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GuardianSep 30Preview

A tight election looms in New Zealand. This time, overseas voters could be bad news for the big parties

More than 100,000 have enrolled to vote from abroad in the November poll, and many are unhappy with how things look back homeNew Zealander Kris Taute has lived in Australia for 15 years, but his head and heart are turning towards his home country and a looming general election that could be influenced by a large block of overseas voters.From across the Tasman Sea, Taute has felt growing frustration at New Zealand’s centre-right coalition government, and analysts believe large numbers of New Zealanders who have left the country since they came to power in 2023 may be poised to vent their grievances at the ballot box in November. Continue reading...

Eva Corlett in Wellington and Kat Wong in SydneyNew ZealandNew Zealand election 2026

BBCSep 29Preview

Fury & Joshua in London for news conference as doubts ease

Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua arrive in London for Wednesday’s launch news conference, with their December fight now expected to take place as scheduled.

GuardianSep 29Preview

England’s summer far from perfect but they head towards winter in upbeat mood | Mark Ramprakash

New red-ball coach Stephen Fleming and captain Joe Root can capitalise on side’s recent form and create a new identityJust a few weeks ago I was so demoralised. The England team was a mess, a shambles. The management was terrible. One red-ball coach had just been sacked and the other wasn’t going to turn up for ages. The Test captain, whose skillset as a high-class batter who bowls at an elite standard was so important for the team’s balance, had abruptly retired. The squad seemed ill-disciplined and better at manufacturing scandals than victories. And now here I am, heading into the winter full of optimism.The second half of the summer brought a series of outstanding Test and white-ball performances. There is a group of really talented cricketers, a coaching unit that has strong individuals and combinations across formats, and I feel we’re well placed to take on South Africa, who are al

Mark RamprakashEngland cricket teamCricket

NYTSep 29Preview

Accusations of Antisemitism Hit a Star of the French Far Right

Jordan Bardella, the 31-year-old protégé of Marine Le Pen, is said to have made antisemitic statements as a teenage activist. He denies it.

Mark Landler and Ségolène Le StradicFranceBardella, Jordan (1995- )

GuardianSep 29Preview

‘Stern, sensuous, almost kissable lips’: why sculptures can have far more power when they’re broken

From a pharoah’s pouting and almost kissable lips to a Mussolini with a hole in the head, a new exhibition is exploring how some ancient fragments speak more profoundly than fully intact treasuresThe nose of Cleopatra VII was supposed to have been so beautiful that it changed the course of history: if it had been shorter, French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote, “the whole face of the earth would have changed”. A visit to the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, however, will leave you convinced that Cleo’s conk was only the second most stunning feature to ever grace the face of an Egyptian pharaoh. Among the more than 80 objects on display at an exhibition that opened last week is an astonishingly lifelike sculpture showing off the lips of Akhenaten, from the 14th century BC: a seagull shape resting on a pillow of lush flesh, at once both stern and sensuous, almost uncomfortably kissable.It was

Philip OltermannExhibitionsArt and design