% reduction in emissions since 2005, industry report found

  • A greater glider pictured by ecologist Paul Revie in south-east Queensland, Australia

    Spotted
    After 25 years, logging and bushfires, the greater glider is back in Deongwar state forest

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  • The singer/actor Lady Gaga wears a bright pink gown at the 2019 Met Gala event in New York City.

    Lizzo’s flute, Billy Porter’s wings and Cher’s ‘naked dress’
    The Met Gala through the years – in pictures

    As this year’s event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City draws nearer, we look back at some of the biggest, boldest and most iconic looks to ascend its steps
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    Esteban Kuriel’s best phone picture
    Is this an image of a sculpture or an invitation to a sexual encounter?

  • no chance saloon rishi

    Comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on Rishi Sunak, sitting in no-chance saloon after local elections drubbing

  • Ipswich Town’s Harry Clarke and fans celebrate on the pitch after the final whistle confirmed their team’s promotion to the Premier League.

    Tractor Joys
    Ipswich Town are promoted to the Premier League

  • A fake Native Amerian headdress, tunic and mask

    Photography
    Faux Native American costumes and clothing reconsidered

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    Fiona Katauskas
    Not woke but still going broke? Maybe you’re just not funny

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  • 1 July 1984 - celebrating Britain’s best points

    From the Observer archive
    Why Britain was still Great in 1984

    The Observer found 99 good reasons, from Pimm’s to pubs to panto dames
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    Soups, stews and king congee
    Eight cosy recipes for a rainy weekend

  • People with goggles and gas masks wrapped in Georgia flags

    Georgia
    I’m in awe of our young people and their courage in the face of arrests and teargas

  • The new ‘space race’
    What are China’s ambitions and why is the US so concerned?

  • The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding

    John Naughton

  • Britain’s most overrated food? No chance … fish and chips is a marvel

    Tomé Morrissy-Swan

  • ‘My body would tremble’
    Florida workers brace for summer with no protections

  • Wilmington
    How a once-red district is a window on North Carolina politics

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    Deja vu for Trump in hush-money trial

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  3. Two charged with murder after allegedly torturing Brisbane man at Queensland property

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  5. Labor to wipe $3bn from Hecs and Help debts through indexation changes

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