theguardian.comadded August 2026
World news | The Guardianby Diane Taylor27 Aug 2026
Some of the most vulnerable children and young people in care are deliberately self-harming to avoid being abandoned when they get better or turn 18 and face a “cliff edge” of no further support...
World news | The Guardianby Tom McIlroy Political editor27 Aug 2026
Anthony Albanese has guaranteed Australia’s annual refugee intake will not be cut next financial year, shutting down plans for the arrivals quota to drop by one-third to Coalition-era levels.
World news | The Guardianby Anne Davies27 Aug 2026
A fugitive Sydney developer allegedly warned the then-New South Wales building commissioner that he would “harm” him if he got in the way of his projects which were being inspected for defects, the...
World news | The Guardianby Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent27 Aug 2026
The City’s largest hedge funds, insurers and pension funds are racing to prepare for sweeping rules that will stop nearly 40,000 companies from hiding bullying and harassment cases from the...
World news | The Guardianby Luca Ittimani and Jonathan Barrett27 Aug 2026
Qantas could increase ticket prices and plans to expand add-on fees at its low-budget carrier Jetstar, after the company said fuel costs contributed to its lowest pre-tax profits in four years.
World news | The Guardianby Sandra Laville Environment correspondent27 Aug 2026
Levels of a toxic “forever chemical” rose to 13 times the legal limit during Thames Water pilots for a controversial multimillion pound water recycling scheme that will pump millions of litres of...
World news | The Guardianby Helena Horton and George Francis Lee27 Aug 2026
It will be a gut-wrenching moment for the horticulturalists at Kew Gardens when some of the magnificent trees in the Palm House have to be felled.
World news | The Guardianby Chris Osuh27 Aug 2026
Nathan Cofnas, the academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism, has been accused of having “very limited expertise” for his academic role by professors also working at Ghent University, who say...
World news | The Guardianby Matthew Pearce27 Aug 2026
Wild swimming has been linked to a higher risk of stomach bugs and skin rashes, according to the largest ever controlled study of illnesses associated with bathing in rivers and lakes.
World news | The Guardianby Kate Lamb with Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi, and agencies27 Aug 2026
A glacial collapse triggered the catastrophic flash flood in Nepal and Tibet that roared down valleys, wiping out entire villages and leaving a preliminary death toll of at least 165 people, the US...
World news | The Guardianby Tim Jonze27 Aug 2026
Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese outsider artist who reached superstar status after decades living in a psychiatric hospital, has died aged 97.
World news | The Guardianby Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent27 Aug 2026
A levy secretly slapped on Victorian public transport users – designed to help pay for the Suburban Loop and other Big Build projects – will be scrapped, the state premier has announced.
World news | The Guardianby Penry Buckley27 Aug 2026
New South Wales police are investigating the death of a 16-year-old girl after a suspected sexual strangulation act.
World news | The Guardianby Australian Associated Press27 Aug 2026
For people trapped under rubble in an earthquake or similar disaster, the arrival of a fleet of cockroaches could one day be the difference between life and death.
World news | The Guardianby Press Association27 Aug 2026
Busy Philipps has revealed she had a brain tumour removed, which was diagnosed shortly after her Dawson’s Creek co-star James Van Der Beek died from bowel cancer.
World news | The Guardianby Nick Robins-Early27 Aug 2026
The star witness in the US government’s landmark trial against Meta believes that a multibillion-dollar settlement reached on Wednesday does not go far enough to stop the social media giant’s harms...
World news | The Guardianby Ben Smee Queensland state correspondent27 Aug 2026
A Queensland woman gave birth to twin children with separate sets of biological parents last year, in what is believed to be an Australian first situation so rare it had not been contemplated by...
World news | The Guardianby Andrew Gregory Health editor26 Aug 2026
Neurosurgeons in London have performed the world’s first successful AI-assisted operation to remove a brain tumour, saving the sight of a 48-year-old man, health officials have said.
World news | The Guardianby Maya Yang26 Aug 2026
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has rejoined the Democratic Socialists of America after not renewing her membership for seven years, amid speculation that she might run for president in 2028.
World news | The Guardianby Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent26 Aug 2026
Plug-in solar panels will go on sale in the UK for the first time from Thursday, allowing households unable to use rooftop panels to also generate their own cheap electricity.
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