Australia could make social media algorithms optional and follow UK ban on pornography depicting strangulation
World news | The Guardianby Krishani Dhanji·30 Aug 2026
The Australian government is considering allowing users to opt in or opt out of social media algorithms, and is looking at a recent UK ban on depictions of strangulation and suffocation in...
Families balance hope and despair in race to find survivors in Nepal as 41 Australians still missing
World news | The Guardianby Cait Kelly in Kathmandu·30 Aug 2026
Some of them are young, some old; most of them appear to be men. Some of them could be sleeping, except for the mud that covers their bodies.
News live: missing Australian woman found safe in Nepal flooding
World news | The Guardianby Luca Ittimani·29 Aug 2026
Missing Australian woman Cara Severino found after Nepal floods Cara Severino, an Australian woman in Nepal who was missing following devastating floods, has been located and is in contact with...
One Nation claims victory in Secret Harbour byelection in Western Australia
World news | The Guardianby Australian Associated Press·29 Aug 2026
One Nation has claimed victory in the Secret Harbour state byelection in Western Australia With 74.5% of the vote counted, One Nation’s Luke Herdegen leads Labor’s Georgia Tree 57-42 after...
August reveals Australians’ big appetite for weight-loss drugs, love for ‘dupe’ brands and an accelerating EV uptake
World news | The Guardianby Jonathan Barrett Business editor·29 Aug 2026
1. Anko everywhereKmart’s home brand, Anko, started out with a strategy of mimicking popular items, like Birkenstocks and Skims, at a fraction of the price.
Tennessee governor says he backs airport name change to honor Dolly Parton
World news | The Guardianby Edward Helmore·29 Aug 2026
Bill Lee, the Tennessee governor, on Friday said he favored a proposal to rename Nashville’s international airport after legendary country singer Dolly Parton, who died three days earlier at age...
LAPD releases footage of death of man whom police handcuffed and beat
World news | The Guardianby Uwa Ede-Osifo·29 Aug 2026
A cadre of Los Angeles police officers beat and restrained a handcuffed man in July, minutes before he was found dead in a jail cell, according to newly released body-cam footage.
Daughter traces mother and aunt’s last known location in Nepal through TikTok video
World news | The Guardianby Sammy Gecsoyler·29 Aug 2026
The daughter of a woman missing in Nepal has told how she traced her mother’s location through a TikTok video posted hours before the devastating flash flood hit.
Artemis II astronauts receive nation's highest space honor for their successful moonshot
World news | The Guardianby Associated Press·29 Aug 2026
The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon in April received the US’s highest space honor on Friday.
Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers says he saw Bin Laden’s body with his ‘own eyes’. He did not
World news | The Guardianby Robert Mackey·29 Aug 2026
In a recent fundraising email, the Republican candidate for Michigan’s open US Senate seat, former congressman Mike Rogers, appeared to mislead supporters about his past by suggesting that he had...
FBI no longer treating applicants’ experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring
World news | The Guardianby Associated Press·29 Aug 2026
The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with sex workers and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates who have...
‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital
World news | The Guardianby Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Gaurav Pokharel in Kathmandu·29 Aug 2026
Posters of missing people line the wall of the hospital, the glue still fresh beneath. A schoolgirl smiling in her uniform; a beaming, chubby-cheeked baby; a couple smiling on their wedding day; a...
Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels in UK waters
World news | The Guardianby Geraldine McKelvie·29 Aug 2026
The Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels as they passed through UK waters, it has emerged.
Ex-White House teleprompter operator fined $172,000 for Trump speech bets
World news | The Guardianby Ramon Antonio Vargas·29 Aug 2026
A White House teleprompter operator who left his post amid accusations that he used inside knowledge to make bets on Donald Trump’s speeches on an online prediction market has been fined $172,000...
Cells for arrested offenders may run out without early prison release, says Labour
World news | The Guardianby Kevin Rawlinson·29 Aug 2026
Cells to hold newly arrested people could run out without the early prison release scheme, a government minister has said.
Fourth time lucky as Chris Cantrill’s spoof whodunnit wins Edinburgh comedy award 2026
World news | The Guardianby Brian Logan·29 Aug 2026
The annual Edinburgh comedy award has been won by the standup Chris Cantrill, two years after his comedy partner Amy Gledhill – in the raucous northern double act The Delightful Sausage – won the...
Sarah Ferguson to return to UK after relocating amid Epstein revelations
World news | The Guardianby Sammy Gecsoyler·29 Aug 2026
Sarah Ferguson is set to return to the UK after relocating to a Swiss chalet amid the fallout over her and ex-husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s friendship with convicted child sex offender...
Russian strike on warehouse near Kyiv kills at least 37
World news | The Guardianby Donna Ferguson·29 Aug 2026
At least 37 people have been killed after a Russian drone struck a warehouse near Kyiv’s western suburbs which appears to have been storing “explosive objects”.
US officials urge swimmers to be cautious amid surge in drowning deaths
World news | The Guardianby Uwa Ede-Osifo·29 Aug 2026
As a heatwave continues to bake the western and central US, officials are urging swimmers to be cautious when seeking respite from the summer heat, especially amid a score of recent deadly...
Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library
World news | The Guardianby Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent·29 Aug 2026
The next manuscript by the American artist Laurie Anderson will remain unseen for 88 years, as she becomes the 13th figure to contribute to the Future Library project.
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