A new era may have begun for Australia’s women but the winning habit persists | Geoff Lemon
Sophie Molineux was a left-field pick as captain and the transition has not been seamless but nothing shuts down criticism like a World Cup win Players in the Australian women’s…
The strangest show on earth: lightning, imperial hubris and a boring tour of Trump’s rhetorical back alleys | David Smith
Would we get a 21st-century Gettysburg address? Or YMCA, gripes about his legal woes and boasting about Iran? The astronomer Carl Sagan once described Earth as a very small stage…
The kindness of strangers: My son was unconscious and I frantically called out for help – then five teenagers came running
One immediately called an ambulance, another went looking for my younger son. And I still remember the small face of the girl who held her arm around me Read more…
Doubt: A Parable review – Sam Reid and Pamela Rabe go head-to-head in electrifying drama
Sydney Theatre CompanyReid elicits gasps as a charming priest suspected of having an inappropriate relationship with a child – but this production rarely lets us linger in discomfort In a…
World Cup 2026: Mexico v England at the Azteca – in pictures
The best pictures from the storm-delayed fixture as both sides look to reach the quarter-finals of the World Cup Continue reading…
The US turns 250 and Taylor Swift gets married. I think we all know which is a bigger deal | Marina Hyde
The cultural phenomenon is beginning her latest era in a castle built inside Madison Square Garden. It’s the perfect celebration for our post-privacy age It is a cast-iron rule of…
Tom Kean got months of paid sick leave – after voting against it for others | Arwa Mahdawi
The congressman spent four months mysteriously away from work, but he doesn’t seem to think his constituents should get mandated sick days The mystery of the missing congressman has finally…
America is destroying itself. It’s no surprise | Stephen Marche
Scholars will someday wonder how the richest country in history chose to throw it all away. But the crisis has been there since the beginning The 250th anniversary of the…
The Rolling Stones: Foreign Tongues review – stomping blues and anti-Musk politics make this another late triumph
(Polydor)Continuing the rejuvenated sound of 2023’s Hackney Diamonds, there’s touching vulnerability from Keith Richards while Jagger confronts war and autocracy Mick Jagger recently launched the Rolling Stones’s 25th album declaring,…
The moment I knew: I woke up and couldn’t see out of my right eye. Hours later, she helped me record an album
Rebecca ‘Darl’ Ritchie ticked all the boxes for musician Jack Ceriani. Then one morning his eye ruptured – and she was a calming force Find more stories from the moment…