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  • Matthew Short got Australia off to a flying start, with the fifty coming up in 3.1 overs.

    Cricket
    Australia beat Pakistan by 13 runs: second Twenty20 international – as it happened

    A riotous opening partnership and Spencer Johnson’s maiden five-for gave Australia a series-clinching victory at the SCG
    • Eileen Kramer was born in Paddington, Sydney on the evening of 8 November 1914. She died on Friday 15 November at the age of 110.

      Culture
      Trailblazing dancer and choreographer Eileen Kramer dies aged 110

    • Middle East crisis live
      Israeli troops reach deepest point in Lebanon since invasion began

    • Espionage
      Russian spy ship escorted away from area with critical cables in Irish Sea

    • Boxing
      Mike Tyson open to return to the ring after humbling defeat to Jake Paul

    • Newcastle
      NSW government cuts off public access to harbour ahead of peaceful climate protest

    • Law
      ICC prosecutor’s UN ties ‘may jeopardise integrity of sexual misconduct inquiry’

    • Weather
      Bushfire evacuations in Victoria’s west as conditions prompt catastrophic danger warnings

    • Apec summit
      Nations pivot trade priorities in light of Donald Trump’s proposed trade tariffs

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  • Ibrahim Abdullah poses for a portrait at his home’s rooftop with Beirut’s southern suburbs in the background on October 24, 2024 in Baabda, Lebanon. Though Abdullah is a wealthy man, he, like many Lebanese, has lost almost all access to his accounts and can only retrieve a few hundred dollars a month from to live on. He also had his more than a million dollar home in southern Lebanon blown up by an Israeli attack.

    Lebanon
    ‘Here’s how it feels’: how a Lebanese businessman lost everything in five years of turmoil and war

  • Drone operators from the Khyzhak Brigade prepare the drop bomb for a drone during a night mission.

    Ukraine
    A night with the drone squad targeting Russian forces in micro battles

    In a dugout near the front in Donetsk, the Guardian joins Ukrainian police officers turned pilots during a shift
  • Hannah Devlin experience zero-gravity like conditions on an European Space Agency parabolic flight.

    European Space Agency
    ‘First instinct is to swim’: my trip on a zero-gravity flight with an Esa astronaut

Spotlight

  • Helen Pidd and Alexandra Topping photographed outside in a park

    They were best mates. Then one had a baby, while the other struggled. Two brutally honest takes on what happens when motherhood affects friendship

    They both had something the other wanted. Could their relationship survive?
  • Gladiator II film still<br>Paul Mescal and Director Ridley Scott on the set of Gladiator II from Paramount Pictures.

    Film
    When historians and directors clash: ‘Ridley Scott was Napoleonic – there was no doubt who was in charge’

  • Illustration of zombies in a ruined San Francisco looking at their phones

    Society
    Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world

    A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present – had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it’s started already…
  • 16 Nov Blind Date for web - Sarah Max

    Blind date: ‘10 out of 10, I felt positively giddy on the train ride home’

    Sarah, 29, a writer, meets Max, 31, an applications engineer
    • Daphne and Louis

      Sex
      This is how we do it: ‘We haven’t even tried to have sex for three years’

    • Bluesky on phone and screen

      Technology
      What is Bluesky and why are so many people suddenly leaving X for the platform?

    • Philippa Brewster (left) and Jeanette Winterson.

      Books
      ‘She gave me the chance that became my life’: Jeanette Winterson on her first editor, Philippa Brewster

    • Driven by a nostalgia for the past, Kinross seeks out scenes that transport him to another time, where cupping your hands around your eyes reveals no sign of the present.

      Victoria
      Past lives: stepping back in time in small-town Victoria

Sport

  • Katie Taylor punches Amanda Serrano during their undisputed super lightweight championship fight at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

    Boxing
    Taylor retains titles with controversial win over Serrano

  • Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White speaks during an election night event earlier this month.

    UFC
    How UFC head Dana White became the glue between Maga and the manosphere

    The UFC’s CEO has become a kind of impresario for a new class of right-wing influencers, helping nail down Trumps’s seismic victory among young men
    • The Wales team huddle at full time after the defeat by Fiji.

      Rugby union
      Wales at risk of record low with World Cup rout of Australia a fading memory

    • The World Cup and Fifa’s president, Gianni Infantino, flank an artist's impression of the Prince Mohammed bin Salman Stadium, which Saudi Arabia plans to build on a cliff near Qiddiya before the 2034 World Cup.

      Saudi Arabia’s World Cup: how close could Fifa get to corporate manslaughter?

      Barney Ronay
    • Jack Crowley dives across the line to score Ireland’s first try.

      Rugby union
      Ireland hold off Argentina’s fightback after rapid start

    • John McGinn scores the only goal of the game

      Nations League
      McGinn ends Scotland’s drought with winner against Croatia

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Opinion

  • Rachel Shabi

    Kneejerk response, then overcorrection: what the aftermath of the Amsterdam violence should teach us

    Rachel Shabi
  • Karen Middleton

    Trump shouldn’t decide Rudd’s future – but the US president-elect is no ordinary leader

    Karen Middleton
    • Man silhouette, Dall-e 2 logo on smartphone. OpenAI Dall-E 2 AI artwork in background

      AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations, it’s about outsourcing them. The real purpose is profit

      James Bradley
    • People hold out containers as they scramble to get food

      People in Sudan and Gaza are starving. The international community must act

      Alex de Waal
    • Oprah Winfrey and Kamala Harris at a campaign rally of Harris in Philadelphia on 4 November.

      To the stars vowing to flee Trump’s America: maybe your excruciating endorsements were part of the problem

      Marina Hyde
    • a man looking down

      The exodus from X to Bluesky has happened – the era of mass social media platforms is over

      Gaby Hinsliff

Lifestyle

  • A woman about to tuck into a candlelit dinner of a fried egg with a glass of juice

    Life and style
    Have breakfast for dinner, let kids sleep in their clothes … and 12 other easy tips for better evenings

    Feeling frazzled and drained at the end of the day? Try these expert micro-habits
  • Yotam Ottolenghi's beetroot ferment with garam masala.

    Food
    Ask Ottolenghi: what are the easiest homemade ferments?

  • Tom Hunt's crowdie cheese

    Waste not
    How to turn old milk into homemade cheese – recipe

  • Osher Günsberg near Gordon's Bay in Sydney

    Walk with ...
    Osher Günsberg: ‘The worst thing is being told the pain is all in your head. But holy moly, was it empowering!’

  • Unsympathetic woman

    Ask Annalisa
    I have spent my life looking after my depressive, controlling mum – can I move on?

  • a cow is milked

    Well actually
    Wellness influencers love bovine colostrum – but what is it?

Culture

  • Undated film still handout from Gladiator II. Pictured: Fred Hechinger as Emperor Caracalla, Pedro Pascal as General Acacius and Joseph Quinn as Emperor Geta. See PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Gladiator. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Gladiator. PA Photo. Picture credit should read: Aidan Monaghan/© 2024 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. NOTE TO EDITORS: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Gladiator.

    Now you've seen it
    Gladiator II: battles, baboons, Mescal and Denzel – discuss with spoilers

  • Peter Carey

    Books
    Peter Carey on Jack Maggs and snubbing the Queen: ‘I thought she was a relic’

    As the stage version of his take on Great Expectations opens in Adelaide, the novelist looks back at a right royal kerfuffle – and a memorable encounter with a London cabby
  • Pamela Rabe, Tamsin Carroll, Helen Thomson, Greg Stone and Esther Williams in August: Osage County

    Australian theatre
    August: Osage County review – Pamela Rabe leads stellar cast in an American tragicomedy

    Belvoir, Sydney, then Perth in 2025
    Tracy Letts’ family drama, which sees three generations gather after the disappearance of their patriarch, is beautifully performed
  • Robin Wall Kimmerer.

    Books
    ‘We’ve become distrustful of each other’: nature writer Robin Wall Kimmerer on Trump, rural America and resistance

  • Stephen King

    Books
    Stephen King leaves X, describing atmosphere as ‘too toxic’

  • Dolly Parton looking incredibly well preserved, and to camera

    Music
    Dolly Parton & Family: Smoky Mountain DNA: Family, Faith and Fables review – Dolly digs deep

  • The Thinning by Inga Simpson

    Australian books
    The Thinning by Inga Simpson review – apocalyptic thriller offers glimpse of a better world

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    Environment
    Santos figured out net zero roadmap ‘literally on the fly’, court hears in world-first greenwashing case

    Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility accuses Australian oil giant of misleading and false claims in closing arguments
    • Kristian White at the supreme court in Sydney

      Policing
      A 95-year-old woman died after being Tasered in a NSW aged care home. Was it manslaughter?

    • Victoria
      Melbourne warehouse fire leads to evacuation of 150 nearby residents in middle of night

    • Explainer
      Labor and Liberals could each get $19m more from the public under electoral law reform. What else would it do?

    • Architecture
      Winning designs: the terraces and apartments designed to fast-track NSW housing

    • Diplomacy
      Former ambassador to US accuses unnamed Sky News presenters of campaign against Kevin Rudd

    • NSW
      Woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport ‘deeply regrets’ actions, court hears

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      SMH declares war on ‘vengeful’ News Corp over ‘campaign’ against Kevin Rudd’s US posting

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    • Federal politics
      Labor and Coalition accused of cooking up ‘secret deal’ on electoral rules as Palmer signals court challenge

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  • Murrumbidgee River at Hay

    Environment
    Murrumbidgee River has lost more than half its water in one section, research shows

  • A hospital sign

    Health
    ‘It’s kind of whispered in corridors’: women being forced into underground abortion networks in rural NSW, study finds

  • Karst Kruen with red gum trees he planted in 2021

    Environment
    ‘It’s gang-gang country’: the landholders restoring farmland to forest in the Victorian alps

  • The proposed location of the open pit, processing plant and tailings dam at McPhillamys Gold Project.

    Environment
    McPhillamys goldmine owner launches legal review over Plibersek’s Aboriginal heritage decision

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  • A large crowd of people, some waving an EU flag, and some holding banners reading 'We the people want our country back!' and 'Sanctions against Russian Dream'

    Georgia
    Protests in Georgia over disputed vote as PM threatens to ban opposition

  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump

    Ukraine war briefing
    Zelenskyy says war will ‘end sooner’ once Trump enters White House

    • Zimbabwe
      Church of England ‘directly responsible’ for John Smyth abuse, victim says

    • Hamas attacks
      Netanyahu aide questioned over alleged tampering with 7 October phone records

    • UK
      With the Tories beaten, Labour’s next threat comes from even further right

    • France
      Pelicot trial: young vineyard worker proposed drugging and raping his own mother

    • US
      Bomb threats targeted Oregon election offices days after election day

    • UK
      Sunday Express editor David Wooding departs Reach amid further job cuts

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