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Wednesday10 July 2024
  • Ollie Watkins (left) wheels away, pursued by Kobbie Mainoo, after scoring the winner at the death

    Euro 2024
    Ollie Watkins’ bolt from blue stuns Netherlands and sends England to final

    With Xavi Simons and Harry Kane exchanging early goals, the latter from the spot, the game looked set for extra time before Ollie Watkins made it 2-1 to England and broke the Netherlands’ resistance late on
    • Aerial view of housing in Sydney's inner west

      Renting
      Anger over delay to end of no-grounds evictions in NSW as renters face ‘perfect storm’

    • Live
      Australia news: fire crews continue to battle Melbourne fire; Alice Springs curfew could be extended

    • Wimbledon
      Djokovic into Wimbledon semi-finals after ‘devastated’ De Minaur pulls out

    • Immigration
      Giles released murderer into community detention before NZYQ ruling, documents show

    • Gaza
      Palestinians told to leave Gaza City as Israel steps up offensive

    • Ukraine
      First F-16 jets heading to Ukraine after months of training and negotiations

    • Rust film set shooting
      Trial prosecutors say Alec Baldwin violated ‘cardinal rules of firearm safety’

    • UK
      Suspect found with injuries after triple crossbow killings in Bushey

News extra

  • Israel-Gaza war
    A game of football, a boom, then scattered bodies: video shows moment of Israeli strike on Gaza school

  • John Quiggin

    Why neither growth nor degrowth make sense as long-term objectives for Australia’s economy

    John Quiggin
  • man and woman pose in spacecraft

    Space
    Nasa astronauts from Boeing’s Starliner may be stuck in space until August

    Engineers working on problems preventing return of Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who are on the ISS

Spotlight

  • ‘The sun. It rises and rises, and I’m looking up too, into its light.’

    After my husband’s death, looking down was all I could do. Then I saw a dragonfly

    Ailsa Piper
    How can we find hope when grieving? By surrendering to the sun, the sky, and bounties of nature
  • A woman in a black and white striped dress and sunglasses poses with a paintbrush in hand in front of a painting

    Tasmania
    Fake Picassos: Mona admits Ladies Lounge paintings were forged by Kirsha Kaechele

  • US President Joe Biden speaks at a NATO event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the alliance, in Washington

    Full Story podcast
    Is it time for Joe to go?

    Guardian US political correspondent Lauren Gambino tells Nour Haydar why the Democrats are torn over who should lead them to the next election and just how critical the coming weeks are for Joe Biden’s campaign
  • A man stands on the mezzanine nside an independent bookstore with packed full shelves of books

    Books
    Freight expectations: if Booktopia closes, where can I buy books online?

    • Eric Adams demonstrated the new ‘revolutionary’ waste disposal unit. New York bins.

      Trash talk: New York City has finally discovered the wheelie bin – and it only cost $1.6m

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Front view of pink portable audio cassette player, cassette tape and vintage headphones on blue background

      Customer service
      My speakers don’t work properly and Apple won’t provide a refund. What are my entitlements?

    • When I was asked to write this column, I did the normal amount of research and read every single previous piece in preparation’: Bec Petraitis.

      Extremely online
      Bec Petraitis: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

    • A large knife embedded in a melon, with juice flowing from the cut.

      Food
      The best kitchen knives for every job – chosen by chefs

Guardian investigation

  • OneSchool Global sign

    Analysis
    Why Guardian Australia is investigating Exclusive Brethren schools

  • Illustration of OneSchool Global campus

    Education
    Wealthy Exclusive Brethren schools net almost $30m in disadvantage payments

  • Ben Woodbury at his design store

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

  • Illustration of a computer

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

Sport

  • Patrick Cripps of the Blues celebrates a goal against the Tigers in 2024

    From the Pocket
    Cripps reaches milestone after having to scrap the whole way

    Some get to 200 and you barely notice them but the Carlton star’s entire career has been conducted with no elbow room and, for at least half of it, with little help
  • Gus Atkinson leaves the field to huge applause after taking seven wickets for 45 runs on his debut

    Cricket
    Atkinson’s seven-wicket debut puts England in charge against West Indies

    • Rory McIlroy looks rueful at a Scottish Open press conference

      Golf
      McIlroy takes shot at ‘unfair’ critics of late US Open collapse

    • Amanda Staveley and her husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi watch Manchester City against Newcastle at the Etihad in August 2023

      Football
      Amanda Staveley to leave Newcastle after three years at St James’ Park

    • Andrew Strawbridge during an England training session held at Pennyhill Park in February.

      Rugby union
      ’I was resuscitated three times’: England’s Strawbridge on the horror of sepsis

    • Heimir Hallgrímsson

      Football
      Hallgrímsson is shock choice as new Ireland manager

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Opinion

  • ‘Swapping conventional immersion or gas-fired hot water systems for heat pumps is probably the best option for many, especially if you can use power from rooftop solar panels'

    Power of good: how solar sponge tariffs can be a win for your pocket and the planet

    Peter Mares
    These cheap daytime tariffs match the time when solar panels pump out the most energy and households use the least electricity
  • Donald Trump, in suit and tie.

    The Republicans’ new party platform is scary – because it can win

    Dustin Guastella and Bhaskar Sunkara
    The manifesto rebrands historically liberal stances, like guarding entitlements and growing blue-collar jobs, as Republican
    • Narendra Modi and Vladimir Putin

      Why is Modi sucking up to Putin? It’s simple and cynical: China and oil

      Sergey Radchenko
    • Taylor Swift

      Let’s go after deepfake pornography sites – and the social media giants that peddle them

      Lucia Osborne-Crowley
    • former US president Donald Trump.

      Why do politicians hate ‘the elite’ – when they are the elite?

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • two boys at the school gate

      School can be brutal. Congratulations to anyone who has just made it through another year

      Adrian Chiles

Lifestyle

  • Food
    Do these kitchen hacks cut it? Five new (and possibly improved) ways to peel, slice and juice your fruit

    From pith-free citrus to shaking your grapes, we put five techniques from fruit experts – and online renegades – under the knife
  • Rebecca Watson photographed at home in London, 2023

    A moment that changed me
    My body was wedged between the train and platform – and my mortality rushed towards me

  • Nadine Mills plays a south Londoner with superpowers in the hit Netflix show Supacell

    Health
    Hit Netflix show Supacell is raising awareness of sickle cell anaemia

  • ‘A generation was completely wiped out’ … Gaynor Madgwick above Aberfan.

    How we survive
    A noise like thunder – then my classroom went black. How I lost my brother and sister to the Aberfan disaster

  • Illustration showing a woman with six arms holding tools including a laptop, an iron, a dustpan and brush and a piece of paper

    Getting motivated
    Big, beautiful goals – but can’t be bothered? 11 great productivity tips for lazy people

  • Claude Bosi’s classic French recipes For Bastille Day.

    French food and drink
    Wine-poached eggs, lemony sole and puffed potatoes: Claude Bosi’s classic recipes for Bastille Day

Culture

  • white man wearing cowboy hat points gun

    Film
    Kevin Costner’s Horizon sequel pulled from release after first film flops

  • A Polly Pocket doll sits on a shelf in a store in Arlington<br>A "Polly Pocket" doll sits on a shelf in a store in Arlington, Virginia, August 14, 2007. Mattel Inc., the largest U.S. toy company, recalled millions more Chinese-made toys on Tuesday due to hazards from small, powerful magnets and lead paint, and warned it may recall additional products as it steps up testing on thousands of toys. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES)

    What was Lena Dunham’s abandoned Polly Pocket movie actually going to involve?

    Stuart Heritage
    In a post-Barbie world, feminism plus toy equals box office paydirt – but after three years working on the script, Dunham decided she could no longer continue. Why?
  • Miss Severance? This will scratch that itch … Rashida Jones and her robot in Sunny.

    TV review
    Robot-fuelled comedy thriller Sunny sounds crap … and is actually excellent

    Rashida Jones’s show about a grief-stricken woman and a mechanoid is confident, quirky TV that doesn’t put a foot wrong – even if its synopsis is dire
  • Cypress Hill’s cartoon band members with Homer Simpson in the Homerpalooza episode of The Simpsons from 1996

    Music
    Hip-hop band Cypress Hill makes 1996 Simpsons joke come true

  • James Stewart in the 1950 film Harvey

    Stream team
    James Stewart is sublimely strange and sweet in Harvey as a drunkard with an invisible rabbit friend

  • This image released by Neon shows Maika Monroe in a scene from "Longlegs." (Neon via AP)

    Film
    Longlegs review – Nicolas Cage is a miscast killer in misfiring hokum

  • “It’s a way of life, an identity” … Las Flores del Changüí.

    Music
    ‘If the world explodes, the only survivors will be cockroaches and Cubans!’: the Guantánamo musicians defying the island’s crisis

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  • Lalzawmi Frankcom

    Israel-Gaza war
    Former defence chief’s report into Zomi Frankcom killing handed to Albanese government

  • Amber Haigh

    Murder trial
    Amber Haigh was placed in ‘cargo’ section of car to meet ambulance, court hears

  • Melbourne
    Derrimut factory fire brought under control as thousands told to stay inside due to toxic smoke

    Fire caused by explosion at Derrimut chemical factory brought under control but likely to continue burning
    • A stock image of a residential electricity bill

      Power grid
      AI datacentres to strain energy supply and spike prices without change, expert says

    • Business
      Booktopia will not fill orders and may not issue refunds, administrators say

    • Tax
      ‘Robotax’ documents reveal bugs in ATO’s systems affected hundreds of accounts

    • Morning Mail
      Fresh details of South China Sea flashpoint, Clooney adds to pressure on Biden, de Minaur pulls out

    • Queensland
      Religious group accused of killing Elizabeth Struhs believed ‘God would heal’ her, court hears

    • Melbourne
      Bail revoked for teen who ‘absconded’ after being charged over death of William Taylor

    • Animal welfare
      NSW premier hosing down greyhound racing ban before inquiry a ‘mockery’, Animal Justice MP says

    • Exclusive
      Domestic violence burns more severe than from accidents, Australian research finds

The rural network

  • Plains Wanderer Sanctuary owner Bill McGillivray on the porch of the old shearers' quarters on his property in Gunbower, Victoria, Australia. 2 July 2024.

    Conservation
    Protecting private land to save the plains-wanderer, a bird ‘teetering on the edge of extinction’

  • Woman holding hand of someone in hospital.

    Don’t fight with your siblings about inheritance, and 12 other tips for coping with the death of your parents

    Emily Thompson
  • 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

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    First Dog on the Moon
    Protesting stuff is your democratic right – or is it?

    These days, protests must not inconvenience anyone ever
  • Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s first Nato summit – cartoon

    UK opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s first Nato summit

  • Chaotic sci-fi dystopia … Zenless Zone Zero.

    Games
    Zenless Zone Zero review – stylish, enchanting and seductive

  • Early morning, Lake Atitlán, Santiago Atitlán 2019

    Photography
    Still waters run deep: Latin American Foto festival

  • Spain fans were ecstatic and France fans felt dejected as La Roja advanced to the Euro 2024 final

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    Euro 2024
    Spain fans go wild as France fans commiserate semi-final loss

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    My best shot
    A giant crucifix on an Argentinian beach – Andreas Billman’s best photograph

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  • Antarctica
    Shackleton’s wrecked Endurance to get extra protection

  • Greece
    ‘It’s about survival’: Athens mayor focuses on getting capital through extreme heat

  • Science
    Dinosaur unearthed on Isle of Wight identified as new plant-eating species

  • Ukraine
    ‘Soon there will be just death’: Russian shells flay away at hope in Ukraine’s frontline cities

  • UK
    ‘Highly offensive’: police condemn ITV for naming new comedy show Piglets

  • X
    Elon Musk beats $500m severance suit over mass Twitter layoffs

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  7. First F-16 jets heading to Ukraine after months of training and negotiations

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