Peruvians vote in crowded presidential race
Peruvians have headed to the polls to vote for a new president and members of congress, casting ballots in a first-round field of more than 30 presidential candidates after years…
Record turnout as Hungarians go to the ballot box
Hungarians are casting ballots in what is widely seen as Europe’s most consequential election this year, setting a record turnout in a vote that could unseat populist Prime Minister Viktor…
Trump threatens Strait of Hormuz blockade
President Donald Trump says the US Navy will immediately start blockading the Strait of Hormuz, raising the stakes after marathon talks with Iran failed to reach a deal to end…
Cashed-up state mulls building its own fuel reserve
Australia’s richest state is considering creating its own fuel reserve for use during future energy emergencies – and it wouldn’t be shared with other jurisdictions. A fuel crisis has gripped…
RBA to sift through jobs data as world watches Hormuz
Economists will turn their attention to Australian jobs figures this week but the focus will still largely remain on developments in the Middle East. March labour force figures, set to…
Trump’s Iran fiasco has led him into the gravest territory | Sidney Blumenthal
As the president spirals over his disastrous war, his threats have escalated beyond the red line of international law Donald Trump has hung nine glowering portraits of himself throughout the…
Richard Schiff: ‘If Jesus was alive today he’d point to Martin Sheen and say, “That’s what I was talking about”’
The actor on the killer T rexes he’d like to meet, a 90% life lesson, and an awkward moment with Amy Adams Born in Maryland, Richard Schiff, 70, came to…
The carpark at Oxley’s on the Brisbane river: it was a different time and our brains were young | Ronnie Scott
I drank Red Bull, smoked a Marlboro and listened to one last song before my shift began. Why would anyone give up the perfect gig? Read more in the Letters…
From Peepo! to Middlemarch: 25 books to read before you turn 25
An unmissable book for every year of your early life – with recommendations from Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Rosen, Katherine Rundell and more The news about reading in general, and childhood…
‘It has your name on it, but I don’t think it’s you’: how AI is impersonating musicians on Spotify
Fraudulent music streams have long been a scourge for the industry, but experts say generative AI has supercharged it Jason Moran, a renowned jazz composer and pianist, got a strange…